WEBVTT - All Access: Whitehair preparing for Vikings 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.000 Good to be with you, everybody, and welcome into another 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.280 edition of Bears All Access here from P and C 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.280 Studios at Hollis Hall. Jeff, Joniak and Tom there with you. 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:10.160 We're brought to you by IGS Energy. Our special guest 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.120 this week for the next hour is veteran center Cody Whiter. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.239 Kind of you to join us today in what is 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:18.920 you know, the the three game in twelve days stretch. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:20.920 You got one out of the way, this one's normal, 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.159 business is usual, and then you get Thanksgiving. But you know, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:25.880 when you get a win, I'm sure it doesn't look 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.240 so daunting anymore. Yeah, for sure, especially you know, as 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.160 big a win as the Lions game was for us. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:33.440 You know, we're really excited to get back to work 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.120 and get ready for the Vikings this week. How much 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:38.159 fun was it watching not only your defense, but just 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.760 seeing Mitch really take another step and leads you guys. Yeah, 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.960 he's done a great job. You know. He just keeps 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:48.280 taking steps each week and keeps improving each week. You know, 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:49.800 but he had a great game for us, and I 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.360 think that's just going to carry over the next week 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:52.839 for us as well. You know, we haven't had a 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.000 chance to talk to you since the early part of 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.520 the season. So then I go on my phone and 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.520 I want to search some stories about you. When I 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.160 type in Cody, I get Parky before I get white hair. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.840 So now you're one of the leaders of this football team. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.800 Do you say anything in support of him? Or do 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.440 you just leave him alone and let him be a 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.080 professional about his approach? Well, I think there's tons of 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:15.640 people to come up to him, you know, so I 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.480 just kind of wanted to let him cool off. But 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:19.120 you know, I was there to pat him on the 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.960 back and you know, let him know that I was 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.320 there for him as well. Very good. Yeah, a guy 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.600 like him, Have you gotten to know him at any 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.600 level prior to uh, you know what's going on here? 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.679 Because I find it interesting obviously. It's it's inevitable if 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.240 you become a story, you're gonna get surrounded by microphones 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:37.160 and reporters. And that was the case up here this 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.200 week with Cody Parkey, and in any other normal week 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:41.680 you may have one or two guys to talk to 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.800 him about a feature or something. But that's the that's 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:47.640 the business, that's the job, and so forth. But he's 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.520 an offensive guy when you get right down to it. 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.280 Do you spend Have you spent time with Cody? You 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:53.400 get to know him to see what his mindset is 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.120 like in a situation like this. You know, I've got 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.560 to know him a little bit just through um, you know, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.360 being a good teammate and stuff like that. But you know, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.080 he's very positive about it. Um, you know, he he 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:06.640 just kept his head up the whole game, and uh, 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.240 you know that just shows you the kind of person 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.280 he is. And um, you know, I think he'll bounce 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.240 back this week. We're good. The good news this fellas. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.920 There's not a chance. There's not a chance somebody's going 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:19.000 to hit the upright four straight times in any game 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.000 ever again. Right, Well, it's happened once, you know, with 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.720 the amount of games that's going to be played in 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.600 the history of the NFL, could happen again. And it's Hey, 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:29.799 it's like giving up a sack. You don't want to 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:31.799 give up a sack, but when you do, it's probably 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.560 the most haunting thing that we offensive linemen have to 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.600 live with. Yeah, it's one of the worst things. I mean, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:39.720 anytime you get your quarterback hit or pressured, it's the 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:43.200 worst thing. You know, it's that's that's your guy back there. So, um, 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.920 you know, it's it's definitely tough to to move on, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.520 but you have to leave it in the past and 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.160 go to the next play. You know, you've been around 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:51.920 here for a couple of years, and when I was 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.160 reading about you, I came across the story and it 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.520 talks about you being from Abilene and a town of 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.600 seven thousand people. So now that you've had some success 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.840 in the NFL and you talk about the relationship of 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:06.960 your mom and dad, have they changed it all? You 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.639 always talk about the players because now there's apparents from 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.480 a guy from a town of seven thousand people, and 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.679 now they get exposed to all of the landscape of 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:19.959 the NFL and your success, their superstitions, the food they eat, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.959 the way they dress, the restaurants they go to. Has 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.640 anything changed about them? I mean on Sunday mornings, they 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:27.519 got to go to the same coffee shop up here, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.040 you know, before they come downtown. You know. But other 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.360 than that, they just kind of stayed the same. People, 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:35.800 very supportive of me, and you know, come to as 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:37.880 many games they can. Yeah, as they're gonna ask you, 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.920 do they come, they come a lot. Yeah, they come 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.680 to about every home game and then they try and 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.960 come to a couple of road games too, so you know, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.640 very fortunate to have their support. Yeah, I thought I 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.600 saw you coming out of the tunnel in Buffalo with 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.880 a big smile on your face and it's cold, but 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.320 you're just in a T shirt after the game and everything, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.560 and it's it's got to be great to walk out 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:00.840 and and everything they've invested in you. You're able to 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:05.680 repay them in the investment that you're putting into this game. Yeah, absolutely, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.120 And like I said, they're conscience support and you know, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.680 always there for me even through the ups and downs. 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.760 You know, through the league there's ups and downs, you know, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.000 but they've always been by my side and stuck with me. 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.080 You know, that's the one thing you don't think about 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.039 as a fan, nor should you. I guess you know 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.520 you're you're looking at it as you're released to watch 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.280 a game on Sunday from your day to day grind, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:28.599 whatever walk of life you're in, or you're just a 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.000 passionate football fan and you really want your team to win. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.080 But you know, I brought this up in our pregame 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.599 show time the other day, because on any given day 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.320 you know, you may have a zillion things going on 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.480 in your head, or there's trouble, there's trouble at home, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.520 there's trouble, there's somebody sick in your family, or you know, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.039 you had a bad experience over the course of the week, 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:50.680 non football related. But for sixteen days out of the 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:52.880 three hundred and sixty five, you got to put that 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:55.080 all aside and go out there and have a clear 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:58.640 head and go about your life's work and family ways 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.240 on some guys, I mean, there's stories every day. You'll 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.479 learn every day about something going on in somebody's life. 