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Speaker 1: Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy this score good
Speaker 1: to be with you again as the Bears get ready
Speaker 1: to meet the New England Patriots. Sunday had Soldier Field,
Speaker 1: Jeff Jonny Act, Tom Fare from News Radio seven eighty
Speaker 1: and one h five point NFMWBBM, and our special guest
Speaker 1: this week on Bears All Access, A guy we've been
Speaker 1: trying to corral for a while. Tom. We've done how
Speaker 1: many of these shows? This is your first one with
Speaker 1: Jeff and Tom Kyle Long everybody, How are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl guard? Pro Bowl offensive lineman. Good to have
Speaker 1: you you all juice back up after getting drained in Miami.
Speaker 1: You know you know that hot I think a lot
Speaker 1: was said about you know, the heat and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: I think the first quarters really when you feel it
Speaker 1: and then your body acclimates to it. I was a
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like really a dead man walking
Speaker 1: there for the first five, six, seven minutes probably of
Speaker 1: game time. And then as the game went on, your
Speaker 1: preparation kind of takes over and we practice as hard
Speaker 1: as any team I've ever been on here at Alice Hall,
Speaker 1: and I mean we were ready, we just didn't execute.
Speaker 1: You know what kind of stinks though, is I noticed
Speaker 1: that when I was sitting down there before the game,
Speaker 1: when you sit on the natural grass field, it's a
Speaker 1: certain temperature. Well, when you guys would come off the
Speaker 1: field and sit on that tarp, it was like fifteen
Speaker 1: degrees hotter, even though they were holding the shades over
Speaker 1: your head. That's one thing that I felt on the
Speaker 1: sideline that you had more a little bit more contribution
Speaker 1: to the heat. Then they heat it up your fans
Speaker 1: so much in the stands behind you at halftime that
Speaker 1: was just a sea of blue seats. Even the fans
Speaker 1: were kind of trying to re reacclimate to the heat. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was hot, it was. It was definitely a hot
Speaker 1: one down there, But you know, you go you get
Speaker 1: down in Miami, Florida, and what do you It's not
Speaker 1: going to be a snowstorm. So we all expected it
Speaker 1: to be hot. But you can tell that the uh,
Speaker 1: the architectural design was, oh yeah, one side shade, one
Speaker 1: side and that, and that's what Kiko Keiko Alonso is
Speaker 1: a teammate of mine from Oregon and that's sun over there.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's a heck of a home field advantage.
Speaker 1: I think more and more because of the attention of
Speaker 1: this particular game and a hot the heat index was
Speaker 1: or high it was that some of the national evaluators
Speaker 1: of the game are mentioning it. Now. Yeah, well they've
Speaker 1: they've put together a pretty good home record under Adam Gase.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you gotta use whatever advantage you have
Speaker 1: for you and you know the Bear should have the
Speaker 1: same advantage. You know, in the winter in December, but
Speaker 1: you know, Miami is always hot. So you get these
Speaker 1: these teams like Buffalo that don't get a chance to
Speaker 1: go and um play in Miami until December. I think
Speaker 1: New England's going down there in December. Their record there's
Speaker 1: not good, right right, I mean, so they have a
Speaker 1: tough time, but you know, it's something you got to
Speaker 1: deal with. You kind of to me, I'm the guy
Speaker 1: who looked at the schedule ahead of time and kind
Speaker 1: of pointed out the games that might have something like that.
Speaker 1: Do you weigh in before the games? Yeah, because I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of curious how much your body weight fluctuated
Speaker 1: in that four hour period. I bet you probably had
Speaker 1: to lose like fifteen fourteen? Was it? Yeah? You kidding
Speaker 1: me for real? Yeah? Easy, I'm being f Massey said
Speaker 1: that too, Yeah, fourteen. Honestly, there were heavy duty fourteen
Speaker 1: pounds and I'm down in gatorade about two or three.
Speaker 1: Every time. Put me down to Miami for a week,
Speaker 1: I'd feel much better about myself. But you know, these guys,
Speaker 1: you go through a hot training camp practice and you'll
Speaker 1: go to easy easy. I mean, I'm naive then, because
Speaker 1: that's a stunning number to me, especially down there at
Speaker 1: Olivet and Nazarene when it gets a little humid. H
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't quite Miami down there at training camp.
Speaker 1: And like you and I talked last week, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was the subject of Joni X's journal last week in
Speaker 1: the pregame show. You know you're listed weight three sixteen
Speaker 1: and you're playing well. The thing that slays me about
Speaker 1: the NFL, and I, you know, and I go through
Speaker 1: this everything week, my combine weight exactly that that's what
Speaker 1: I'm driving at. Everybody's rosters have the playing weight. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you a quick story because it does aggravate
Speaker 1: me a little bit because everybody just keeps the same height,
Speaker 1: same weight. Height's not going to change obviously unless somebody
Speaker 1: has some weird growths for it to twenty one. But
Speaker 1: and that's what you're stuck with the rest of your
Speaker 1: career on the rosters, the produced rosters. So it was
Speaker 1: a writer, famous writer up in Green Bay, Bob McGann.
Speaker 1: He still does writing and so forth, a very very
Speaker 1: good writer. And I always wondered why during Super Bowl
Speaker 1: Week he'd go to each team and he'd beat there
Speaker 1: with his notepad, whish how much you weigh in right now?
Speaker 1: And so I was like, yeah, okay, what now I
Speaker 1: understand why because the weight is vastly different than so
Speaker 1: you're in a three thirty five to three forty range.
Speaker 1: Now I'm about three thirty three thirty five, and you know,
Speaker 1: how does that feel? I feel? Three thirty? Yeah, at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. When we play in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: I put my equipment on. In the New Orleans they
Speaker 1: had a scale in the back room, so I go,
Speaker 1: I want to see what I weigh right now? Because
Speaker 1: that was heavy. I mean I was eating large too,
Speaker 1: So I put all my equipment on. I jumped on
Speaker 1: the scale, and as soon as it got over three hundred,
Speaker 1: I jumped off because I didn't want to see where
Speaker 1: it was gonna What do you think it was going
Speaker 1: to stop back? It probably was about probably three o eight?
Speaker 1: Would that? Would that be fineable? What did they value at?
Speaker 1: You know, you probably wanted to be two ninety five
Speaker 1: to ninety even and you're breathing heavy and you're fat,
Speaker 1: and you're into our game, so you know the psychological
Speaker 1: part of it, you know, you got to feel good
Speaker 1: and you know, so it was just one of those things.
