WEBVTT - All Access: Robertson-Harris looks to build on Week 1 performance 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.200 We two of the NFL season about to commence Bears Broncos, 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.840 and we begin to talk about a bit here with 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.600 Tom Fair. I'm Jeff Joniac on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.080 seventy to score. This is Bears All Access from P 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:13.880 ANDC Studios at Hallisong. Coming along in a minute. Roy 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.119 Robertson Harris and Tom I'm really enjoying the development of 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:20.720 young players. Yeah. I've always said about this season that 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:23.120 if the star players are going to play to their 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.439 potential what we expect, and then guys like a Roy 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.880 Robertson Harris, like a Blow Nichols, like ro Kwan Smith, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:34.240 like Mitch Droubisky, like James Daniels, those type of guys 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:38.320 elevate their play. You got a wow situation going on, 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.880 and hopefully that happens over the course of the season. 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:42.920 But you know, he's been here now several years and 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.360 we're going to get a chance to talk to him 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.000 here about his development and so forth. But he's a 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.559 guy that excites me. Yeah, every one of those positions, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.520 aside from the quarterback position, you have to include depth 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:55.000 when you're talking about the game day need for you 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.280 to play well. And if Roy Robertson Harris is getting 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:02.040 thirty raps or if he's getting fifteen, you gotta see 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:06.240 the destruction that he's capable of implementing on a poor 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.679 offensive lineman. That's a little bit off balance. But no, 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:11.839 that's what you have to have out of all those guys, 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.760 because you're not gonna go up to an atmosphere like Denver, 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.960 where it's gonna be anywhere from eighty nine nine ninety 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.160 one degrees. You talked about the elevation, but every guy 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.600 who's dressing as an inside linebacker has to be ready, willing, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.840 and able to play, just like all the outside guys 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.480 in just like every one of the defensive lineman. But 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.400 when they get their opportunity to play, they got to 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:36.520 be productive. Yeah, and the production, obviously in that thin 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.800 air of of Denver, will be something that will keep 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.520 an eye on. And the heat. Are you hydrating? I am? 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:45.840 I know it's I don't know, teeth six Saturday right now, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.040 it's Saturday, So you know I'm doing my best as 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.160 we get in. We almost lost your last time. Now wait, 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.040 hold on, it was not last time. First of all, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.080 it's many years and nobody wants to hear this it 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.200 was years ago, but yeah, I feel in my heart 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.600 of hearts, I got out to teach six. Chuck Pogonoll, 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.640 you know, gave me the business this week on the 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:08.840 Bears Coaches Show. Well he heard about it too. Yeah, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.320 the good chuckle about it, that's for sure. He's from well, 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.040 you know what, he's from Boulder, as you know, right, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.920 you know, his parents are still there and he's a big, 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:18.359 big Colorado guy. But getting back to the seriousness of 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.720 the you know, the time, the temperature or the altitude 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.800 and everything. And we talk about originally the development of 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.000 Roy Robertson Harris. When you talk about these positions that 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.400 everybody on the roster has a valuability and opportunity, then 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.720 they do have to be productive. But you know, the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.440 Mitchell Trubisky is the offensive line for the most part. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.440 You know, these are the guy the cornerbacks. They're not 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.440 going to be substituted during the game. So I mean 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:47.520 they have a full day on their hands. And with 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.880 this Broncos team coming off the game against Oakland, I 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:55.360 saw a team that was spinning its wheels offensively until 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.799 the second half got going and then the running game 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.720 came around. So that's something to keep an eye. They 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.720 have a young offensive weapon team. You take away Emmanuel Sanders, 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.320 the veteran, you take away Joe Flacco. They've got young 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.480 weapons at receiver and running back. To keep an eye. 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.520 What were your impressions against the Raiders. You know, you 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.680 could see that the crowd noise in Oakland was really supportive, 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.799 so there wasn't perfect communication on the line of scrimmage. 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:21.919 And the thing about offensive line play is that everybody's 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.200 got to be perfectly sunk sync together in order for 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.839 a play to run officially. So if you go out 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.800 there and you have interruption in one out of five plays, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.079 that means you're behind the change and it's a it's 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.200 a hard maintaining success. And that's what the Bears have 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.520 to be able to do. They have to go and 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:40.240 do a really hostile environment. They have to go out 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.000 there and they have to play efficient offense. But when 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.680 you look at the Oakland Raiders offense, I'm I mean, 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:53.640 I'm a little concerned about the the statuesque quarterback in 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.000 the modern day NFL, you know, because we're seeing RPOs 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.960 out of everybody driving Raiders dining. It didn't get touched 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.040 Denver didn't have one hit on the quarterback. No, no, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:09.320 But you know it's it's also what is the time 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:11.880 you know that you're when you created your offense, when 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.680 you started thinking about the way that hasn't Hammond's twenty fourteen. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.479 By the way, can you imagine man Well with two 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.080 great pass rushers. Yeah, and I think everybody wanted to 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.440 that game thinking about how destructive those two guys specifically 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.000 we're gonna be. But you also have a chance to 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.760 be an offensive coordinator with the Raiders and devise a 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.840 game plan that's properly timed against what you're gonna be facing. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:36.200 So you're not gonna go out there and have unprotected 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.359 offensive tackles and a seven step drop. You're gonna have 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.599 an our. You know, car is still an RPO threatening quarterback. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.279 You know, um, the Denver guy is not Joe Flecco. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.960 And the crowd will help Miller and Chubb, Yes, and 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.799 they get delirious over there in Denver. But you know, again, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.720 now Matt's thinking about that far enough in advance. How 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.080 do I get the ball out of Mitchell Trubisky's hands? 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:00.240 How do I threaten the edge. So now these guys 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.120 got to respect upfield rush as much as to the 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.359 point of the quarterback. So I I think it's I 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.839 think it's gonna be one of the ultimate chess games 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.000 of all season because of the VIC and the Matt 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.400 Naggie attachment. Um, and we're forgetting that. You know, two 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.600 guys from Chicago can rush the past are pretty good 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.320 to him and Leonard Floyd, you know, I agree. And 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:22.719 they got a tackle that went out what the tenth 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.400 play of the game. Yeah, and they have you know, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.760 they got a rookie starting at left guard. They got 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:32.840 a left tackle that is a little pushy after the whistle. Careful, yeah, 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:37.359 even him, be careful, well, be careful after the whistle 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.160 right right now, it's not good because alcohol balls. He's 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:41.960 he's a little he's a little bit chippy, all right. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.839 Paul's range your engineer, Dan Briley, our producer. We're coming 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.680 to you from Haisaw at P ANDC Studios, breaking down 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:50.839 the Bears and Broncos. Coming up next, Roy robertson Harris 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.400 but an outstanding game and his opener against the Green 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.640 Bay Packers. It's all coming up next here on Chicago 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.080 Sports Radio six seventy. The score Welcome back to Bears 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.240 on Access brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.200 partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas at 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.000 home warranty products over one million customers across the country. 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:10.320 Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.920 Joni Yak here at BNC Studios at have us All, 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.800 Tom there, my broadcast partner, kicked off our conversation today 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:21.000 with defensive lineman Roy Robertson Harris. All right, everybody, welcome 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.599 back the big man, Roy Robertson Harris in the studio 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.760 with us. It's kind of fun for me because I 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.760 think about questions that I have for you all week long, 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:33.920 and I have them listed as serious or fun. So 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.880 first question, you want a serious question or a fun question, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.080 I'm good. Well, you know, there's been a lot of 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.280 talk about the elevation that you guys are playing at 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.560 in Denver, so I looked up you tap thirty three 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.719 thousand and seven hundred and forty feet Denver fifty two 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.720 hundred and eighty. Are you in better shape now or 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:57.400 when you were in college? I'm better say no, I'm 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.240 thirty pounds bigger than what I was for forty pound 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.440 I was too forty out of out of college. I'm 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.599 fifty pounds bigger than when I was in college. But 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.080 I'm kind of take everything into consideration about you know, 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.360 they talk about the running aspect of going to Denver, 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.760 so you're training college, you're a little bit familiar with it. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.600 Is it will it be a big difference to you, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.760 even though you're in better shape now than when you 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.680 were in college. Me personally know, just because we practice 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:21.840 with them a year ago, um, for a whole week 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:27.440 in preparation for the game. So um, obviously it's a 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:31.600 different you know, element elevation where we were at now, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.840 So it's you know, it's gonna be different, but it's 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.000 not foreign to me being that we were there a 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.200 year ago for a whole week. So right, you know, 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.280 there's been a lot of change within your body, your system, 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.920 where you're playing everything. So you get here, you're two 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.040 sixty ish, now you're three hundred. No, I'm too ninety. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.040 I'm not. I'm not. It's not it's not October, November, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:56.480 December yet, So what is um easier for you to be? 