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.320 So have you ever had a game where you had 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.200 a lot weighing on you. You don't have to get 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.080 into specifics if you don't want to, but weighing on you, 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.520 and you still had to go out there and you 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.400 got to go and do your job. You know, I've 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.680 been very fortunate to have you know, everything go well 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.440 for me. Knock on wooly um, you know. But like 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.239 I said, it's just it's just great to have their support, um, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.080 you know, weekend and week out. And my wife does 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.360 the same thing. She comes to all the games and 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.400 and there's there to support me as well. But you know, 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.839 earlier in training camp this year, you had to change 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.440 a fundamental aspect of your game. And that is a 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.880 trial and error type of thing, because every single time 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.240 a play starts, Cody Whitehair is going to touch the 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.360 football first. So you make a change in your style 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.920 of snapping. Have you come to grips with it? Are 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.560 you comfortable in there now? And do you feel like 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.760 you're as powerful with this type of snapping, Um, the 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.080 way you're at the balance and everything that you were previous? Yeah, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.440 you know, that was definitely a kind of a headache 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.839 in the precia and um, you know, but we addressed it, 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.200 We got it fixed. Um. You know, I have to 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.760 have to say, you know, huge thanks to my coaches 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.360 and my teammates for really sticking with me and helping 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.159 me through that situation. But yeah, I feel, you know, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.200 as comfortable as ever and really really feel great about it. 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:18.239 Was it good to be in Denver practicing against different 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.520 people than practicing against your own guys maybe at home 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.800 and making the transition and seeing different bodies. Yeah, I 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.720 mean absolutely, anytime you can go against somebody else besides 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.080 your teammates and get some good work there too, it's 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.560 it's always good, but uh, you know, you tend to 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.760 kick it up a little bit more, um going against 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.800 a different opponents. So going through that transition and being 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:40.200 able to practice against them and get it right before 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:42.320 the game was helpful for me. Do you do you 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.240 think at this point now looking back, that that was 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.880 one of your bigger challenges maybe getting over that hump? Yeah? 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.040 I do. Um, I can't you know, tell you the 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.440 amount of stress and and you know all that that 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.919 I put on myself. But you know, coach Harry and 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.880 coach Donnie, UM, you know, my teammates and coach Naggie 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:02.960 were right there with me, um in the hotel. Um, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.599 you know, helping me through that situation. So can you 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.520 take us through it a little bit, like give us 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.840 an example of what the stress was like. Well, anytime 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.680 you you don't get the ball to the quarterback, um, 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:18.760 you know, as you all know, that's where it all starts. Um, 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.120 you know, and I never want to be that guy. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.200 I never want to be that guy to to let 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.400 my team down or or or you know, put my 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.200 team in a bad situation like that. So, um, you know, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:28.880 I've always been that kind of guy, and it just 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.360 it just really killed me for the times that you know, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.120 I'd let the team down and didn't get the ball 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.320 to the quarterback. So you know, I really took it 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.880 to heart and and you know, thankfully I was able 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.840 to get it get it corrected. One of the one 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.120 of the videos I was watching you talk about yourself, 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.280 you said, I'm very serious and I'm all about business. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.880 And I think that is the approach that you need 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.480 to have at this level, especially if you're going to 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.320 make an improvement right in mid stride. It's not like 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.840 something you could sit for three months and OTAs and everything. 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.400 It's about the challenge of being ready every practice. Yeah, absolutely, 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:02.600 and that's that's the daily challenge. You got to come 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.520 in ready to work and ready to improve your fundamentals, 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.320 and you know, keep keep working. You know, it's interesting 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.080 back in our first meeting in training camp, when we 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.640 sat down with you, you basically said that you have 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.160 to think like your quarterback. Your quarterback is very similar 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.720 to you then in personality in terms of being quite 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:25.680 serious and taking things hard when things don't go well. Um, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.480 So I couldn't think of a better pairing for a 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.880 pivot and a quarterback to move together. In their career, 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:35.040 because it will get it will get easier as as 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.120 the days go on and the years go on, you'll 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.360 become more experienced and more of an expert at your 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.640 position and in this offense. So do you feel that 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:44.560 I'm on the right track with that? Am I targeting 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:48.160 this personalities? Absolutely? And I think you know, the more 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.480 and more we play together, the more you know, the 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.840 easier it'll get, the more will feel comfortable with the offense. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.439 And you know, each week we keep keep your own 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.240 and keep improving. And I think we're headed in the 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.800 right direction. You know, you taught talks about you and 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:04.439 Mitch working together. Now let's include four offensive guards at 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.160 this point in the season, because you're you're you're fortunately 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.280 unfortunately not only working by yourself or with Mitch. You're 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.800 working with four other guys sometimes the fifth that they 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.000 put Bradley soul in or the tight ends and such. 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.640 But how has that process been for you? Because you're 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.080 bringing in a guy um in brad Witzman that he's 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.160 he understands the system, but doesn't have a great deal 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.120 of experience with you guys yet. And then you got 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.280 a rookie the year left who's been playing offensive guard 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:32.800 and center. But he's been around this system now for 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.600 a few months. The whole transition with the whole group 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.360 of guards you played with, how has that been for you? Yeah, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:41.880 I mean it's it's definitely a challenge every every time. Um, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.440 you know, you have to go through a transition, you know. Um, 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.280 offensive line is all about continuity and getting playing next 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.480 to each other. And you know, we were very fortunate 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.960 to be able to do that for seven games. Um, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.800 you know, but the guys have coming and did a 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.960 nice job. James and Brian have done, you know, an 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.520 outstanding job, and Eric as well. Um, you know, so 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.480 all you guys continue to speak the same offensive line 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.840 language even when you have these changeable guys or do 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.200 do guys like different type of a language. No, we 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.000 all kind of keep it the same