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Speaker 1: you so much for being here. You guys good, All right,
Speaker 1: Tom you good, I'm good. How are you doing. I'm
Speaker 1: fantastic and big Nick Williams is very good, the leading
Speaker 1: sacker on your Chicago Bears for twenty nineteen. Honestly, can
Speaker 1: you have ever in your wildest thought that one day
Speaker 1: we'd be saying that like you would be hearing that
Speaker 1: out of somebody's mouth in week entering Week eleven of
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen NFL season when you first started. No
Speaker 1: use that microphone right there, body. Yeah, yeah, uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's a great story. You're a great story. Yeah it is. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of surreal. I was talking to my
Speaker 1: dad the other day and he was like, he's always
Speaker 1: sending me like the whole stats from the league and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and I was like, he was like, man,
Speaker 1: can you believe it? Can you believe it? And I
Speaker 1: was like, no, I can't. But I just knew if
Speaker 1: I worked hard, you know, and uh, continue to keep
Speaker 1: my head down and just keep pushing forward, I would
Speaker 1: have The funny thing is I looked up a scouting
Speaker 1: report that way back when you were getting into this
Speaker 1: game from Stamford and not much pass rush, that's what
Speaker 1: That's not much pass rush. But he's very athletic. He's
Speaker 1: very fast off the ball and he ran a four
Speaker 1: nine forty, so he's got a lot of athleticism. And
Speaker 1: that that's funny when you hear it now, because boy,
Speaker 1: you've grown into a hack of a pocket pusher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just sometimes it just takes time. It takes time
Speaker 1: for players. Everybody has a different type of story to
Speaker 1: get to where they're at in the league. So it
Speaker 1: just takes time. You think, you come into your home,
Speaker 1: you play for an amazing organization like the Bears, and
Speaker 1: they just bring a lot out of you. So that's
Speaker 1: what kind of happened, you know, offensive defensive linement, it's
Speaker 1: kind of unique. With that offensive lineman. You're either good
Speaker 1: against the run and you need work against the pass,
Speaker 1: or you're good, you know, vice versa. It's just like
Speaker 1: the same in defensive lineman. Have you looked at the
Speaker 1: list of the leading sackler sackers in the NFL? I have? Okay,
Speaker 1: so there's six of you guys that are stuck at
Speaker 1: six sacks. You and Jordan Phillips are the only two
Speaker 1: defensive tackles in that list, and then the others come
Speaker 1: behind you. You know, when you think about going into
Speaker 1: this game last year and all the hype about Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald and stuff, I mean, it's it's got to be
Speaker 1: amazing to you that your work ethic has allowed you
Speaker 1: to get yourself to earn yourself into this position. Because
Speaker 1: when you look at that list, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: names on that list, man, and you're you're you're right
Speaker 1: there from the middle, from the middle of the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, old and strong man. But I really don't.
Speaker 1: I really I try not to look at the list
Speaker 1: a lot, you know. I try to keep my head down,
Speaker 1: do do what I've always done, uh, and that's just
Speaker 1: come to work every day and try to get better
Speaker 1: at something. So the immediate as soon as a Chem
Speaker 1: Hicks's injury happened, did you know that you are going
Speaker 1: to expand your role from that point? Or is it
Speaker 1: because of the quality of play that you've displayed that
Speaker 1: your role has expanded. I think it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. You know, a Chem going down, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a pro bowled calibery, a defensive lineman in this
Speaker 1: league and I respect this game a lot and that's
Speaker 1: my guy, as you all may know. But when he
Speaker 1: went down, I was kind of like, Okay, well, they're
Speaker 1: gonna need more for me. So that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: the approach I took to the game, and I've had success. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we are kind of introduced to you that
Speaker 1: you are a middle of the line kind of a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, defensive tackle, nose guard. So you make a
Speaker 1: play over the right tackle, you make a play when
Speaker 1: you're lined up over the guard or are you lined
Speaker 1: up over the guard and you rush over the center
Speaker 1: and then you have another play from the inside. Man.
