WEBVTT - All Access: Robertson-Harris fighting for bigger role 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.040 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.559 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears Official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.640 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.760 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.320 access pass into Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.400 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Miller Litte, 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:29.880 CDW and four and good even everybody had Welcome into 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.000 another edition up Bears All Access presented by IGS Energy, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.040 Jeff Jonny Acabong with Tom Fair on Chicago Sports Radio 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.480 six seventy the Score and welcomed to be joined by 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.839 Roy robertson Harris the Bears Defense Event. Thanks for joining us. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.040 My friend ad a heck of a game the other night. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.440 Here you, sir. Preseason has been pretty well for me 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.880 and I want to continue to play well, perform well 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.840 and do what I can get a Bears win and 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.760 contribute to the defense and taken in the regular season 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.760 week one and a half sack pre season already for 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.440 the big game? Right? You know? Do you have I 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.280 don't even want to tell me, but do you have 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.520 a goal set in your mind in terms of sacks? 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:11.520 Because I would imagine every defensive lineman has an imaginary number. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.399 And when I saw your sack the other night, all right, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.360 so now you're rushing the outside shoulder and you reach 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:19.840 in with your left arm and you grab the quarterback. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.240 I mean the distance you can cover and the types 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.760 of sacks you've had so far in the preseason. Do 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.240 you have that secret number? I don't right now. At 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.120 this point, it's just get healthy or stay healthy and 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.880 throughout the preseason and then once Week one hits we'll 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.800 start writing notes down about goals and what we want 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.800 to accomplish for the year. Good for you. Is that 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.840 something that you guys talk about individually when you say 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.760 you're gonna sit down and do that, or is that 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.119 something coach Jay Rogers tries to put in your heads, Hey, 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.880 guys think this way, well, Jay, Jay does a good 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.400 job of Hey think this way about you know, getting 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.000 to the quarterback. Jay wants us to as many sacks 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:59.200 as possible. He wants us to get sacks every third down. Individually, 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.960 I want to write down how many sacks I want 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.880 to get for the year, how many tackles, TFLs, things 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.160 like that. I have a set number of sacks that 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.120 I do want to get for the year. Things like 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.640 that I do every single year. But that's not something 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:16.359 Jay harps on. He's more so, Hey, every third down 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.600 should be a sack, should be a takeaway, you know, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.880 every sack should be a force fumble. Things like that. 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:23.680 I would think the best way in time as a 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.640 player for yourself when it it's individual. Obviously you know 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.680 that that sounds good and everything, but in the framework 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.440 of the team, say a third down sack the results 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.040 in a forced fumble, strip sack, guy scores a touchdown. 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:40.200 It's a meaningful play in the overall effort that results 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.880 in a victory. Do you look at plays like that 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.680 and say, okay, Week seven, I made this play, but 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.679 it resulted in a win. Same for you. A big 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.000 block that may have resulted in a big run that 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.440 led to a win. Well, you know, Royan In term 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.880 those terms, I think like when you take on a 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.520 massive double team of two offensive lineman. Now you know 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.280 that there's trying to get a guy trying to get 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.120 to the second level and you hold him up in 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:02.760 John team, wo would happen to him? The other night 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.359 you took on a big double team team who comes 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.040 to the outside makes a perfect solo tackle. That has 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.040 to be a rewarding in terms of what Jeff is 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.079 talking about as if you, you know, make a tackle 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.600 at the line of scrimmage the way you support your teammates, right, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.080 I mean, it's it's all about being in the best 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.760 position to get your guys to make plays. And like 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.400 you're saying, the double teams, it gives team will a 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.640 chance to make a play, even a TfL that I 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:26.800 can't get to because I'm taking on a double team. 