just you know, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.160 so it's not confusing to anybody. Um, you know, so 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.760 we just keep it the same throughout. Um, you know, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.439 the four or five of us, and you know, it's 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.360 it's been really good for us. All Right, we're gonna 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:25.000 step away our first segment with starting center Cody Whitehair 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.280 in the books. This is bears All Access, brought to 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.120 you by IGS Energy, with Tom there, I'm Jeff Joniac 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.960 back with more after this on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.280 seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access brought 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.160 to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.640 Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.360 to over one million customers across the country. Learn more 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.120 about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff and Tom 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.880 and starting center Cody whitehair kind enough to give us 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.760 a big chunk of his his day. Can I just back, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.760 I just wanted from the last segment, I got one 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.560 more question that I want to ask them before you 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.640 go onto. Okay, for those who just join the show, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.440 we were resettled. Okay, we're talking that. We're talking about 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:06.959 Cody white here playing center and his ability to communicate, 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.360 communicate with Mitchell Trubisky. However, he's had to communicate with 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.760 four different offensive guards at this portion of the season. 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:16.600 And when you have offensive linemen and we developed our 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.600 own language, we would develop a language that give us 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.199 an example. Okay, I'm Jay No so Mark so Now, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.360 if I wanted to communicate with Mark Boards on the 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.120 other side of Jay, I would say ice fishing, because 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.400 one of his favorite things to do was ice fishing, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.440 so he knew that I was communicating with him, and 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.720 you kept that consistent for sixteen ye So yeah, but 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.640 we we sometimes you had to adjust language because teams 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.440 would be familiar with you. So as much as I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.320 know about you, I would you know Hersey. That would 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.880 be to ignite a thought process between me. I thought, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.000 he's going to go Seinfeld on me. But that's all right, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.200 I'll take Hersy. That's where I went to iol. But anyway, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:55.840 so my point with Cody ism who helps develop that language? 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.000 Do you guys talk amongst yourself kind of like we 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.240 did or is that do you have a glossary of words? 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.680 We kind of have a set were a few set 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.079 words that we use. That way, when we get to 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:07.960 the line of scrimmage, we see everything through one set 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.600 of eyes and everybody kind of clicks with one set 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.520 of words, you know, And that's that's pretty much given 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.920 to us in training camp with you know, the coaches 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.240 and stuff. But you know, if there is certain things 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.040 that we need to change, because teams pick up on 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:22.839 things and then we're able to do just as well. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.800 So it does come from the top down. It doesn't 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.640 come just from your room. Yeah yeah, okay, very good. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.640 All right. Well it's a big week, a big week 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.960 for Cody white Hair because he was the Bear's nominee 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.280 for the Art Rooney Award that's given by the National 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.079 Football League and recognition of outstanding sportsmanship on the playing field. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.280 It was just started a few years ago in twenty 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.000 fifteen in honor of Art Rooney, the founding father of 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.560 the Pittsburgh Stealers and a Pro Football Hall of Famer. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.000 So it is a vote determined by NFL players. So 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.800 the award presented each year to a player demonstrates on 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.240 the field some of the qualities we learned to buy 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:01.160 you great sportsmanship for one, fair play, respect for opponent's integrity, 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.960 and competition. I think that's all all fair. What's it 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:05.920 mean to you as being one of the thirty two? 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:07.920 It all get paired down before the Super Bowl, so 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.400 you got some tough competition. Yeah, it's it's it's a 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:12.840 great honor. I'm very humbled by it. Um. You know, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.160 I couldn't couldn't be in this situation without the people 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:20.000 that have helped me get here with you know, family, coaches, UM, teammates, UM, 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.600 you know all those people that have helped me get here. Um, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.280 you know, so I want to I want to give 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:26.080 them a shout out and thanks for that too. And 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.720 the winner receives a twenty five thousand dollar donation from 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.160 the NFL Foundation to a charity of your choice. Last 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.240 year's winner was Carolina linebacker Luke Keickle and it started 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.559 in twenty fourteen. So it's Larry Fitzgerald, Charles Woodson, Frank Gore, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:40.200 three guys who should be in the Hall of Fame, 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.320 and Keikley might be there as well. Well, i'd luck 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.880 to you. I would like to see Cody walk off 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.480 the field in a full uniform at the Super Bowl 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.440 except yard, thank everybody for it, and go back into 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.000 the end zone, do your final warm ups, locker room, 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.840 come out and play. Yeah, that would be very awesome, 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:02.160 you know. Um you go. So you and Trubisky, this 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.920 is probably the most versatile quarterback that you've ever played 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:09.040 with some of the challenges of his active feet in 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.720 blocking for an offensive line. You know, we saw you 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.240 when you escorted him into the end zone when you 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:18.040 had that, but your pass blocking responsibilities in the uncertainty 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.240 of him running where he's going to be in the protection. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.680 How challenging has that been for you guys, you know, 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.400 if I don't know if it's been too big of 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:30.120 a challenge. If you know, I think it helps us 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:31.800 out a little bit more, you know, just because he 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.520 is so active on his feet, he's able to you know, 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.280 get away from defenders if there's any anybody free, and 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.120 you know, make something out of nothing if you will, um, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.880 you know. So we're very fortunate that he, um, you know, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.240 was so agile and get on his feet. If you 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:48.640 could step back to the day that you were introduced 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.520 to the playbook and now fast forward to today now 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:55.840 knowing the playbook and what was going through your mind 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.400 when you first got it, where you like, oh my gosh, 0:14:58.400 --> 0:14:59.960 how are we gonna how are we gonna get this 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:05.320 figured out? This voluminous this is not easy as it 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:09.080 become easier as it becomes second nature. Still working all 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.120 the above, I mean, you tell us the journey of 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.400 the playbook. I mean it was definitely you know, when 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.400 you first get here. It can be overwhelming at times, um, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.480 you know, but you just have to set aside some 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.800 time to really um, you know, dive into it and 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.200 really study it. And kind of break it down by 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:26.320 concept and uh, you know, take it a little by little, um, 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.400 you know, but I definitely think we've gotten better and 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.080 I feel a lot more confident and you know, feel 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.400 really good with it. Did Matt say he has eight 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:36.960 hundred plays? That was in reference to what he thought 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.880 how many plays Zimmer has defensively throw at an offense. 