WEBVTT - All Access: Long on getting a taste for winning 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.600 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.640 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears Official 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.640 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.279 day and now Welcome to Bears All Access. Your all 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.799 access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:25.360 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by CDW, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.360 Miller Life and Hulu. Welcome at everybody to Bears All Access. 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.160 Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy this score good 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.000 to be with you again as the Bears get ready 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.240 to meet the New England Patriots. Sunday had Soldier Field, 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.880 Jeff Jonny Act, Tom Fare from News Radio seven eighty 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.080 and one h five point NFMWBBM, and our special guest 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.839 this week on Bears All Access, A guy we've been 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.720 trying to corral for a while. Tom. We've done how 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.199 many of these shows? This is your first one with 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.440 Jeff and Tom Kyle Long everybody, How are you guys doing? 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.040 Pro Bowl guard? Pro Bowl offensive lineman. Good to have 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.680 you you all juice back up after getting drained in Miami. 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:03.360 You know you know that hot I think a lot 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.960 was said about you know, the heat and whatnot. But 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.520 I think the first quarters really when you feel it 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.120 and then your body acclimates to it. I was a 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.000 you know, I felt like really a dead man walking 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:17.520 there for the first five, six, seven minutes probably of 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.360 game time. And then as the game went on, your 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.039 preparation kind of takes over and we practice as hard 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:26.920 as any team I've ever been on here at Alice Hall, 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.360 and I mean we were ready, we just didn't execute. 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.760 You know what kind of stinks though, is I noticed 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:34.240 that when I was sitting down there before the game, 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.520 when you sit on the natural grass field, it's a 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.880 certain temperature. Well, when you guys would come off the 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.480 field and sit on that tarp, it was like fifteen 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:44.160 degrees hotter, even though they were holding the shades over 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.560 your head. That's one thing that I felt on the 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.120 sideline that you had more a little bit more contribution 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.400 to the heat. Then they heat it up your fans 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.320 so much in the stands behind you at halftime that 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.000 was just a sea of blue seats. Even the fans 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.800 were kind of trying to re reacclimate to the heat. Yeah, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.920 it was hot, it was. It was definitely a hot 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.640 one down there, But you know, you go you get 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.960 down in Miami, Florida, and what do you It's not 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.960 going to be a snowstorm. So we all expected it 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.200 to be hot. But you can tell that the uh, 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:15.720 the architectural design was, oh yeah, one side shade, one 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.359 side and that, and that's what Kiko Keiko Alonso is 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:22.280 a teammate of mine from Oregon and that's sun over there. 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.520 But I mean it's a heck of a home field advantage. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.720 I think more and more because of the attention of 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.079 this particular game and a hot the heat index was 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.680 or high it was that some of the national evaluators 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.239 of the game are mentioning it. Now. Yeah, well they've 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.760 they've put together a pretty good home record under Adam Gase. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.920 I mean, yeah, you gotta use whatever advantage you have 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.760 for you and you know the Bear should have the 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.640 same advantage. You know, in the winter in December, but 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.520 you know, Miami is always hot. So you get these 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.840 these teams like Buffalo that don't get a chance to 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.680 go and um play in Miami until December. I think 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.000 New England's going down there in December. Their record there's 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.400 not good, right right, I mean, so they have a 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.239 tough time, but you know, it's something you got to 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.240 deal with. You kind of to me, I'm the guy 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.320 who looked at the schedule ahead of time and kind 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.440 of pointed out the games that might have something like that. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:13.560 Do you weigh in before the games? Yeah, because I'm 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.960 just kind of curious how much your body weight fluctuated 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.560 in that four hour period. I bet you probably had 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.880 to lose like fifteen fourteen? Was it? Yeah? You kidding 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.960 me for real? Yeah? Easy, I'm being f Massey said 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.680 that too, Yeah, fourteen. Honestly, there were heavy duty fourteen 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.359 pounds and I'm down in gatorade about two or three. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.200 Every time. Put me down to Miami for a week, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.880 I'd feel much better about myself. But you know, these guys, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.720 you go through a hot training camp practice and you'll 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.960 go to easy easy. I mean, I'm naive then, because 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.680 that's a stunning number to me, especially down there at 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.160 Olivet and Nazarene when it gets a little humid. H 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.839 you know, it wasn't quite Miami down there at training camp. 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:54.040 And like you and I talked last week, Yeah, he 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.240 was the subject of Joni X's journal last week in 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.640 the pregame show. You know you're listed weight three sixteen 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.800 and you're playing well. The thing that slays me about 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.560 the NFL, and I, you know, and I go through 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.920 this everything week, my combine weight exactly that that's what 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.560 I'm driving at. Everybody's rosters have the playing weight. And 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:16.440 I'll tell you a quick story because it does aggravate 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.839 me a little bit because everybody just keeps the same height, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.839 same weight. Height's not going to change obviously unless somebody 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.440 has some weird growths for it to twenty one. But 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.800 and that's what you're stuck with the rest of your 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:30.240 career on the rosters, the produced rosters. So it was 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.000 a writer, famous writer up in Green Bay, Bob McGann. 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.000 He still does writing and so forth, a very very 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:39.479 good writer. And I always wondered why during Super Bowl 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.520 Week he'd go to each team and he'd beat there 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:44.839 with his notepad, whish how much you weigh in right now? 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.880 And so I was like, yeah, okay, what now I 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.560 understand why because the weight is vastly different than so 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.160 you're in a three thirty five to three forty range. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.400 Now I'm about three thirty three thirty five, and you know, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.840 how does that feel? I feel? Three thirty? Yeah, at 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.200 the Super Bowl. When we play in the Super Bowl, 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.400 I put my equipment on. In the New Orleans they 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.320 had a scale in the back room, so I go, 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:08.840 I want to see what I weigh right now? Because 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:11.240 that was heavy. I mean I was eating large too, 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:12.960 So I put all my equipment on. I jumped on 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.760 the scale, and as soon as it got over three hundred, 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 I jumped off because I didn't want to see where 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.479 it was gonna What do you think it was going 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.200 to stop back? It probably was about probably three o eight? 