Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. Thanks for comeback. Have you guys had
Speaker 1: a great weekend or what are you the diehards? You've
Speaker 1: been here for all of them. Amate. I see a
Speaker 1: lot of familiar faces here in the front row. Good
Speaker 1: to have you back here on Sunday at this great event.
Speaker 1: I was just telling Charles Leno here, this has been
Speaker 1: for me and Tom I think, I speak for Tom,
Speaker 1: has been one of the most incredible professional experiences in
Speaker 1: my career. This weekend. Honestly, it's been a great conversation
Speaker 1: and feeding off your energy as well, I think for us,
Speaker 1: for everybody, for the old players of new players, it's
Speaker 1: been a great learning experience because I think, yeah, you
Speaker 1: understand there's a hundred years in existence of the franchise,
Speaker 1: but until you're a young guy and you hear how
Speaker 1: passionate a guy like Obi and o'bradovitch was yesterday and
Speaker 1: how much it means for him to sit up here
Speaker 1: on the stage with you know, Keem Hicks and Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame was Dan Hampton and Tommy Harris and Chris George.
Speaker 1: It's just an incredible experience for all of us. And
Speaker 1: I know we talk a lot about the scrap book
Speaker 1: that was put together by Dan Pompey and Don Pearson.
Speaker 1: You gotta read it because as much as you think
Speaker 1: you know about the Bears, as much as you invested
Speaker 1: in all the games on both TV and in person,
Speaker 1: it's it's an opportunity. It's a book like no other,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's a great opportunity to learn
Speaker 1: more about the Bears. And cheered louder when this season
Speaker 1: comes and new chapters being written by gentlemen like this
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowlers Kyle Fuller at Charles Leno Jr. Must
Speaker 1: with Kyle, how about opening night? Now? Was your adrenaline pump?
Speaker 1: And I mean you come out in that sharp looking jersey.
Speaker 1: Love it. And the whole night was just there was
Speaker 1: so much great conversation going on in that back room.
Speaker 1: It was just a great moment for all generations. How
Speaker 1: did you feel about that night? It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. You know, we were all looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I feel like, you know, over the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks you've been here about it. A lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, just going around town on the golf of course,
Speaker 1: things like that. People are talking about one hundred years
Speaker 1: celebration and then just to get here and see all
Speaker 1: the older guys and some of the older guys you
Speaker 1: played with a couple of years ago. You know, it's amazing,
Speaker 1: just good to be around him. And you know what, Charles,
Speaker 1: not many franchises in sports can pull something like this
Speaker 1: off because it's a hundred years. It's just this unbelievable
Speaker 1: journey through professional sports and the building of something from
Speaker 1: the ground up that this franchise has been able to do.
Speaker 1: And then you've been a big part up now here
Speaker 1: in the last many years. Did you feel it on
Speaker 1: Friday night? Yeah? Absolutely, just being back there and with
Speaker 1: all those guys, like going all the way from the
Speaker 1: beginning to the end, you see just like greatness from
Speaker 1: all levels and it's just it was just amazing. You
Speaker 1: can feel the buzz, you can feel the vibe in there.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of energy, guys just feeding ideas
Speaker 1: and just you know, telling stories from back in the day.
Speaker 1: That was like the coolest thing. Just listen to stories
Speaker 1: from motor players and you know how the game has changed.
Speaker 1: That was this awesome. I have a question for both
Speaker 1: of you guys about last year. You know, when you
Speaker 1: embark on the journey of professional football, it's a really
Speaker 1: rewarding opportunity, but there's not a lot of fun because
Speaker 1: there's so much competitiveness. There's so much work, and it's
Speaker 1: every single day whether you have practice being evaluated or
Speaker 1: the results of your efforts in the game. So, both
Speaker 1: of you, guys, is last year the first year you've
Speaker 1: actually had fun? Because what I'm saying is, you get drafted,
Speaker 1: you're in the first round, you go through the contracts
Speaker 1: scenario that you went through, then you get rewarded because
Speaker 1: of the effort, and then all of a sudden, I've
Speaker 1: never seen a season of more fun in my life. Charles,
Speaker 1: you get drafted later, all sudden, you become the left tackle.
Speaker 1: You haven't missed the snap, you get rewarded with the contract,
Speaker 1: you for God's sakes, you get engaged down the field
Speaker 1: after a game. Thank you. That was great that for
Speaker 1: both of you, guys. Can you talk about the fun
Speaker 1: of last year? Um? For all of us? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would definitely say last year was the most fun I've
Speaker 1: had since I've been here. Um. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of it has to do with winning, but I think
Speaker 1: just a team that we had, you know what, I
Speaker 1: think the way we jailed together. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's what you know that. I think that's what
Speaker 1: really separated you know last year, you know, to the
Speaker 1: others since I've been here. Yeah, I mean last year
Speaker 1: was amazing. Um. I mean I was just telling Kyle
Speaker 1: a few a few minutes ago before we came on stage,
Speaker 1: like we came into the draft together, like first round,
Speaker 1: seventh round in twenty fourteen, and we went through a
Speaker 1: rough time and we finally saw what it felt like
Speaker 1: to win and perform at a high level. So it
Speaker 1: was just fun and we were just like we don't
Speaker 1: want to stop. We wanted to keep going. We want
Speaker 1: to keep getting better, Like we're not stopping right here.
Speaker 1: Just look at that photo right there. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: what it's all about, right there, with with each other,
Speaker 1: that family, that type family that you guys put together.