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.840 He said eight hundred, right, So I mean, you know 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.880 he is joking. Yeah, you say offensively if the Bears 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.000 have five hundred plays, But if you're gonna get ready 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.320 to play a defense and they can play probably eight 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.200 variations of their defense, so the five hundred plays, you 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.240 have to know it in eight different ways because you 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.800 could be working with so many different people. That's the 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:02.760 anything about it is it has to become second nature 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.200 if a defense moves right before the snap of the ball, 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.560 when you don't have the instant to community. Yeah, I 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.160 think I think that's the biggest challenge each week, is 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.720 you know, figuring out, you know, the little things that 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.360 we can do to help us communicate at the last 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.120 second in case things like that do happen. But you know, 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:22.160 it's definitely a bigger challenge when you know defenses play 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.840 multiple defenses, you know, the bears, the overs, the unders, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.040 all sorts of you know, different defenses. But you know, 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.000 as long as we communicate all eleven guys, when we're 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.960 all on the same page, usually everything works out. If 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.480 you get to stay in this system with Mitch for three, four, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.880 however many years, and you see the success of the 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:41.240 other examples of that around the league, this offense is 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.920 going to be unreal because, yeah, you install the offense 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.320 and it takes a year. You can't, I mean, there's 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.400 no way around it. Well, yeah, that's me talk. You know, 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.160 I don't know if Cody agrees, but I'm saying it 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.640 takes a long time to install, install the entirety of 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.360 an offense. And then when you get to go over 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.640 throughout the second couple of seasons, I think Mitch's upside 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:04.240 is unlimited, and I think the offenses upside is unlimited. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:07.520 And you see us, you know, we have some hiccups obviously, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.480 but you see constant growth and constant improvement throughout the 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.840 weeks and um, you know, you turn on the tape 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.760 on Monday mornings and you know you just see, um, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:17.879 you know, the improvement that we're making so you know, 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:20.439 give us another you know, year or two and you know, 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:22.120 I think you guys a limit for this team. How 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.879 is it when the defensive players come into the offensive huddle? 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.840 Are they overly excited? Are they shy kind of sneak 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.000 into the huddle hope no one sees them? Or no, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.080 they're excited. Um, you know it's obviously it's an opportunity 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.480 for them too. Um. You know, so it's it's pure 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.560 excitement right Well, that was the same for us. And 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.760 when they inserted William Perry into the backfield. You know, 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.159 when you see him waddle across the field from the 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.240 defensive short yardage goal line period to the offense, it's 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.320 just kind of fun to watch him, you know, run 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.040 across the field. And I think the biggest thing, you 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.600 know is their eyes when they hear how long our 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.919 plays are and draft you know, they're just like whoa 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:58.199 you know, But you know, it's always great to have 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.000 them in the huddle with us. You know, things change, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.200 job you're seeing your blocking style as well this year 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:05.679 with a new offensive line coach and a new system 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.680 and whatnot pulls. I'm interested in how that has changed 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:11.399 for you guys when you guys are pulling into a 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.600 fourth and especially with now a young rookie at left 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.040 guard and some rotation at right guard. Yeah, I mean 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.240 he's coach Hary's done a great job with us. You know, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.800 he comes to work with a great passion and great attitude. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.520 You know, along with coach Donovan Rayel as well his assistant. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.440 You know, they've been great for us and the techniques 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:32.879 and teachings they brought has just been unreal. Is that 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:37.000 a timing thing? Fellas with those pulling yep. To me, 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.880 you have to have a balanced stance because the one 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.400 thing you cannot do is you can't show what direction 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.320 you're pulling. If you're an offensive linement, you've got to 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:46.920 be consistent about your stance, whether it's pass or run, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.879 whether you're pulling right or left, because the defensive linement 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.080 are too smart. So it's not it's more a fundamental 0:18:53.119 --> 0:18:55.880 and a technique than it is timing to play itself, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:57.800 is timing like getting out there. I'm it's one of 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.240 my favorites to see you guys pulling out and eating 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.199 the way and it's definitely alignment, you know, one of 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:05.560 their favorite things too, you know, to get to get 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.800 away from blocking a three hundred pounder for a little 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:09.560 bit and get it out on the edge and and 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.600 getting one of those dbs for sure. Well, when when 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.960 you were able to escort Mitch into the end zone 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.879 with that play, Oh yeah, my favor The thing about 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:19.879 it is, um, you know, defensive backs, if they have 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.199 a lot of space, they'll all lay you. They are 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.800 they're so quick, and they're such good athletes and big us, 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.920 big oaths are trying to catch him that they'll they'll 0:19:26.960 --> 0:19:30.000 dodge us. This guy couldn't. He had to stand there 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.080 and take it. And it was like no, he ran 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.160 out of real estate. There was no slowing down. It's 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:38.239 it's an unbelievable feeling when you're playing football and you 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.359 can run at somebody and have no hesitation about hitting him. 0:19:41.640 --> 0:19:43.600 And that's what you had. Yeah, it was. It was 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.040 a great feeling. Um, you know, very well shut up 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.280 by Mitch. He brought that guy right to me, and 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.399 you know, it was a great feeling. But you know, 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.040 it was great for all eleven guys. It's great when 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.520 you hear the highlight and on NFL films at the 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:57.240 end of the year, when you happen to hear it. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.640 You're going to be in there leading the way from 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:02.000 Mitch or Bisky because you rolled the guy in front 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:03.199 of you. All Right, we need to step away for 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.240 another break. Cody Whitehair, our guest here on Bears All 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.440 Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score. This 0:20:09.480 --> 0:20:13.040 segment of Bears All Access is orchestrated by CDW. CDW 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.399 people to get it. Jeff and Tom with Cody Whitehair, 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.879 our guest here on Bears All Access. Thanks again for 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.440 joining us. Tom and I hosted an event Bears After 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.479 Dark with Keem Hicks this week, and Tom asked him 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:27.440 a great question, because Tom's very blunt. He says, Keem, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:28.720 how come you? How come you wait so long to 0:20:28.760 --> 0:20:31.800 getting your stands? And he had a great answer, because 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.520 you didn't like it. You didn't like when the guy 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.840 didn't commit himself. When when as you just you're ready 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:37.520 to go, and now you're guessing a little bit on 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.200 what he's thinking. Right, is that was your points? Yeah, 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.080 it's how do you feel about it? For me? For me, 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:44.159 if I'm looking at my offensive lineman, when I was 0:20:44.200 --> 0:20:46.720 in my stance, there's something that I looked to that 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:49.119 was a target and I want and I want him 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.359 to be in the stands and I could see the 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.920 top of his number, and knowing the snap count, I 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:55.119 knew that if I could shoot my hands into it 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.440 the base of his number, then I would hit him 0:20:57.440 --> 0:21:01.840 before he would hit me. But am he slowly gets 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.280 in his stance, So it would irritate you if you 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:06.560 had I want my target set, you know, I think 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.919 that's with any of us. Yeah, we we constantly focused 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:12.720 on targets, and you know, pre snap indicators, and if 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.080 we don't have something you know there for us, when 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:17.360 you know pre snap to kind of focus on, then 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.120 you know it's obviously hard for us. So what's the process? Then? 0:21:20.160 --> 0:21:24.119 If if a guy's doing that to you, well, I 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.520 think you would want to be able to use the 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.239 snap cut, especially at home. You'd want to use your 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.399 snap count as a weapon against him. So if I 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.399 go to line of scrimmage and I know exactly what 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.399 the sound is, and if he's not balanced and not 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.920 in a powerful position in his stance, and I can 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:41.800 come and just stop his initial momentum, then I'm going 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.200 to win the battle there. If you give a guy 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:46.480 like a team a chance to get a running started, 0:21:47.480 --> 0:21:50.000 there's no stopping him. You might as well just get 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:51.880 on your back because he's going to run right over 0:21:51.920 --> 0:21:54.560 the top of you. And you know that's you know, 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:57.560 part of the thinking the duel of offensive lineman defensive 0:21:57.600 --> 0:22:00.320 lineman on an every play basis. But at the same time, 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:02.560 does a big guy like that lose some of his 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:04.880 leverage then because he's a little more upright right near 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:08.399 the snap, he's not settling into his hands. He know, 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.959 his knees are banned, his framework is low. He's so 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.919 big and powerful that even a player like Reggie Wider 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.639 a team hicks and stuff, even off balance, they're still 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:21.359 as powerful as anybody else. You feel that power and 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:24.960 training camp you he's a very powerful player. You know, 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.600 what have you noticed about teams now nine games into 0:22:28.640 --> 0:22:32.400 the season doing defensively regardless of scheme, maybe a little 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:34.280 differently than they did at the beginning of year when 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:35.639 they didn't know what the heck the Bears were going 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.760 to be? You're saying anything, Yeah, I mean, you know, 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:41.640 you definitely get you know, teams in there to help 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:44.679 stop the run and things that we do. Um, you know, 0:22:44.720 --> 0:22:47.639 so we've definitely noticed that and um, you know, Uh, 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.120 it's just the battle you have to deal with each 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:52.600 and every week is how to you know, continue to 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.480 improve and work against that defense. It's nice because there's 0:22:55.480 --> 0:22:57.840 no pattern to your offense. I mean, you guys can 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.119 come out and throw it on first down, running on 0:23:00.240 --> 0:23:04.280 second long the ability that you guys have on third down, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.560 it's it's interesting to see the battles that the defensive 0:23:07.560 --> 0:23:11.640 coordinators are facing against Coach Naga and the entire offense. 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:14.720 And I think it's like you talk about a team 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:16.679 Hicks being slow into a stance. I think there's a 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:19.760 lot of people that of your opponents that's still processing 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:24.040 information during the snap count the Anthony Miller touchdown that 0:23:24.119 --> 0:23:26.560 the guy missed the tackle. The two defensive backs were 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.440 talking amongst themselves when the ball was snapped. And it's 0:23:29.480 --> 0:23:33.280 not necessarily where the defensive players aren't. It's where my 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:36.840 offensive players are and that's the reason that play was successful. 0:23:36.880 --> 0:23:40.320 But you are confusing defenses. Yeah, absolutely, And like you said, 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.919 the amount of stuff that we have on first, second, 0:23:42.920 --> 0:23:44.679 and third down that we can use in the weapons 0:23:44.680 --> 0:23:48.520 that we have us for the defense. Do you ever 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:51.560 does a play call ever surprise you when you're thinking, 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.080 you're going, oh, here it is second three, this is 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:58.040 what it's you know what analytics say that football teams 0:23:58.080 --> 0:23:59.880 do in that course, but you're going, oh my god, 0:24:00.040 --> 0:24:02.360 this is what we're gonna do. You know, I just 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.720 think coach Naggie puts us in great situations and um, 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.159 you know, we always trust in it, so you know, 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:11.520 it's it definitely doesn't surprise us in terms of stunts 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:15.919 and what defensive lines can do at the line of scrimmage. 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.639 Are you seeing more of that? And if it was 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.080 on a percentage basis, could you even tell me what 0:24:21.560 --> 0:24:23.560 often do that other than they just put their hand 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:25.080 in the dirt and there's a four man rush or 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:27.919 a three man rush. You know. The thing around the 0:24:27.960 --> 0:24:29.560 League two this year has kind of been a lot 0:24:29.600 --> 0:24:32.159 more bare, you know, five now fronts and you know, 0:24:32.240 --> 0:24:35.120 really fill in the gaps so um. You know, when 0:24:35.280 --> 0:24:37.800 when teams do that, there's not as many twists and 0:24:37.920 --> 0:24:40.600 movements and stuff like that, because the more and more 0:24:40.640 --> 0:24:41.920 you move, the more and more you get out of 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:45.240 your gap, you know, and create holes. So um, as 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:47.040 long as you're fulfilling your gap, and that's kind of 0:24:47.040 --> 0:24:50.760 what we've seen this year when you get in preparation 0:24:50.920 --> 0:24:53.719 for a team like Minnesota, they're a lot different than 0:24:53.720 --> 0:24:57.000 the last couple of teams that you faced. Um does 0:24:57.040 --> 0:25:00.119 that Does that alter the style of the type the 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:01.800 plays you are going to run? Or you could just 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:05.440 run the same plays and you have different um assignments 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:07.919 associated to this type of defense on the couple you've 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:09.800 been playing lately. I mean, I don't think it'll change 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.840 a whole lot um, you know, just more technique and 0:25:13.680 --> 0:25:16.440 you know, fitting on guys um, you know. But I 0:25:16.480 --> 0:25:18.160 think it's just going to be the same stuff. We don't. 0:25:18.920 --> 0:25:21.440 Cody Whitehair, our guest here on bears All Access along 0:25:21.520 --> 0:25:24.280 with Jordan Trutup, filling in for Big Paul's rank today. 0:25:24.320 --> 0:25:26.440 He's doing a heck of a job working that very 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.640 complicated board. I'm impressed with the young man and Dan 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:31.920 Burrelly just chewing his gum light did go over there 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:34.200 like he does every week. We appreciate their help here 0:25:34.200 --> 0:25:37.159 on bears All every year Employee the Year, Dan Burley, 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.480 Tom Fare and Jeff joniag with you the enormity of 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:45.360 the game because the lights and whatnot is certainly special 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:48.200 and fun. We all we all love that, but Matt 0:25:48.280 --> 0:25:50.959 Naggie is really working very hard as he has from 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:52.960 the day of the season started to keep the focus 0:25:53.000 --> 0:25:55.600 on one snap at a time, let alone one game 0:25:55.640 --> 0:25:58.280 at a time. How does he go about doing that? 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:00.320 To you guys? Over the course of he tells us 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.679 some things which I'm sure he tells you guys as 0:26:02.720 --> 0:26:05.960 a team, but he's really done a really good job 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.040 of compartmentalizing the season. Yeah, he just you know, constantly 0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:10.840 tells us to dial in and focus on the week 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:13.600 and the task at hand. Um, you know, just staying 0:26:13.640 --> 0:26:16.320 in the moment and working on improving each week. Is 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:20.600 that hard to do despite his request? Um? You know 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:22.280 the thing. The thing is is a lot of guys 0:26:22.320 --> 0:26:25.520 have bought in and continue to just focus on weekend, 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:28.000 you know, that week at task and you know you 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.239 see just you know, improving and playing well out there. 