WEBVTT - Rookie Kyler Gordon on first interception | All Access Podcast 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.600 We started breaking down Week eight in the NFL. It's 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:06.560 the Bears and Cowboys in Dallas Sunday at noon, good evening, everybody. 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:09.120 We talked about it right here on Bears All Access, 0:00:09.160 --> 0:00:12.080 brought to you by IGS Energy. Happy Friday. When the 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.520 broadcast partner Tom Thayre from news Radio one oh five 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.680 nine w BBM, the Super Bowl winning Bear going down 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:23.200 to Dallas. I know you got fond memories of Dallas 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.439 over the course of your career. Give me one that 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:28.800 really sticks out. Really one is the point of emphasis 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.200 that Mike Dicta made about the respect he had for 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:35.800 Tom Landry, and that was a coach a couple decades ago. However, 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.159 he said that everything from the way we stood for 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:40.560 the national anthem to the effort that we gave in 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.560 the game, he wanted us to pay attention to details. 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.480 That eighty five year we went there for the third 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.680 third preseason game I think it was, and it broke 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.840 out into such a massive fight that guys were ejected 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.920 by the third player of the game. But then we 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:00.200 went down there during the regular season and we beat 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.280 him forty four to nothing, and it was a humiliating 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.399 loss for Dallas, and I think personally, Dicta felt a 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:13.640 little empathy for Tom Landry because he was his mentor 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.560 along with George Hallis. But you know, all due respect 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.319 for the Dallas Cowboys at that time, I want the 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.840 Bears to go down and have the same performance that 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.440 we did and surprised a lot of people. Yeah, we're 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.160 I was hoping you were going to say that game, 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.920 because I do recall it. It was November seventeenth of 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.280 eighty five, and you guys went to eleven to know 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.759 you clinched the NFC Central that's what it was called 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.759 back then, and the Bear snapped a six game losing 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.280 streak against mister Landry and the Cowboys. So I think 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.720 that probably was as important to win as any for 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.760 you guys to propel yourselves to a championship in so 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.760 many ways, going into that environment with the old Dallas 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.480 Cowboys stadium that still had tons of respect around the league, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.160 the type of atmosphere that the Dallas Cowboys, Tony our 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.600 set and that whole crew put on the field weekend 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.960 and week out. But as a offensive line, and the 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.000 way we ran the ball for Walter Payton, and the 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:13.000 way the defense took care of the end of their 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:14.880 end of the bargain and the way they what they 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.399 did to quarterbacks. It was a great plane ride home. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.399 I will tell you that I hope the Bears could 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.280 have one as well. Coming up of the show, rookie 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.800 cornerback Kyler Gordon joins us for a couple of segments. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:25.760 We got to thank our producers, Dan Burrelli and Jordan 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.400 trut Up in the folks here at the score. All right, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.400 So Matt Iberflus kind of set the tone of the 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.440 week a couple of days ago when he got to 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:36.839 the podium. And how to deal with losing is one thing, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.440 and they did overcome a three game losing streak by 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.880 beating the Patriots on Monday night, but on a short week. Now, 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.239 forget about that, and now how to deal with success. 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.640 You know, when you have success, you have to handle 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:50.279 that a certain way. You know when you have adversity, 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.080 you have to handle that a certain way. And I 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:54.800 think when you become a mature competitor, you have the 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.320 ability to handle him almost one and the same. So 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.200 certainly when you win, you know, there's all this other 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.120 stuff going on, but there's distractions in that. When you win, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.600 there's a there's a lot of so called hype for 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.120 you know, a victory or two victories or three victories, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.160 wherever that might be. When you're in the middle of 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.680 a season, I think that you have to keep everything perspective. 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.000 How do you feel about that statement right there? I mean, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.760 it's a super young team. They probably giddy his heck 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:21.840 about winning in New England to beat Bill Belichick and 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.919 the Patriots. But I see what he's doing. I see 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.720 he's trying to just stay level headed, keep everybody level headed. 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.560 You know. It's kind of funny because the phraseology is 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:34.440 different from Matt Eberflus, from Mike Ditka, but the message 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:37.520 is the same. Make sure you're aware of all the 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:41.080 compliments you're getting after a big win like last Monday night, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.440 because the same people that are complimenting you to your 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:46.440 face they want to stab you in the back when 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.720 things go wrong. So I just think it's same message, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.840 different time in era, how it's delivered. How did you 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.560 view how they played after watching it over and over 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.920 again the tape and especially on the offensive side of 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.000 the ball. We're going to give props to the defense 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.440 as well, because their second half performances are stacking. Now 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.840 we've got eight examples of some really good defense. You 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.240 take away that Minnesota final drive. They haven't given up 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:13.720 many points and that is critical in the second half. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:15.680 Put all that in a bull shake it up, and 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:17.839 where we had almost at the midpoint of the season. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.599 From your perspective on the developments of the offense, the 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:24.719 coaches and how they're teaching the fundamentals and techniques and 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.000 how it's relating to performance in the end for both 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:29.960 sides of the ball. You know, the fundamental and technique 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:34.400 is a continuous process that goes every single day in 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.480 practice that they reconfirmed what they're trying to teach these 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.200 players to go out and just play naturally. To me, 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.120 the thing that was one of the most encouraging things 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.800 in the game is you can watch the emergence of 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.760 the relationship between Luke Gatsy and what Justin Fields does well. 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.080 If you go and you just look at the third 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.880 and the fourth play of the game, where the first 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.440 two passes they threw back to back, In just didn't 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.359 have to stand in the pocket because he was moving around, 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.800 and then you look at the path that the defenders 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.599 had to take the play three, he moved over to 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:13.160 his right instead of linebackers and DB's rushing they had 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.360 to move latterly Play four, when he rolled out to 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:19.520 it was left to hit eq Saint Brown. There was 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.320 no rushers in his space. So the importance of the 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.400 fast start, the importance of the first fifteen, I think 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.599 the Bears, the coaches, everybody put it on display what 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.479 they can be early in games. Gets He was asked 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.360 this week what was most satisfying about to win over 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.000 the Patriots. It was more about the way the way 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.240 that we did it, more than necessarily, you know, getting 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.120 thirty three points or whatever. I thought. You know, it 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.400 was probably the most physical game that these guys, our 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.000 guys played. You know, we had guys getting go down 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:49.359 kind of in and out of the game, and so 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:50.880 other guys had to step in and a bunch of 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.279 different reps and there was no blink and the guys 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.640 were prepared to play. So I thought that was really 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.240 a really cool part about that whole day was the 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.720 play style, the physicality of it. And then when you 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.120 need a guys a step in and play, they were 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.719 rid of rock and roll, and that physicality did show 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.120 up on tape. I mean, there were some really powerful 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.719 hits in that game, including special teams, and near the 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.880 end of the game, Sterling Weatherford, you run for another 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.520 two hundred plus yards. You know, that's a mentality of 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.440 physical approach to that. The plays by the safeties, the 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.560 plays by Roal Kuan Smith, the guy's up front tip 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.600 and passes. I mean, you had everything going on from 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.800 a physical point of view. You left it. You left 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.800 a statement. You left a statement in that game. You know. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.240 To me, everybody when they talk about the physical portion 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.760 of the game, and they usually reserve that for the 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.720 offensive line, the tight ends, for the defensive line, for 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:42.120 the linebackers, Jeff, When you have the physical style of 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.800 running that Dave Montgomery and Khalil Herbert and Ebner, how 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.480 they all run with the ball in their hands, how 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.200 they bounce off the initial hit, how they get three 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.320 extra yards after the first collision. When you talk about 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.479 the physicalness of a football team, and you could include 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.800 the running back man, that does a lot for your 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.080 reputation going forward. Because there's four guys in the back 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.960 of the defense. They don't want to tackle Dave Montgomery 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:09.160 Clil Herbert one on one. They want that to be 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.280 a group effort. You gotta throw in blasting games. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.560 you gotta throw in eck when many a Saint Brown bocking. 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:19.600 I mean, it's you know, it's it's fun to watch, 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.360 you know. We love the running games, So I blasting game, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.200 blasting game. Jeff, you put a sixty number on him, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.440 you put an eighty number on him, You have keep 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.440 his thirty number. He's always going to bring an element 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.560 of physicality to this team, all right, So forgetsy, what's 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.040 the next challenge for the offense? Yeah, I mean, I 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.400 think it's just staying within who we are, what we do. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.200 Guys have a lot of reps and believe in things conceptually, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.640 and we got to keep continuing to maneuver that through. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.640 That's what this league is. I think it's teams that 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.200 do too much. It's hard to be good at it, 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.080 and guys like you know, teams that are really really good, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:54.960 they usually do what they do pretty well and then 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:56.680 just make it look a little different to the defense, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.880 or defense makes it look a little a little different 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.000 to the offense. So kind of the same thing. And 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:02.880 that's you know, that's the challenge of every coach across 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:04.880 the league is the fun ways to do what your 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.680 guys do well, without letting it be so obvious or predictable. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.040 I like that idea of lower volume time in terms 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.880 of place too. I mean that's music to our ears. 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.680 Everything at aso side of the ball is repetitiously perfected. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.000 And that's exactly what Luke said at the beginning of 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.120 that statement. This is a team that needs reps. They 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.160 need reps on the practice field that carry over to 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.920 the game field. All right, So now the Dallas Cowboys 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.720 a lot to break down here. Let's start doing it offensively, 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.520 not unlike the Bears. They've have two running backs and 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.200 Ezekiel Elliott and I'm not sure what his status will be, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.760 but also Tony Pollard outstanding with his hands as well 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.760 as his legs, are running game behind a solid offensive line. 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.600 The Bears and Cowboys the only two teams in the 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.120 league with two backs time with over four hundred yards 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.040 from scrimmage. Oh and by the way, Justin Fields is 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.400 almost there as well, running the football and almost four 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.160 hundred yards from scrimmage. So it's a unique couple of 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.599 backfields here, dual backs, but they want similar things and 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:05.520 they're going to try to control the clock. They use 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.440 that running game to their advantage to set up the 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:10.400 passing game. And then of course you got to talk 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.200 about the defense, and that's where I'm gonna bringing Cole 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.840 Commet the Bears tight end on number eleven. Michael Parsons, 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.079 you gotta find him, that's for sure. Yeah, well it's 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.640 gonna be all eleven. I think, you know between receivers 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:22.440 who if they got chip help tight ends and they 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.319 got chip help backs and protection and no where he's 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.280 at all times, you know. So I think we've got 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.080 a good plan coming up. But again, he's a special 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:31.719 player and you know he's gonna get a shot to 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.400 but we got we gotta handle off for sure on 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.520 the injury report with a shoulder to flare it up 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.960 later in the week. But number eleven pops up on 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:42.400 tape repeatedly. He's got eight sacks, and he's got confidence 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.360 that he can outrun just about everybody, including justin fields. 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:48.000 Don't let him outrun yet, you got to attack him, yea. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.360 The worst thing that you can do to the best 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.520 player on the field is give him an opportunity to 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.520 chase unblocked, because he will make plays all over the field, 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.320 up and down in the width of the field. But again. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.559 You continuously take cold combat, take Griffin, take every one 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.720 of the offensive tackles, and you and blasting game for 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.920 that matter, and you run the ball repeatedly at Micah Parsons. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.880 He's gonna have to get out on the defensive before 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.520 you allow him to make those tackles. They got other 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:22.000 guys to Lawrence is outstanding, and so is Dorrence Armstrong, 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.840 very very good player. He had a couple of blocks 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.520 field goals and he's showing up on tape as well. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.440 It's gonna be a big test. They do not allow 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.640 a lot of points. They are number one in many categories, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.439 even the nuanced ones that reflect a defense that's playing 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.679 some very good football for dan Quinn. We'll break that 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.000 down and more on Dak Prescott and the Boys as 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.160 we get ready to go down to Dallas tomorrow afternoon 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.560 and then play at a good old fashioned noons start 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.960 against the Cowboys. We'll have the coverage at nine am 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.440 on WBBM, with a kickoff at noon coming up next. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.520 Kyler Gordon joins us here on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.920 seventy the Score. Welcome back to Bears All Access. It's 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.320 brought to you by IGS Energy, choose clean energy for 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.680 your home at IGS dot com, because every good choice 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.760 adds up to a better world. With Tom Thayer, I'm 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:10.240 Jeff jonahac pleased to be joined by rookie corner Kyler 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.320 Gordon about the midpoint of a season. Thanks for taking 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.920 the time. I know things are busy and there's a 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.920 lot going on, obviously getting ready on a short week 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.080 taking out the Dallas Cowboys. How you feeling, first of 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.000 all at this point, feeling good, just getting our recovery, 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.960 get my recovery, and uh just getting ready get shopped 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.880 up for next weekend. Yeah, you're getting used to these 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.760 short weeks. You didn't really do that in the college 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.920 game too much? Yeah, not at all. Uh yeah the 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.080 first one, I kind of recognize how it was going 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:38.320 to be. But I'm ready and kim with a good 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:42.160 planing routine just to get myself, my body, my mind right. Hey, Kyler, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.120 I wish I would have known this the other day, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.280 but I went to Notre Dame. Did you really as 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:51.040 a cornerback, as a top athlete, did you really consider 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:55.240 going to Notre Dame? I was like super close to 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.720 going to Notre Dame. I was in love with it. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.640 My parents were in love with that. I was just 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.040 like I'm telling you, it was very close. You know, 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.840 you think from that time, that decision you made to 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.240 go to Washington, and then you think of what you 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.000 went through last year. Does last year at this time 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.960 you're getting ready to play a college game. Does last 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:20.160 year at this time seem a long time ago? Yes, Like, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.800 I honestly feels like I was just in college playing 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.120 at a out of college night. So honestly doesn't seem 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:31.440 like that long ago. Yeah, it seems recently. Honestly. You know, 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.760 when you take everything into consideration, you talk about your 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.040 individual improvement as a player, you talk about the talent 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:43.280 that you're facing and you're succeeding against. You think about 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.680 the big stage of Monday night football. Is all that 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.120 hard to take in that so much has happened in 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.480 such a short period time, Because you finish your college season, 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:54.400 you get ready for the Combine, and now you're on 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.880 center stage. You're starting in one of the most high 0:12:56.880 --> 0:13:01.480 profile positions in the NFL. Yeah, Honestly, going through all 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:05.240 that short amount of time and stuff like that, honestly, 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.680 just trying to find the best ways and using my 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.520 resources to find the best way for me to probably 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.160 prepare myself for that position and being on that stage 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:18.280 and being able to execute. And yeah, I just really 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:19.800 just find it, like I said, like the best ways 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.160 I can get myself going and knowing how I can 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:25.360 prepare myself and you know, just being detailed and intentional 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:26.800 with how I want to go and set up things 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.960 for myself so I can perform how I know I can. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.719 Kyler Gordon, our guest here on Bears All Access on 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.880 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score, Tom Fair, Jeff 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.400 Jowning gap with you. The trick of this is is 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:41.720 that you're doing something that's really difficult. You're playing inside Nickel. 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.839 We talk about it a lot. It gets a lot 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.240 of praise and for good reason. And you know, when 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.720 we met Buster Screen, he was a veteran here a 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:54.360 few years ago, smaller body type and really was a 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.360 rugged player and just learned. He really taught me a 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.000 lot about what goes into Nickel and I didn't really 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.559 realize it. And now, I mean, it's a starting job, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.959 let's just call what it is. But you're also learning outside. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.440 You've got special teams meeting coming up here soon. I 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.360 mean there's a lot on the plate, but they wouldn't 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.200 give you all that if they didn't think you could 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:15.120 handle it correct. Yeah, So is that a compliment that 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:19.280 you take seriously? Yeah, most definitely. Um, you know, them 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.480 knowing and believing in me that I can handle this 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.400 job and how much they're gonna throw on my plate, 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.440 and knowing that I'm an keep ausking for more and 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.120 keep wanting to improve and giving them one hundred percent. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:31.680 You know, they believe in me and I believe in them, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.280 so you know it goes hand to hand, and I'm 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.640 gonna give them one hundred percent and go all out 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.760 at it. And I know I can and I know 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.080 I hold myself to high standing. I know what I 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.280 can do. And uh yeah, you know you learned a 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.200 little about business right away, don't you. I mean when 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.360 I first started in the radio long time ago, I 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.480 had an internship at a station and I was showing 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.040 up at three o'clock in the morning. And I showed 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.640 up the middle of my internship and everybody was crying 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.560 and people were getting their resumes or what happened, Well, 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.480 they changed formats of the radio station, and I like, wow, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.400 that just happened, right and then the next day everybody's gone. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.120 You know, you have one of your captains get traded 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.960 to the Philadelphia Eagles this week and Robert Quinn a 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.120 lot of respect for him in the locker room. How 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:13.880 do you process that as a first time NFL player, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.640 a rookie halfway through a season. Yeah, honestly, I've never 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.040 i haven't got a lot of experiences where I've got 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:20.840 to see that. So I just kind of seeing the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:23.000 way the NFL works and how the business are. But 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:25.840 you know, having a leader like him being able to 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.160 take you know, the things whatever we can't say for 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.240 him as as a rookie and the other guys you know, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.760 we talk about, you know, the small things that we see, uh, 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.080 you know, coming from a veteran and how they you know, 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.240 they go about this game and how you know, what 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.120 prepares them and what gets them in the mode or 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:43.560 you know, different things that both benefit them and help 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.440 them play better during game time. So just all those 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.480 little things, you know, Thankful what I got to see 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.920 and stuff like that, and the type of leader he was. Yeah, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.440 you know, Kyler, through my experience as a player, I 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.640 know what it's like to play full NFL season but 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.880 just backtracking a little bit. In two twenty you play 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.920 one hundred and thirty four snaps. Two thy twenty one 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.200 you play seven hundred and ninety seven snaps. Did that 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:08.240 seem like a big increase to you at the time 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.560 because I had just taken consideration the length of an 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.440 NFL season, Not asking you about that, but just back 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.000 in your experience about that huge amount of reps that 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:21.200 you took on in twenty twenty one. No, I wouldn't 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.280 say it seemed like a lot. Um. I mean, I'm 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:26.280 glad it was a lot. Honestly. I was disappointed that 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:30.800 twenty twenty season was short, um, But when I finally 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.520 got that full season, um, it didn't feel like a lot. Now. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:35.800 I was really just looking forward to every week, Honestly. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.240 I was looking up your combine numbers and then said, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:41.760 you did twenty reps with two twenty five. Dude, that's 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.920 that's good. Um. So is that something like you work 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.360 for just training for that amount of reps? Or and 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.440 do you think he could do it today? That was 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:56.320 my goal was to get over twenty something, way over twenty. 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.280 I think I put it out like twenty five, but 0:16:58.720 --> 0:17:00.440 ended up only gets twenty. But yeah, it was definitely 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.840 something I worked worked towards a lot during my combine 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.919 process and uh, you know, working on my form in 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.720 different ways to just increase my strength and a lot 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.359 of those different things, uh, with different things are going 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.520 on in the testing for my combine that I was 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.400 working on. But yeah, that's one thing that stands out. 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.199 That's a heck of a job too, because I know 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.320 how much work goes into being able to gain that 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.520 amount of reps in just the stamina to be able 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.719 to do it. So good job. Man tells me a 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:33.639 lot about your weight room. Ask him how many he did? Hey, 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:36.639 what did you get? I mean I was heavy. I 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:41.119 did forty one, but I was happy. So yeah, but 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.600 you know it's awesome because of Lineman. It's you know, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.560 you're when you're a guy that's two hundred and eighty 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:48.760 five pounds going in there, you should be you should 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.680 do that many. Yeah, I feel you. That's town there. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:53.919 I can't feel you. I can maybe do one if 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.399 I was lucky on a good day. Jeff Joni actim 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.159 there and counter Gordon our guest, what a tremends just 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:06.119 response by the defense Monday Night, The play of the 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.600 entire team, the most complete game of the year so far, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:13.159 every phase contributed in, almost every single player contributed. How 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:16.080 do you feel about it looking back? I feel really 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.440 good about what we put on tape and just knowing 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.240 that that's something we can do game in and game out, 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.520 and just you know, he'll keep holding that standard, all 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.760 the guys holding each other accountable, just to go out 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:29.280 there and do our job and execute. And I know 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.399 that's something we can can do repeated Lyue and the interception. 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.600 You got one, yeah, you know Brian Urlacker every time 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:37.520 and somebody got a pick here, we got one, he 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:39.960 screamed out. That was the thing. We got one. So 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.360 you got one, we got one, you got we got one. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:44.600 We got one here. And I know you wanted to score. 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.719 But Thorte a little bit. He's got some wheels on him. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.600 He cut you from behind. Alan Williams was talking about 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:53.159 it this week. That's the only the finish, right, So 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.640 you're gonna be thinking about that field ghost came out 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:58.080 of nowhere. Get on your back. I knew immediately because 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:59.800 my legs a little dead from the no huddle, but 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:01.520 I knew. I was like, I got the fourth two 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.919 deal on my back, got run. Yeah, But getting the 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:06.960 first though, is that's that's the one now, right that 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.160 everybody's got to get that off their back a littizabit. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:12.840 So do you feel you're going to uh take advantage 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:15.399