Speaker 1: As you look at that fixture, both of you, guys,
Speaker 1: what goes through your head? Go ahead? I think for me,
Speaker 1: just a lot of hard work, you know, to be
Speaker 1: able to have moments like that, you know, everybody, all
Speaker 1: the guys doing together, which makes it even more special,
Speaker 1: and just to be able to enjoy it, you know,
Speaker 1: as a group. The same exact thing that's everybody looks
Speaker 1: at that picture, you can see all this fun and
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, that was that's great. But behind
Speaker 1: that as a as a lot of hard work, a
Speaker 1: lot of dedication, a lot of guys, you know, pushing
Speaker 1: themselves to the maximum limit. And that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you do that. You know, it's kind of funny. You
Speaker 1: talked about Kyle be in the first round or the
Speaker 1: same year that you were drafted, Charles and the year
Speaker 1: I was drafted, Willie Gold and Jimbo Covert were the
Speaker 1: first rounders and Willie didn't even know that he and
Speaker 1: I play in the Hula Bowl together. Just because you
Speaker 1: don't cross paths that much year you're separated in time
Speaker 1: as soon as you get to the locker room, as
Speaker 1: soon as you get drafted, you're in two different meeting areas.
Speaker 1: Your lockers aren't near each other. How long was it
Speaker 1: before you and Kyle in your rookie year had conversations
Speaker 1: with each other? Did you become immediately close or were
Speaker 1: you separated in the football existence that I talk about.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we had to spend time together because Tony
Speaker 1: Medelin put us in abasement. That's what he does to
Speaker 1: the rookies. He just throws us in abasement and you
Speaker 1: force the Brookies to talk to each other. So we
Speaker 1: had to talk early. But yeah, like but right after that,
Speaker 1: Kyle goes to defensive room. I go to office room,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of like, hey, what's up are you doing?
Speaker 1: And it's right on buy and you're just trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to be an NFL player as a rookie.
Speaker 1: So it's just really cool like seeing our journey, like
Speaker 1: you know, just go away and then come right back together.
Speaker 1: Go away and come right back together. It's just intertwined. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I remember when we first got here. You
Speaker 1: didn't meet everyone until you know, to the first day
Speaker 1: you come in and you have all these things for
Speaker 1: the rookies. But like Leno said, the rookie locker room
Speaker 1: was separate, so you know, we all you know, I
Speaker 1: felt like we were all just together in there. Um.
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, days when we'll leave practice and
Speaker 1: we're all just new to it, just go down there
Speaker 1: and just you know, just talk about how crazy it
Speaker 1: is and you know, just that we're actually where we are.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's a good idea? I mean, Tony's
Speaker 1: done this for a long time. Yes, and so Tony
Speaker 1: Mendons bears squimindent manager for decades. And it's a small room.
Speaker 1: I mean, you feel totally isolated and it's almost like
Speaker 1: you have to you know, climb that ladder to get
Speaker 1: into the big the big locker room. But do you
Speaker 1: think it's a good idea for those rookies to bond
Speaker 1: and get to know each other to then transition into
Speaker 1: the big guys room for definitely think so, yeah, you're
Speaker 1: the benefits. One thing I liked about going down to
Speaker 1: lock the rookie locker room and old part of the
Speaker 1: facility was you felt like a lot of the guys
Speaker 1: in the past that done that, so you know, it's
Speaker 1: like a tradition. But then just so that you can
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, separate yourself and you know, you
Speaker 1: all take it in together. And I mean it'd be
Speaker 1: good to kind of learn some things from the from
Speaker 1: the older guys, but also something where you know you
Speaker 1: have to work and you know, to get that privilege
Speaker 1: to be around those guys and uh, you know, something
Speaker 1: to look forward to. I agree, that's that's the biggest benefit.
Speaker 1: Like you want it's like a stepping stone, like you
Speaker 1: start here and you have to work your way up,
Speaker 1: and that's what I agree, Like, I think that was
Speaker 1: a great privilege. I think that's an awesome thing to
Speaker 1: do because you are a rookie. You you haven't made
Speaker 1: it yet. You have to earn your strikes before you
Speaker 1: get up, you know, just to give a little bit
Speaker 1: further of an explanation. So now in the modern day
Speaker 1: Hollis Hall, the rookies are literally in a basement and
Speaker 1: there's a small room and they have these metal lockers
Speaker 1: and it's you know, built for ten guys, but there's
Speaker 1: thirty in there. So you're sweaty, you're hot, you're getting taped,
Speaker 1: and then you come out of this basement door up
Speaker 1: this outside staircase and then you start seeing what the
Speaker 1: field and what the practice situations like. And then eventually,
Speaker 1: through the course of time, if you do earn a
Speaker 1: spot on the roster, and then you move your locker
Speaker 1: up into where all the big guys are. Now you're
Speaker 1: in a spacious locker room. You have your own space,
Speaker 1: and it's really intimidating. It's intimidating when you come up
Speaker 1: that staircase, and then it's intimidating the first time you
Speaker 1: open that locker room door and you kind of find
Speaker 1: your place, and you know, you're just kind of looking
Speaker 1: out of the side of your eyes, not making eye
Speaker 1: contact with anybody. So that whole transition is a great
Speaker 1: part of your career. Yeah, that's kind of funny because
Speaker 1: and then once you get like a weekend, all the
Speaker 1: rookies that feel like they've kind of you know, they
Speaker 1: feel more comfortable and they get the walking around, and
Speaker 1: if you walk into the locker room, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like if a coach walking into the locker room. The
Speaker 1: people look at you like what you're doing here, Like
Speaker 1: you don't belong here. So if you try, if you
Speaker 1: sneak in there, they look at you a little crazy,
Speaker 1: but you know, they're all cool about it. And then
Speaker 1: you know that's just you know, something to look forward to.