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:32.400 So I think, you know, all the players have bought 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:34.359 in and it's pin off. You know, you got to 0:26:34.359 --> 0:26:38.080 accept the responsibility of the popular Chicago Bears football team. 0:26:38.119 --> 0:26:40.320 So you have the game that's got moved this Sunday. 0:26:40.640 --> 0:26:43.520 You got the national TV game on Thanksgiving and then 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:46.000 you got the information today that the Rams game has 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.480 been moving to national team. So it's got to be 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.160 one of the responsibilities that you guys have to accept 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:54.160 with success and it's a good thing. And I think 0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:57.840 you guys have the right personalities in the locker room 0:26:58.800 --> 0:27:02.320 that enjoy that aspect out but there they cannot absorb 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:05.160 the success that you're having. But also know that it's 0:27:05.160 --> 0:27:08.280 about your next your next week of hard work, because 0:27:08.560 --> 0:27:10.760 it seems at this stage of the season, Matt and 0:27:10.800 --> 0:27:13.280 Aggie has talked a lot about how great the weeks 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:16.360 of practices have been in preparation for your next opponent. Yeah, 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:18.240 I think that's where it all starts, you know, is 0:27:18.240 --> 0:27:20.560 practice in preparation what you do and practice you're going 0:27:20.600 --> 0:27:22.480 to carry over to the games. And you know, I 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:26.520 think that's what shows on Sundays is our constant improving 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:29.399 practices throughout the week, and um, you know, it definitely 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:32.400 carries over to Sundays. But we just gotta stay you know, focused, 0:27:32.440 --> 0:27:35.520 and that's what we're doing. Some of the skeptics would say, well, 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.159 you know, we've heard that before, you know, over the years, 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:40.560 and you know what happens on Sunday, But you know, 0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:44.000 you're only speaking the truth for you're in it. So 0:27:44.200 --> 0:27:46.440 if you're saying they're going good, they're going good. Yeah, 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.120 it doesn't guarantee success on Sunday, but it certainly does 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.560 close the gap on getting there. That's that's absolutely correct. 0:27:51.600 --> 0:27:54.600 I mean it helps you, you know, when when everything 0:27:54.960 --> 0:27:57.120 you know, it is crazy out there, and we all 0:27:57.119 --> 0:27:59.560 know it can get crazy on Sundays. It just comes 0:27:59.560 --> 0:28:02.320 back to preparation and what you do in practice. Your 0:28:02.359 --> 0:28:05.159 body's trained to do in the game, So you know, 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.200 as long as you're having great practices, it's going to 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:09.080 carry over to the all this what we're talking about 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:12.520 about growth and about patience and time and two or 0:28:12.520 --> 0:28:15.240 three years from now, Wow, what luck out does? It 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:20.520 give you a great sense of comfort knowing that while 0:28:20.520 --> 0:28:23.000 you're learning, while this is all happening, while Mitch is 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.439 growing and bringing the offense with them, and this whole 0:28:26.480 --> 0:28:29.119 collection of skill position players that have never played with 0:28:29.440 --> 0:28:34.240 each other before until these nine games. You're averaging almost 0:28:34.240 --> 0:28:36.880 thirty points a game, almost thirty five points a game 0:28:36.920 --> 0:28:39.280 in the last five or six games, and you're winning. 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:44.840 To me, that's like light bulb going off. Excitement. Absolutely, 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:47.560 it's very comforting. And you know, like I say, each week, 0:28:47.600 --> 0:28:51.400 we're getting better and we're growing together. You know, guys 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:53.440 are getting a feel for each other a little bit better, 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.680 and you know, it really does help out. And you know, 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:59.400 us coming together as an offense, all eleven players playing 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:02.320 for each other and buying in. It's just it makes 0:29:02.320 --> 0:29:04.280 Sunday's a lot more enjoyable. But you guys are good 0:29:04.280 --> 0:29:06.360 at a lot of different things. You know, whether you're 0:29:06.440 --> 0:29:10.760 throwing lateral screens, big plays down field, Jordan Howard, tree cone, 0:29:10.760 --> 0:29:13.880 Benny Cunningham running the ball. That's the verse. I talked 0:29:13.880 --> 0:29:16.520 about the versatility of Mitchell Chubisky earlier for you guys 0:29:16.560 --> 0:29:18.920 as an offensive line. But the versatility of this offense 0:29:19.560 --> 0:29:22.240 that you guys have, the athletes are capable of doing 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:24.840 everything that's asked of you guys, I think has really 0:29:24.880 --> 0:29:26.920 been one of the keys of the success at this 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:29.560 point in the season. Absolutely. Anytime you know you're able 0:29:29.600 --> 0:29:32.800 to do multiple things and have the versatility and not 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:35.440 be so one dimensional, that helps you on Sundays. That 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:37.600 keeps the defenses honest and they're not able to stack 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:40.600 the box or you know, play pass coverages that you 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:44.320 know are effective on first and second down. So um, 0:29:44.360 --> 0:29:45.880 you know, as long as we keep doing our job 0:29:45.920 --> 0:29:50.080 and staying aggressive. Then you know the versatility is great. 0:29:50.120 --> 0:29:52.520 Did it blow you away that how quickly Alan Robinson 0:29:52.600 --> 0:29:54.800 got back involving the seventh play of the game. They 0:29:54.840 --> 0:29:57.440 throw him a slant route and he's got a lot 0:29:57.480 --> 0:30:00.440 of run yards after the catch. Run. That's prize you 0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:02.520 or is that something you've been seeing since training camp? 0:30:02.720 --> 0:30:05.440 You know, that's something that Alan's done since day one, 0:30:05.520 --> 0:30:08.680 since he's got here. You know, he works very hard, 0:30:09.320 --> 0:30:12.600 does a great job, and he prepares well. You know 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:14.560 when that carries over on Sundays, like we talked about, 0:30:14.840 --> 0:30:18.320 it'll be fun to watch on Sunday night, Dad, I 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:20.600 almost said the Dallas Cowboys for some so the reason 0:30:20.600 --> 0:30:23.320 the Minnesota Vikings arrive at Soldier Field. We'll have it 0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:26.040 on WBBM starting at four o'clock with our pregame coverage 0:30:26.040 --> 0:30:28.920 seven twenty two, the official kickoff for you going out 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:31.160 to Soldier Fiel. Let's step away. Another segment of Cody 0:30:31.160 --> 0:30:33.160 White are coming up here on Bears All Access on 0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:37.080 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score this Sunday's game 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:39.760 has brought to you by Verizon, the official Wildest provider 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:43.560 of the Chicago Bears. Minnesota arriving in town. They've won 0:30:43.600 --> 0:30:45.720 four or five. The Bears have won four of six 0:30:46.040 --> 0:30:48.640 half games separating the two teams. With a packer still 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:50.520 lurking at a game and a half back, it's going 0:30:50.600 --> 0:30:53.080 to be a tight NFC North race. You wouldn't want 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:54.840 it in any other way, man. This is what it's 0:30:54.840 --> 0:30:57.920 all about, the division. You guys kicked it off. Cody Whitehair, 0:30:57.960 --> 0:31:00.640 our guest here on Bears All Access. With that impressive 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:04.000 win over the Lions, and awards and all that stuff 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:06.360 mean something later to you in your career. But in 0:31:06.480 --> 0:31:08.640 Mitchell Trubisky is a perfect example. Named this week the 0:31:08.720 --> 0:31:11.160 NFC Offensive Player of the Week by virtue of throwing 0:31:11.160 --> 0:31:13.400 for three hundred and fifty five yards and being responsible 0:31:13.480 --> 0:31:15.400 for four touchdowns, three through the air, one on the 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:18.280 quarterback draw to beat the Lions. But he's left it 0:31:18.320 --> 0:31:21.400 off this week. You know, no big thing. Mattneggie did 0:31:21.440 --> 0:31:24.200 the same thing, and I think that is the goal way. 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:25.760 That is the way to go about it, because when 0:31:25.800 --> 0:31:28.400 you win, there will be a lot of attention, but 0:31:28.480 --> 0:31:31.680 you still gotta stay focused because nothing yet really has 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:35.840 been accomplished. Yeah. Absolutely, and that's just Mitchell's personality, you know, 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.440 just to move on and not take all the accolades 0:31:38.480 --> 0:31:41.040 and the rewards and just you know, set him aside 0:31:41.040 --> 0:31:43.080 and go back to work. Who's the calming factor in 0:31:43.120 --> 0:31:45.920 the huddle? Is it? Mitch? Is it you? You know 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:48.920 where does that? Where does that fall on the shoulders? 