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.440 Would that? Would that be fineable? What did they value at? 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.080 You know, you probably wanted to be two ninety five 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:34.000 to ninety even and you're breathing heavy and you're fat, 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:37.560 and you're into our game, so you know the psychological 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:39.200 part of it, you know, you got to feel good 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:41.520 and you know, so it was just one of those things. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.040 If you weren't lifting in and trying to be in 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.279 football shape, where would your weight naturally fall? Do you 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.000 think for a man of your size, it's got to 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.280 be up there. When I had my ankle injury and 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.760 I had a lot of time to really just be 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:56.240 kind of natural Kyle weight and just kind of feeling 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.320 like a like a normal human being. I was about 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.960 two eighty, looking long and lean. Yeah. I showed up 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.360 after a couple of months of being a way and 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.919 I remember dal Loggins was like, is that because I 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:10.479 had a beanie on and a beard, he thought it 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:13.360 was Zach Miller over there. I was like, Hey, thanks, 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.919 but you know, I have I have a question about 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.400 you that kind of I want to go back to 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.840 the end of your college career up and down. Did 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.800 you know this boast of story that's going on in 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.240 Ohio State? Yeah? I was, actually, uh, you know, I 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.560 looked at a little bit of it today. Okay, there's 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.000 very few players in the NF that come in the 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.279 NFL that have this freakish ability that there they have 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.040 the size, strength ability to be great than they get here. 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.880 You're kind of one of those guys of your ability 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.839 when you got here and your size and your strength everything. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.240 Do you wish you had a longer college experience and 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.799 do you think that if you did have a longer 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.680 college experience completely dedicated offensive line, what do you think 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:54.360 it would have been different coming out? Oh? Man, that's 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.960 a difficult question. I think I wish I had a 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:02.359 better handle on my maturity as a younger guy, and 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.160 I would have kind of expedited. You know, I was 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.279 twenty twenty four when I got in the league. I 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.800 feel like if I came in as a twenty two 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.680 year old, I'd be sitting here in year eight and 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.000 I'd have a better understanding of the offensive line position 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.840 had I had a few more years of Division one 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:22.320 football and a few more years in my position, not 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.600 playing D line right, not playing tight end right, not 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.600 playing baseball, you know, and that. But the only reason 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.600 I'm asking you is because you know, everybody wants to 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.440 get a surf shop in Newport. That's the best thing 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.240 you ever day. But I'm the only reason I'm asking 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:38.360 because there are very few people I've ever come across 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.400 that have that kind of freakishness about him and Bosa, 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.960 he's you know, fortunate to have, you know, the opportunity 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.720 ahead of him. But twenty five games in college and 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.360 you know, which is not an unrealistic number anymore for 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.360 a lot of guys. But um, but we don't see 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:55.720 a lot of We don't see a lot of guys 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:57.600 that can come in day one and well it's drawn 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:02.960 some major criticism, obviously for for obvious reasons, but there's 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.280 a big dollar figure attached to his decision. So I 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.760 think as a player, I can see what he's doing 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.640 and teammate though, and I wholeheartedly agree with him. If 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.160 I were to be a former player looking back, I'd say, 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.000 you go get your money, big guy. But then, as 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.080 a guy who also has been part of a team, 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.400 who has played hurt, who has had teammates stick around 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.800 and stick it out, you want nothing more than a 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.840 guy who's willing to stick with you regardless of what's 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.280 going on. But both of you, guys, and and he 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.520 has a chance to win a national championship right the 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.000 second without him on that defense. His dad was a Buckeye, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.959 his brother was a Buckeye. He has a chance to 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.199 leave his leg as he's a Buckeye. Now. I watched 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.560 his brother playing the bowl game against my Ducks, right 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.480 you know, I was in the stands for that game 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.840 and down in Dallas. And his brother was a heck 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.680 of a football player in college. And now you see 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:54.720 what he does in the NFL. There's no doubt Nick's 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.600 gonna be the same way. But you'd love to see 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.520 him stick it out. But I know we have to 0:08:58.559 --> 0:08:59.800 go to a break, but I do want to just 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.360 visit just for one more second, because both of you 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.400 guys are unique that you have football experience to give 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.480 you advice, and that's what I'd be con you know, 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.800 be interested in because a lot of us that go 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:13.920 into professional football, we have nobody that's ever been through 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:17.000 that experience before. And having a brother and having a 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.079 dad and having family members in the business, I'm sure 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.600 they can give you a lot more wise advice than 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.640 someone else that doesn't have the experience. You know, it's 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.080 a dual edged sword because sometimes you just you just 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.400 want them to be your dad and you just want 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.120 them to be your brother, right, But you know that's 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.199 but they can't help them. You know they can and 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.319 they and they love me so much and I love 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.480 them so much. And that's what's special about our relationship. Man. 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.920 Let's pick it up and that after this break, Kyle Long. 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.960 Our guests were brought to you by IGS Energy. This 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.760 is Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. 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Uh, going back to what we said before 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.920 the break, you know, sometimes you wish you'd just have 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.440 dads and brothers as opposed to guys who've been at 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:19.480 at this game for a while and your dad in 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.839 the Hall of Fame and brother is a great player himself. Uh, 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.679 that it would just be different than just, you know, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.560 maybe giving you the advice you don't you don't ask for, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.200 but it's inevitable. So are there times when you shut 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.880 them out? Uh? There are times where I take a 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.880 mental vacation from it. And you know it's it's very obvious. Uh. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.480 My dad and I are best friends, We really are. Um, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.880 he's a great father. I have a great mother as well, Diane. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.600 She's she's you know, a butt kicker, she's at all 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.720 the games and she's a huge Bears fan. And but 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.960 having a brother in the league, it's, you know, somebody 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.600 I can lean on for emotional support. You know, he 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.719 was in Saint Louis for a long time. He's won 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.760 two Super Bowls. Now he's seen both ends of the 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.240 spectrum in the NFL, winning all the games and losing 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.520 a lot of the games. And now I'm starting to 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.079 get a taste for the for the good stuff in 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.800 the NFL. You know, Tom brought it up before, if 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:13.280 you would have started your career like a normal path 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.480 out of high school boom recruited play four years, three 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.360 years and then get to the NFL. When you went 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:24.199 to that school, it was in Arizona, right, Orange County. Saddleback, Yeah, 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.360 Saddleback College, So that Saddleback was in California, the Gahows, 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.600 the gaut shows. But when you went there and decide, Okay, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.160 I'm gonna I'm gonna recreate myself, was there at all 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.720 any point? Because just because you're big and strong doesn't 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.080 mean you're getting where you are. You gotta still work 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.520 at it and stuff. But did you ever think or 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.400 fear you wouldn't then ultimately become an NFL player because 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.480 it is the path you're going to be taking. Really, 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.440 I knew that as a kid. I was comfortable being 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.120 with teammates and being on a team. I had no 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.719 real intention of playing in the NFL. I just kind 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.360 of I wanted to go to school. I knew that, 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.600 believe it or not, I enjoy school and I enjoy 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:06.600 being in the books and learning. And also there was 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.240 I remember I had I have my own reasons for 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:10.840 playing football. I thought I was trying to be a 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.079 cool kid, and I remember, you know, some of the 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.800 football players are really cool there. And then I had 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.640 an opportunity to play, and you know, I have an 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:21.800 impact on my team. And then there were there were 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.720 certain wants that I had, and I knew that hard 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.040 work and you know, dedication to the sport and to 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.920 my team were necessary to get there. And I remember 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:34.000 when Chip Kelly offered me a scholarship offer, I took 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.760 it and I ran with it. And I had one 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:38.800 year to play. And that's when I knew. I said, 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.400 I have one year of eligibility to play and make 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.400 this thing happen. And it wasn't until week eleven. I 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.800 think it was November third, two thousand and twelve that 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.280 I had my first start in in an Oregon uniform 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.640 and that was against USC, a team that didn't offer 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.480 me a scholarship where I wanted to go initially, and uh, 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.720 you know, and you kicked down that game. I remember 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:04.480 back and watching every snap our team downated, dominated, and 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.880 it felt good. It felt real good. Are you glad 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.600 that you play a different position than your dad and 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.240 your brother so you guys can maybe bounce things off 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.080 of each other, but it's not well, you got to 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.760 do it like this because you know, they know that 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:18.880 side of the game and fortunately your talents and put 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.360 you on the right side of the ball. You know, 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.559 there's there's Yeah, I'm on the good guys. I'm on 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.880 with the good guys. But I think there's a part 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.440 of it that, uh, my older brother and my dad 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.960 understand what defensive lineman don't like, and that's what they 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.320 harp on with me. This is what we don't like. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.320 Do this, do this, do this, do this, and they 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.240 can speak to the mental side of the game for 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.480 a defensive lineman. If you do this to me fifty 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.160 times throughout the course of a game, give us a stamp. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.160 I've heard your dad during games give clues to the 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.480 offensive lineman he was playing against that you're not going 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.440 to be able to do against him, which is pretty 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:57.400 funny to listen to. Yeah, oh man, we got so 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.400 much time to talk about that. I love to. But yeah, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:04.240 it's just essentially just being physical. Um, I think too 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:07.880 many times as offensive lineman, we're in we're in the 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:13.760 mode where we're uh cautious, and you know, sometimes you 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.760 got to shoot your shot. I mean you look at 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.360 a guy like, uh, I'm gonna talk basketball, but Alan 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.480 Iverson and I mean he was as ferocious a competitor. 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:27.120 He was jacking up shots from everywhere. He missed a 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.920 lot of shots, but he made a lot of shots. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.680 And it is tough. I mean the pound for pound 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.320 toughness that you always hear about with diminutive players. The 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:39.640 players that my dad talked about were h you know, Bruce, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.920 Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak. Uh. You know you look at 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:48.960 guys from in between that those generations. Walter Jones, I 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.960 mean you did play against Mike Webster and made great 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.000 John Hannah, the Maids, all these guys. Jackie Slater is 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.440 one that he always talks about. He said, when I 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:01.280 lined up against Jackie Slater, I knew that I was 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.760 in for a fight. Yeah, Richard Den, when he was 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.680 here always talking about Loomis Brown from Detroit. Right. I'm 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.880 sure your dad mentioned town Thayer's name and d lineman 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.920 want to be the guys that are imposing their will. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.200 And when an offensive lineman can do that, I think 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.720 it pays dividends. As the game goes on, you may 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.760 have a couple of snaps that don't go your way, 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.320 shake it off. I mean, even Rocky Marciano got knocked 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.440 around for eleven rounds. He knocked guys out in the twelve. 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.720 You know, my entire time with the Chicago Bears, I 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:29.920 only had one offensive line coach from the day I 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:32.000 got here till the day I left. I mean he 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:35.160 was the same message, preach exact same techniques. You've had 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.520 what three offensive line coaches in the time you've been here. 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.240 I've had Cromer, Magazoo, Washburn, he standing, that's right. So 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:43.200 he had four offensive line coaches since you've been here. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.400 Do you take something from every one of them? Or 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:50.160 are you onto Harry? I'm I'm onto Harry. But it's 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.000 not to say there aren't certain things that have been 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.480 ingrained in me right as a player. And you know 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.040 they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. Well, 0:15:57.080 --> 0:16:01.480 Harry's done his best to do that, and I've partaken 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.080 in his teaching and there are still things that I 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.480 implemented my game that you know, Cromer gave to me, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.280 that Maggazer gave to me, that Washburn gave to me. Yeah, 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:13.840 it's pretty cool because you know, it's unique that you 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:16.560 have those experiences and you've been able to succeed along 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.440 the way, changes in positions, changes inside stances and everything. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.680 So every one of those guys had to leave a 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.560 little something. But it seemed I love the seriousness of Harry. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.960 They attitude that Harry, he said, brought here when he 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.520 was hired here, as you know, brought brought. You're not 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.640 not a line to respect you guys are always respected, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.440 but there's a kind of sense of a tone with 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:40.400 you guys that's pretty serious. He has a clear message 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:44.440 and you know we've received it. And having guys like 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:47.720 Charles Leno and Cody white Hair here with me, and 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.800 you know I've been through I've been to hell and 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.720 back with Charles Leno. Um in our time here in 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.680 what sense I mean, he came in, He lived on 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.640 a he lived on an in an unfurnished little room, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.360 spare room in my house. When I first bought my 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.679 house my second year in Lake Forest, he slept on 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:08.720 an air mattress. I've seen him go from scout team, 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.200 tried at right tackle. Now he's one of the most 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.480 solid left tackles in football. And he's got his contract 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.479 now and I think it's one of the best value 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.879 contracts in the league. And he'll be up eventually and 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.879 he'll get to rob somebody, whether it's the Bears. He 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.840 made a great block on Trys touchdown run this past week, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.440 made a block out in space week in week out. Yeah, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.520 you put on the film in seventy two shows up. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.119 How about what he's standing up? I think was it 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.320 the first week of the season where he's standing up 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:42.440 in the bunch formation to the outside like he's a 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.879 sleek wide receiver. That's trust. You get a guy like 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.200 Chuck and he delivers every day. He's the same guy 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.760 every day. And you know, I've, like I said, I've 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.520 been to hell and back with him and he's always 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.760 been the same. So he've been there for you too. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.800 And I mean not to say we haven't bicker, did 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.640 each other and fought like brothers, but we love each other. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.320 And that's the thing about our line. We have a 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.600 tight room. Your whole locker room, though, you know, that's 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.920 a bigger picture of your football teams. You guys have 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.320 a great office. The offensive line is always special because 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.399 you're always with each other and there's a brotherhood in 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:20.000 there that's unbreakable. But your whole locker room is a 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.679 fun group of guys. Our offensive line is a microcosm 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.879 of our team. Yeah, and it has been fun to 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:28.560 watch and be a part of. It's like nothing I've 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.040 ever been a part of here. I've felt bits and 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.960 pieces of it over the course of the last six years, 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.320 but this year it's it is real. It's the real deal. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.760 Who's the crabbiest in the morning coming to work? I'll 0:18:38.800 --> 0:18:43.720 let you think about that, because I would have never guessed. Yeah, No, 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.400 he's that guy's always got a smile on his face 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:49.320 one hundred percent of the time. Did I see him anyway? Grabby, 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.480 he's smart. Hey, you catch him before eight am? Man, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.920 same with me. Unfortunately, all right, we need to take 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.480 a break. We'll continue our conversation with Kyle Long. This 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.040 is Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six have 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.240 any the score. This segment of Bears All Access is 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.760 orchestrated by CDW. CDW people to get it. Jeff, Jonnyact, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.240 Tom There, Kyle Long our guest here on Bears All Access. 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.639 We're with you until the time of the hour. Paul's 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.639 Oranger engineer and Dan Billy, our producer here from Hollis 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.560 Hall as the Bears getting ready for the new England Patriots. 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.600 Heard you earlier today in the locker room, just emphasizing 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.879 the hunger that this team has to win, and I 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:27.160 think that's an advanced thought for a young team with 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.360 a sprinkling of veterans like yourself. It's a good thing. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.199 It is a hungry locker room. You can see it, 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:34.720 you can hear it every day. The way you guys 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.119 practice what you said about the locker room being is 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.080 tightened microcosm from your offensive line of what the greater 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.240 group is, from the coaching staff on down and just 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.040 listening to everybody this week. Hey, I think you guys 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:48.800 are a little ticked off. You lost and now you 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:52.080 go up against the mighty Patriots with that kind of hunger. 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:54.520 You know, I don't think there's a better opportunity in 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:56.840 football than to play the Patriots after a big loss, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.679 especially when they have a three game winning streak, and 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.960 we get a chance to come to Soldier Field and 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:04.800 you know, anybody can say, well, we're at home. We 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.440 want to put on a good show. The way our 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:10.000 fans have been this year and the way our team 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.600 has been at home this year, I think, you know, 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.919 it couldn't be a better a better setting for a 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:21.800 great football game. And obviously this team. Being a part 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.440 of this team, I've never practiced so hard in my life. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.360 And I'm not talking about just doing you know, ladders 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:30.800 and up downs that kind of stuff, because that doesn't happen. 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:34.600 I'm talking line it up. They know what we're doing, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:37.240 we know what they're doing. Let's see who's better. We 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:41.479 do it every day and we bring it. And you know, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:45.000 our scout team, credit to them. They play their butts 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.520 off all week. They don't get to go out there 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.880 and put the sea on their helmet on Sunday, but 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.280 they know that when we're out there as an offensive 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:55.440 line and we're running the ball or we're giving Mitch time, 0:20:55.800 --> 0:20:58.479 that's because of what they did all week. And you know, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.080 our guys that are out there against the chem Hicks 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.680 and Khalil Mack and Eddie Goldman and Leonard Floyd are 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.280 the same ones that are cheering loudest when they're making sacks, 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:09.000 when they're making tackles for loss, because that's the nature 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.520 of this team. It's it's symbiotic. We've got guys working 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.359 for one another and not working for themselves. And this 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:16.639 is honestly the first time in your career you've felt 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.680 like this. There's been sprinklings of it throughout my career, 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:24.040 but it is an everyday thing and it's it's organic. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.919 It's not something you have to manufacture. We show up 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:28.600 and we compete and we have fun. Well, you know 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.000 what's cool for us, During the preseason games, when the 0:21:31.080 --> 0:21:33.800 starters weren't playing very much, the backups that came in 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:37.639 and played were really well prepared mentally physically for the 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.680 scheme that they were they were learning at the point, 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:42.880 and it's kind of tells you something about the entire 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:46.360 coaching staff here. Every one of them are good coaches. 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.800 They have their guys mentally prepared, and they went out 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.280 there and played the preseason games. The guys that went 0:21:51.280 --> 0:21:53.360 out there competed and look good did it doing it? 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.359 And they became better football players along the way, which 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:59.200 is important. Yeah, it speaks volumes about the operation as 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.440 a whole. And uh, you know, Ryan Pace has done 0:22:02.480 --> 0:22:05.600 a great job bringing in the right people. I've been 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.880 so impressive coach Naggy up to this point. And obviously 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.480 it'll be you know, nothing's really gonna change, It's gonna 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.560 be the same. I really enjoy the way that he 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.560 brings a attitude into this building and he sets the 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:20.040 tone for us in the morning when we have our 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.880 team meeting, and then it just carries on throughout the day. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.440 You know, where were we ask everybody this where were 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:28.920 you when Khalil mcdeal went down? How did you find 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:31.240 out about it? And did you think people were kind 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.080 of fibbing when they're calling you? Well, I remember, because 0:22:34.119 --> 0:22:37.960 you know, I've gone zero dark thirty with mister Trubisky 0:22:38.040 --> 0:22:40.119 on the social media as you have. I don't know 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:42.199 if you've he doesn't know what that means. I've been 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.760 off of Twitter. I've been off of Twitter. Tom doesn't 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:49.080 know what twitter. Yeah, I know Twitter, social media as 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:51.280 a whole. I've been off of it. But I found 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:54.000 out because I got I have the little ESPN alerts, 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.520 and I got an ESPN alert on my phone. I 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.240 was laying in bed and it was like, you know, 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:02.080 seven thirty eight in the morning. I think it was 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:06.359 like a Monday, right well, because I remember I was off, 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.879 so it was yes, um, and I got a you know, 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.200 I got an alert and I immediately texted my dad 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.520 and he was out west, so I knew he wouldn't 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.119 get it for a few hours. And uh, you know, 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:22.639 he texted me, OMG, oh my god, like this is huge, 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:25.399 and I just remember being I was running. I was 0:23:25.480 --> 0:23:28.520 running around screaming because uh, you know, I've played the guy. 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:30.760 I've had to prepare against him, and you know, there 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:32.320 there aren't many guys who can do what he can 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:34.680 do in the NFL, right it. It was kind of 0:23:34.720 --> 0:23:37.280 cool for all of us. And add that to our defense, 0:23:37.560 --> 0:23:40.000 right right. And then you think, you know, the development 0:23:40.000 --> 0:23:42.479 continuous development of roll quant and stuff, and because he 0:23:42.600 --> 0:23:45.719 was really fresh at the same point that Khalil got here, 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:47.879 and you said, Wow, these guys are gonna come in 0:23:47.920 --> 0:23:50.560 and compete on this team. It's just gonna make the 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:54.199 defense so much more fun to watch, difficult to prepare 0:23:54.280 --> 0:23:56.240 for But you know, you think you get ready to 0:23:56.240 --> 0:23:59.199 play for New England. You know, as as great as 0:23:59.240 --> 0:24:02.119 their quarterback is, you know, you'll never see a second 0:24:02.119 --> 0:24:03.919 of them because you're going to be prepared for a 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:07.240 defense that's pretty complicated in its own right. Yeah, And 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.360 that's you know, that's a credit to their prep and 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:14.879 another example of management bringing in the right guys. And 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.680 you see so many different guys. There's a few fixtures 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:19.880 there in New England, right, but every year there's new 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.680 guys that they can plug and play. And aside from 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.240 the linebackers and a few of their guys on the 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:28.800 defensive line, all those guys can be moved around and 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:32.800 play different positions. They're so versatile and I think that 0:24:33.000 --> 0:24:36.560 is really something that can confuse an offense and they 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:38.879 can make simple things look very complex, you know. And 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.080 two these are probably two of the better offensive line 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:46.600 coaches in the league. Harry and um what's their guys? Yeah, 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:49.080 I mean both of them famous, right, yeah, he is famous. 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:51.280 And they're a really well geled offensive line, just like 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:53.800 the Bears are. So you look at different components to 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:57.640 the battle of the underlying element is the two offensive 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:01.160 line coaches are really well schooled and they have their 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.800 great technician and fundamental teachers. I mean time, it's no 0:25:04.920 --> 0:25:07.000 secret games are won and lost up front. I would 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:10.520 know that. Hey, you know what, you know what his 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.080 biggest line is, as Jeff, I may not know a 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.640 lot of things, but I know football, no offensive line, 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:18.399 and he does. He's he's an expert at that, no question. 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:20.520 But uh, and you know a lot could be said 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:24.320 about the outcome of that game on Sunday in Miami 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.760 that you know. The scoreboard is lightening up in the league. 0:25:28.119 --> 0:25:31.160 You brought it up today too, but it's still one 0:25:31.200 --> 0:25:35.359 in the trenches. It still is. I defy anybody to 0:25:35.440 --> 0:25:38.320 explain it any other way to me, because something big 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:40.320 has got to happen up front for you to win 0:25:40.359 --> 0:25:43.640 a game, either offensively or defensively. And no matter what 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:46.679 the scoreboard says, it's not seven on seven football, as 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:48.639 everybody likes to make it sound. It may feel that 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:53.280 way sometimes, No, I mean the thing about your offensive line. Yeah, 0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.400 it's the offensive defensive line, but they got to pack 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:58.359 some components. It's like Frank Gore being down there at 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:00.840 the stage of his career with my me. It's Jordan 0:26:00.920 --> 0:26:03.280 Howard here at the stage. You know, you you come 0:26:03.280 --> 0:26:05.280 out and you bring that pounding to attitude of an 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:07.479 offensive line, including the tight ends, and you bring one 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.840 of those backs with you. Just wondering what kind of 0:26:10.880 --> 0:26:13.320 pressure is on a young quarterback. And maybe this is 0:26:13.320 --> 0:26:18.160 why Bill Belichick is so tremendous record wise with Ian 0:26:18.240 --> 0:26:21.400 Brady going up against any young quarterback, because you're going 0:26:21.440 --> 0:26:24.399 to the game, you're facing the great Tom Brady. And 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.440 do you feel or Aaron Rodgers like the other kid 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:31.040 the other night from San Francisco, Bethard, do you feel 0:26:31.119 --> 0:26:32.679 you have even with a lead, do you feel like 0:26:32.720 --> 0:26:35.520 you have to the pressure builds as the game goes 0:26:35.560 --> 0:26:37.280 on if you don't score every time you got the 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:39.920 ball or every couple possessions, is he gonna come back 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:43.280 and bite you? Bethard found that out in Green Bay 0:26:43.320 --> 0:26:45.359 had happened. He didn't move the ball a couple of 0:26:45.400 --> 0:26:48.960 series and bam, Aaron gets opportunities. Do you fear that 0:26:49.040 --> 0:26:52.000 for a young quarterback going up against not not Mitch, 0:26:52.080 --> 0:26:55.320 but just in general, do they feel maybe inadvertent pressure 0:26:55.359 --> 0:26:58.400 to keep pace with a great quarterback and the ability 0:26:58.400 --> 0:27:00.399 to score. You know, I haven't played a lot of 0:27:00.480 --> 0:27:04.719 quarterback Jeff, But I can speak to being a competitor 0:27:04.920 --> 0:27:09.800 and having to compartmentalize and kind of, you know, having 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:13.679 a differentiation between things you can control and things you 0:27:13.680 --> 0:27:17.240 can't control. And one thing you can control is executing 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:20.560 your assignment on any given play. And when you start 0:27:20.640 --> 0:27:23.399 thinking outside of that box, that's when things go south. 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:26.320 And you know, I line up, I have a three technique, 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:28.400 the play is such and such. I need to block 0:27:28.400 --> 0:27:31.360 the three technique. That is all I'm focused on. And 0:27:31.640 --> 0:27:34.960 you know it happens more often than not. But when 0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:36.960 it doesn't happen, what are you gonna do. You're gonna 0:27:36.960 --> 0:27:38.760 move on to the next play and you're gonna try 0:27:38.760 --> 0:27:41.480 to block the two eye. And you know, as a quarterback, 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:43.159 I'm sure it's the same thing. You control what you 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:46.400 can control, and as long as you don't beat yourself mentally, 0:27:47.000 --> 0:27:49.320 then good things tend to happen. Because we have a 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:50.640 lot of trust for the guys on the other side 0:27:50.680 --> 0:27:52.000 of our ball. How long did it take you to 0:27:52.080 --> 0:27:54.920 master this new terminology? Again, that's something that I didn't 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:56.919 bring up before you had offensive line coaches, but now 0:27:56.920 --> 0:27:58.640 you've had a couple of different head coaches and every 0:27:58.640 --> 0:28:01.159 single time you change a terminology, and I always talk 0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:03.639 about how difficult it is for the quarterback to know 0:28:03.680 --> 0:28:05.520 what he's saying and know how all the other ten 0:28:05.600 --> 0:28:08.640 guys fit in. So you learn a new system. How 0:28:08.640 --> 0:28:11.280 long throughout OTA's training camp and stuff do you go 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:15.120 you break the huddle? Boom? I know everything against every defense, 0:28:15.119 --> 0:28:18.560 and I'm going to see, well, well, I think there's base, 0:28:18.640 --> 0:28:22.280 there's base components. And once you figure out the base components, it's, uh, 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:25.879 you know, it's it's pretty simple. Really. A lot of 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:28.240 the a lot of the other stuff is essentially for 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:30.840 the guys in the outside. You're just listening for that 0:28:30.840 --> 0:28:33.320 that clue that you figure out which which base language 0:28:33.320 --> 0:28:35.240 you're going to use, right, Yeah, you figure out what 0:28:35.280 --> 0:28:38.160 your buddy is okay with you using and what he's not. 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:41.720 And once you have that, then it's kind of like 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:44.240 peel and bananas? Do you have um? You know, kind 0:28:44.240 --> 0:28:48.600 of like back in our era, we had kind of 0:28:48.600 --> 0:28:50.680 had an offensive line language of our own at the 0:28:50.720 --> 0:28:53.360 line of scrimmage, so we could talk without giving any 0:28:53.400 --> 0:28:55.880 hints or clues. Are you guys getting that? Because now 0:28:55.920 --> 0:28:57.760 you guys have been together for a while, and so 0:28:57.840 --> 0:29:00.360 there's a lot of time in your stances together, Bobby 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:05.040 and I have a vast array of things that we 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:08.320 can say and we know exactly. I mean sometimes when 0:29:08.360 --> 0:29:10.840 we have to say anything, right, it's we break the huddle, 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:12.239 we see what the defense is in, and we can 0:29:12.280 --> 0:29:15.120 just look at each other and yeah, those expressions can 0:29:15.120 --> 0:29:16.920 tell a story. We know what it is. Like. I 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:18.520 bet you and I could line up next to each 0:29:18.520 --> 0:29:20.360 other and I'd give you if I was at right tackle, 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:23.200 and I'd look at you and you'd say, yep, what 0:29:23.240 --> 0:29:24.800 was it hard for you to go to Miami for 0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:27.760 that one season to learn that if you spent everything 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:31.120 in one offensive line, one scheme for your well, it 0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:34.280 was your head. Jerry Sandusky was the offensive line coaches. 0:29:34.320 --> 0:29:37.120 And now so I'm going against with Walter Payton as 0:29:37.120 --> 0:29:40.800 a teammate with Neil Anderson and facing eight man fronts always, 0:29:41.160 --> 0:29:43.720 so there's always an extra tackler near the line of scrimmage. 0:29:43.760 --> 0:29:45.560 So then I go down to Miami and there's Dan 0:29:45.640 --> 0:29:49.440 Marino and now it's four and maybe five man fronts. 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:52.440 It's like payday. You get you get a four man 0:29:52.520 --> 0:29:54.640 front and you got five offensive lineman. He gets four 0:29:54.800 --> 0:29:57.840 defensive rushers. With you had a bunch of dbs out there, right, 0:29:58.240 --> 0:30:02.520 I mean, it's it's glory time. So the biggest reason 0:30:02.560 --> 0:30:04.680 to go down to the Dolphins was the sitting team 0:30:04.680 --> 0:30:07.160 meetings with Don Shula for a year and learn about 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:11.080 AFC football in passing and stuff. And it was it 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:13.200 was a great. It was like a classroom that you 0:30:13.240 --> 0:30:15.600 can't pay for. That's tomp there, Kyle Long with us. 0:30:15.600 --> 0:30:18.600 I'm Jeff Joniac. Will continue on with Bears All Access 0:30:18.600 --> 0:30:21.280 after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:23.840 score this Sunday's game against the Patriots. He's brought to 0:30:23.840 --> 0:30:27.000 you by Advocate Healthcare, the official healthcare provider of the 0:30:27.080 --> 0:30:29.360 Chicago Bears. Jeff joni Ac, along with Tomp There and 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:32.800 Kyle Long, our guest on Bears All Access. Your brother 0:30:32.880 --> 0:30:36.600 obviously won a Super Bowl with Bill Belichick. You were there. 0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:39.200 I'm sure you spent some time. You've met Bill, You've 0:30:39.240 --> 0:30:42.920 talked to Bill. What's your impressions of this wonderful head coach. 0:30:44.440 --> 0:30:48.880 I think he is an absolute throwback. He says prepared 0:30:48.920 --> 0:30:52.640 as anybody, and he's as obsessed as anybody I've ever 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:56.360 been around. And he's got his hands and everything he's 0:30:56.400 --> 0:31:00.000 you know, nothing is overlooked. I think in the Patriots 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:04.200 facility by Bill, and you know it shows every everything 0:31:04.400 --> 0:31:07.680 is uh, you know, everything is as he wants it 0:31:07.680 --> 0:31:11.240 to be, and he has an understanding of what he wants, 0:31:11.560 --> 0:31:15.440 and good things tend to happen up there more often 0:31:15.440 --> 0:31:16.920 than not. As you could see. My brother was up 0:31:16.960 --> 0:31:19.840 there for a year super Bowl. He's got that ring 0:31:19.840 --> 0:31:22.719 and now he's got a second ring. Uh. You know, 0:31:23.040 --> 0:31:25.000 Chris is a Chris is a heck of a heck 0:31:25.040 --> 0:31:27.800 of an investor. I'd say in football teams, is he 0:31:27.920 --> 0:31:29.920 love it? You still love it? Yeah? He loves it. 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:34.800 I mean, the guy's a wacko absolute psychopath. He's what 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:39.360 thirty he's thirty three now I think it's a year 0:31:39.400 --> 0:31:42.680 eleven or two year twelve and he's just he's rolling. Man. 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:47.240 He can you see yourself playing double digit years? Yeah? Absolutely? Um, 0:31:47.560 --> 0:31:49.400 you know there was there was a couple of years 0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:51.880 where my body was just so beat up. And man, 0:31:51.920 --> 0:31:53.920 I don't know how I'm gonna do this, but you know, 0:31:54.000 --> 0:31:56.000 you wake up on Monday, and you know I woke 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:59.000 up after the Dolphins game, I felt great. I was 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:01.240 itching to give back to practice. You know, today we 0:32:01.320 --> 0:32:03.640 practice hard. As I said, we practice harder than I've 0:32:03.640 --> 0:32:06.880 ever practiced here. And you know, I took I did 0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:10.840 the I took some some rest days in training camp, 0:32:10.840 --> 0:32:13.240 and I haven't been taken those because my body doesn't 0:32:13.240 --> 0:32:15.520 need them anymore. And I think the harder I go 0:32:15.560 --> 0:32:20.120 and practice, the more able my body is to to withstand. 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:22.160 You know, the storm in the season. You like the 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:24.800 schedule after the game where you guys get it with 0:32:24.920 --> 0:32:26.680 the day off right after the game and you come 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:29.040 in on Tuesday and then start your work week because 0:32:29.160 --> 0:32:31.800 you know, throughout the course of time, your head coaches 0:32:31.880 --> 0:32:34.520 construct your time differently during the course of the season, 0:32:34.600 --> 0:32:37.240 and you know there's subtle changes. Do you like the 0:32:37.280 --> 0:32:41.480 tempo you're on? You know there there's there's uh, definitely 0:32:41.680 --> 0:32:44.680 positives and negatives of it. Um. I've had it where 0:32:44.720 --> 0:32:47.760 we've come in on Monday, Monday morning and watched the 0:32:47.800 --> 0:32:50.800 time and head off Tuesday. But I kind of enjoy it. 0:32:50.840 --> 0:32:53.120 You know, it gives you time to decompress. You've been 0:32:53.240 --> 0:32:55.960 you know, once Sunday night rolls around in the games 0:32:55.960 --> 0:32:57.959 over you've been with your You've been with your guys. 0:32:58.880 --> 0:33:01.640 However many hours I used to have that one day decompress, 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:05.520 hang out, catch up on your shows, watch a little film, 0:33:05.840 --> 0:33:08.040 rest your body, and then you know, you get kind 0:33:08.080 --> 0:33:10.400 of a half rest day, half film day, get a 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:13.120 good lifting on Tuesday. So there's there's good and bad 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:15.400 to it, but at the same time, it is what 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:17.400 it is. There's not much I can control as long 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:20.280 as I get a chance. They had somebody to come Wednesday. Yeah, 0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:23.280 well that'll be happening here real quick against the Patriots 0:33:23.280 --> 0:33:25.360 on Sunday a Soldier field. By the way, our pregame 0:33:25.360 --> 0:33:27.640 at nine kickoff and noon over on WBBM. Make sure 0:33:27.640 --> 0:33:30.280 you listen in rare appearance from Tom Brady and the 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:33.880 New England Patriots. It hasn't happened often, and it's always 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:37.800 fun for us to call games that involved great players, 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:40.040 future Hall of Fame players, and we've seen plenty both 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:42.960 in here and outside. So we'll be looking forward to 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:47.160 to see Tom Brady and company. As you talk about 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:49.640 this team and the tightness, we can talk about it 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:52.560 all we want. You know, there's plenty of people out 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:55.240 there that probably hear us talk about the Bears. Well, 0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:56.920 you know you said that a couple of years ago too, 0:33:56.920 --> 0:34:00.640 about the Bears, and but the only take what you 0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:02.040 have in front of you and what we see, and 0:34:02.040 --> 0:34:05.520 we evaluate as broadcasters. Tom and I do what the 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.600 context at the moment is, and then when you end 0:34:08.640 --> 0:34:11.480 a season, you can review your context and see where 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:15.560 things went well or not. But I'm one hundred percent 0:34:15.640 --> 0:34:18.799 convinced that what is in this locker room is how 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.239 you just described it, because I feel it every day. 