Speaker 1: Are you guys earlier rival for the day or are
Speaker 1: you guys you know, like me, I was so nervous
Speaker 1: about ever being late. If I got a flat tire,
Speaker 1: got hit by a train, got in a wreck, I
Speaker 1: would still get there on time because I showed up. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just you know, painting the worst case scenario. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, ladies and gentlemen. He's still like that today,
Speaker 1: but I am. Hey, listen, when you grew up the
Speaker 1: youngest in the family of five, show up in time
Speaker 1: or you know, get ready to eat, or I'll see
Speaker 1: you getting up and you, guys, what is your daily habits?
Speaker 1: Are you earlier arrivals or are you on time? Guys? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm an earlier arrival guy. I like to get in
Speaker 1: there early, you know, do some type of stretching, warming up,
Speaker 1: do a lift, get breakfast early. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: just like to get there a little earlier than the most.
Speaker 1: I think I'm early to just enough and I get in.
Speaker 1: I get in, you know early. I have to get
Speaker 1: in early enough, you know, to eat breakfast and stuff
Speaker 1: and just do what I have to do in the morning.
Speaker 1: But I'm a stay late guy, you know. I um,
Speaker 1: I definitely stay a little bit. I just after practice,
Speaker 1: I literally sit in my locker and just stare and
Speaker 1: just you know, just get my just give myself together
Speaker 1: after practice of the long day and you know, getting
Speaker 1: the tubs things like that. I've always observed that, obviously
Speaker 1: about Kyle in the locker room. When the media can
Speaker 1: you sit there and you just you take it all
Speaker 1: in a little bit. Yeah, And I'm thinking that you're
Speaker 1: you're a thinker. You're just digesting the day, digesting what's
Speaker 1: going on, processing and getting yourself into a certain place.
Speaker 1: Is that accurate? That's that's definitely it. Um, whether it
Speaker 1: be a good day of bad day of practice, something
Speaker 1: I want to do better, or just uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just kind of you know, your body and your mind
Speaker 1: just tired just from worked in, just thinking all day
Speaker 1: and you just sit back and I don't know, you
Speaker 1: just I don't know, free your mind and you just relax. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times also, you know you
Speaker 1: just look around and you know, realize where you're at,
Speaker 1: and you know that you've worked your whole life for
Speaker 1: this to be here. So um, you know, you get
Speaker 1: some moments there where you can just take that all
Speaker 1: all in. But that's definitely something I enjoy. I get it.
Speaker 1: I feel like, um, that's my personality a little bit.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Kyle, you come from a football family. You
Speaker 1: have brothers that play in the NFL. Do you guys
Speaker 1: have similarities in your preparation and your and is it
Speaker 1: something that like they kind of gave you the message
Speaker 1: how to go about your business. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: compared a lot. So I'm a little bit my youngest brother, Kendall,
Speaker 1: you know, he's the same physician, you know, similar, you know,
Speaker 1: not too far from me. We played together in college
Speaker 1: and we you know, we all went to the same
Speaker 1: school with gan Tech, so we've kind of all in
Speaker 1: the same household. So we kind of all grew up,
Speaker 1: you know, doing you know, doing the same things, doing
Speaker 1: the same thing. So I feel like we approached the
Speaker 1: approach the game the same way. You know, I can,
Speaker 1: I can kind of you know, I could probably tell
Speaker 1: you what he's doing during the week. We'll probably have
Speaker 1: the same thought progress on how we're doing things and
Speaker 1: you know what we're doing. So I definitely think we're
Speaker 1: very similar and it's helped us all right, the reason
Speaker 1: and everybody had fun as you want obviously, right, you
Speaker 1: guys put into good work, but your head coach, Matt Naggie,
Speaker 1: he gave you the platform to have some fun. Yeah.
Speaker 1: When you see this man and you see him walking
Speaker 1: in the room of the first time of your team
Speaker 1: meeting in twenty eighteen, and we've all discussed this before.
Speaker 1: Something clicked with you and your head coach as a team,
Speaker 1: a collective team. What was it? What start of the
Speaker 1: process and how that trust developed immediately with you guys
Speaker 1: to grow as you did as a football team. Charles,
Speaker 1: he said, when when he first walked in, right, it
Speaker 1: was just his energy. It was different. It was contagious.
Speaker 1: You can tell he is passionate and he wanted to win.
Speaker 1: And he instilled some things in us that you know
Speaker 1: we still have to this day, like be you and
Speaker 1: I know Kyle is himself. I'm myself. He said, don't
Speaker 1: shy away, don't try to be nobody else, Just be
Speaker 1: who you are and that's good enough, and be the
Speaker 1: best that you possibly can be. And we like that.