Speaker 1: That's that's a big role. There's a wide variety of
Speaker 1: positions you play, so when you play one position to
Speaker 1: the next, are all your techniques the same or as
Speaker 1: a defensive end technique for you a little bit different
Speaker 1: than maybe when you're playing over the guard or over
Speaker 1: the center. I think it's uh, I think it's the same.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're lining up in a zero zero
Speaker 1: nose right over right, the right over the top of
Speaker 1: the center is no different from lining up in a
Speaker 1: five technique. Five technique is the inside eye of the
Speaker 1: head up of the tackle, head up of the ta
Speaker 1: inside of it will be like a four. But it's
Speaker 1: no different from that. So you can, you can. You're
Speaker 1: very interchangeable. So I think that's one that's one reason
Speaker 1: to Bear wanted me here. They loved me to be
Speaker 1: here because I could play both nose and in the
Speaker 1: end position. Nick Williams our guest here on Bears All
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Speaker 1: Bears season ticket holders. Good to be with you. Dan
Speaker 1: Briley is our producer and Bob Boxer is producing our
Speaker 1: show here today. You were on with us, I think
Speaker 1: it was seven weeks ago. Yes, so lots changed in
Speaker 1: seven weeks before the Minnesota game, right, Yeah, So how
Speaker 1: have you changed on the field in the last seven
Speaker 1: weeks in terms of your incomplete game? I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: just try to get better at at something each each
Speaker 1: week in and out of practice and uh working on something,
Speaker 1: you know, to try to get better, to try to
Speaker 1: contribute to this team, to this team success. And you
Speaker 1: know the story that you said the journey. Pittsburgh drafted you.
Speaker 1: That had to be a thrill because a big guy
Speaker 1: in that system where you could be interchangeable, and that's
Speaker 1: a they're like big guys playing in their three four defense.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately you got injured your rookie year that shut
Speaker 1: your back to Yeah, it sent me back. I was
Speaker 1: hurting my rookie year. I was on IR. I actually
Speaker 1: had my surgery my rookie year October thirty first, I
Speaker 1: never forget it Halloween and I kind of got set back.
Speaker 1: But moving forward, I kind of put it in my
Speaker 1: head to just bring my lunch pail to work, you know,
Speaker 1: and uh keep my head down and continue to work hard,
Speaker 1: and uh not say much but just let my let
Speaker 1: my play do the talk. I was looking after you
Speaker 1: then as a rookie terms of guys, your big guy.
Speaker 1: Here's a keep who had Steve McClinton. Steve McClinton, he's big,
Speaker 1: big no soucker for the Jets now and Al Woods,
Speaker 1: you know, he's playing with the Seahawks. I had Cam Hayward.
Speaker 1: He's still in Pittsburgh. So those were kind of like
Speaker 1: my and then Brett Keisel. Brett Keisel was still playing
Speaker 1: Bearded one. The Bearded one, he was still playing. And
Speaker 1: those were kind of like my ogs of any sorts.
Speaker 1: So they kind of looked out for me or kind
Speaker 1: of told me what to do. You know, when you're
Speaker 1: a rookie, you get told what to do. So they
Speaker 1: kind of looked out for me. And here I am. Now.
Speaker 1: You know if you didn't invest in the weight room
Speaker 1: in yourself, that you would never be here right now.
Speaker 1: You're one of the biggest strongest guys in the NFL
Speaker 1: and on this team. So you around the Steelers, we
Speaker 1: all read about football fans around the NFL. You read
Speaker 1: stories about James Harrison and him basically spending hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars on his body in the offseason. We've
Speaker 1: been around the greatest player in the history of the league,
Speaker 1: and Walter Payton has never spent a cent on anybody
Speaker 1: to train him for preparation for the next season. Where
Speaker 1: do you fall in in terms of are you a
Speaker 1: self motivated, self prepared guy or are you the James
Speaker 1: Harrison that you have to have help or the Walter
Speaker 1: Payton that I can do it on my own a
Speaker 1: little bit of both. You know, I'm a weight room guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I love the weight room. I probably don't
Speaker 1: like running as much because because I'm more than three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds, so I'm kind of like, but you know,
Speaker 1: you have to run, you have to be in shape.