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:24.440 Tom feels it every day, and there is something different here. 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:27.879 There is something very different going on. And I don't 0:34:27.880 --> 0:34:29.879 think there's just going to be there's an obsession, because 0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:31.680 he wants you to be obsessed, but not an obsession 0:34:31.719 --> 0:34:34.799 about taking a tough loss. I think it's going to 0:34:34.840 --> 0:34:38.000 be turned around as a learning experience and that's how 0:34:38.040 --> 0:34:40.399 Matt wants it, and that's how he wants you guys 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:44.160 to think. Is that easy to do. It's always a 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:48.960 tough pill to swallow losses, and unfortunately I kind of, 0:34:50.840 --> 0:34:53.359 you know, my palate was expanded in the first few 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:56.400 years because I got so used to the taste of losing, 0:34:57.239 --> 0:35:01.120 and it is really refreshing to that week in week out, 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:04.000 we have not only a chance, but a good chance 0:35:04.000 --> 0:35:06.719 of winning, and it feels great to be on a 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:10.000 team where guys are playing for one another and guys 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.000 are willing to put the extra effort in and guys 0:35:12.000 --> 0:35:16.760 are staying late, coming early. Nobody's complaining about it. And 0:35:17.719 --> 0:35:24.600 like I've I've gone back to the physical demand of 0:35:24.600 --> 0:35:27.759 our practices a few times in this interview, but it's 0:35:27.800 --> 0:35:31.120 something I keep drawing on because I mean, we are 0:35:31.160 --> 0:35:35.920 really callousing each other. And you know, if you were 0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:37.320 to tell me that we were gonna get it overtime 0:35:37.320 --> 0:35:41.000 against the Dolphins and you put that film on and 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:43.399 we're going it looks like the first quarter, I mean 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.640 it really does. It's physical football, guys playing their butts 0:35:46.640 --> 0:35:49.800 off defense, making a stand at the goal line, offense 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:52.640 driving the ball down the field. Granted, we'd like to 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:57.160 finish better, but you know, our team is prepared every week. 0:35:57.680 --> 0:35:59.799 We are prepared, and when we get off that bus, 0:36:00.080 --> 0:36:02.000 ever stadium we're at, whatever city we're in, we have 0:36:02.000 --> 0:36:03.759 a chance to win. You know, it's kind of neat 0:36:03.840 --> 0:36:06.200 by for us that have been exposed to Coach Naggie 0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:09.080 at the podium, as everything he says is the exact 0:36:09.200 --> 0:36:11.279 right thing to say, and he always talks about the 0:36:11.320 --> 0:36:14.279 process of just getting better the next week. And well, 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:16.960 like you talk about, yeah, we're practicing hard mat we're 0:36:17.000 --> 0:36:19.200 getting at it. We're on the field and we're physical. 0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:22.920 But I think that's kind of the preached process of Matt. 0:36:23.480 --> 0:36:25.320 The read the way this is going to get better 0:36:25.520 --> 0:36:28.080 is by hard work and practices. And like you said, 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:30.719 you've referenced a couple of times. So the message we 0:36:30.760 --> 0:36:33.520 see out of Matt, it's probably hopefully the same message 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:35.400 you're getting in team meetings. Maybe a little bit more 0:36:35.440 --> 0:36:38.799 aggressive at times, or more corrections, but it's good for 0:36:38.880 --> 0:36:40.919 us to hear from Matt. Yeah, you have to. I've 0:36:40.960 --> 0:36:42.719 heard this from a number of players, you know. I 0:36:42.760 --> 0:36:45.080 watch a lot of the networks and stuff like that, 0:36:45.840 --> 0:36:47.799 just because I'm a fan like everybody else, you know, 0:36:47.840 --> 0:36:51.680 and I watch whether it's ESPN, NFL Network, And I 0:36:51.800 --> 0:36:53.919 listened to a lot of great players that are now 0:36:53.960 --> 0:36:56.800 in suits and ties up there, and they talk about 0:36:56.880 --> 0:36:59.800 the culture change in different locker rooms and how teams 0:36:59.800 --> 0:37:02.160 are becoming winning teams. And one thing that I hear 0:37:02.200 --> 0:37:03.600 over and over again, you have to learn how to 0:37:03.640 --> 0:37:06.239 become a winning team. And that's not an overnight thing. 0:37:06.600 --> 0:37:08.120 And for a lot of guys that have been here. 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:11.640 It hasn't always been that way, and things have to change. 0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:14.240 It's not like you just snap your finger and it happens. 0:37:14.719 --> 0:37:18.839 The little things matter, the details matter, being obsessed with it. 0:37:18.840 --> 0:37:21.920 It all matters, um, you know, whether it's getting your 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:25.240 sleep at night, or eating the right way, um, staying 0:37:25.280 --> 0:37:28.319 after watching film, any little thing you can do. I mean, 0:37:28.400 --> 0:37:32.960 Harry's got us out there. We're out there voluntarily, like literally, 0:37:33.120 --> 0:37:35.640 we got guys going out twenty twenty five minutes before 0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:39.120 practice because they want to do extra stuff. Um. And 0:37:40.400 --> 0:37:42.040 that that's the thing that I'm most proud of as 0:37:42.040 --> 0:37:45.279 a teammate. And there's guys stand after doing the same thing, 0:37:45.320 --> 0:37:48.360 and there's older guys helping younger guys. I see Charles 0:37:48.440 --> 0:37:52.120 Lenox with Rashad Coward every day working on working on 0:37:52.160 --> 0:37:56.120 his sets, and that's that's a you know, that's a 0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:59.040 testament to the culture that's being instilled here. It's a 0:37:59.040 --> 0:38:01.120 win it's a winning culture. Yeah. But you know you're 0:38:01.160 --> 0:38:02.719 you're right about the learning to win it. You know, 0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:07.600 it's not just cliche. Um. I think after the Green 0:38:07.640 --> 0:38:11.440 Bay game, because it didn't get finished the way you 0:38:11.480 --> 0:38:14.280 wanted to, and I was trying to make up points 0:38:14.360 --> 0:38:17.000 I did. I went through everybody's record on the fifty 0:38:17.040 --> 0:38:20.920 three man roster, see who has had winning experiences. It's 0:38:20.960 --> 0:38:23.480 not all on the individual obviously, it's a team thing. 0:38:23.520 --> 0:38:26.920 But your record follows you. Um and you know who 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:32.600 had the most wins on this team, Bobby Massey, Arizona Cardinals. Yeah. 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:35.839 So there weren't many, though, that were above five hundred. Yeah, 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:37.880 out of that fifty three when I and I don't remember, 0:38:38.480 --> 0:38:42.680 Robbie was probably well, yeah, I mean he was surprised 0:38:42.680 --> 0:38:44.200 when I brought up to him. He would have never 0:38:44.239 --> 0:38:46.000 guessed that he was going on in the room making guesses. 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:49.920 I was, He's up there. Absolutely, he's got a ring 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:52.880 on his finger. So so just you know Trey Burton 0:38:52.920 --> 0:38:54.960 and and I think Chase Daniel as well. Anyway, we 0:38:55.000 --> 0:38:56.920 gotta take a break. One more segment to go here 0:38:56.920 --> 0:38:59.480 with Kyle Long. This is Bears All Access on Chicago 0:38:59.480 --> 0:39:02.000 Sports Radix, seventy the Score. Thank you to Kylong for 0:39:02.080 --> 0:39:04.719 joining us today on Bears All Access. Ruth's Chris would 0:39:04.760 --> 0:39:06.919 like you to have this one hundred dollars gift card 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:11.520 to enjoy one of their Chicagoland area steakhouses, Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:14.520 Thank you so much. That's the formal presentation of a 0:39:14.560 --> 0:39:17.480 little red envelope. If this was if this was streaming 0:39:17.600 --> 0:39:21.480 or in your world of internet game playing, everybody could 0:39:21.480 --> 0:39:23.759 have seen the actual presentation. So we have a kick 0:39:23.760 --> 0:39:25.239 out of it every week. But thank you, thank you 0:39:25.239 --> 0:39:27.360 so much for joining us. Enjoy yourself a nice steak 0:39:27.760 --> 0:39:30.560 on Ruth's Chris. Tom There, Jeff Joniak one more segment 0:39:30.600 --> 0:39:34.280 to go here on Bears All Access, the offensive line 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:40.520 has been playing very well. The introduction of James Daniels 0:39:40.520 --> 0:39:44.759 from series to series. How's that going? And what is 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:47.200 your impression of this young man. He's very he's young. 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:50.000 He's young, but very talented, big body guy from Iowa. 0:39:50.200 --> 0:39:53.120 He's young, he's impressionable. He works very hard. He's somebody 0:39:53.160 --> 0:39:57.720 that takes coaching well. And he's somebody that is willing 0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:00.160 to put in the hard work. And like I was 0:40:00.200 --> 0:40:02.920 saying earlier, I alluded to the extra work. He's somebody 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:07.520 that's doing all the things necessary. He's uh, he's a 0:40:07.520 --> 0:40:09.440 good kid. And you know, he just turned twenty one, 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:13.359 I think two weeks ago. Oh man, I would think, right, 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:15.759 I wish I was twenty one in a rookie. Why 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:19.080 does only the left guard slap the center to ignite 0:40:19.120 --> 0:40:21.680 the cadence because I don't want to do that. Really, Yeah, 0:40:21.680 --> 0:40:23.440 I just want to I just want to ask you to. 