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.400 Little things like that are game changes for us. So 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.400 you're getting a lot of reps at practice, You're getting 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.880 a lot of reps in the games. You're on two 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.760 different special teams, you know. So I look at the 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.480 elevation in Denver five thousand, twenty five, eight hundred and 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:41.560 twenty feet and then I looked up UTEP and it's 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:44.480 four thousand and six feet elevation. Yeah, were you in 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.560 condition for immediate work at Denver or did you feel 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.240 better after two days or three days? I definitely feel 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.840 bet after a couple of days, being that I have 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:56.800 been up here for the past few years. I haven't 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.440 been back in the pass so since Pro Day. So 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:01.880 I did have to get used to being that high 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.000 an elevation again. But being in UTEP, I felt that 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.400 I was in pretty good shape anywhere else that I 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.000 went because we were so high in the mountains. But 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.520 I did have to get used to it a couple 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.040 of days. I think that played in my favor that 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.080 we did practice a couple of days with them and 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.760 then play living game. It definitely did help. Roy Robertson 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.720 Harris our guest here on Bear's All Access brought to 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.080 you by IGS Energy, Jeff and Time with You as well. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.919 Paul's Rang our engineer, and Dan really our producer and 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.359 helping things out at how to Saw. Now that's some 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.080 good research right there, because I didn't even come into 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.920 my head that UTEP is a higher elevation. I had 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.120 never been down there. With our experiences coming from the 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.800 Midwest and college, going Notre Dame to Air Force, or 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:43.240 going from Chicago to play Denver Broncos and stuff. I just, 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.840 you know, that was always in our minds because we 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.400 didn't have experiences. Maybe when you're a younger person you 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.920 have a little bit of experience with elevation, you kind 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.600 of know what to expect. Yeah, I mean I had 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.320 to ask Danny, hey, how's elevation is it? Is it 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.640 really what people expect? And he's like, oh man, it's 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.760 it's real out there, like you're gonna you know, make 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.200 su you need to hidrate properly and make sure you 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.359 control your breathing. And then I thought back was like, well, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.080 I played a no passo for four years five with 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.479 the rich shirt, it shouldn't be too bad. And sure 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.440 enough I got my second win. In the middle of practice, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.360 you know, things started to get better. And then obviously 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:18.800 in the game, you practice with them for two days, 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:21.440 had a mock game, things like that. After a while 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.000 you get you get pretty used to it. But the 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.680 funny thing, as you come off the bush, the first 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:28.360 thing you see is this big right though altitude sickness 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.200 and all this business. But they remind you on the 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.480 side of the stadium too. It says five eighty fee. 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.320 They make sure that you know that. You know, most 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.160 defensive linemen, when it's not their period, they get a 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.120 chance to rest or relax. You're on kickoff return, you're 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.320 on extra point and field goal protection. You're on extra 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.360 point and field goal block. So for a guy like you, 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.320 because you're such a good athlete. Sometimes your coaches are 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.360 attempted to get you more involved than some other guys. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.880 I've spent my entire career, from my first game to 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.120 my last game on kickoff return. Yeah, how as a 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.640 defensive player, how are you absorbing and accepting that role. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.080 I love the fact that coach wants me on special teams. 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:14.000 As I've gotten to this point, I think, I think 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.640 the fact that we played in Denver in the elevation, 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.279 I'm like, okay, you know, maybe I don't know, but 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.599 the fact that I have these roles, it makes me 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.479 feel good that coaches trusting me that I can't play 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:28.440 defense and play special teams. But as time goes on, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.440 I feel like, you know, I've been more focused on 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.840 playing defense. I feel like special teams. I played a 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.359 whole year starting on punk return, starting on kick off return. 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.640 I felt comfortable enough, Hey, let me focus more on 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.479 defense reverse. Last year I was more focused on, Hey, 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.880 special teams. I gotta make the team. That's how you're 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.799 gonna do it. I drafted rookie things like that. Defense. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.159 Defense will come because I'm not getting as many reps. 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.200 Now it's reverse, I'm getting all. I'm getting all these 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.640 reps in the game, all these reps in practice, and 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.360 it's reverse special teams. I'm not really getting any reps 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.560 because I mean, we don't know how the how it's 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.040 all gone unfold. The extra point field will protection where 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.279 your job is this difficult? You know you had he 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.240 has two guys. He is an inside guy who's got 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.520 to be long enough to get the outside. He's long enough, right, 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.000 we know, no, Um, you know Steve McMichael did the 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.560 same role when I was here, a defensive lineman who 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:19.400 was talented. And when I see you in that role 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:21.840 out there, I can see, Okay, I know why Royce 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.000 picked for that. Well. The path is quite similar in 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.840 many respects to Israel Adnager when he was here, a 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.360 big body player like yourself who cut his teeth on 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:33.120 special teams and would run down the field. At his size, 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.600 as you guys are are very similar to that size. 