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.840 Are you? Is it easier for you to be two 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.280 sixty or is it easier and more fun to be 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:07.840 too ninety. It's a little bit easier being too ninety, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.680 just because I'm an intrenches. Back in college, I was 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.280 more on the edge. Well what about it? Just your lifestyle, 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.400 you know, because you know here, you know, I played 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.840 offensive line my whole career. You're you're up there about 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.160 you know, two eighty five to three hundred, and then 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.840 you just want to be what you more are more 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.160 naturally when you're done here. We've seen you go from 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.200 two forty to two sixty to three hundred. So what 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:34.280 do you enjoy more? Well, it's part of the job, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.200 So I don't really think about it too much. It 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:39.000 was more fun, And what the weight is that? Just 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.240 I could eat whatever I want. Joy I can enjoy 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.600 eating a lot um, but I still have to keep 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.600 myself at a certain like. I can't just overeat all 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:53.400 the time, if you know what I'm saying. So um, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.400 I could. I'm enjoying it because I'm at this level 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.920 where I can just eat whatever I want. College, I 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.480 couldn't do that. I had, you know, I didn't have 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.800 the luxury of going to any restaurant I wanted to, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.640 you know, being a student athlete I wasn't a rich guy, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.120 so I can eat whatever I wanted to. Now I 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.720 can go anywhere I want to eat. So that's what 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.120 I like. I enjoyed. That is this facility. Is this 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.520 amazing to you? The facility here from what you saw 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.120 at college, what you were a part of, but now 0:09:22.160 --> 0:09:25.000 you see what the Bears have been able to offer 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:27.920 you in terms of the best of fitness, the best 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:31.800 of nutrition, everything that is best. This is the best 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.400 football I've ever been a part of. This building, this facility, 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.800 everything about it is just awesome. I'm blessed to be 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.080 where I'm at. I enjoyed every single day. Don't take 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.559 it for granted. I love it. You know, last year 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.840 you said was the most fun year you ever had 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.960 playing football. Was it winning or self improvement that made 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.200 you enjoy that fun? Both? Since I've been here, I 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.480 feel like I've gotten better each year. Each year is 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:01.720 a step. But just to be able to win a division, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.800 that's just that was awesome to me being a being 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:09.480 able to be a part of that. But personal wise, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.199 you know, as far as stats and all this stuff 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.400 goes a stepping stone each year, I feel like I've 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:19.240 taken a bigger step, more improvement, more production on the 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:24.480 stat sheet. So all that stuff is coming together, you know, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.920 a little bit at a time. Not trying to take 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:31.079 too many big steps, baby steps right now. So enjoying 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.800 the personal growth but also enjoying the team wins. All right. 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.600 So if you think about the fun and the fun 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:41.160 elements you have in football, I could remember plays that 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.560 still haunt me today from back in my career. Do 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.240 you know your Can you remember your three sacks from 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.760 last year? Yeah? I remember every one of my sex 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.960 even in preseason, remember every single one of my sack. Okay, 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.360 because all right, I'd like to go through this for 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.839 a couple of minutes. So I'm an offensive guard my 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.120 whole career. You're a defensive tackle. And when I would 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.120 get my stance, I would line up against and I 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.320 would try to anticipate what you are going to do 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.160 to me because I know the play call, I know 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:10.360 the huddle. So the other night you come in, it's 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.959 your first play. I'm an offensive lineman, I know snapcount. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.520 I set up and I get in kind of position, 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:20.080 a defensive position to block you. You get your hand 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.000 onto me faster than I did that. I got my 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.920 hand on you, did you immediately know that you won 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:32.559 that play? No, I didn't realize it into last the sideline, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.840 really I didn't. Like. I saw Rogers standing there, and 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.560 once he stepped up, I grabbed him. But I didn't 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:44.160 realize that I won the initial I didn't realize it 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.840 was a straight like bullrush into watched the play. So 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.040 when you got your hand to him, how many steps 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.880 into you going forward? Did you know? While? Because again 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.920 I've lived that position and I know how bad of 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.600 a position that is to be. Ind I mean, you 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.440 know it's gotta be he gotta feel that pretty quick. Yeah, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.600 I mean I felt it. But at the same time, 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.080 I do go against a lot of guys that will 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.800 feel the bull rushing, will sit on that. So I 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:14.439 felt that's what he was doing. But once I seen 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.520 it on tape, like I saw the replay on the 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.120 Jumma tron, saw it on the iPads on the sideline, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.520 once I actually seen the play and seen I had 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.079 him on one leg, then I was like old snap. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.840 I didn't realize it was like that. I thought. I 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.200 just I thought he was sitting on the bull and 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.360 was trying to get his base under him. And then 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.280 we end up going to the ground, Roger step up. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.440 I grab him. But initially I was I wasn't even 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.800 thinking like, oh I got this dude, I got him 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.440 on the ground, let's go get this side. I wasn't 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.560 thinking about that as watching the tape of it, I 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.520 just I just know how awkward of feeling that is. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.680 So when little kids see did they ever ask you 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:53.160 how much you bench? I've had? I've had younger kids 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.640 asked me that. I Sometimes I really don't have an 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.240 answer because I don't know if they actual for like 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.559 a max or like what I did that pro day? 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.760 Like how many reps I did at pro Day? Um, 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.480 I have older people asking me what I've been right, 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.360 that was that was my next question? Yeah, I mean 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.440 I don't I've been shape. So it's like I don't 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.480 bench for you know, to get a max. You know, 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.120 we don't do that at this level anymore. It's it's 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.760 just to maintain strength, to get stronger. But but you're 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.160 a big guy, so no matter wherever you are, you know, 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.160 that's one of the questions I think it is going 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.160 to be asked of you your whole life until here. 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.360 The number one question I get is how tall I'm 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.640 that's anywhere I go is hey do you play sports? 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.840 How tall are you? If I'm in downtown Chicago, hey 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.880 are you a Bears player? And it just depends on 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.000 who it is. If it's a kid, I'll tell them yeah, 0:13:40.280 --> 0:13:44.200 you know ninety five. The best feeling is though, when somebody, hey, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.560 you're Roy from the Bears. Yeah that's me a big 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.120 smile on my face. But just I'm not I'm not 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.760 real big on like a tension in public because I'm 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.160 so big, so everywhere I go all eyes are on me, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:57.840 and it's like I hate that, Like I just like 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.240 to go places and just you know, enjoy my time. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.880 But you know, being six six, as soon as you 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.440 walk in the door, everybody's looking at you. Everybody sees you. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.320 So you'll get the how tall are you question? And 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.720 you'll get the are you a football? Are you an athlete? 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.840 You play basketball? Or you know, are you a Bears player? 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.959 Do you play for the Bears? My next fun question, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.000 I think, because I think you'll probably get asked this 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.760 would you rather be WWE or the World's Strongest Man? 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.800 Because right now they got this show I watch every 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.000 once in a while about these super events that these 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.880 worlds strongest men are and there are different feats of strength. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.480 But then you also got kind of an appearance that 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.520 could captivate an audience like The Rock did when he 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:43.520 made the transition WWE. What's your you know, what would 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.360 be your second passion? So a little A lot of 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.200 people don't notice, but I was a big w wfan 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:55.560 as a kid early, like elementary school, middle school, high school, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:01.080 and during that time, I wanted to be those guys 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.160 the Rock Stone Cold can undertake all those dudes out 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:08.040 a huge and they, you know, have successful wrestling careers. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.800 I wanted to do that. Um back in high school 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.120 high school. I didn't think about football until like my 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:18.280 senior year, until I looked at by schools. But why 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.120 is that why? I mean, like, so if you're there's 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.480 a little kid out there that has talent and he's 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.720 just I don't know, shy to try out or not, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.400 you know, you know what is it that ignited you know, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.560 saying Okay, I'm gonna take Roy Robertson Harris what you 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.880 were and now what you are becoming. I mean, I 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.800 I just didn't enjoy football my first year playing. I 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.000 was still living in Oakland, um left when I was thirteen, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.400 went to Texas, and everybody knows that Texas is like 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:51.440 the football capital of the world. And it made me 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:56.240 enjoy it because everyone was playing football, even people that 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:59.680 didn't like football. Everyone was playing. So just being a 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:03.120 part of that made me enjoy it more. And as 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.600 I got older and learned to appreciate it, I started 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:11.600 lifting weights, started running track. Just those little things helped 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:16.800 me improve as an athlete. And then just every morning 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.520 my dad had me working out. There's just made me 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:21.880 enjoy it. Made me want to get in the weight room, 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.560 maybe want to get, you know, on the field, and 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.440 just enjoyed