Speaker 1: That energy just you know, it was contagious and fed
Speaker 1: through all throughout the whole locker room, and God just
Speaker 1: bought in after that. I just think of, you know,
Speaker 1: how comfortable he was in that situation that he was in,
Speaker 1: you know, just coming as the first year head coach. Um,
Speaker 1: like Leno say, was passionate and uh, you know, would
Speaker 1: do anything, you know, to be successful. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what that's what makes him a great coach. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know he just you know, like Leno said, some
Speaker 1: of the things we used to go by last year,
Speaker 1: just being yourself. I think he was totally yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: he didn't try to do more or less and uh,
Speaker 1: you know he had those attributes that you know, could
Speaker 1: bring a team together and get guys to work well. Um,
Speaker 1: I think so far he's off to a good start.
Speaker 1: You know what's neat about Matt is Matt has significant
Speaker 1: playing experience, both in the Arena League and college football.
Speaker 1: So if he's talking to a defensive back, he's a
Speaker 1: quarterback and he knows your responsibility. If he's talking to
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, he knows your responsibility and how important
Speaker 1: is it. It's gotta be nice to you know, Harry,
Speaker 1: he's standing. He's your offensive line coach and your defensive
Speaker 1: back coach. Is gonna help you out the mousset. But
Speaker 1: it's neat to have and a head coach that's so
Speaker 1: relatable to both of your skills and how important they are.
Speaker 1: When he gets up there and talks to you, the
Speaker 1: message has got to be clear from him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's one thing. I think him being you know,
Speaker 1: a quarterback and having played, I think that's a that's
Speaker 1: a connection that he has with the players. And it's
Speaker 1: funny too because like even when I look at this picture,
Speaker 1: when I see him, you know, he always seems like
Speaker 1: he has something going on in his head, and you
Speaker 1: never know, I feel like I'm the same way a
Speaker 1: little bit, so I kind of see it, and I'm
Speaker 1: always just looking at him, like, you know, I wonder
Speaker 1: what he's over there there because he's thinking about something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he I think he just has a connection,
Speaker 1: like we can. He can talk to me what I see,
Speaker 1: you know, to me being a defensive back, him being
Speaker 1: a quarterback. So that's good. You know, even I could
Speaker 1: probably learn a couple of things from him as well.
Speaker 1: What did you guys learn from the first loss the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Opening night from Matt and how it served
Speaker 1: you the rest of the season. Yeah, I remember that
Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. It was It's one of twenties.
Speaker 1: He told us that's just one game and we had
Speaker 1: a long season, and I don't know, like in that
Speaker 1: locker room, we we know we had something. It got
Speaker 1: tooken away, but he reminded us, like keep that feeling
Speaker 1: inside because we're gonna we're gonna need that for later.
Speaker 1: And when he told those it was one loss and
Speaker 1: it's only one game, and just focus on the next one,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, but always just remember it. Um
Speaker 1: it stuck true to all the other guys in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Man. We remembered it when we went back
Speaker 1: on a December sixteen, So it was just really it
Speaker 1: was a really good reminder. I think at that moment
Speaker 1: I really saw as competitive if you know how much
Speaker 1: he really wanted to win. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I understanding, you know, the type of game that it was,
Speaker 1: and you know where we were, where we were going,
Speaker 1: you know by what we did that game, even know
Speaker 1: we lost, so and I think at the same time,
Speaker 1: just you know how composed he was. You know, he
Speaker 1: was mad, and you know if everybody wanted to win,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, he was just you know, just
Speaker 1: himself getting guys you know, just keep on doing what
Speaker 1: they've been doing, and you know that things were turned around,
Speaker 1: and he was he was pretty confident in that. In
Speaker 1: the short period of time you guys have been into
Speaker 1: you guys are still young, guys. You've gone you've gone
Speaker 1: through two different systems. Now, Kyle, you came out at
Speaker 1: San Francisco gay Man, you got two interceptions, We're going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this guy's gonna have twenty interceptions in
Speaker 1: this system. But then things change for you and is
Speaker 1: for both of you guys. Are do the systems that
Speaker 1: you're in now do they benefit your skills or is
Speaker 1: it just you guys are the right fit for the
Speaker 1: systems that were brought in. Um, I think I think
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's all football, so it definitely changes a
Speaker 1: little bit, But for the most part, it's the same, UM,
Speaker 1: I think. And it's funny. I was, I was. I've
Speaker 1: been talking to someone recently about it, just how I
Speaker 1: think back to my first and second year and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I wish I knew what I knew now then, or
Speaker 1: you know, I just wish I had as figured out
Speaker 1: as I you know, I feel as much as I
Speaker 1: know now, I wish I knew it then, because you know,
Speaker 1: things would have you know, you never know how knowing
Speaker 1: what you know now back then that like the receiver routes,
Speaker 1: the type of personnel you're playing against, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you were in experience at the time, so some of
Speaker 1: it is a guessing game. Stuff like that on the
Speaker 1: field just off the field, just things to do, you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the week, just everything on the field and off
Speaker 1: the field. Um, you know, just your mindset and how
Speaker 1: you approach things, how you look at things. Um. I
Speaker 1: think you know a lot of that has to do with, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just how how guys are as players, you know,
Speaker 1: as they're when they're rookies and you know we're five
Speaker 1: years in. Um, but I mean I think we've had
Speaker 1: we've had it's all football. We've had some great coaches,
Speaker 1: so you know we've we've been able to you know,
Speaker 1: to just grow, you know, each year. And that's that's
Speaker 1: that's my goal. I think that's a lot of the
Speaker 1: players goals on the team. Charles, for you, it's significant
Speaker 1: system chain, Yeah, Um, it's it's all it comes down
Speaker 1: to me. I think it's how you approach the game. Um,
Speaker 1: it's how you do the day to day throughout the week.