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.920 It was pretty scary for the guy that he was 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.080 going to get hit by. But then he evolved and 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:43.480 they they yollowed his weight constantly. So one year he 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.240 was this and he was inside, next year is this 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.240 he's outside. You've been building ever since college, your weight 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.440 to what it is, right, now you said earlier about 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.480 two ninety five, Is that right? Do you feel comfortable 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.080 with that? You still swift quick? You feel good about that? 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.640 I feel pretty good. Um. One thing I would say 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.679 the fact that I played a lot of special teams 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.600 last year. I do feel that I was more comfortable 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.560 at that weight, being that I didn't play that many 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:09.440 snaps on defense. Now that I'm a little bit heavier, 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.760 I'm sitting here like, uh, should I lose maybe five 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:14.400 pounds if I do have to play a lot of 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.000 special teams this year. So it's kind of like it's 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.600 kind of a waiting game because preseason I haven't had 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.360 to play really that many special team snaps at least 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.520 part return, kickoff return. I only did two or three 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.280 kickoff return snaps this the other day. Punt return, I 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.040 haven't played any snaps. And then field goal, you're taking 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.040 two steps, You're not really gonna feel it. So would 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.040 that be a personal choice that you could present to 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.520 your coaches or do they tell you, hey, you know right, 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.079 me and Jay spoke about the weight. He does want 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.840 me at two ninety five, and that's to be a 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.400 little more stout on double teams, you know, taking on 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.800 guys in the run things like that, but it would 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:53.760 be a little more tougher for me to have to 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.040 run after guys on punt return to get blocks. If 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.280 I'm two ninety five, it's a little bit different. Lashout 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.160 was two eighty five. So I think it'll be a 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.320 personal decision, you know, maybe get down to about ninety 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:08.120 ninety two. I feel like I've strength trained pretty well 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.040 over the summertime, and if I were to play at 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.600 ninety ninety two, I still play the same on defense 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.360 as well as playing on special teams. Roy Robertson Harris, 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:19.560 our guest here on Bears All Access, will pick up 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.160 the conversation where he left it off his offseason work, 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.959 what he did in the gym and in the boxing ring. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.320 That's Roy Robertson Harris here on Bears All Access with 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.000 Tom There, Jeff Jony Act on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.160 seventy The Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.199 to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.600 Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.280 to over one million customers across the country. Learn more 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.600 about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Jony act 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.800 Tom there, and I guess Roy Robertson Harris the big 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:48.760 defensive end, how to bring his third year here with 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.240 the Bears and off to a heck of a start. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:53.720 And a lot of the roots of your off season 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.720 was built in the gym and you went to various 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.400 different lengths to get yourself in the condition you wanted. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.560 What was the plan, how was it executed, and why 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:06.960 did you choose to do what you did? So Jay 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:11.679 talked about boxing a lot anytime we've done workouts and 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.800 OTAs he trying to throw a little bit of boxing 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.680 in there. So hey, let me try this. Let me 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.199 see how I feel comfortable with. You know, in the summertime, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.680 so poundful pound boxing over in Highland Park. Got in 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.600 contact with them and twice a week I will go 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.320 in there hand speed. Well, first we do we do 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.559 a little bit of conditioning, so we'll do one minute 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.240 intervals and do three rounds, about five different workouts. Dog 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:38.880 tired after all done. And then we get in the ring. 