0:31:49.000 --> 0:31:51.040 Or even a guy like Chuckle, you know Charles Lenno, 0:31:51.160 --> 0:31:53.880 he seems like a even keel guy. Yeah, Charles Leno 0:31:54.000 --> 0:31:56.040 does a great job and Mitch as well. And I 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:59.360 think it all just depends on what's going on. You know, 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:02.120 if somebody makes a bad play, everybody's there to pick 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:04.600 them up. And you know that that's all eleven guys 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:06.600 on our offense. They've done a great job about coming 0:32:06.600 --> 0:32:08.800 together and you know, no one when a guy needs 0:32:08.840 --> 0:32:10.520 a little pad on the you know, pad on the 0:32:10.560 --> 0:32:13.680 back and and you know lift it up. So um, 0:32:13.920 --> 0:32:15.800 we've really gotten close and got to know each other 0:32:15.800 --> 0:32:17.480 and know when when we need it, you know. The 0:32:17.560 --> 0:32:21.000 offensive tackles last week, Bobby Massey and Charles Leno Junior 0:32:21.120 --> 0:32:23.720 really played well. And it does it seems like they're 0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:25.360 not the type of guy that need to be over 0:32:25.640 --> 0:32:28.480 coddled or over congratulated. They just go out there and 0:32:28.520 --> 0:32:31.160 they do their business. You know, Charles got a ton 0:32:31.200 --> 0:32:34.760 of snaps consecutively and everything. So, yeah, that's nice because 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:36.480 the issues that you've gone through in the middle with 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:39.040 the growth of that position, it's nice to have those 0:32:39.080 --> 0:32:41.560 two guys on the end where you can put them 0:32:41.560 --> 0:32:45.080 in individual responsibilities and understand that they can withstand that 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:47.520 type of the battle. Yeah, they've been rock solid. Um, 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.320 you know, not only last week but the whole year. Um. 0:32:50.800 --> 0:32:52.600 You know, they've done a great job and they bring 0:32:52.920 --> 0:32:56.000 you know, consistency to our offense each and every week. Um, 0:32:56.280 --> 0:32:58.320 you know, but they've done a great job, and you know, 0:32:58.400 --> 0:33:00.840 inside we'll just continue to grow each Charles had a 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:04.280 great quote this week in the locker room because you know, 0:33:04.760 --> 0:33:07.160 he's been on teams that I think and and starts 0:33:07.160 --> 0:33:09.720 that he's head up until this point, like twenty one wins, 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.040 you know, and a lot more losses. So being six 0:33:12.080 --> 0:33:15.040 and three is exciting, is exciting. It's you know, there's 0:33:15.040 --> 0:33:17.320 a there's a whole fan base that has wound up 0:33:17.400 --> 0:33:19.880 right there. And he said, this week's shoot, I'm I'm 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:22.840 excited about it. So it's a great feeling to finally 0:33:22.960 --> 0:33:25.520 get over the hump a little bit and experience success 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:29.760 and whether that's a rookie coming in that had success 0:33:29.760 --> 0:33:32.480 in college and he's coming in here. Because when you 0:33:32.480 --> 0:33:36.240 you're a winning program in college, losing at your first 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.120 stages of your NFL life cannot be easy. Yeah, it 0:33:39.200 --> 0:33:41.040 was tough. Um, you know, I kind of came into 0:33:41.080 --> 0:33:43.760 that myself. Yeah, you know, winning a lot of games 0:33:43.760 --> 0:33:46.840 at Kansas State and then coming here and um, you know, 0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:49.280 not not winning a whole lot of games, but you know, 0:33:49.480 --> 0:33:51.640 the times of taint, the times of change, and the 0:33:51.840 --> 0:33:54.440 culture as well here and you know, anytime that you 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:56.400 get to win as always a celebration in the locker 0:33:56.480 --> 0:33:58.320 room as well. Yeah, well that's going on. Yes, we 0:33:58.360 --> 0:34:00.800 could talk to ask him the standard question about the 0:34:00.800 --> 0:34:04.400 disco ball. Well, everybody, I think I've asked you. I 0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:06.800 think you've talked about you danced a little bit in 0:34:06.840 --> 0:34:09.399 the background of the disco ball, But I always asked, 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:11.920 do you see anybody that you think shouldn't dance again? 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:15.680 Or is there anybody that's you know, I haven't seen 0:34:15.719 --> 0:34:18.160 any of that yet, but you know, I'm always in 0:34:18.600 --> 0:34:21.279 kind of in the back, just watching and waiting for 0:34:21.360 --> 0:34:25.120 my time to really get in there, and well, you knows, absolutely, 0:34:25.280 --> 0:34:28.839 I think Nagie's gonna get all you guys dance. He's 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.000 gonna dances. Hey, he's threatened to dance himself. I mean, 0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:34.160 if you would put some of those guys and you 0:34:34.160 --> 0:34:37.200 know it trying to see Vic Fangio doing some dance moves, 0:34:37.200 --> 0:34:40.560 I don't know if I want to see that, you know, No, 0:34:40.680 --> 0:34:42.040 I think you want to see it. I think it 0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:45.160 would be quite entertaining. I think it probably was a 0:34:45.200 --> 0:34:48.759 stunner to see it materialized to begin with, But now 0:34:48.840 --> 0:34:51.279 it's become a thing. And the more it becomes a 0:34:51.320 --> 0:34:54.320 thing for you guys that closed circle right there, although 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:56.480 that the Bears do post it every week, so you know, 0:34:56.520 --> 0:34:58.480 it puts it out there a little bit, but I 0:34:58.520 --> 0:35:00.839 think the more, the more it's just put you guys 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:04.759 closer together. Oh that's my ten cent view on it. Yeah, absolutely, 0:35:04.760 --> 0:35:07.200 And you know you see the guys, you know, get 0:35:07.239 --> 0:35:09.399 all excited for it after the game and on their 0:35:09.440 --> 0:35:11.400 way you know, through the tunnel and back to the 0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:14.120 locker room. There you see him kind of pick up 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.440 the tempo back to the locker room. Um, you know, 0:35:16.520 --> 0:35:18.640 so that's great to see and just you know, anytime 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:21.320 you can celebrate with your teammates and congratulate your teammates 0:35:21.360 --> 0:35:23.319 on you know, the great efforts that they put out, 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:25.520 there's always fun as well. With all the excitement that's 0:35:25.560 --> 0:35:27.600 been going on. You guys were the first team in 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:30.439 training camp. You guys have been there the longest. Has 0:35:30.440 --> 0:35:34.360 this gone fast for you? Because to me, it's gone fast. 0:35:34.440 --> 0:35:36.239 When you when you get that pamphlet of all the 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:39.040 parking passes before the season, it seems thick and you 0:35:39.080 --> 0:35:41.399 don't know if you'll ever get through it. Now it's 0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:45.080 so much thinner, there's that not that many parking passes left. 0:35:45.480 --> 0:35:47.680 It's gone fast for me. Has it gone fast for you? 0:35:47.840 --> 0:35:50.560 It has gone fast? And I think, you know, in 0:35:50.600 --> 0:35:52.440 my short career in the league, I've only been in 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:54.520 this is my third year, I've noticed that it gets 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:57.160 faster each and every year, right, um, you know, even 0:35:57.200 --> 0:35:59.280 with the Hall of Fame game in the extra week camp. 0:35:59.320 --> 0:36:02.319 But you know, it's it's definitely it definitely is a 0:36:02.360 --> 0:36:04.840 great feeling when you're winning two. Um, you know, and 0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:07.120 just the culture that we have in this locker room 0:36:07.120 --> 0:36:09.319 and the people that are in this organization make it 0:36:09.680 --> 0:36:11.759 you know, fun and easy to come to work every day. 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:15.759 Football life is about experience, though you you know, you're 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:19.319 one of those you know, old not older than, but 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:22.200 you have more experience than most people that have been 0:36:22.200 --> 0:36:24.239 in the league as long as you have, and I 0:36:24.280 --> 0:36:27.240 think that adds to that kind of aging process also 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:30.319 in a good way. Yeah. Absolutely, Um, you know, and 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:32.600 like you should have been very fortunate to you know, 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:35.360 kind of jump in and been able to play. Um. 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:37.240 You know, so I gotta give credit to my coaches 0:36:37.239 --> 0:36:39.880 and my teammates helping me through that. Cody White hare 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:41.839 our guest Jeff and Tim with you as well here 0:36:41.840 --> 0:36:45.200 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. How's Kyle 0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:48.839 Long doing? How's he handling all this? Yeah? Kyle's great. Um, 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:51.360 you know, he's had a very positive attitude and you know, 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:54.880 just continues to work through rehab and and hopefully, you know, 0:36:54.920 --> 0:36:58.200 we'll have him back here soon. Has he Is he 0:36:58.239 --> 0:37:00.400 open up? Does he? Does he open up to you 0:37:00.400 --> 0:37:02.600 guys about just the struggles of it all? Or is 0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:04.960 that just a topic that you guys don't get into. 0:37:05.239 --> 0:37:07.839 And you know, what's his demeanor when he's not able 0:37:07.880 --> 0:37:10.080 to suit up in practice? Is he is he climbing 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:13.520 the walls. Is he still participated participatory? I don't know 0:37:13.560 --> 0:37:15.480 how to put put it into context, but what's it? 0:37:15.640 --> 0:37:17.719 What's it all like for a guy like that? Anytime 0:37:17.920 --> 0:37:20.960 the sport that you love has been taken away, in 0:37:20.960 --> 0:37:24.640 the sport that you've worked so hard at, is always hard, um, 0:37:24.680 --> 0:37:27.719 you know, and you definitely see, um, you know that'd 0:37:27.719 --> 0:37:29.600 be hard for Kyle, But like I said, he's kept 0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:32.640 a positive attitude. Um. You know, he's in the treatment 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:35.480 and all that and getting you know, able to get 0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:37.799 back for us, um, you know, helping us in the 0:37:37.800 --> 0:37:40.239 film room, helping the younger guys that you know have 0:37:40.320 --> 0:37:44.000 stepped into playing guard and that rotation that you've talked 0:37:44.000 --> 0:37:46.120 about those four guys. Um, he's done a great job 0:37:46.120 --> 0:37:48.520 of helping him and you know, I think he'll continue 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:49.960 to do that. Right. You know, he's got such a 0:37:50.000 --> 0:37:53.359 dominating personality when he walks into a room, he's you know, 0:37:53.560 --> 0:37:56.320 the guy that you noticed because of his size and 0:37:56.320 --> 0:37:59.280 in everything. And you know, when when you're an active 0:37:59.280 --> 0:38:01.560 player and you're going through everything that these guys are 0:38:01.560 --> 0:38:03.319 going through on the pactice field, in the meeting room 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:06.080 and the preparation and all that, you're you're here, but 0:38:06.480 --> 0:38:09.040 when you're are going through a rehab that Kyle is, 0:38:09.280 --> 0:38:12.399 you're not. You're not detached from the team, but you're 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:16.080 concerned about your own efforts and getting ready to make 0:38:16.120 --> 0:38:17.960 sure that you can get back on the field. So 0:38:18.280 --> 0:38:20.800 you have that common ground of both, you know, still 0:38:20.840 --> 0:38:23.680 focused on the same goal and everything, but you're you're 0:38:23.680 --> 0:38:27.240 doing two different things during those six eight ten hours 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.400 a day that Kyle is doing one thing and the 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:31.960 players are doing the other. You know, with the rookies 0:38:32.000 --> 0:38:34.719 that have come aboard, I think Anthony Miller and boy, 0:38:34.760 --> 0:38:36.279 you guys getting a kick out of him because he's 0:38:36.680 --> 0:38:39.520 he's not your typical rookie. Yeah, he's he's got a 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:42.839 great personality and you know, we really enjoy him. All Right, 0:38:42.840 --> 0:38:45.000 We're gonna take a break one more segment with Cody 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:47.680 White here as the Bears prepared for the Minnesota Vikings 0:38:47.880 --> 0:38:50.600 here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:38:50.640 --> 0:38:53.560 seventy to score. Thanks very much to Cody White here 0:38:53.560 --> 0:38:56.280 for joining us tonight on Bears All Access. Ruth's Chris 0:38:56.280 --> 0:38:58.759 would like you to have this one hundred dollar gift 0:38:58.840 --> 0:39:03.319 card to enjoy one of their Chicagoland area steakhouses, Ruth Chris, 0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:05.560 you can't go wrong, big guy. Hopefully like yourself a 0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:07.360 little steak, you bet? I love it? Is that on 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:10.280 the menu? What do you like to eat in general? 