Speaker 1: Because every week's the same. But it's not. Um, it's
Speaker 1: the same as in we have practice on these days,
Speaker 1: we have walk throughs at this time, but every team
Speaker 1: is completely different. So if you keep the same regiment,
Speaker 1: the same routine, it can make it better for you
Speaker 1: and make it. Uh, how to say, I'm not easier,
Speaker 1: but it will make it more, you know it can
Speaker 1: you can get through the process a little bit better,
Speaker 1: you know. UM. And I think that was the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: Like when we're younger, we're just like we're walking around
Speaker 1: the chickens with a head cut off, like how where
Speaker 1: do we go next? We are we supposed to do?
Speaker 1: How do we get through this? Um? And now that
Speaker 1: we're older in the game us, it's easy to get
Speaker 1: into that routine because you know what you want to do.
Speaker 1: You know how to prepare, you know how to study,
Speaker 1: you know how to watch film, you know how to lift,
Speaker 1: all these different things, all these two guys, and I
Speaker 1: can say this, uh with with a lot of conviction.
Speaker 1: These are two guys that you I have great respect for.
Speaker 1: I know you do as fans of guys who committed
Speaker 1: and grew and handled adversity to get where they are today.
Speaker 1: Pro bowlers in the National Football League. Let's see some
Speaker 1: of their highlights this year. This takeaway defense with something
Speaker 1: else number one of the lake and scoring defense and
Speaker 1: the ball was coming out with Kyle Fuller. Breakdown some
Speaker 1: of this stuff with your teammates because the defense was
Speaker 1: hungry Yeah, I think that was definitely O mentality this year.
Speaker 1: You know, just a lot of focused on you know,
Speaker 1: not only just the ball, but just being in position
Speaker 1: and everybody, all of them and guys on the defense
Speaker 1: doing their job right. And when that happens, you know,
Speaker 1: I think things like this what happened. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of work, a lot of a lot of time
Speaker 1: during the week on you know, studying the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: to help us get in position, and guys just you know,
Speaker 1: want to do everything to help the team win. Uh
Speaker 1: Like when you see those guys, you know, stripping the
Speaker 1: ball from players, they know that's gonna help us win,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna do everything they can to I don't know,
Speaker 1: get the ball. You know how fun that is watching
Speaker 1: that stuff? Man? For you, Oh my goodness, My coach
Speaker 1: is Harry's like trying to talk to me. It's like, Charles,
Speaker 1: you need to sit it. I'm like, no, coach, I
Speaker 1: gotta watch this, you know what I mean? Like, it
Speaker 1: was so fun looking at these guys out here. It
Speaker 1: was amazing. It's funny because it looks you can tell
Speaker 1: how much fun we're having. Like in the game setting,
Speaker 1: It's like with the celebration stuff, especially at home, but
Speaker 1: you can sell like with the with the celebrations, you
Speaker 1: can see the fans in the background. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I think this was the first year and
Speaker 1: not only like was it the most fun, but I
Speaker 1: think this year we really saw you know, we saw
Speaker 1: it for the first um, you know really because we
Speaker 1: were winning. Just how you know electric, you know, so
Speaker 1: the field can get this this one? Are you getting
Speaker 1: your shoes shine? So who came up with that? I
Speaker 1: think Eddie did? I think Eddie did. It was funny
Speaker 1: because we saw the U we saw the I think
Speaker 1: we saw the TV copy and we were like, they
Speaker 1: didn't they didn't get it, but I think it was
Speaker 1: they had a video. But yeah, I was getting my shoes. Um,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of reading the paper to reading
Speaker 1: the paper. Yeah, I thought that was pretty cool. Was that.
Speaker 1: That was one of the first couple of that we had.
Speaker 1: But in your life, have you ever got your shoes
Speaker 1: shined at like one of the stands? I don't think so. No.
Speaker 1: I've gone to a Nordstrom and uh, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: may have needed something done to my shoes and thought
Speaker 1: about it, but I don't think i've ever. I don't
Speaker 1: think i've ever, you know, sat in the stand. I
Speaker 1: think I've used some of the tools to maybe well, Charles,
Speaker 1: you know we've seen you split out as a wide
Speaker 1: receiver and the different types of offensive formations. Eventually I
Speaker 1: say that you're gonna get your hands on the ball
Speaker 1: and possibly get a touchdown. Is there any designers there
Speaker 1: any thought about the type of celebration you could have?
Speaker 1: Would you have to include all your other offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: every single offensive line woman will be included. Absolutely, See,
Speaker 1: they got this thing in the works already. Where's the
Speaker 1: camp Naggie? Please just one time, one time, please, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to you man, talking to the cap. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: this man was the heck of a basketball player back
Speaker 1: in the day, so we know he's had some good
Speaker 1: feet and some good hands. Here's some of these trick
Speaker 1: plays in twenty eighteen. They were a great joy to watch.
Speaker 1: It kept us on our toes in the booth as well.