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:25.799 I just said, you got it. I just want to 0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:28.360 look at my guy. Okay. I thought there was a 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.080 pattern because it seems like it might have some everybody 0:40:31.480 --> 0:40:33.160 doing it. Yeah, it seems like a semi consistent there. 0:40:33.160 --> 0:40:35.520 It's probably a couple of right handed guys in there 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:37.799 that maybe the guard has a little bit more experience. 0:40:37.880 --> 0:40:41.359 But I sat here. One started with Matt Slawson. Yeah, 0:40:41.480 --> 0:40:43.479 Matt Slawson was a left guard for a long time 0:40:43.520 --> 0:40:46.000 here and he was my vet and he told me, no, 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:49.160 I get to slap him. What a great guy he is. 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:51.759 By the way, Matt Slawson loved it. Well, they're in 0:40:51.800 --> 0:40:54.319 a left handed stance. Their right hand is right there 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:57.520 next to the quarterbacks. So you know, what's that do 0:40:57.640 --> 0:41:00.440 in terms of if you're analyzing it from a defensive 0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:04.000 perspective to tip off? Does it matter? Well? Yeah, I 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:06.400 mean the thing about it is you just got to 0:41:06.440 --> 0:41:09.040 stay in an awkward tempo. You don't want to Hey, 0:41:09.040 --> 0:41:11.320 you don't want to have great consistencies in it, because 0:41:11.360 --> 0:41:14.600 even if you're at home and in the quarterback, there's 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:17.120 a lot of inexperienced quarterbacks that will go blue eighteen, 0:41:17.160 --> 0:41:20.360 blue eighteens and hut every time, and then they almost 0:41:20.400 --> 0:41:23.160 can fall into a vocal rhythm as much as they can. So, 0:41:23.480 --> 0:41:25.719 you know, all the offensive line is always trying to 0:41:25.719 --> 0:41:28.520 be deceptive when how they're going to snap the ball. Now, 0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:31.920 the Bears have so much behind movement that if you 0:41:31.960 --> 0:41:34.680 get caught off guard, you can watch the you know, 0:41:34.920 --> 0:41:37.160 and the broadcast. It's easy to watch the wrong guy. 0:41:37.239 --> 0:41:39.560 Oh my god, it happened to me twice. Well, the 0:41:39.640 --> 0:41:43.000 vantage point was just awful from Miami. That story for 0:41:43.040 --> 0:41:47.000 another day. But the mesh point on those RPOs, you know, 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:50.120 to me, from the distance we are watching the game 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:53.040 from the end zone, right, it looks like Jordan Howard's 0:41:53.080 --> 0:41:55.319 taking the ball and there goes Mitch and wait a minute, 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:57.920 I gotta got him. I got me twice, you know. 0:41:58.080 --> 0:41:59.960 And you know, you don't even when you're calling a game, 0:42:00.000 --> 0:42:03.560 game you're in another place, like you're just so dialed 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:05.960 into that and you start talking to yourself a little bit. 0:42:06.000 --> 0:42:07.480 I was like, God, I did it again. I said 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:11.399 it on the air. But anyway, Um, the deception is 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:13.800 is something. I mean, Bill Belichick, who was throwing you guys, 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:17.880 throwing you guys made your bouquets this week. Um again 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:21.280 trying to win the mental game as well. Um, really 0:42:21.600 --> 0:42:23.880 was focused on all the things you guys do as 0:42:23.920 --> 0:42:26.600 an offense. And it is a lot. It is a 0:42:26.640 --> 0:42:28.160 lot that you guys do though, a lot of a 0:42:28.200 --> 0:42:30.240 lot of a lot of misdirection, a lot of deception, 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:36.800 a lot of creativity. Don't you agree? Yes, Sampoi is 0:42:36.880 --> 0:42:39.680 that I'm not asking you to give me any secrets. 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:41.319 I'm just making a point that you want to I 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:42.920 wanted to go. But yeah, I mean it's I mean, 0:42:42.960 --> 0:42:45.160 it's it is fun. It's fun. It's a fun offense 0:42:45.239 --> 0:42:47.759 to be in. Its even for an offensive linement, it's 0:42:47.760 --> 0:42:50.520 a lot of fun. It's always fun as an offensive line. Yeah, 0:42:50.560 --> 0:42:52.200 but I'll go, I like when you get out there 0:42:52.200 --> 0:42:55.640 and pull though, that's fun too. That's one of my favorites. 0:42:55.840 --> 0:42:57.719 You know that. I was telling Kyle early in the year, 0:42:57.760 --> 0:43:00.759 it's disappointed because some of the most devastating blocks he's had. 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:03.040 There's been a penalty that's happened. So you don't get 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:06.160 to see a replayed countless amount of times because of 0:43:06.320 --> 0:43:10.600 a reap of the penalty that happened. So and you 0:43:10.640 --> 0:43:13.400 know it's there. It is unbelievable when you go out 0:43:13.440 --> 0:43:15.200 there and get to a second level and you have 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:17.600 a guy standing in front of you that has no chance. 0:43:18.080 --> 0:43:20.759 It's fun. You know, you hit somebody just as big 0:43:20.840 --> 0:43:22.759 as you about sixty times a game. You only get 0:43:22.760 --> 0:43:24.480 about five or ten times a game where you get 0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:26.360 to go and hit a little guy and that's how 0:43:26.400 --> 0:43:28.479 I sunk because they usually talked the most. Smack. Oh, 0:43:28.480 --> 0:43:31.239 it's so fun that you have no mental interruption as 0:43:31.280 --> 0:43:33.680 you're running over this guy, because it's like if you 0:43:33.880 --> 0:43:37.399 if you're getting ready to go and have a confrontation 0:43:37.440 --> 0:43:39.640 with a linebacker that's two hundred and sixty or a 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:42.080 defensive end that's two ninety, there's a little bit of 0:43:42.080 --> 0:43:44.319 thought that goes into the positioning of it. But when 0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:47.440 you have a dB, it's just the train whistle and 0:43:47.480 --> 0:43:51.360 here he comes. I'll go back to the cadence stuff 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:53.840 that Tom was talking about. You know those d linemen 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:56.480 they're so simple minded. It's like all they do over 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:58.919 there is they just they're in wood shop all day. 0:43:59.360 --> 0:44:02.239 And you know, offensive lineman, we're very cerebral, there's a 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.360 lot going on. But as a d lineman, you know, 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:06.879 they're like, it's like Pavlov's dogs. You know, you don't 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:09.239 want to get them thinking a treat is coming, so 0:44:09.560 --> 0:44:11.759 you got to make it up a bit. I love 0:44:11.800 --> 0:44:15.080 that comparison. And way back when when I started covering football, 0:44:15.360 --> 0:44:18.879 I've had discussions about the difference between an offensive line 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.960 and you described it exactly as every offensive lineman does. 0:44:21.960 --> 0:44:25.800 And these guys are just you know, raggedy dirt balls 0:44:25.840 --> 0:44:28.279 that don't do anything. But you know, hey, they're they're 0:44:28.360 --> 0:44:30.800 built for three and out. You know, an offensive lineman, 0:44:30.840 --> 0:44:33.279 they got to be built for seventy play staying in 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:36.279 the field, never get substituted, stay out in that heat 0:44:36.320 --> 0:44:39.319 from start to finish. You get the they have a 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:42.719 different mentality and defenses are built. You know, they're three 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:45.400 and out guys. Have you ever got under anybody's skin 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:48.120 to the point that you regretted it, because it really 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.400 did get them riled up and they started to whoop 0:44:50.440 --> 0:44:53.120 a little bit. I know, well, I mean other than 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:55.759 the one this little disturbance down at Saint Louis that 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:59.200 one time we forget about that under my skin and 0:44:59.400 --> 0:45:03.799 can he regret? I'd say the only the only guy 0:45:03.920 --> 0:45:06.800 that I have fun with is is a Keem hicks 0:45:07.080 --> 0:45:09.480 Uh in training camp, and I mean we battle and 0:45:09.520 --> 0:45:13.120 he's as physically dominant a player as you'll see in 0:45:13.120 --> 0:45:16.319 the NFL. He's massive, and he's a lot of fun 0:45:16.360 --> 0:45:18.120 to play against, and he'll get you ready for the 0:45:18.160 --> 0:45:20.440 few but you guys in the street fight and I'll 0:45:20.440 --> 0:45:22.439 be happy. But last, the two of you guys harding 0:45:22.480 --> 0:45:24.319 the rest of the team. That's all you need. The 0:45:24.400 --> 0:45:27.240 hard part of signing him up to be on my side. Yeah, well, 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:29.360 we go at it so much. The last play the 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:31.359 game the other day. You took exception to that guy 0:45:31.440 --> 0:45:33.200 that was trying to hit a little bit late and 0:45:33.200 --> 0:45:35.719 he drove him into the ground. I kept saying no, 0:45:35.719 --> 0:45:38.000 no, no no, no, Kyle on the air. Yeah yeah, well 0:45:38.400 --> 0:45:41.040 you rolled him right over the pile. You know, you 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:42.960 look in the rear view and you say, well, what 0:45:43.040 --> 0:45:45.720 if that had pushed us back? And yeahda YadA YadA. 0:45:45.719 --> 0:45:47.480 But he's on Jordan late, so I want to get 0:45:47.560 --> 0:45:51.239 him off goal kicks and Patriot Tail. How about it? 0:45:51.280 --> 0:45:53.359 You got a bud Sunday It Soldier Field fans are 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:55.720 going to be cranked up, looking forward to the great matchup. 0:45:55.760 --> 0:45:58.239 Appreciate all your time, you know it's valuable. Thank you. 0:45:58.320 --> 0:46:00.640 Kyle Long our guest here on Bears All Access for 0:46:00.840 --> 0:46:03.520 Kyle and Tom Thayer, Pauser Wager Engineer and Dan Burrelly. 0:46:03.719 --> 0:46:05.880 I'm Jeff Joneyak. Have a great night, everybody. This is 0:46:05.920 --> 0:46:09.240 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. 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