Speaker 1: If you weren't lifting in and trying to be in
Speaker 1: football shape, where would your weight naturally fall? Do you
Speaker 1: think for a man of your size, it's got to
Speaker 1: be up there. When I had my ankle injury and
Speaker 1: I had a lot of time to really just be
Speaker 1: kind of natural Kyle weight and just kind of feeling
Speaker 1: like a like a normal human being. I was about
Speaker 1: two eighty, looking long and lean. Yeah. I showed up
Speaker 1: after a couple of months of being a way and
Speaker 1: I remember dal Loggins was like, is that because I
Speaker 1: had a beanie on and a beard, he thought it
Speaker 1: was Zach Miller over there. I was like, Hey, thanks,
Speaker 1: but you know, I have I have a question about
Speaker 1: you that kind of I want to go back to
Speaker 1: the end of your college career up and down. Did
Speaker 1: you know this boast of story that's going on in
Speaker 1: Ohio State? Yeah? I was, actually, uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: looked at a little bit of it today. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: very few players in the NF that come in the
Speaker 1: NFL that have this freakish ability that there they have
Speaker 1: the size, strength ability to be great than they get here.
Speaker 1: You're kind of one of those guys of your ability
Speaker 1: when you got here and your size and your strength everything.
Speaker 1: Do you wish you had a longer college experience and
Speaker 1: do you think that if you did have a longer
Speaker 1: college experience completely dedicated offensive line, what do you think
Speaker 1: it would have been different coming out? Oh? Man, that's
Speaker 1: a difficult question. I think I wish I had a
Speaker 1: better handle on my maturity as a younger guy, and
Speaker 1: I would have kind of expedited. You know, I was
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four when I got in the league. I
Speaker 1: feel like if I came in as a twenty two
Speaker 1: year old, I'd be sitting here in year eight and
Speaker 1: I'd have a better understanding of the offensive line position
Speaker 1: had I had a few more years of Division one
Speaker 1: football and a few more years in my position, not
Speaker 1: playing D line right, not playing tight end right, not
Speaker 1: playing baseball, you know, and that. But the only reason
Speaker 1: I'm asking you is because you know, everybody wants to
Speaker 1: get a surf shop in Newport. That's the best thing
Speaker 1: you ever day. But I'm the only reason I'm asking
Speaker 1: because there are very few people I've ever come across
Speaker 1: that have that kind of freakishness about him and Bosa,
Speaker 1: he's you know, fortunate to have, you know, the opportunity
Speaker 1: ahead of him. But twenty five games in college and
Speaker 1: you know, which is not an unrealistic number anymore for
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. But um, but we don't see
Speaker 1: a lot of We don't see a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that can come in day one and well it's drawn
Speaker 1: some major criticism, obviously for for obvious reasons, but there's
Speaker 1: a big dollar figure attached to his decision. So I
Speaker 1: think as a player, I can see what he's doing
Speaker 1: and teammate though, and I wholeheartedly agree with him. If
Speaker 1: I were to be a former player looking back, I'd say,
Speaker 1: you go get your money, big guy. But then, as
Speaker 1: a guy who also has been part of a team,
Speaker 1: who has played hurt, who has had teammates stick around
Speaker 1: and stick it out, you want nothing more than a
Speaker 1: guy who's willing to stick with you regardless of what's
Speaker 1: going on. But both of you, guys, and and he
Speaker 1: has a chance to win a national championship right the
Speaker 1: second without him on that defense. His dad was a Buckeye,
Speaker 1: his brother was a Buckeye. He has a chance to
Speaker 1: leave his leg as he's a Buckeye. Now. I watched
Speaker 1: his brother playing the bowl game against my Ducks, right
Speaker 1: you know, I was in the stands for that game
Speaker 1: and down in Dallas. And his brother was a heck
Speaker 1: of a football player in college. And now you see
Speaker 1: what he does in the NFL. There's no doubt Nick's
Speaker 1: gonna be the same way. But you'd love to see
Speaker 1: him stick it out. But I know we have to
Speaker 1: go to a break, but I do want to just
Speaker 1: visit just for one more second, because both of you
Speaker 1: guys are unique that you have football experience to give
Speaker 1: you advice, and that's what I'd be con you know,
Speaker 1: be interested in because a lot of us that go
Speaker 1: into professional football, we have nobody that's ever been through
Speaker 1: that experience before. And having a brother and having a
Speaker 1: dad and having family members in the business, I'm sure
Speaker 1: they can give you a lot more wise advice than
Speaker 1: someone else that doesn't have the experience. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a dual edged sword because sometimes you just you just
Speaker 1: want them to be your dad and you just want
Speaker 1: them to be your brother, right, But you know that's
Speaker 1: but they can't help them. You know they can and
Speaker 1: they and they love me so much and I love
Speaker 1: them so much. And that's what's special about our relationship. Man.
Speaker 1: Let's pick it up and that after this break, Kyle Long.
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Speaker 1: Jeff and Time with You and Kyle Long our guests
Speaker 1: this week on Bears All Access. So please you're joining us.
Speaker 1: Hope you're enjoying the show. And Kyle, we love having
Speaker 1: you here. Uh, going back to what we said before
Speaker 1: the break, you know, sometimes you wish you'd just have
Speaker 1: dads and brothers as opposed to guys who've been at
Speaker 1: at this game for a while and your dad in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame and brother is a great player himself. Uh,
Speaker 1: that it would just be different than just, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe giving you the advice you don't you don't ask for,
Speaker 1: but it's inevitable. So are there times when you shut
Speaker 1: them out? Uh? There are times where I take a
Speaker 1: mental vacation from it. And you know it's it's very obvious. Uh.
Speaker 1: My dad and I are best friends, We really are. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a great father. I have a great mother as well, Diane.