Speaker 1: You never knew what was coming next. Man, It was
Speaker 1: absolutely even in the meeting rooms, like when we're installing
Speaker 1: these plays, it's like, all right, what Every week, it's like,
Speaker 1: what's next, who's gonna get Who's gonna get it, who's
Speaker 1: gonna get a pass, who's gonna get a catch, she's
Speaker 1: gonna get a run. What kind of funky plays gonna
Speaker 1: be thrown in today? And we always come up with
Speaker 1: some funny names for stuff too. And uh, that was
Speaker 1: the first play of the season. I remember that that
Speaker 1: was a T formation Um George Hellis, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was that started off the season last year. So
Speaker 1: it was really cool. No, it was kind of funny
Speaker 1: yesterday up on stage having the big man a Keem
Speaker 1: Hicks up here with William Perry to have to sell it.
Speaker 1: You know that, you know, because we were in meetings
Speaker 1: the first time that all of a sudden coach did
Speaker 1: could calls William and he comes waddling the length of
Speaker 1: the field to short yardage goal line period of the
Speaker 1: offense and he goes, William, you're gonna you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in the backfield, and all of a sudden, it just
Speaker 1: sparked practice. So I'm thinking these are the things that
Speaker 1: really spark practice in the middle of seasons that kind
Speaker 1: of were on. It's really fun for everybody. There's big
Speaker 1: brat sell now a tight end. Maybe because of that
Speaker 1: play right there right fellas he's athletics, so I could
Speaker 1: see it. They could drive a little bit. Await, he
Speaker 1: won't be too bad. You go for us. I mean,
Speaker 1: don't you love the idea though? That so when you
Speaker 1: come into the league, or even when you were playing
Speaker 1: in high school and college, you just want to be
Speaker 1: especially at the end of it, you want to be
Speaker 1: putting in a position to succeed. They evaluate your traits,
Speaker 1: your skill sets, and you hope that you're in a
Speaker 1: situation where they recognize exactly what you're gonna be really
Speaker 1: good at and that's really all you ask for as
Speaker 1: a player. Matt Nagy has such an open mind to
Speaker 1: get but every ounce of skill out of each individual
Speaker 1: on that team that he in no way put somebody
Speaker 1: in a box and says that's all you can do
Speaker 1: as players. Do you respect appreciate that? And is that
Speaker 1: allow this team to grow in a different way because
Speaker 1: of it? Yeah? Yeah, I think so. I think Another
Speaker 1: good thing that he does is, uh, you know, not
Speaker 1: trying to do too much. You know, he just you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, not only being you, but you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't try to you know, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I said, I mean, I guess pretty simple. Get anyone
Speaker 1: to do something that you know that's not good for
Speaker 1: them or will bring the best out of them. And um,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a good trait to have as
Speaker 1: a as a head coach, as a coach period, you know,
Speaker 1: just to you know, know the guys that you have
Speaker 1: and let them you know, got trusting them and let
Speaker 1: them go out there and do what they what they
Speaker 1: know how to do. Yeah, it's really it's really like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you these tools and you go out
Speaker 1: there and work it. Yeah. Um, we're not gonna force
Speaker 1: too much stuff on you. We're gonna simplify that as
Speaker 1: much as possible. Some weeks we may have a long install.
Speaker 1: Some weeks we may only have a very short install.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be like this is how we're gonna tackle.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move fast, and we're gonna be efficient. And
Speaker 1: it depends every week. Um in offensive room. So I
Speaker 1: think he does a really good job of that, and
Speaker 1: that's that's what it's all about. You gotta be able
Speaker 1: to adapt and have your team adapt. And I think
Speaker 1: he I think you can tell that he you know
Speaker 1: that he trusts a lot of guys on the team.
Speaker 1: You know, good player, bad play. Um, you know, he
Speaker 1: believes in you, he knows you, he knows that you'll
Speaker 1: come back and make a good play. Um, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's good. That's good to know. It's hard to
Speaker 1: put a finger on exactly what game clicked for you
Speaker 1: guys that the belief was truely like, Okay, we're going places.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna show the Rams game here because I thought
Speaker 1: that was a total domination. Would you guys agree that
Speaker 1: this one may have been at you guys tore him up?
Speaker 1: I agree, If not the first one, this could have
Speaker 1: this was definitely one. I feel like this point in
Speaker 1: the season, you know, we were you know, seeing that
Speaker 1: we would I think being the playoffs for you know,
Speaker 1: the first time in a little while, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know, as a defense approaching this game, Like
Speaker 1: I said, you know, since the first game, we kind
Speaker 1: of I feel like we have been growing, you know,
Speaker 1: showing what we could do. And I remember coming into
Speaker 1: this game, the Rams were like the top offense, and
Speaker 1: we were like, we don't like, we weren't tripping, we
Speaker 1: didn't care. We knew you know that we'd be able
Speaker 1: to stop them, and uh, you know, it felt really
Speaker 1: good to really go out there and hold them I
Speaker 1: think to what six points or something. Yeah, So that
Speaker 1: that was amazing, and that was that atmosphere of the game.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like it was a playoff, like,
Speaker 1: you know, just to get us ready that one and
Speaker 1: also Minnesota on the road. But um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think even and I think I think looking forward, I
Speaker 1: think just like we could say these games, you know,
Speaker 1: as when it started clicking, I think last year, because
Speaker 1: we could, we'll be able to say, you know, that's
Speaker 1: when it started clicking, clicking forward. Todd Gurley eleven carries
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards lower stop put of the season. Jared
Speaker 1: goff A nineteen one quarterback reading in that game, swiped
Speaker 1: four times, held the rams a two hundred and fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: and the offense did its job as well and a
Speaker 1: lot of good times. It sold your field on that one.