the game. So six six, two ninety have 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.040 you ever been in a real three point stance? And 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.880 I'm talking that he has a sixty or seventy or 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:38.680 fifty number an offensive lineman. I played. I played right 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:41.480 tackle my first year, my first year playing ball, I 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:43.920 played right tackle. I wanted to be a receiver. I 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:48.320 was sick. I was I was six one, one hundred 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.840 and forty pounds in the eighth seventh grade. Were you 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:56.280 a better receiver or a right tackle? I'll shoot, I 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.000 don't even I couldn't even tell you that because I 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.200 don't even remember playing right side. I'll just remember my 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.760 first play out there. I threw a dude to the ground, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.920 got a holding penalty because I didn't know the process 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.520 of like, hey, you need to shoot your hands to 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.840 all that stuff. All right, Thanks Tom, We're gonna pick 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.399 up our conversation with Roy Robertson, Harris ourrh coming up 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.040 next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.080 Welcome back to Bears All Access brought to you by 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:21.480 IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.879 natural gas, and home warranty products to over one million 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:27.080 customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:31.000 igs dot com. Jeff Jony Act top there, Roy Robertson, Harris, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:33.480 good to have you here at PNC Studios at ADASAU 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.480 with our engineer pauls are ranging our producer Dan Barilli. 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:42.240 I want to talk about the the level of attention 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.920 you're one snap got from last week's game, because everybody 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.960 I'm running into showing me a highlight on their phone. 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.280 And I know guys don't like to dwell on one 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.840 small piece to a large puzzle that's about to be 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.600 put together over the season, but in that one instance, 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.520 and I had this conversation with your de line coach 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:06.520 J Rodgers, just how many people in this sport can't 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.800 make that play? Not everybody can make that play the 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.119 way you made that play destroying a guard, putting him 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.800 on his back, reaching out being held, and then snatching 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.480 a Hall of Fame quarterback with one hand and ripping 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.720 him down to the ground. Be sensitive how you say 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.159 destroying a guard, Well, it was all I know, and 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:27.800 I felt it every step. It was destruction and no 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.840 disrespect at all to Lane Taylor outstanding offensive linement. But 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.520 to me, that that encompasses everything that you're capable of, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.840 down in and down out. When that is put in 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:42.119 that context, what goes to your mind is I'm explaining 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.120 that about how the few people can make that play. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:46.760 It just makes you want to go out and do 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:50.959 it again. M everybody talks about that one play, but 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.199 I don't want that to be the one play that 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.440 I have for the twenty nineteen season, So I want 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.000 to be able to do it again. It's all a 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.040 good hand placement and just get off all that stuff 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:04.800 that we're coached to do. And I just got the 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:06.800 better of it. There was a scout that one time 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.639 told me and Tom, I don't know you, you've probably 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.520 heard me talk about this, But the beauty of scouting 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:17.000 players who can do that one tenth of one percent 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.440 of the entire world population has the ability to take 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.240 that one step that makes a play or the hand 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.399 placement has much power to drive somebody back for that 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.239 instant in time. That's the joy of scouting. When you 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:31.479 find guys like that, you can't wait to get him 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:34.159 on your team. And I think that's the beauty of it, 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.560 because this could be simplifies it's just run, tackle, pass, throw, catch, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.919 you know, No, it's it's much more than that. Marrying 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.879 the physical attributes that your guide given size and what 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:47.399 you've worked to build your body up, marry that with 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.280 the technique and the fundamentals. I think that's what that's art. 0:19:51.400 --> 0:19:53.439 To me, that's art. I know that is for you 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:55.600 as an offensive lineman as well. Do you see it 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.600 that way too? I mean, anybody could be you know, 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:02.240 six six two nine, but if you don't have the coaching, 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.720 the technique, everything that you're taught to do, then you'll 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:08.480 just be out there six six two ninety Guys it's 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.879 all technique. You saw coaching. Um, you know stuff that 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.000 I see a Kim Do you know Kim. Yeah, he's 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.960 he's six five three ten three twenty. He ain't just 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.480 out there going his bulling guys. Tech his technique is there. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.480 He's not just bull rushing. He's swiping guys. You know 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.040 his technique. He's a technician. He's out there. You guys 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:30.760 seen him in practice. You've seen what he does. He's 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:33.959 he not does doing it overnight. He's working that stuff. 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:36.920 So that's little stuff that I feel like I'm working 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:38.520