Speaker 1: She's she's you know, a butt kicker, she's at all
Speaker 1: the games and she's a huge Bears fan. And but
Speaker 1: having a brother in the league, it's, you know, somebody
Speaker 1: I can lean on for emotional support. You know, he
Speaker 1: was in Saint Louis for a long time. He's won
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls. Now he's seen both ends of the
Speaker 1: spectrum in the NFL, winning all the games and losing
Speaker 1: a lot of the games. And now I'm starting to
Speaker 1: get a taste for the for the good stuff in
Speaker 1: the NFL. You know, Tom brought it up before, if
Speaker 1: you would have started your career like a normal path
Speaker 1: out of high school boom recruited play four years, three
Speaker 1: years and then get to the NFL. When you went
Speaker 1: to that school, it was in Arizona, right, Orange County. Saddleback, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Saddleback College, So that Saddleback was in California, the Gahows,
Speaker 1: the gaut shows. But when you went there and decide, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna recreate myself, was there at all
Speaker 1: any point? Because just because you're big and strong doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you're getting where you are. You gotta still work
Speaker 1: at it and stuff. But did you ever think or
Speaker 1: fear you wouldn't then ultimately become an NFL player because
Speaker 1: it is the path you're going to be taking. Really,
Speaker 1: I knew that as a kid. I was comfortable being
Speaker 1: with teammates and being on a team. I had no
Speaker 1: real intention of playing in the NFL. I just kind
Speaker 1: of I wanted to go to school. I knew that,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, I enjoy school and I enjoy
Speaker 1: being in the books and learning. And also there was
Speaker 1: I remember I had I have my own reasons for
Speaker 1: playing football. I thought I was trying to be a
Speaker 1: cool kid, and I remember, you know, some of the
Speaker 1: football players are really cool there. And then I had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to play, and you know, I have an
Speaker 1: impact on my team. And then there were there were
Speaker 1: certain wants that I had, and I knew that hard
Speaker 1: work and you know, dedication to the sport and to
Speaker 1: my team were necessary to get there. And I remember
Speaker 1: when Chip Kelly offered me a scholarship offer, I took
Speaker 1: it and I ran with it. And I had one
Speaker 1: year to play. And that's when I knew. I said,
Speaker 1: I have one year of eligibility to play and make
Speaker 1: this thing happen. And it wasn't until week eleven. I
Speaker 1: think it was November third, two thousand and twelve that
Speaker 1: I had my first start in in an Oregon uniform
Speaker 1: and that was against USC, a team that didn't offer
Speaker 1: me a scholarship where I wanted to go initially, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and you kicked down that game. I remember
Speaker 1: back and watching every snap our team downated, dominated, and
Speaker 1: it felt good. It felt real good. Are you glad
Speaker 1: that you play a different position than your dad and
Speaker 1: your brother so you guys can maybe bounce things off
Speaker 1: of each other, but it's not well, you got to
Speaker 1: do it like this because you know, they know that
Speaker 1: side of the game and fortunately your talents and put
Speaker 1: you on the right side of the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: there's there's Yeah, I'm on the good guys. I'm on
Speaker 1: with the good guys. But I think there's a part
Speaker 1: of it that, uh, my older brother and my dad
Speaker 1: understand what defensive lineman don't like, and that's what they
Speaker 1: harp on with me. This is what we don't like.
Speaker 1: Do this, do this, do this, do this, and they
Speaker 1: can speak to the mental side of the game for
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman. If you do this to me fifty
Speaker 1: times throughout the course of a game, give us a stamp.
Speaker 1: I've heard your dad during games give clues to the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman he was playing against that you're not going
Speaker 1: to be able to do against him, which is pretty
Speaker 1: funny to listen to. Yeah, oh man, we got so
Speaker 1: much time to talk about that. I love to. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just essentially just being physical. Um, I think too
Speaker 1: many times as offensive lineman, we're in we're in the
Speaker 1: mode where we're uh cautious, and you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: got to shoot your shot. I mean you look at
Speaker 1: a guy like, uh, I'm gonna talk basketball, but Alan
Speaker 1: Iverson and I mean he was as ferocious a competitor.
Speaker 1: He was jacking up shots from everywhere. He missed a
Speaker 1: lot of shots, but he made a lot of shots.
Speaker 1: And it is tough. I mean the pound for pound
Speaker 1: toughness that you always hear about with diminutive players. The
Speaker 1: players that my dad talked about were h you know, Bruce,
Speaker 1: Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak. Uh. You know you look at
Speaker 1: guys from in between that those generations. Walter Jones, I
Speaker 1: mean you did play against Mike Webster and made great
Speaker 1: John Hannah, the Maids, all these guys. Jackie Slater is
Speaker 1: one that he always talks about. He said, when I
Speaker 1: lined up against Jackie Slater, I knew that I was
Speaker 1: in for a fight. Yeah, Richard Den, when he was
Speaker 1: here always talking about Loomis Brown from Detroit. Right. I'm
Speaker 1: sure your dad mentioned town Thayer's name and d lineman
Speaker 1: want to be the guys that are imposing their will.
Speaker 1: And when an offensive lineman can do that, I think
Speaker 1: it pays dividends. As the game goes on, you may
Speaker 1: have a couple of snaps that don't go your way,
Speaker 1: shake it off. I mean, even Rocky Marciano got knocked
Speaker 1: around for eleven rounds. He knocked guys out in the twelve.
Speaker 1: You know, my entire time with the Chicago Bears, I
Speaker 1: only had one offensive line coach from the day I
Speaker 1: got here till the day I left. I mean he
Speaker 1: was the same message, preach exact same techniques. You've had
Speaker 1: what three offensive line coaches in the time you've been here.
Speaker 1: I've had Cromer, Magazoo, Washburn, he standing, that's right. So
Speaker 1: he had four offensive line coaches since you've been here.
Speaker 1: Do you take something from every one of them? Or
Speaker 1: are you onto Harry? I'm I'm onto Harry. But it's
Speaker 1: not to say there aren't certain things that have been
Speaker 1: ingrained in me right as a player. And you know
Speaker 1: they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Well,
Speaker 1: Harry's done his best to do that, and I've partaken
Speaker 1: in his teaching and there are still things that I
Speaker 1: implemented my game that you know, Cromer gave to me,
Speaker 1: that Maggazer gave to me, that Washburn gave to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool because you know, it's unique that you
Speaker 1: have those experiences and you've been able to succeed along
Speaker 1: the way, changes in positions, changes inside stances and everything.
Speaker 1: So every one of those guys had to leave a
Speaker 1: little something. But it seemed I love the seriousness of Harry.
Speaker 1: They attitude that Harry, he said, brought here when he
Speaker 1: was hired here, as you know, brought brought. You're not
Speaker 1: not a line to respect you guys are always respected,
Speaker 1: but there's a kind of sense of a tone with
Speaker 1: you guys that's pretty serious. He has a clear message
Speaker 1: and you know we've received it. And having guys like
Speaker 1: Charles Leno and Cody white Hair here with me, and
Speaker 1: you know I've been through I've been to hell and
Speaker 1: back with Charles Leno. Um in our time here in
Speaker 1: what sense I mean, he came in, He lived on
Speaker 1: a he lived on an in an unfurnished little room,
Speaker 1: spare room in my house. When I first bought my
Speaker 1: house my second year in Lake Forest, he slept on
Speaker 1: an air mattress. I've seen him go from scout team,
Speaker 1: tried at right tackle. Now he's one of the most
Speaker 1: solid left tackles in football. And he's got his contract
Speaker 1: now and I think it's one of the best value
Speaker 1: contracts in the league. And he'll be up eventually and
Speaker 1: he'll get to rob somebody, whether it's the Bears. He
Speaker 1: made a great block on Trys touchdown run this past week,
Speaker 1: made a block out in space week in week out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you put on the film in seventy two shows up.