Speaker 1: You think about both of your positions leading up to
Speaker 1: this game. Because of the pre hype. It was Jared Goffin,
Speaker 1: how well he's throwing the ball, Aaron Donald, that's all
Speaker 1: we heard about. This guy's gonna be MVP for the
Speaker 1: next ten years. It's kind of it's kind of neat
Speaker 1: and gratifying to have that pressure on both of your
Speaker 1: positions and both have such a successful outing against him.
Speaker 1: When I was playing and we played against Reggie White,
Speaker 1: he would keep you up for a week because you
Speaker 1: were so intimidated by his greatness. But you guys kind
Speaker 1: of overcame both of those aspects. And Charles, how was
Speaker 1: it that week in preparation when Aaron Donald was getting
Speaker 1: so much hype? It was all focus. Like he said
Speaker 1: it earlier, we took we prepared it for that game
Speaker 1: like it was a playoff game and not like we
Speaker 1: don't others, but we knew we had to. This was
Speaker 1: the team to be at that time, and we felt like, no,
Speaker 1: we're the team to be at that time. So you're
Speaker 1: coming to our house. We want to protect Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: We want to show you what we got. And that's
Speaker 1: that's what it was. Kyle. When when a team comes
Speaker 1: in with the hype, I know it's twofold receiver quarterback,
Speaker 1: But does it go quarterback first then to receivers or
Speaker 1: is it hey d line? We need some pressure to
Speaker 1: help us out. Next question again, So when you get
Speaker 1: ready to play the Rams and the quarterbacks come in
Speaker 1: and he's got all these impressive stats leading up to it.
Speaker 1: Is your focus from quarterback to receivers or is it
Speaker 1: from receiver to quarterback? To be honest, is really on
Speaker 1: the offensiveself. I feel like those guys are just you know,
Speaker 1: those are the guys you know, throwing and catching the ball.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, I think it's more so
Speaker 1: and it starts off with us. I don't know that's
Speaker 1: what uh, you know, Naggie always preaches um, but I
Speaker 1: think it just starts off with our eleven being in
Speaker 1: a position not really not worrying about them. And then
Speaker 1: but in general, it's it's really the offense itself, you know,
Speaker 1: not the quarterback. That the quarterbacks are throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and receives just catching it running the route that's in
Speaker 1: the offense. So you know, to understand that and kind
Speaker 1: of you know, be prepared for what they're gonna do
Speaker 1: on offense. I think that's really, uh, that's more to
Speaker 1: focus Charles Letto your group last year. Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: is an analysts website that does a lot of great
Speaker 1: work and a lot of NFL teams do use it
Speaker 1: for reference and so forth. But the second best past
Speaker 1: blocking efficiency offensive line of the National football in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Great job, and you're all back together, maybe in different spots.
Speaker 1: How critical is that continuity for you? And how good
Speaker 1: do you feel about it moving forward? And I feel
Speaker 1: great moving forward. Um, like the group of guys we have,
Speaker 1: we're all we're all tight, we're focused, we go to
Speaker 1: work every day extremely hard, and I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: just really been with the same group of guys, because
Speaker 1: continuity is big. When you have mid moving parts, it's
Speaker 1: hard to um for communication and you know, just getting
Speaker 1: fits because at the offensive linement, uh, you're working. You
Speaker 1: gotta work together with somebody every single play, even though
Speaker 1: I might be on an island and blocking somebody by myself,
Speaker 1: I have to work with everybody on the line. All
Speaker 1: five of us work together. So with that continuity is great.
Speaker 1: We can call out things, we can we can see
Speaker 1: things well before it happens. And it's just this is
Speaker 1: good Charles. When um Khalil Mack came aboard, so you're
Speaker 1: going against Aaron Lynch and you're going against Leonard Floyd
Speaker 1: and all the other different outside rushers. They have a
Speaker 1: team and the whole crew. All sudden, now you're practicing
Speaker 1: against him. Khalil Platt practices at a high level, whether
Speaker 1: you're doing one on ones or a teamwork. Um, did
Speaker 1: he did he increase your your practice concentration? Because he's
Speaker 1: the type of rusher that we all read about. I'd
Speaker 1: never get to play, but you know I've had experiences
Speaker 1: against guys like Lawrence Taylor. How is that on a
Speaker 1: practice atmosphere to help you become a better offensive tackle? Oh? Definitely.
Speaker 1: It's like Iron Sharpen's Iron and he's like the iron
Speaker 1: of irons. You know, he's it's really good going against
Speaker 1: him at practice because he knows he's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how explain it, but he has every single tool.
Speaker 1: But he also puts the work in to get better.
Speaker 1: So you have to be on your game every single day.
Speaker 1: And I just have to focus on me and my
Speaker 1: technique just to stay in front of him and get
Speaker 1: the blocks against him. Hey, Kyle, so when you know
Speaker 1: the defense front to back, so now you know that
Speaker 1: there's an aggressive Russia on that side by Kahlel and
Speaker 1: whoever he's working with. Does that change anythinking process about
Speaker 1: the tightness that maybe you want to coverage or how
Speaker 1: you will think the quarterback's going to see a little
Speaker 1: pressure in his face, a little quicker, not too much.
Speaker 1: It can a little bit in certain situations, a certain averages.