0:39:10.880 --> 0:39:15.000 So you have a specific diet going on? Not really? Um, 0:39:15.040 --> 0:39:17.120 you know, I am a steak guy coming from Kansas. 0:39:17.200 --> 0:39:20.799 You know, beef's always been, you know, the great thing there. Um, 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.759 So you know I love that. Um. You know, my 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:25.840 wife's a pretty good cooked too, so she spoils me 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:27.520 a lot throughout the season as well. Do you have 0:39:27.520 --> 0:39:31.640 an assigned weight? I have like a weight that I'd 0:39:31.680 --> 0:39:34.120 like to play around. I'm you know, between three or 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:36.080 five and three or weight. It's kind of my comfortability 0:39:36.080 --> 0:39:38.719 weight to play around. Um. Have you ever put on 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:41.160 your full pads and then got on the scale? I haven't, No, 0:39:42.120 --> 0:39:44.319 what does that? It'd be interesting to see, you know 0:39:44.360 --> 0:39:46.960 what it is? Right? I did? At one time I would. 0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:49.120 Before we were getting ready to play in the Super Bowl, 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:50.840 I put on my uniform and in the back of 0:39:50.840 --> 0:39:53.759 the New Orleans locker room, they had a scale and 0:39:53.840 --> 0:39:56.000 so I put on and it started to swing passing, 0:39:56.560 --> 0:39:59.640 and I got off because I didn't want to psychologically 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:02.640 effect myself going, oh my god, I'm so heavy, I'm 0:40:02.680 --> 0:40:04.840 gonna be slow. So you picked the Super Bowl to 0:40:04.880 --> 0:40:08.000 do it? Come on, Tom, I ate it, Ruth Chris 0:40:08.040 --> 0:40:11.680 the two nights before the game and really, oh my god, yes, 0:40:11.920 --> 0:40:15.359 oh man, that's funny. I mean, you know, there there 0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:18.440 is you know, when I prepare for games. You know, 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:20.200 obviously with the Division games you get to know the 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.279 players a little bit more, and so it doesn't matter 0:40:22.320 --> 0:40:25.480 if it's Antoine Winfield is now a coach in Minnesota. 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:27.880 The height and weight height, obviously, but the weight stays 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:30.239 the same. Once your weight is checked in on an 0:40:30.320 --> 0:40:33.320 NFL roster, that's your weight for the rest of your career. 0:40:33.360 --> 0:40:35.960 You know, it's not accurate. There's no way, nor is 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:39.320 your forty times. You know, from the high school program. 0:40:39.440 --> 0:40:41.800 You get shorter and heavier because in high school I 0:40:41.880 --> 0:40:44.880 was six five, two thirty. Then they measured me at 0:40:44.880 --> 0:40:47.279 the combine and I'm sixty three and three quarters and 0:40:47.400 --> 0:40:50.640 three hundred. You know. So I'm still pluzzled by you. 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:52.759 Why because you are too fidgy. You got to the 0:40:52.800 --> 0:40:54.640 game too early. You put yourself on a scale and 0:40:54.680 --> 0:40:57.440 you could have hurt yourself mentally for that game. No, 0:40:57.640 --> 0:40:59.920 but I felt strong. You know, It's just I think 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:03.960 every player goes through these mind games with themselves of 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:07.160 making sure that they're confident and prepared and they're feeling 0:41:07.239 --> 0:41:09.640 good when they're Look, how much weight do you think 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:11.719 it does throw on? In terms of carrying your pads? 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:13.080 You know they always talking about, hey, you know you 0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:15.439 gotta run well with your pads. You know, well run 0:41:15.480 --> 0:41:18.479 well behind your pads. I think I think dry it's 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:23.160 it's twenty five or thirty sweaty, sweaty, it's probably thirty 0:41:23.160 --> 0:41:26.000 five or forty. Really, I mean that's what That's what 0:41:26.080 --> 0:41:28.200 I You know, you think about the clear scaring the 0:41:28.239 --> 0:41:31.000 young man. I mean he puts on his he puts 0:41:31.040 --> 0:41:33.520 on his equipment every day. Do you have a like 0:41:33.600 --> 0:41:36.080 Tom said, Now Tom had his routine and everybody's got 0:41:36.080 --> 0:41:39.480 the routine. What's yours forgetting? You know, to get on 0:41:39.600 --> 0:41:41.800 that field and know you're mentally right and ready to 0:41:41.880 --> 0:41:45.080 go on Sunday Sunday morning. I think it all starts, um. 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:47.520 You know. Obviously with my week of preparation, I kind 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:49.520 of have a little thing I do there too. But 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:51.959 as far as like the night before the games Um, 0:41:52.400 --> 0:41:54.840 you know, I just go through my last minute reminders 0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:57.000 throughout the week. You know what I've what I've kind 0:41:57.040 --> 0:41:59.160 of struggled with and and you know what, I've kind 0:41:59.160 --> 0:42:01.400 of gotten better through out the week, and you know, 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:03.640 just really key on those and and focus on a 0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:06.360 little bit of tape too as well. Um, you know, 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:09.840 personnel wise. UM, I like to just see if I 0:42:09.840 --> 0:42:13.160 can pick up a few things like last minute stances. Um, 0:42:13.520 --> 0:42:15.279 you know, anything I can pick up there. And then 0:42:15.800 --> 0:42:17.400 you know, I always eat a little bit of salmon 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:20.480 before um, you know, on the pregame meal and a 0:42:20.520 --> 0:42:24.760 little salmon, little salmon. Yeah, light protein, a little light protein, 0:42:25.080 --> 0:42:27.200 that's right. So do you go right up until Saturday 0:42:27.280 --> 0:42:30.239 night look at a tape? I do. Yeah, I'm kidding, yep. Um, 0:42:30.719 --> 0:42:32.839 you know, right basically right up until I go to bed. 0:42:32.840 --> 0:42:35.360 I watched a little bit before bed, and then um, 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:37.400 you know, in the morning, I kind of let my 0:42:37.400 --> 0:42:39.520 my mind clear out a little bit and just you know, 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.479 give my mind a little break before you strike meat time. 0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:44.200 You must you are a haze in the barn kind 0:42:44.239 --> 0:42:46.280 of guy. Were you done watching tape at a certain 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:49.200 time the night before the game, Because we're again Remember 0:42:49.239 --> 0:42:51.759 we are watching from real to real or beta. These 0:42:51.800 --> 0:42:54.160 guys have their tablet and they can bring it anywhere 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:57.680 with them, you know, and so you have it's more accessibility. 0:42:57.840 --> 0:43:00.719 But there's an eventually eventuality during the course of the 0:43:00.719 --> 0:43:03.120 preparation week, and every one of my head coach said, hey, 0:43:03.160 --> 0:43:06.840 look the haze in the barn. You can't be you 0:43:06.920 --> 0:43:09.480 can't be thinking out there. You gotta know what ever, 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:12.319 what you're doing, and you're prepared absolutely, And that's kind 0:43:12.320 --> 0:43:14.279 of where I kind of cut it off is, you know, 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.000 the night before when I go to bed, and then 0:43:16.000 --> 0:43:18.279 when I wake up in the morning, you know, it's 0:43:18.320 --> 0:43:20.000 the haze in the barn, if you will, and it's 0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:21.560 it's time to just go out and play with your 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:23.480 instincts and what your body tells you to do, what's 0:43:23.480 --> 0:43:26.080 your icy and and just go out there and play. Yeah, 0:43:26.120 --> 0:43:29.000 you insinuator, you got a routine in the rest of 0:43:29.040 --> 0:43:31.960 the week too, So what's what is your deal? So 0:43:32.440 --> 0:43:35.320 basically I just start out, um, you know, the week 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:38.920 on Tuesday, watching personnel and studying you know what my 0:43:38.920 --> 0:43:41.640 opponent's gonna do, um, you know, and try and get 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:43.440 our scout team guys to give me that kind of 0:43:43.440 --> 0:43:46.000 look throughout the week, um, you know, and then I 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:48.479 kind of Wednesday's kind of my first and second down, 0:43:48.520 --> 0:43:52.080 and then you know, Thursday's third down. Um you know, 0:43:52.160 --> 0:43:54.720 in Friday and Saturday's kind of that red zone area, 0:43:55.040 --> 0:43:58.239 um you know, and then just you know, sat later 0:43:58.280 --> 0:44:00.160 in the day on Saturday, just kind of clean up 0:44:00.160 --> 0:44:02.520 a few things and get ready to go. So when 0:44:02.560 --> 0:44:04.440 you have the scout team, I always always under the 0:44:04.480 --> 0:44:06.919 impression the coaches would say, Okay, this is what they're doing. 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:09.120 You got to do this. So you can actually ask 0:44:09.160 --> 0:44:11.960 these guys to stand a certain way, rush you a 0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:15.680 certain way, and you ask the individual players yourself on 0:44:15.680 --> 0:44:18.279 the practice. Yeah, that's our scout team for example. That 0:44:18.280 --> 0:44:21.080 that's interesting. Our scout team has done a great, great job, 0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:23.799 you know, trying to help us, you know, at least 0:44:23.880 --> 0:44:26.520 up frun as far as the defensive lineman kind of 0:44:26.560 --> 0:44:29.440 the rushes that will mainly see, um, you know, if 0:44:29.440 --> 0:44:31.200 a guy's more of a power guy, if a guy's 0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:35.560 more you know of a penetrator or two gapper guy, Um, 0:44:35.920 --> 0:44:38.439 you know, they're able to help you out. And they've 0:44:38.480 --> 0:44:40.080 done a great job for us. This year. We go 0:44:40.160 --> 0:44:42.440 get the Vikings. It'll be fun back in the division 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:44.399 against a team you know very well. So good luck 0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:46.719 to Sunday. Thank you guys. Cody white Hair our guest 0:44:46.719 --> 0:44:48.680 here on Bears All Access. That's going to wrap us 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:50.959 up for Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac. 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