Speaker 1: How about what he's standing up? I think was it
Speaker 1: the first week of the season where he's standing up
Speaker 1: in the bunch formation to the outside like he's a
Speaker 1: sleek wide receiver. That's trust. You get a guy like
Speaker 1: Chuck and he delivers every day. He's the same guy
Speaker 1: every day. And you know, I've, like I said, I've
Speaker 1: been to hell and back with him and he's always
Speaker 1: been the same. So he've been there for you too. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I mean not to say we haven't bicker, did
Speaker 1: each other and fought like brothers, but we love each other.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about our line. We have a
Speaker 1: tight room. Your whole locker room, though, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a bigger picture of your football teams. You guys have
Speaker 1: a great office. The offensive line is always special because
Speaker 1: you're always with each other and there's a brotherhood in
Speaker 1: there that's unbreakable. But your whole locker room is a
Speaker 1: fun group of guys. Our offensive line is a microcosm
Speaker 1: of our team. Yeah, and it has been fun to
Speaker 1: watch and be a part of. It's like nothing I've
Speaker 1: ever been a part of here. I've felt bits and
Speaker 1: pieces of it over the course of the last six years,
Speaker 1: but this year it's it is real. It's the real deal.
Speaker 1: Who's the crabbiest in the morning coming to work? I'll
Speaker 1: let you think about that, because I would have never guessed. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: he's that guy's always got a smile on his face
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time. Did I see him anyway? Grabby,
Speaker 1: he's smart. Hey, you catch him before eight am? Man,
Speaker 1: same with me. Unfortunately, all right, we need to take
Speaker 1: a break. We'll continue our conversation with Kyle Long. This
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Speaker 1: Hall as the Bears getting ready for the new England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Heard you earlier today in the locker room, just emphasizing
Speaker 1: the hunger that this team has to win, and I
Speaker 1: think that's an advanced thought for a young team with
Speaker 1: a sprinkling of veterans like yourself. It's a good thing.
Speaker 1: It is a hungry locker room. You can see it,
Speaker 1: you can hear it every day. The way you guys
Speaker 1: practice what you said about the locker room being is
Speaker 1: tightened microcosm from your offensive line of what the greater
Speaker 1: group is, from the coaching staff on down and just
Speaker 1: listening to everybody this week. Hey, I think you guys
Speaker 1: are a little ticked off. You lost and now you
Speaker 1: go up against the mighty Patriots with that kind of hunger.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think there's a better opportunity in
Speaker 1: football than to play the Patriots after a big loss,
Speaker 1: especially when they have a three game winning streak, and
Speaker 1: we get a chance to come to Soldier Field and
Speaker 1: you know, anybody can say, well, we're at home. We
Speaker 1: want to put on a good show. The way our
Speaker 1: fans have been this year and the way our team
Speaker 1: has been at home this year, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: it couldn't be a better a better setting for a
Speaker 1: great football game. And obviously this team. Being a part
Speaker 1: of this team, I've never practiced so hard in my life.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about just doing you know, ladders
Speaker 1: and up downs that kind of stuff, because that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: I'm talking line it up. They know what we're doing,
Speaker 1: we know what they're doing. Let's see who's better. We
Speaker 1: do it every day and we bring it. And you know,
Speaker 1: our scout team, credit to them. They play their butts
Speaker 1: off all week. They don't get to go out there
Speaker 1: and put the sea on their helmet on Sunday, but
Speaker 1: they know that when we're out there as an offensive
Speaker 1: line and we're running the ball or we're giving Mitch time,
Speaker 1: that's because of what they did all week. And you know,
Speaker 1: our guys that are out there against the chem Hicks
Speaker 1: and Khalil Mack and Eddie Goldman and Leonard Floyd are
Speaker 1: the same ones that are cheering loudest when they're making sacks,
Speaker 1: when they're making tackles for loss, because that's the nature
Speaker 1: of this team. It's it's symbiotic. We've got guys working
Speaker 1: for one another and not working for themselves. And this
Speaker 1: is honestly the first time in your career you've felt
Speaker 1: like this. There's been sprinklings of it throughout my career,
Speaker 1: but it is an everyday thing and it's it's organic.
Speaker 1: It's not something you have to manufacture. We show up
Speaker 1: and we compete and we have fun. Well, you know
Speaker 1: what's cool for us, During the preseason games, when the
Speaker 1: starters weren't playing very much, the backups that came in
Speaker 1: and played were really well prepared mentally physically for the
Speaker 1: scheme that they were they were learning at the point,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of tells you something about the entire
Speaker 1: coaching staff here. Every one of them are good coaches.
Speaker 1: They have their guys mentally prepared, and they went out
Speaker 1: there and played the preseason games. The guys that went
Speaker 1: out there competed and look good did it doing it?
Speaker 1: And they became better football players along the way, which
Speaker 1: is important. Yeah, it speaks volumes about the operation as
Speaker 1: a whole. And uh, you know, Ryan Pace has done
Speaker 1: a great job bringing in the right people. I've been
Speaker 1: so impressive coach Naggy up to this point. And obviously
Speaker 1: it'll be you know, nothing's really gonna change, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the same. I really enjoy the way that he
Speaker 1: brings a attitude into this building and he sets the
Speaker 1: tone for us in the morning when we have our
Speaker 1: team meeting, and then it just carries on throughout the day.
Speaker 1: You know, where were we ask everybody this where were
Speaker 1: you when Khalil mcdeal went down? How did you find
Speaker 1: out about it? And did you think people were kind
Speaker 1: of fibbing when they're calling you? Well, I remember, because
Speaker 1: you know, I've gone zero dark thirty with mister Trubisky
Speaker 1: on the social media as you have. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've he doesn't know what that means. I've been
Speaker 1: off of Twitter. I've been off of Twitter. Tom doesn't
Speaker 1: know what twitter. Yeah, I know Twitter, social media as
Speaker 1: a whole. I've been off of it. But I found
Speaker 1: out because I got I have the little ESPN alerts,
Speaker 1: and I got an ESPN alert on my phone. I
Speaker 1: was laying in bed and it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: seven thirty eight in the morning. I think it was
Speaker 1: like a Monday, right well, because I remember I was off,
Speaker 1: so it was yes, um, and I got a you know,
Speaker 1: I got an alert and I immediately texted my dad
Speaker 1: and he was out west, so I knew he wouldn't
Speaker 1: get it for a few hours. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he texted me, OMG, oh my god, like this is huge,
Speaker 1: and I just remember being I was running. I was
Speaker 1: running around screaming because uh, you know, I've played the guy.