Speaker 1: But I think the biggest difference is, you know, you
Speaker 1: see a guy like you know, Khalil, you know, just
Speaker 1: you know, a great player, a great guy, and you know,
Speaker 1: going to practice every day, working hard. You know, it's
Speaker 1: kind of contagious. You know, makes you want to, you know,
Speaker 1: work on some of the little things to make you better.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you have when you have guys
Speaker 1: like that up front, you just know that you know,
Speaker 1: the more you work and the more you're you're in position,
Speaker 1: you know because of what they're doing up front, you
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be you know, your room for Eric
Speaker 1: can get a little bit bigger or more like you know,
Speaker 1: the you know, the ball may be in a position
Speaker 1: you know to be intercepted more often or something like that,
Speaker 1: or the ball may not be thrown. So you know,
Speaker 1: just knowing that, you know, makes you feel comfortable. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that just shows how shows why
Speaker 1: you know, you know, having all those guys you know
Speaker 1: doing that job and at a high level, you know,
Speaker 1: makes makes it better. Kyle tied for first in the
Speaker 1: NFL last year seven interceptions, one of only a few
Speaker 1: players in the league who played at least a hundred
Speaker 1: or more. Man covered snaps and did not miss a tackle.
Speaker 1: And that's significant because at the corner look at him, smile.
Speaker 1: The cornerback position in the NFL, you gotta tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta. You gotta play, make players on the ball,
Speaker 1: You gotta cover, but you gotta tackle and that elemented
Speaker 1: game you brought here. Yeah, I enjoyed tackling. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that that. I think they gave me a couple
Speaker 1: of but I appreciate it. I uh yeah, I'm I
Speaker 1: was never I think from a young age, I kind
Speaker 1: of you know, okay, I like to tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: I want to do it, so you know, it just
Speaker 1: it just makes you better. It makes the team better. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, as hard it is, it as hard as
Speaker 1: it is, like you said, you know those open field tackles,
Speaker 1: those receivers that shifted these days, big, strong, fast, So um,
Speaker 1: it's definitely something that you have to We only have
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes to go, so you're gonna
Speaker 1: whip through this real quick, big time. Good times. Go quickly, right,
Speaker 1: but so real quick, go ahead, all those interceptions you
Speaker 1: got Listen, I've given up a sack, and I camped
Speaker 1: sacks in my mind that I can still think about
Speaker 1: three step drop sack I gave up on Monday Night
Speaker 1: football against the Broncos. Is there any bobbled interceptions that
Speaker 1: you're going, Oh my god, this will haunt me and
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. Uh No, I think honestly,
Speaker 1: I think back to how lucky I got to get
Speaker 1: the interception on Tom Brady. You know, not to me,
Speaker 1: it'll be like getting an interception on pay Manning, where
Speaker 1: where you're like, okay, you appreciate that one. Um, you
Speaker 1: know just from the quarterback that they are. But that's
Speaker 1: that's really it. Sneak peak preview here twenty nineteen about
Speaker 1: to unfold a great schedule. You got a new defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Tell us how that's going with Chuck Pagano, what the
Speaker 1: fans could look forward to? And then Charles tell us
Speaker 1: what's going on with you guys on the offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's going well. Chuck Pagano is a great guy, a
Speaker 1: great coach. He's gonna come in. You know, we have
Speaker 1: the same guys on defense, so he's not gonna change
Speaker 1: it up to you know, too much. It's you know
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are still doing the same stuff.
Speaker 1: A little bit of new terminology, but you know things
Speaker 1: are still going well. They haven't changed a bit, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that speaks to coach Bagano and coach Naggy,
Speaker 1: you know, just doing a good job of you know,
Speaker 1: keeping things you know the way they are for the offense.
Speaker 1: It's less installed now because we already know the place.
Speaker 1: So it's basically focusing in on what we need to do,
Speaker 1: our techniques, how we can get better, look at some
Speaker 1: things that we didn't do well and just make that
Speaker 1: better for next year. Chasing great so we can see
Speaker 1: great celebrations in the locker room from Club Dub like this,
Speaker 1: What a good time it was in twenty eighteen. Let's
Speaker 1: keep it rolling, right folks. Did that grow as well?
Speaker 1: The confidence to just let yourself free? Oh? Absolutely? Um yeah.
Speaker 1: You can see like this if you watch the videos,
Speaker 1: they get like more and more. It's like more people,
Speaker 1: we all coming together more. It's just it starts to
Speaker 1: getting more fun. You see more personalities come out. It's
Speaker 1: really cool. Anybody everything I've seen Fuller in this video. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm in there there. I'm enjoying it, but I'm not
Speaker 1: in it. Maybe one or two where you know, I'm
Speaker 1: making a quick appearance. That's about it. It was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, you know. You just appreciate it. You know,
Speaker 1: the autoha work and each each week as a as
Speaker 1: the season went on, you see anybody dance that shouldn't dance.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, a couple of coaches get in there, but
Speaker 1: it's all fun. Well, these guys right here appreciate where
Speaker 1: they've come from because they're just a handful of guys
Speaker 1: that have been here a while from previous administrations and
Speaker 1: guys like Sherrick McManus and Pat O'Donnell and Charles Lenno
Speaker 1: Junior and Kyle Fuller. So you guys appreciate the journey
Speaker 1: more than most. It was some tough times and now
Speaker 1: you're starting to thrive and the best is yet to
Speaker 1: come out. Imagine, thank you for being here, Charles Larle Junior,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller, thank you so much. Twenty nineteen. Bears, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen,