WEBVTT - Darnell Wright reflects on rookie season | Bears Weekly 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:04.800 Welcome in TOUM. Bears Weekly, a Chicago Bears Network production 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:08.280 download the Chicago Bears Official Act, brought to you by 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:11.440 Verizon to follow the team on the go. Fears Weekly 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.440 is brought to you by African Healthcare, Athletico Physical Therapy, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.200 bet Rivers, CD Telling, Connie's Pizza by Gens Energy, and 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.639 Miller Likee Kierra. Your hosts Jeff Chioniak, aka the Mayor 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.160 of Bearsville and his sidekick Tom the Surfaster. There. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.120 It's the end of the line, but a bright beginning 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.239 to what promises to be a memorable off season. The 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.320 Bears a completely different unit with a fresh attitude, developing 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:42.920 players and the number one overall pick in the upcoming draft. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.120 Excellent draft capital, strong salary cap heading in to the 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.920 twenty twenty four free agency period. So this is the 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:51.960 place to be. It is Bears Weekly on ESPN one 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.160 thousand of the Bears Ready and Network. I'm Jeff Jonnyank 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.920 with Super Bowl Bear Tom Fair, thanks to Jordan tread 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.280 Up and Dan Burley the Birthday Boy from the Bears 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.760 and Today out of the ESPN one thousand studios, Kevin 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.800 z Pack and Sean Greeney spending the dials. Our executive 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.520 producer the Bear's Radio Network is Eric Ostrotski. Coming up 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:10.560 at six ' ten. Bears Rookie Wright tackled Darno right 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.880 to sit down with me earlier this week and Tom 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.120 Happy birthday to Bear's owner Virginia Allis McCaskey. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.480 Wow, what a what a what a benchmark, What a 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:25.520 great person? What just a beautiful person in this world. 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.560 And if there was more people like her in this world, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:32.720 it would be a better world. I'd say that with 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:37.440 all sincerity. And she's a beautiful person. And you know, 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.000 I know throughout my mom's lifetime when they had the 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:46.280 Mothers and Girlfriends and Wives luncheon, my mom used to 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.720 look forward to going to that and being able to 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:54.240 have a conversation with Virginia McCaskey, because if you if 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:59.200 I think of two mothers with similarities, both of those 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.840 people going to church every day and raising a family 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.520 and that being the most important part of their lives. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.480 You know, I can't say enough about her. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.560 Right on the eve of the Packer game, basically the 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.640 Packer week, think she's a little excited about this one. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.200 As much as I am, as much as you are, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.920 as much as I think anybody that's an NFL football fan, 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.280 you don't necessarily just have to be a Bears Packers fan. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:30.840 But it has so much history, so many dominating personalities, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:36.240 so much importance in the role in the NFL, and 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.520 I don't know why it is. It just adds such 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.440 angst to my weeks of the years of my life, 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.960 whether it be a player or a broadcaster of the 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.639 Bears Packers week. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:52.560 Well, I mean it makes total sense. I mean it 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.920 makes I was just now with Wada and Sylvie talking 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.440 about this very topic. I was with Hampton today talking 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.360 about this very topic. I mean, there's there, It's just 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.519 it's ingrained in you guys, well got the guys who 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.919 played the game and the fans certainly. And I don't 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.600 think it ever, I don't ever want to have anybody 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.960 kind of mute the rivalry or pooh pooh or Tampa 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.200 down or you know. It is what it is. And 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.280 the fact is we're sick of losing to the Packers. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:22.600 Well it's even you know, stretches beyond that. Because so 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.680 there's a golf tournament this weekend that starts a PGA 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.000 tour and it's in Coppola. It's in Coppolua, which is 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.480 on the island of Maui. Of course that I played 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.240 plenty of times, but I watch it just to get 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:39.280 the visuals of Maui. And so Berman is out there 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.320 playing our good our good friend, Chris Berman, and so 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.440 I talked to him about who he's gonna play with yesterday, 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.520 and he played with Wyndham Wyndham Clark and Jordan Speith 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.040 and one of my best buddies, Sean Saint Clair is 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.200 Berman's caddy. But with all that, he brings up the 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:01.960 Bears Packers game. So it's not it doesn't. It's not 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.480 far removed from people's minds who aren't directly, you know, 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.360 with their feet on the ground in Green Bay or Chicago. 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:17.920 It stretches the love of the game of football far beyond, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.160 you know, this close radius of Chicago Green Bay. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:26.279 Yeah, and I'm glad this game has value beyond just 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.120 the fact that, hey, it's the last regular season game. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.640 The Bears have won seven of their last twelve games. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.320 They have a different football team on in all three phases, frankly, 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:41.120 but no teams resting starters. Nobody's preserving themselves with the 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.360 playoffs because the Packers haven't been they haven't had their 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:46.680 ticket punched yet, and now I'd like to have a 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.920 different kind of punch, punch them right in the face. 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.719 And then the story here of this nine game losing 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.719 streak to the Green Bay Packers. So I believe emotions 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.119 are going to run high in this game. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:57.839 They were. 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.680 We were talking about this in the lead up to 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.320 week but as you sit here as an analyst of 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.240 the game, what the Bears were working themselves into week 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.800 one against the unknown of Jordan Love And now we 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.440 got a pretty good glimpse of what Jordan Loves becoming 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.560 and what your Justin Fields was gonna do in the 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:20.400 second year of an offense, and the improvements personnel wise 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:23.200 on both sides of the ball, what was gonna happen 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.760 over the course of the season. I made the comment 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:30.239 to these guys earlier in the hour that game feels 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.560 like five seasons ago, a lot's happened to the Bears 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.440 and a lot's happened to the Packers, And now I 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:40.960 you know, it's a fair fight. It's gonna be a 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:41.600 good fistfight. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:44.040 Yeah, you know, the first game of the year. I 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.840 got to be perfectly honest with you as a Bear alumni. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.320 I was frustrated because I didn't think the Bears did 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.359 enough during training camp to be prepared for the speed 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:59.520 and what the regular season offers you. And my attitude 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.680 is completely changed from Week one to week eighteen. I 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:07.920 think the development of the linebacker position, Trumaine, Tremaine Edwards 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:13.160 and TJ. Edwards and Trumaine have completely changed the fact 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.080 that they're starting rookie cornerbacks of the first game of 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.200 the year. How much my attitude of the defensive backfield 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:23.080 has changed, bringing in Montes Sweat and the rotation of 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.760 the defensive line and how powerful they can be and 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.360 how much of game changers in defensive production they can change. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.760 What the offensive line has been able to accomplish, and 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:40.760 how Chris Morgan has kept that group together, what Justin 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.479 has done, and how the running back stition and the 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.960 running game has been able to develop. I have a 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.200 completely different attitude today about this game than I did 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:50.800 Week one. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:56.279 And since debuting with the Bears in Week nine, Montese 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.400 Sweat and the Bears defense fifth in the NFL in 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.680 points per game allowed. Before that, they were twenty eighth 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.480 in the NFL, averaging nearly twenty eight points a game. 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.840 It's a ten point drop in points. Man is significant, hint, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.760 and it's not all him, it's not all him. But 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:14.440 he makes a difference. 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.640 He well, he does. He makes a difference because now 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:22.200 the offensive coordinator or the opponent with Montese Sweat and 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.760 the and the cast of characters, now he thinks football 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.560 completely different. He thinks the speed of the game differently. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.520 He thinks the ball out of the quarterback's hands in 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:36.120 the passing game differently, he thinks point of attack against 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.480 the running game differently. There's so many things that the 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:44.080 offensive coordinator has to think differently with the emergent. Listen, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:49.680 I think TJ. Edwards and and Tremaine have as much 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.600 as much improvement as the defenses as Montese Sweat coming aboard, 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.679 because I think the way those two guys are playing 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:04.160 in the passing game in the running game is all 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.880 is pro Bowl deserve, all pro deserving. I'm not gonna 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.960 say the words Pro Bowl anymore. All Pro deserving from 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.320 that position and what Montes has been able to accomplish. 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.960 Right because's no longer a Pro Bowl game. It's Pro 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.440 Bowl games. We're not gonna get you going, We're not 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:22.280 gonna get you going, but we'll come back. I'll tell 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.640 you what we'll get you going. Darnell Right, who's had 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.680 a terrifics first start, big first step as a rookie 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.600 for the Chicago Bears at right tackle. He has improved, 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.400 Devin Jenkins has improved. The Bears offensive line in general 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.240 has improved over the course of the season as well. 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.160 We'll dip into all that. It's coming up next here 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.240 on Bears Weekly on a ESPN one thousand and the 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.240 Bears Radio Network. 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.600 This is Bears Weekly with a voice of the Bears 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:50.040 for twenty three years, Jeff Jony on the Bears Radio Network. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.680 All Right, welcome to the Bears Weekly. Jeff joniyaglong the 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:56.559 top there, he'll be along in just a while here 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.640 with Bears starting right tackle Darnell Right. Wrap up what 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:04.280 has been a very impressive rookie season. I'm not going 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.000 to put words in your mouth. Would you tell me? 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:07.040 How do you think it's gone. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.480 I think it's been good. I think it's been good. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.079 It's been fun, yeah, fun. And I'll tell you everything 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.360 that was said about you turned out to be quite accurate. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:15.720 I know. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.640 Sam Summerville, the Scout that I bought you for a 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:23.840 long time coming out of Tennessee, said that you were violent, aggressive, physical, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.720 great on your feet. All that has really come to 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.440 fruition over the course of the season. How did you 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.360 think it went in terms of all of that in 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:33.480 this offensive line? 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.240 I think it was some good stuff and some bad stuff. 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.720 A lot of stuff I can learn from going into 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.679 your two and stuff, but there was some good stuff 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:42.040 as well. 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:43.920 Yeah, which is always going to be the case right 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.480 the rest of your career. I almost cringe when I 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.040 hear reporters ask offensive lineman in particular, Hey, what do 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.840 you gotta work on With the kind of coaching you 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.960 got from Chris Morgan this year? How did he help 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:56.839 you elevate your game? 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:01.200 The main thing that really helped me at the beginning was, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.560 you know, he just he let me. 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:06.320 He told me when I was coming in, you know, 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:08.920 I can be whatever I want to be, you know 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.840 what I mean, Like there's college is over, you know, 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.679 whatever whatever he was in college, you know, you get 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.480 to be whatever you could be here. And you know, 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.480 never put a ceiling on anything I could do. You know, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.400 I just want to help me be as good as 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.160 I could be. So Yeah, he was. He was a 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:26.840 good coach for that. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.080 Yeah, he did a heck of a job. Just I 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.840 mean it's a lot of changes with injuries and whatnot. 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.880 What did you think of his coaching style and how 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.040 he kept that group together? And you guys, I love 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.080 it because you guys are right at the top of 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.240 the charts and rushing in the NFL and that's it's 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:43.800 got to start at the offensive line. So what do 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:44.800 you think of the job he's done. 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:46.200 Yeah, it's been good. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.560 I mean he's the only thing he really cares about, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.360 Like it is obviously football and all that, but like 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.600 just the people in the room, you know, all of 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.640 us just being as close as we can and as 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.959 good as we can and that's really just the main focus. 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:02.120 That's everything else is whatever it is. 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.360 Yeah, yeah, I always felt that. You know, when you're 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.280 a top ten pick, the expectations are crazy. Did you 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.199 did you personally feel any pressure with that and any 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.480 new point during the season or if you just take 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.760 me back to when you were drafted, because we we've 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.120 met on day after you're drafted, man, you had an 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.800 ear to ear grin. You were loving up the fans. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.760 Remember we went to the fan. Oh that was awesome. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.280 So you have a great personality, But how did you 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:25.960 handle all that? 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.880 Yeah, it was it was a little bit crazy. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:33.560 Uh, obviously coming to Chicago with you know, or just 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.120 NFL in general, with the media and stuff. You know, 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.199 you have to be you know, you have to do it, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.280 you know what I mean. In college I kind of 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.160 didn I kind of ducked the dogs. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.080 But but you're, you know, like on the ground floor. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.960 Something special brewing here. I know that everybody in that 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.200 locker room feels it. 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:51.760 I've heard it. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.600 I've talked to so many guys off the record, on 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.240 the record. Do you feel the same way about what's coming? 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:00.320 Yeah, I mean we've been we're doing really good. 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.640 I think we just I think it's a credit to 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.040 all the guys and a team that just you know, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.680 obviously it's not the season that we wanted. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:08.240 We wanted. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.040 I mean, if it's not a super Bowl, it's not 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.080 the season that you want, really, you know what I mean. 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.000 But I feel like it's a credit to everybody. You know, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:20.800 just keep keeping on fighting, not worrying about whatever somebody's 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.679 talking about. 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:22.040 Or this, and that. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.480 It's just just try as hard as you can and 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:26.880 see how the chips late. 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.160 You know, talking to general manager Ryan Poles throughout the 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.880 course of the season, we love talking ball and x's 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.920 and o's, and we agreed on something significant. Devin, You 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.240 a lot of these guys, Braxton. When you when you 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:44.280 are pulling, it's a beautiful thing. You're so athletic and 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:47.360 you do it the right way. And the guy on 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.000 the other end of that poll, God bless him because 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.120 they're gonna they're gonna feel you. Is that something you 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:54.559 really love doing? 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.440 It's fun? Yeah, it's fun. It is fun. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.360 Do you do you feel your strength and power in 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.800 that moment you get ahead of steam. I mean, you're 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.040 an athletic guy for your size, big time, and when 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:11.040 you're motoring like that, I can't think much gets in 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.640 the way of Darnel right in that moment. 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.840 Yeah, it's just fun. Yeah, it's just fun pulling, of course. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.040 I mean it's just you get to run a little 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.400 bit and then make contact. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.680 Who were some of your football role models? 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:23.760 Uh? 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.680 I was I was playing like linebacker, like safety, so 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.040 I was watching like Ray Lewis and uh and then 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.040 I wish I was too big to run the ball, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.280 but I wanted to be like Devin Hester. 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.960 I love it, but it was really just Ray Lewis 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:39.560 and Devin Hester. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.600 I would watch their highlights and then not get the 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.200 ball in the game. 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.720 But yeah, while you have the mentality and the and 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.480 the and the seriousness of a Ray Lewis and the 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.600 power and the and the passion for the game, I 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.400 could see it on tape. I don't even need to 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.960 talk to you to ask you about it. The Devon angle. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.920 That's just pure clean fun right there. And I had 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.880 the opportunity to call nineteen of his twenty returns in 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.440 his NFL career, so you know, I missed that part 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.839 of the game. It's all about kicking it out of 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.160 the back of the end zone now right, as. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.680 A football I wouldn't kick it to him either. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:14.120 No, I know. 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.920 But even today though now right, like as a football fan, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.080 the kick return is like a home run in baseball. 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.520 You know, everybody gets up and wait, can't wait, especially 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.640 if it's a great returner, even for players. Do you 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:28.920 think that's missing a little bit now? 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:30.960 A little bit, Yeah, it could be missing. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 It's fun to see some of my first opening player 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.000 even just any play kickoff, they take it to the house. 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:39.920 But I guess if you can mitigate that, I would 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:40.520 probably do it. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.240 Yeah, after a while, they don't want to kick to Devin, 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.480 that's for sure. It frustrated him. I I just met 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.240 with him in Orlando before our Tampa game and I 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.480 did We did like a four hour interview in his house. 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.520 It was unbelievable week two before the Tampa game, and 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.880 I learned things that I never knew about Devin and 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.320 stuff and just an amazing I mean, do you believe 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:01.640 he belongs in the Hall of Fame? 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:02.680 Oh? 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.200 Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.880 Well hopefully on his third try, you'll get in this year, 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.360 because that would be some kind of story. There's great 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.400 demands in this NFL level meetings galore. It's a full 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:20.160 time job. You're always thinking ball. What comes with that? 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.920 How did you handle that? How did you handle that? 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:25.000 The new kind of workload for football being a rookie. 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.920 Uh, I think, you know, I try to get back 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:31.240 into a routine, you know, see what the routine will 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.440 be for me here obviously with the new schedule, not 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.480 going to class and all that, and then just relying 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.040 on some of the guys in the room asking them 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.440 what they do, how they some of the things they do. Obviously, 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.880 everybody's different, So some of the things I took from 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:45.360 some people. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.600 Some people I took this and. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.520 That, and then just kind of crafted my own routine 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.200 and how I approach it and uh. But yeah, as 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.560 far as handling it, I think, you know, just diving 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.280 into it when I need to. And then also there's 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.680 on the flip side of that, you know, getting away 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.920 from it, not just chasing ghosts and sitting there too 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:04.640 much into it. 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:06.440 Just you know that my instinct. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.000 Play Darnell Right, our remaining moments here on Bears Weekly. 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.760 You're on a SPN one thousand of the Bears Radio Network. 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:14.440 Now just a quick five pack of fun stuff ready, 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:19.680 favorite TV show, Bena Time. All Right, would you rather 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:23.040 give up appetizers or desserts for the rest. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.320 Of your life? I say desserts. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.680 What would be the title of your autobiography? I think 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.840 that's my name, all right, Darnell Right and big bull letters. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:41.840 That's that speaks of strength, deepest fear. Uh could be none. 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:43.760 Oh, I have some fears. 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:51.000 Animals and a bucket list vacation spot when you do 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.600 find the time to get away from it. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.760 All the beach something like that. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:57.880 Yeah, all right, well, Darnell, we appreciate you. You have had 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:01.400 a wonderful year, great start point for your career, and 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:02.960 now the best is yet to come for you in 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.240 the Chicago Bears appreciate it, darn all right, our guests, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:07.800 We'll continue with Tom Tayer after this break on Bears 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.360 Weekly on ESPN one thousand and the Bears Radio Networks. 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.119 Bears Weekly with a Voice of the Bears for twenty 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:19.840 three years Jeff on the Bears Radio Network. 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:23.399 And this segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:29.160 by Igs Energy, Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. After John 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:33.800 al Wright, here's Luke Gatsi today on the rookies season. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.560 The veterans have done a really good job in this 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:42.480 building to guide people like Darnell his work habits, his structure, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.720 of his schedule, you know all that stuff. Like you 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.800 can see a guy becoming a pro his work ethic 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:51.280 on the football field is outstanding. His mentality, like, the 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.560 guy's a competitor, Like it doesn't matter what we're doing. 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.200 The guy wants to compete and he wants to win. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.240 And I think you know you put all that together, 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:58.919 you give yourself a chance and then you match it 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.919 with his athleticism the power. Now you know, you have 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:03.920 the potential to have a pretty special player. And it's 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:06.080 and uh, you know, a credit to Simo and Steck 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.800 and those guys, you know, getting him where he is now. 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:10.440 But uh, you know, we're really. 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:12.639 Excited about where he can go and and uh, you know, 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.840 it'll be up to him how far he wants to 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:15.320 take this thing. 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:17.520 Yeah, you know he mentioned that Tom it's up to him. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.520 That was told him by Chris Morgan, the man they 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.480 call Simo. And you know what I like about it, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.880 because you've taught the offensive line, uh on those polls, 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:29.040 is he hits his landmarks. There's there's a track. There's 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.960 a track to wipe out the guy, whether it's a 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.400 pull off to the right or a pull across the formation. 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.080 That to me is one of the most beautiful things 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.040 an offensive lineman could do. And you taught me you 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:41.919 got to have that landmark. You gotta, you gotta, you 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:42.720 gotta make it tight. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.600 Yeah. Well, the key ingredient that he pull is not 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.760 showing off your poll before you do it, because that 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.119 is a lot of evidence that you give away to 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.120 an opponent, to an opponent's defense to the linebacker position 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:58.400 and the defensive line, and if you do show your 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.439 pull too much and you're uneven in your balance and 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.120 you're giving a lot of pre snap indicators that are 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.680 harmful to the play. And Darnell doesn't do that. And 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.560 I think that he's come aboard initially that he's a 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:16.960 lot more mature in his playing ability than a lot 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.600 of you know that a lot of people see because 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.840 he's only an offensive lineman like all of us. It's 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:27.399 not a high profile, you know, attractive position. It's a 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.320 lonely position that that you know, it's a great position 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.480 when you play it. However, I really like the interview 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.120 with Darnell because I don't want to hear a rookie, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.560 a guy that's drafted as high as he is and 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.280 he's been productive as he has been in his rookie 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.560 year to be tooting his own horn. I think the 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:48.960 more that you interview through him throughout his career, the 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.400 trust he's gonna gain in the more outgoing he's gonna become. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.520 So I think Ryan Poles and his staffed at a 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:02.120 nice job evaluating the who's going to afford the longest 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:08.040 successful career and it is Darnell right. And listen, I 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.639 was one of those guys that was thinking about Carter, 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.639