Speaker 1: I've had to prepare against him, and you know, there
Speaker 1: there aren't many guys who can do what he can
Speaker 1: do in the NFL, right it. It was kind of
Speaker 1: cool for all of us. And add that to our defense,
Speaker 1: right right. And then you think, you know, the development
Speaker 1: continuous development of roll quant and stuff, and because he
Speaker 1: was really fresh at the same point that Khalil got here,
Speaker 1: and you said, Wow, these guys are gonna come in
Speaker 1: and compete on this team. It's just gonna make the
Speaker 1: defense so much more fun to watch, difficult to prepare
Speaker 1: for But you know, you think you get ready to
Speaker 1: play for New England. You know, as as great as
Speaker 1: their quarterback is, you know, you'll never see a second
Speaker 1: of them because you're going to be prepared for a
Speaker 1: defense that's pretty complicated in its own right. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's a credit to their prep and
Speaker 1: another example of management bringing in the right guys. And
Speaker 1: you see so many different guys. There's a few fixtures
Speaker 1: there in New England, right, but every year there's new
Speaker 1: guys that they can plug and play. And aside from
Speaker 1: the linebackers and a few of their guys on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, all those guys can be moved around and
Speaker 1: play different positions. They're so versatile and I think that
Speaker 1: is really something that can confuse an offense and they
Speaker 1: can make simple things look very complex, you know. And
Speaker 1: two these are probably two of the better offensive line
Speaker 1: coaches in the league. Harry and um what's their guys? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean both of them famous, right, yeah, he is famous.
Speaker 1: And they're a really well geled offensive line, just like
Speaker 1: the Bears are. So you look at different components to
Speaker 1: the battle of the underlying element is the two offensive
Speaker 1: line coaches are really well schooled and they have their
Speaker 1: great technician and fundamental teachers. I mean time, it's no
Speaker 1: secret games are won and lost up front. I would
Speaker 1: know that. Hey, you know what, you know what his
Speaker 1: biggest line is, as Jeff, I may not know a
Speaker 1: lot of things, but I know football, no offensive line,
Speaker 1: and he does. He's he's an expert at that, no question.
Speaker 1: But uh, and you know a lot could be said
Speaker 1: about the outcome of that game on Sunday in Miami
Speaker 1: that you know. The scoreboard is lightening up in the league.
Speaker 1: You brought it up today too, but it's still one
Speaker 1: in the trenches. It still is. I defy anybody to
Speaker 1: explain it any other way to me, because something big
Speaker 1: has got to happen up front for you to win
Speaker 1: a game, either offensively or defensively. And no matter what
Speaker 1: the scoreboard says, it's not seven on seven football, as
Speaker 1: everybody likes to make it sound. It may feel that
Speaker 1: way sometimes, No, I mean the thing about your offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the offensive defensive line, but they got to pack
Speaker 1: some components. It's like Frank Gore being down there at
Speaker 1: the stage of his career with my me. It's Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard here at the stage. You know, you you come
Speaker 1: out and you bring that pounding to attitude of an
Speaker 1: offensive line, including the tight ends, and you bring one
Speaker 1: of those backs with you. Just wondering what kind of
Speaker 1: pressure is on a young quarterback. And maybe this is
Speaker 1: why Bill Belichick is so tremendous record wise with Ian
Speaker 1: Brady going up against any young quarterback, because you're going
Speaker 1: to the game, you're facing the great Tom Brady. And
Speaker 1: do you feel or Aaron Rodgers like the other kid
Speaker 1: the other night from San Francisco, Bethard, do you feel
Speaker 1: you have even with a lead, do you feel like
Speaker 1: you have to the pressure builds as the game goes
Speaker 1: on if you don't score every time you got the
Speaker 1: ball or every couple possessions, is he gonna come back
Speaker 1: and bite you? Bethard found that out in Green Bay
Speaker 1: had happened. He didn't move the ball a couple of
Speaker 1: series and bam, Aaron gets opportunities. Do you fear that
Speaker 1: for a young quarterback going up against not not Mitch,
Speaker 1: but just in general, do they feel maybe inadvertent pressure
Speaker 1: to keep pace with a great quarterback and the ability
Speaker 1: to score. You know, I haven't played a lot of
Speaker 1: quarterback Jeff, But I can speak to being a competitor
Speaker 1: and having to compartmentalize and kind of, you know, having
Speaker 1: a differentiation between things you can control and things you
Speaker 1: can't control. And one thing you can control is executing
Speaker 1: your assignment on any given play. And when you start
Speaker 1: thinking outside of that box, that's when things go south.
Speaker 1: And you know, I line up, I have a three technique,
Speaker 1: the play is such and such. I need to block
Speaker 1: the three technique. That is all I'm focused on. And
Speaker 1: you know it happens more often than not. But when
Speaker 1: it doesn't happen, what are you gonna do. You're gonna
Speaker 1: move on to the next play and you're gonna try
Speaker 1: to block the two eye. And you know, as a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's the same thing. You control what you
Speaker 1: can control, and as long as you don't beat yourself mentally,
Speaker 1: then good things tend to happen. Because we have a
Speaker 1: lot of trust for the guys on the other side
Speaker 1: of our ball. How long did it take you to
Speaker 1: master this new terminology? Again, that's something that I didn't
Speaker 1: bring up before you had offensive line coaches, but now
Speaker 1: you've had a couple of different head coaches and every
Speaker 1: single time you change a terminology, and I always talk
Speaker 1: about how difficult it is for the quarterback to know
Speaker 1: what he's saying and know how all the other ten
Speaker 1: guys fit in. So you learn a new system. How
Speaker 1: long throughout OTA's training camp and stuff do you go
Speaker 1: you break the huddle? Boom? I know everything against every defense,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to see, well, well, I think there's base,
Speaker 1: there's base components. And once you figure out the base components, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's pretty simple. Really. A lot of
Speaker 1: the a lot of the other stuff is essentially for
Speaker 1: the guys in the outside. You're just listening for that
Speaker 1: that clue that you figure out which which base language
Speaker 1: you're going to use, right, Yeah, you figure out what
Speaker 1: your buddy is okay with you using and what he's not.