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.440 We do a lot of different hand speed drills and 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.520 get on the heavy bag. You gotta take on double teams, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.520 so why not work on the heavy bag. And then 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.920 I also worked with Chuck Smith over in Atlanta. We 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.440 did a lot of pass rush moves and things like that, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.160 working on double hand swipe, working on the stab, little 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.120 things like that to just help with my pass rushing 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:01.920 in the games. I feel like, UM, that made a 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.439 huge difference so far and UM definitely want to take 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:07.920 that into the regular season. Chuck played for the Atlanta 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.719 Falcons and tutors a ton of pass rushers. Now are 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:16.520 you telling me x NFL players now the audience? You 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:18.760 know what's cool about your room is I really like 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.280 the energy that Jay Rogers brings upon you guys every 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:24.800 day if you come out there. Uh it's not you're 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.720 not going to be that way, but you know, outside 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.880 a team, I like the youth in the room because 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.680 you gotta pull. You have to pull Jonathan, Jonathan Bullard's 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.160 gotta push you. You gotta push John Jenkins, He's got 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.280 to push you. Eddie and the whole crew. You know, 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.520 you do have that enthusiasm from your position coach, where 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.360 I think is really important because offensive defense every day 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.880 practice is kind of monotonous. But he's a type of 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:50.199 guy that can cultivate that young talent on this team, 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:53.959 no doubt Jay is a real energetic guy. Even in meetings, 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.559 he's he's real, he's real upbringing, he's real positive. Um, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.600 he brings it out to the practice field. If we're 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.880 I'm all sluggish, he's, hey, we have that juice out 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.600 there today. Let's make sure we bring the juice every 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.320 single day. That's Jay. And that's one thing I do 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.319 like about Jay is he makes sure that he's real 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.560 positive with this every single day. Hey, let's get it 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.760 going today. If you're having a bad day, let's make 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:16.280 sure we get out in the practice field and make 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:17.960 it a good day. I think that's one of the 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.280 things about the fundamentals and the techniques have offered some 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:23.880 defensive lineman. You've got to be positively reinforced every day, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.840 whether you're in high school or college, and even especially 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.560 at this level, because the talent you're seeing every day 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.760 is different. And that's the thing. So you go in 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.120 the first two preseason games, you go out there and 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:35.920 you play against the guys, and it's the first time 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.040 they see you and you see them. So now you've 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.360 got a series of one on ones and different type 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.760 of tempo periods with the Denver Broncos. Did that help 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:45.959 you in the game or did it make things a 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.200 little bit different? I feel like it definitely helped me 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.040 in the game. You'll see, like one on ones, you'll 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.080 see the way guys set you see, Hey, this guy's 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:56.200 gonna jumps at you. He's gonna sit there and wait 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.880 for you. All right, that's the opportunity for one move 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.760 or another. So definitely two days, two old days, two 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.960 practices with these guys, I think it made a big difference, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.520 and you're able to see what guy's tendencies are in 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.800 practice and what they're gonna do in the game. You know, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.200 you're a long guy in one of your best moves 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.240 as your hand right to the middle of the offensive 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.560 lineman's chest and they can't stop you because they can't 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:21.280 touch and you're driving back. So you get an offensive guard. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:24.959 Offensive guard imuc's got stumpy little arms. Are you licking 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.199 your chops because your length is such an asset and 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.000 pass right, No doubt. That's one thing that I feel 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.160 like Jay has helped me with. It's making sure that 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:36.040 I use my length to my advantage, especially if a 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.120 guard ass shorter arms, and um, I try to make 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.680 sure that that's something I'm practicing every single day, whether 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.200 it's during one on ones team periods, if we're just 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.320 working on you know, individual just hey, work on that 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.600 stat working on getting your arms out, making sure you're 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:53.760 striking a guy in the chest. That's something I've made 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.120 an effort to working on every single day. That's what 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.559 happened to Ron Learry in the game on Saturday night, 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.880 that left arm. And we talked about with Jay Rodgers 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.880 at practice before training camp, ended about unlocking the hands 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.480 of his guys, in particular Leonard Floyd, and I'm certain 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.880 that applies to you as well, and everybody that's rushing 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.720 the passer um at Brandon Staley talking about that for 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.600 Leonard Floyd obviously the outside linebacker. But so the Denver 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.560 post apparently did how long it took to get pressure 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.240 on case keenum They timed it or whatever, and so 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.880 it took two point eight nine seconds, And that's that's 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:28.360 that's the time it took for you to put the 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.280 left hand in the chest and wrap up the quarterback. 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:31.960 But those thirty three and a half inch ore, is 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.600 that what it is? Thirty three and a half I 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:35.120 don't know. I didn't get pretty long. I didn't go 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.000 to the combines. Yeah, the half sack or the individual sack. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.320 That was when he grabbed him. Remember I said he 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.680 was it was like a raptor frying out because it 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.200 was it was really Yes, you really did it with 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.920 one arm. Yeah, I mean that's the beauties I have 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.120 in long arms. Um. I trying to make sure if 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.040 I if I can't get to a quarterback, I at 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.520 least reached for him and it hit him. Miss I 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.760 either get him or you know, he'll step up and go. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:59.520 But um, you know, thank god I was able to 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:01.880 get him down. I think I got the same exactly. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.000 The players look identical to each other, one in the 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:06.920 Hall of Fame game and the one I had in 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.200 Denver um looking at it on film. But um, I 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.920 feel like I got the job done. And it's not 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.720 about how cute is get it. Get the quarterback down 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.880 and get it to that. Hey, when you're mugging the quarterback, 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.479 it doesn't matter what it looks like. It's exciting, nonetheless, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.400 which which drives me to think, what it is a 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.960 what if scenario? So if you were, say two seventy 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.640 five to two ninety as a college defensive end with 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.240 your hand down on the ground, what kind of damage 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.880 might you have done because you didn't rush. You weren't 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.560 asked to rush the passer as much in college you're 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.360 outside linebacker. They did a lot of zone blitzing, a 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.400 lot of zone type of pressures. Do you ever think 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.280 about that if it would have started that way? Being 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:48.680 well I was, I was actually a defensive and just 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.080 in a different system. Um, we did a lot of 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.600 four two five, right, four three? Just four three? Oh 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.680 wasn't fourty three? Is everything I read? They say it 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.440 was a four two five? It wasn't accurate. Yes, it was, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:01.920 so we ran. We did run a lot of zone pressures, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.920 and it was it was tough to rush. Anytime I 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.480 did get a chance to rush, it was we ran well. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.800 I mean conference, you would say it's a passionate league. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.400 Everyone's in the shotgun, everyone's quick pass out. You only 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.120 got two seconds to get to the quarterback. So, um, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.720 I feel like I didn't get enough opportunities to rush 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.920 us With the zones, you know, we're either drop into 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.800 a flat to or running back, fullback, tight end or 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.160 running you know, for the safeties to come through and 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.600 or mike'st you know, rush and get get themselves saction. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.000 I did feel comfortable in that defense, but at the 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.200 same time, I wish I did have more opportunities. But 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.080 now we're here, can't live in the pass and just 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.600 trying to get better here in the NFL league. How 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:45.920 about your evolution as a defensive player against our po 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.080 specifically because you are in a position of influence and 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.000 how they're going to run that play? Has it? Has 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.080 it changed your approach or do you just have to 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.040 play with more awareness according to the down and distance 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.560 formations and personality you see, it's all about the aware this. Um, 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.880 you have to know the down in distance. Um, it's 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.800 all about watching film. What you know what you see 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.679 on film. Hey, these guys are gonna run this on 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.640 this down. These guys are gonna U on this down. Um, 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:12.920 it's all about studying your opponent and seeing what they're 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.679 gonna do at the end of the day. In terms 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:20.639 of the run game, is your size? How do you 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.960 maintain pad level and stick to it in your head? 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.479 Because the first thing you do is you just go 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.760 you you go back to what you know right to 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:32.840 make the play right. Being being six six, it is 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.320 tough for me to keep low pad level. Um, and 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.920 Jay gets on me about that every single day. Hey, 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.840 this is what you need to work on your pad 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.520 level and your feet. Um, I think if I if 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:47.359 I get my pad level lower, I'd be just fine 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.240 as a player. The downfalls and the negative plays that 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.120 I do have is because of my height. I get 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.920 up and I stand straight up, and um, that's been 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.280 I think since I've been playing ball, that's been one 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.920 of my toughest things. Kalais Campbell makes it look easy. 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.520 But yeah, I mean he's Kalais Campbell. I'm not so 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:11.080 yet yet. That's right, big time. Yet, the potential is unlimited. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:15.959 You must realize that potential. To me, it's some's someone 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.440 that ain't done nothing. So I'm, you know, trying to 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:20.720 get past the potentially and I want to be I 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.400 want to be one of the greats, trying to learn 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:24.840 from other guys in the room and be the best 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.919 player I could be. 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