Speaker 1: And once you have that, then it's kind of like
Speaker 1: peel and bananas? Do you have um? You know, kind
Speaker 1: of like back in our era, we had kind of
Speaker 1: had an offensive line language of our own at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, so we could talk without giving any
Speaker 1: hints or clues. Are you guys getting that? Because now
Speaker 1: you guys have been together for a while, and so
Speaker 1: there's a lot of time in your stances together, Bobby
Speaker 1: and I have a vast array of things that we
Speaker 1: can say and we know exactly. I mean sometimes when
Speaker 1: we have to say anything, right, it's we break the huddle,
Speaker 1: we see what the defense is in, and we can
Speaker 1: just look at each other and yeah, those expressions can
Speaker 1: tell a story. We know what it is. Like. I
Speaker 1: bet you and I could line up next to each
Speaker 1: other and I'd give you if I was at right tackle,
Speaker 1: and I'd look at you and you'd say, yep, what
Speaker 1: was it hard for you to go to Miami for
Speaker 1: that one season to learn that if you spent everything
Speaker 1: in one offensive line, one scheme for your well, it
Speaker 1: was your head. Jerry Sandusky was the offensive line coaches.
Speaker 1: And now so I'm going against with Walter Payton as
Speaker 1: a teammate with Neil Anderson and facing eight man fronts always,
Speaker 1: so there's always an extra tackler near the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: So then I go down to Miami and there's Dan
Speaker 1: Marino and now it's four and maybe five man fronts.
Speaker 1: It's like payday. You get you get a four man
Speaker 1: front and you got five offensive lineman. He gets four
Speaker 1: defensive rushers. With you had a bunch of dbs out there, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's glory time. So the biggest reason
Speaker 1: to go down to the Dolphins was the sitting team
Speaker 1: meetings with Don Shula for a year and learn about
Speaker 1: AFC football in passing and stuff. And it was it
Speaker 1: was a great. It was like a classroom that you
Speaker 1: can't pay for. That's tomp there, Kyle Long with us.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. Will continue on with Bears All Access
Speaker 1: after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to
Speaker 1: score this Sunday's game against the Patriots. He's brought to
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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears. Jeff joni Ac, along with Tomp There and
Speaker 1: Kyle Long, our guest on Bears All Access. Your brother
Speaker 1: obviously won a Super Bowl with Bill Belichick. You were there.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you spent some time. You've met Bill, You've
Speaker 1: talked to Bill. What's your impressions of this wonderful head coach.
Speaker 1: I think he is an absolute throwback. He says prepared
Speaker 1: as anybody, and he's as obsessed as anybody I've ever
Speaker 1: been around. And he's got his hands and everything he's
Speaker 1: you know, nothing is overlooked. I think in the Patriots
Speaker 1: facility by Bill, and you know it shows every everything
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, everything is as he wants it
Speaker 1: to be, and he has an understanding of what he wants,
Speaker 1: and good things tend to happen up there more often
Speaker 1: than not. As you could see. My brother was up
Speaker 1: there for a year super Bowl. He's got that ring
Speaker 1: and now he's got a second ring. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: Chris is a Chris is a heck of a heck
Speaker 1: of an investor. I'd say in football teams, is he
Speaker 1: love it? You still love it? Yeah? He loves it.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's a wacko absolute psychopath. He's what
Speaker 1: thirty he's thirty three now I think it's a year
Speaker 1: eleven or two year twelve and he's just he's rolling. Man.
Speaker 1: He can you see yourself playing double digit years? Yeah? Absolutely? Um,
Speaker 1: you know there was there was a couple of years
Speaker 1: where my body was just so beat up. And man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how I'm gonna do this, but you know,
Speaker 1: you wake up on Monday, and you know I woke
Speaker 1: up after the Dolphins game, I felt great. I was
Speaker 1: itching to give back to practice. You know, today we
Speaker 1: practice hard. As I said, we practice harder than I've
Speaker 1: ever practiced here. And you know, I took I did
Speaker 1: the I took some some rest days in training camp,
Speaker 1: and I haven't been taken those because my body doesn't
Speaker 1: need them anymore. And I think the harder I go
Speaker 1: and practice, the more able my body is to to withstand.
Speaker 1: You know, the storm in the season. You like the
Speaker 1: schedule after the game where you guys get it with
Speaker 1: the day off right after the game and you come
Speaker 1: in on Tuesday and then start your work week because
Speaker 1: you know, throughout the course of time, your head coaches
Speaker 1: construct your time differently during the course of the season,
Speaker 1: and you know there's subtle changes. Do you like the
Speaker 1: tempo you're on? You know there there's there's uh, definitely
Speaker 1: positives and negatives of it. Um. I've had it where
Speaker 1: we've come in on Monday, Monday morning and watched the
Speaker 1: time and head off Tuesday. But I kind of enjoy it.
Speaker 1: You know, it gives you time to decompress. You've been
Speaker 1: you know, once Sunday night rolls around in the games
Speaker 1: over you've been with your You've been with your guys.
Speaker 1: However many hours I used to have that one day decompress,
Speaker 1: hang out, catch up on your shows, watch a little film,
Speaker 1: rest your body, and then you know, you get kind
Speaker 1: of a half rest day, half film day, get a
Speaker 1: good lifting on Tuesday. So there's there's good and bad
Speaker 1: to it, but at the same time, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. There's not much I can control as long
Speaker 1: as I get a chance. They had somebody to come Wednesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that'll be happening here real quick against the Patriots
Speaker 1: on Sunday a Soldier field. By the way, our pregame
Speaker 1: at nine kickoff and noon over on WBBM. Make sure
Speaker 1: you listen in rare appearance from Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. It hasn't happened often, and it's always
Speaker 1: fun for us to call games that involved great players,
Speaker 1: future Hall of Fame players, and we've seen plenty both
Speaker 1: in here and outside. So we'll be looking forward to
Speaker 1: to see Tom Brady and company. As you talk about
Speaker 1: this team and the tightness, we can talk about it
Speaker 1: all we want. You know, there's plenty of people out
Speaker 1: there that probably hear us talk about the Bears. Well,
Speaker 1: you know you said that a couple of years ago too,
Speaker 1: about the Bears, and but the only take what you
Speaker 1: have in front of you and what we see, and
Speaker 1: we evaluate as broadcasters. Tom and I do what the
Speaker 1: context at the moment is, and then when you end
Speaker 1: a season, you can review your context and see where
Speaker 1: things went well or not. But I'm one hundred percent
Speaker 1: convinced that what is in this locker room is how
Speaker 1: you just described it, because I feel it every day.
Speaker 1: Tom feels it every day, and there is something different here.
Speaker 1: There is something very different going on. And I don't
Speaker 1: think there's just going to be there's an obsession, because
Speaker 1: he wants you to be obsessed, but not an obsession
Speaker 1: about taking a tough loss. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be turned around as a learning experience and that's how
Speaker 1: Matt wants it, and that's how he wants you guys
Speaker 1: to think. Is that easy to do. It's always a
Speaker 1: tough pill to swallow losses, and unfortunately I kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, my palate was expanded in the first few
Speaker 1: years because I got so used to the taste of losing,
Speaker 1: and it is really refreshing to that week in week out,
Speaker 1: we have not only a chance, but a good chance
Speaker 1: of winning, and it feels great to be on a
Speaker 1: team where guys are playing for one another and guys
Speaker 1: are willing to put the extra effort in and guys
Speaker 1: are staying late, coming early. Nobody's complaining about it. And
Speaker 1: like I've I've gone back to the physical demand of
Speaker 1: our practices a few times in this interview, but it's
Speaker 1: something I keep drawing on because I mean, we are
Speaker 1: really callousing each other. And you know, if you were
Speaker 1: to tell me that we were gonna get it overtime
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins and you put that film on and
Speaker 1: we're going it looks like the first quarter, I mean
Speaker 1: it really does. It's physical football, guys playing their butts
Speaker 1: off defense, making a stand at the goal line, offense
Speaker 1: driving the ball down the field. Granted, we'd like to
Speaker 1: finish better, but you know, our team is prepared every week.
Speaker 1: We are prepared, and when we get off that bus,
Speaker 1: ever stadium we're at, whatever city we're in, we have
Speaker 1: a chance to win. You know, it's kind of neat
Speaker 1: by for us that have been exposed to Coach Naggie
Speaker 1: at the podium, as everything he says is the exact
Speaker 1: right thing to say, and he always talks about the
Speaker 1: process of just getting better the next week. And well,
Speaker 1: like you talk about, yeah, we're practicing hard mat we're
Speaker 1: getting at it. We're on the field and we're physical.
Speaker 1: But I think that's kind of the preached process of Matt.
Speaker 1: The read the way this is going to get better
Speaker 1: is by hard work and practices. And like you said,
Speaker 1: you've referenced a couple of times. So the message we
Speaker 1: see out of Matt, it's probably hopefully the same message
Speaker 1: you're getting in team meetings. Maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: aggressive at times, or more corrections, but it's good for
Speaker 1: us to hear from Matt. Yeah, you have to. I've
Speaker 1: heard this from a number of players, you know. I
Speaker 1: watch a lot of the networks and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: just because I'm a fan like everybody else, you know,
Speaker 1: and I watch whether it's ESPN, NFL Network, And I
Speaker 1: listened to a lot of great players that are now
Speaker 1: in suits and ties up there, and they talk about
Speaker 1: the culture change in different locker rooms and how teams
Speaker 1: are becoming winning teams. And one thing that I hear
Speaker 1: over and over again, you have to learn how to
Speaker 1: become a winning team. And that's not an overnight thing.
Speaker 1: And for a lot of guys that have been here.
Speaker 1: It hasn't always been that way, and things have to change.
Speaker 1: It's not like you just snap your finger and it happens.
Speaker 1: The little things matter, the details matter, being obsessed with it.
Speaker 1: It all matters, um, you know, whether it's getting your
Speaker 1: sleep at night, or eating the right way, um, staying
Speaker 1: after watching film, any little thing you can do. I mean,
Speaker 1: Harry's got us out there. We're out there voluntarily, like literally,
Speaker 1: we got guys going out twenty twenty five minutes before
Speaker 1: practice because they want to do extra stuff. Um. And
Speaker 1: that that's the thing that I'm most proud of as
Speaker 1: a teammate. And there's guys stand after doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: and there's older guys helping younger guys. I see Charles
Speaker 1: Lenox with Rashad Coward every day working on working on
Speaker 1: his sets, and that's that's a you know, that's a
Speaker 1: testament to the culture that's being instilled here. It's a
Speaker 1: win it's a winning culture. Yeah. But you know you're
Speaker 1: you're right about the learning to win it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's not just cliche. Um. I think after the Green
Speaker 1: Bay game, because it didn't get finished the way you
Speaker 1: wanted to, and I was trying to make up points
Speaker 1: I did. I went through everybody's record on the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster, see who has had winning experiences. It's
Speaker 1: not all on the individual obviously, it's a team thing.
Speaker 1: But your record follows you. Um and you know who
Speaker 1: had the most wins on this team, Bobby Massey, Arizona Cardinals. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there weren't many, though, that were above five hundred. Yeah,
Speaker 1: out of that fifty three when I and I don't remember,
Speaker 1: Robbie was probably well, yeah, I mean he was surprised
Speaker 1: when I brought up to him. He would have never
Speaker 1: guessed that he was going on in the room making guesses.
Speaker 1: I was, He's up there. Absolutely, he's got a ring
Speaker 1: on his finger. So so just you know Trey Burton
Speaker 1: and and I think Chase Daniel as well. Anyway, we
Speaker 1: gotta take a break. One more segment to go here
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Speaker 1: to go here on Bears All Access, the offensive line
Speaker 1: has been playing very well. The introduction of James Daniels
Speaker 1: from series to series. How's that going? And what is
Speaker 1: your impression of this young man. He's very he's young.
Speaker 1: He's young, but very talented, big body guy from Iowa.
Speaker 1: He's young, he's impressionable. He works very hard. He's somebody
Speaker 1: that takes coaching well. And he's somebody that is willing
Speaker 1: to put in the hard work. And like I was
Speaker 1: saying earlier, I alluded to the extra work. He's somebody
Speaker 1: that's doing all the things necessary. He's uh, he's a
Speaker 1: good kid. And you know, he just turned twenty one,
Speaker 1: I think two weeks ago. Oh man, I would think, right,
Speaker 1: I wish I was twenty one in a rookie. Why
Speaker 1: does only the left guard slap the center to ignite
Speaker 1: the cadence because I don't want to do that. Really, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to ask you to.
Speaker 1: I just said, you got it. I just want to
Speaker 1: look at my guy. Okay. I thought there was a
Speaker 1: pattern because it seems like it might have some everybody
Speaker 1: doing it. Yeah, it seems like a semi consistent there.
Speaker 1: It's probably a couple of right handed guys in there
Speaker 1: that maybe the guard has a little bit more experience.
Speaker 1: But I sat here. One started with Matt Slawson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Matt Slawson was a left guard for a long time
Speaker 1: here and he was my vet and he told me, no,
Speaker 1: I get to slap him. What a great guy he is.
Speaker 1: By the way, Matt Slawson loved it. Well, they're in
Speaker 1: a left handed stance. Their right hand is right there
Speaker 1: next to the quarterbacks. So you know, what's that do
Speaker 1: in terms of if you're analyzing it from a defensive
Speaker 1: perspective to tip off? Does it matter? Well? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean the thing about it is you just got to
Speaker 1: stay in an awkward tempo. You don't want to Hey,
Speaker 1: you don't want to have great consistencies in it, because
Speaker 1: even if you're at home and in the quarterback, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of inexperienced quarterbacks that will go blue eighteen,
Speaker 1: blue eighteens and hut every time, and then they almost
Speaker 1: can fall into a vocal rhythm as much as they can. So,
Speaker 1: you know, all the offensive line is always trying to
Speaker 1: be deceptive when how they're going to snap the ball. Now,
Speaker 1: the Bears have so much behind movement that if you
Speaker 1: get caught off guard, you can watch the you know,
Speaker 1: and the broadcast. It's easy to watch the wrong guy.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it happened to me twice. Well, the
Speaker 1: vantage point was just awful from Miami. That story for
Speaker 1: another day. But the mesh point on those RPOs, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, from the distance we are watching the game
Speaker 1: from the end zone, right, it looks like Jordan Howard's
Speaker 1: taking the ball and there goes Mitch and wait a minute,
Speaker 1: I gotta got him. I got me twice, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, you don't even when you're calling a game,
Speaker 1: game you're in another place, like you're just so dialed
Speaker 1: into that and you start talking to yourself a little bit.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, I did it again. I said
Speaker 1: it on the air. But anyway, Um, the deception is
Speaker 1: is something. I mean, Bill Belichick, who was throwing you guys,
Speaker 1: throwing you guys made your bouquets this week. Um again
Speaker 1: trying to win the mental game as well. Um, really
Speaker 1: was focused on all the things you guys do as
Speaker 1: an offense. And it is a lot. It is a
Speaker 1: lot that you guys do though, a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of misdirection, a lot of deception,
Speaker 1: a lot of creativity. Don't you agree? Yes, Sampoi is
Speaker 1: that I'm not asking you to give me any secrets.
Speaker 1: I'm just making a point that you want to I
Speaker 1: wanted to go. But yeah, I mean it's I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it is fun. It's fun. It's a fun offense
Speaker 1: to be in. Its even for an offensive linement, it's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. It's always fun as an offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'll go, I like when you get out there
Speaker 1: and pull though, that's fun too. That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: You know that. I was telling Kyle early in the year,
Speaker 1: it's disappointed because some of the most devastating blocks he's had.
Speaker 1: There's been a penalty that's happened. So you don't get
Speaker 1: to see a replayed countless amount of times because of
Speaker 1: a reap of the penalty that happened. So and you
Speaker 1: know it's there. It is unbelievable when you go out
Speaker 1: there and get to a second level and you have
Speaker 1: a guy standing in front of you that has no chance.
Speaker 1: It's fun. You know, you hit somebody just as big
Speaker 1: as you about sixty times a game. You only get
Speaker 1: about five or ten times a game where you get
Speaker 1: to go and hit a little guy and that's how
Speaker 1: I sunk because they usually talked the most. Smack. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so fun that you have no mental interruption as
Speaker 1: you're running over this guy, because it's like if you
Speaker 1: if you're getting ready to go and have a confrontation
Speaker 1: with a linebacker that's two hundred and sixty or a
Speaker 1: defensive end that's two ninety, there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: thought that goes into the positioning of it. But when
Speaker 1: you have a dB, it's just the train whistle and
Speaker 1: here he comes. I'll go back to the cadence stuff
Speaker 1: that Tom was talking about. You know those d linemen
Speaker 1: they're so simple minded. It's like all they do over
Speaker 1: there is they just they're in wood shop all day.
Speaker 1: And you know, offensive lineman, we're very cerebral, there's a
Speaker 1: lot going on. But as a d lineman, you know,
Speaker 1: they're like, it's like Pavlov's dogs. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: want to get them thinking a treat is coming, so
Speaker 1: you got to make it up a bit. I love
Speaker 1: that comparison. And way back when when I started covering football,
Speaker 1: I've had discussions about the difference between an offensive line
Speaker 1: and you described it exactly as every offensive lineman does.
Speaker 1: And these guys are just you know, raggedy dirt balls
Speaker 1: that don't do anything. But you know, hey, they're they're
Speaker 1: built for three and out. You know, an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: they got to be built for seventy play staying in
Speaker 1: the field, never get substituted, stay out in that heat
Speaker 1: from start to finish. You get the they have a
Speaker 1: different mentality and defenses are built. You know, they're three
Speaker 1: and out guys. Have you ever got under anybody's skin
Speaker 1: to the point that you regretted it, because it really
Speaker 1: did get them riled up and they started to whoop
Speaker 1: a little bit. I know, well, I mean other than
Speaker 1: the one this little disturbance down at Saint Louis that
Speaker 1: one time we forget about that under my skin and
Speaker 1: can he regret? I'd say the only the only guy
Speaker 1: that I have fun with is is a Keem hicks
Speaker 1: Uh in training camp, and I mean we battle and
Speaker 1: he's as physically dominant a player as you'll see in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's massive, and he's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to play against, and he'll get you ready for the
Speaker 1: few but you guys in the street fight and I'll
Speaker 1: be happy. But last, the two of you guys harding
Speaker 1: the rest of the team. That's all you need. The
Speaker 1: hard part of signing him up to be on my side. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we go at it so much. The last play the
Speaker 1: game the other day. You took exception to that guy
Speaker 1: that was trying to hit a little bit late and
Speaker 1: he drove him into the ground. I kept saying no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, Kyle on the air. Yeah yeah, well
Speaker 1: you rolled him right over the pile. You know, you
Speaker 1: look in the rear view and you say, well, what
Speaker 1: if that had pushed us back? And yeahda YadA YadA.
Speaker 1: But he's on Jordan late, so I want to get
Speaker 1: him off goal kicks and Patriot Tail. How about it?
Speaker 1: You got a bud Sunday It Soldier Field fans are
Speaker 1: going to be cranked up, looking forward to the great matchup.
Speaker 1: Appreciate all your time, you know it's valuable. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Kyle Long our guest here on Bears All Access for
Speaker 1: Kyle and Tom Thayer, Pauser Wager Engineer and Dan Burrelly.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joneyak. Have a great night, everybody. This is
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