Speaker 1: But I'm in the weight room guy. You don't have
Speaker 1: to really stay on me about working out every day
Speaker 1: in the off season to get ready for the season.
Speaker 1: And I work out hard, and I work out long,
Speaker 1: long hours, and I sometimes I do two of days
Speaker 1: in the off season. So I just I just love
Speaker 1: working out. You love preparing for the next season? How
Speaker 1: much you way right now. I think I think I'm
Speaker 1: like three ten. What's the moost you ever weigh twenty? Really?
Speaker 1: You know what he was when he was high school? Uh?
Speaker 1: He was a six foot two, one hundred eighty five
Speaker 1: pound basketball player. Yes, that was oh my god, in
Speaker 1: a senior year high school. Well, you know what, like
Speaker 1: you would have actually actually my eleventh grade year, that's
Speaker 1: how That's how big I was. I was like six two,
Speaker 1: one eighty five and then I was playing like I
Speaker 1: was playing basketball. I never played football, and I was
Speaker 1: playing basketball. And my dad was like, hey, son, uh,
Speaker 1: you're playing You're playing center and you're six two. And
Speaker 1: I had and I was fortunate enough to play against
Speaker 1: like Eric Bletsoe. He's like a guard for the Milwaukee
Speaker 1: Bucks Bucks. And I had had a good thing of
Speaker 1: playing against the Marcus Cousins. And because he's from Alabama,
Speaker 1: so I played against him in high school. He was
Speaker 1: like sixteen sixty eleven and I'm guarding him. My dad
Speaker 1: looked at me and said, hey, Nick, you probably you
Speaker 1: probably you probably need to go out for the football
Speaker 1: team because you're not gonna have much sincess here on
Speaker 1: the basketball court. So my senior year. I got to
Speaker 1: like us two forty two hundred and forty pounds, and
Speaker 1: then the way just kept kept coming. We're gonna pick
Speaker 1: it up from there. I won't find out what the
Speaker 1: heck you were eating, that's for sure. How you got
Speaker 1: to hear him? We gotta talk a little Bookie Cousins too,
Speaker 1: because that locker room loves the NBA. Rudy Charles Little Junior.
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Speaker 1: six seventy Score Studios and the crowd enjoyed it. I saw,
Speaker 1: I saw something I had. I had to take a
Speaker 1: minute here because a lot of great Bears season ticket
Speaker 1: old this year, having Bears jerseys, and I saw one
Speaker 1: and said, since on back and this this fine young
Speaker 1: couple over here, since together since and then he's wearing
Speaker 1: nineteen and she's wearing sixty seven. And you should be
Speaker 1: wearing nineteen, ma'am, and he should be wearing six center
Speaker 1: because you know, you look like you're in nineteen year old.
Speaker 1: But that's beautiful. I love that. That was awesome. I
Speaker 1: was wondering when I went to look, I always look
Speaker 1: at the number of the jersey. Then if there's a
Speaker 1: number I don't really recognize that, I always go back
Speaker 1: to see if they have their own name on it
Speaker 1: or the name of a player. And I went back
Speaker 1: there and it said together, that's a Bears family right there. Goodness,
Speaker 1: good to have you alongside. Before we went to break,
Speaker 1: we were talking about your weight. Yeah, we're talking about
Speaker 1: how you how you added, how'd you pack it all?
Speaker 1: Because it's not your weight room. You gotta have the
Speaker 1: protein to build a muscles. So what we're diving into
Speaker 1: to get all the way up to football weight back
Speaker 1: to college. Man, let me start in high school. So
Speaker 1: my senior year I started going to sonics, and man,
Speaker 1: this when this when they just came out with the
Speaker 1: breakfast burrito and I was like, I was like eating
Speaker 1: like two or three of them a day, and I
Speaker 1: was my weight was just shooting up. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is great. So then I finally got to college,
Speaker 1: and you know, you get to college, you're still small.
Speaker 1: You know, you're coming in with other big, big guys.
Speaker 1: So I was two forty when I came into college
Speaker 1: and I just attacked the weight room and I read
Speaker 1: shirted and my coach, my head coach, tricked me. He
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you're gonna play defensive in for us
Speaker 1: out of the past Sullivan And he said, uh, he said,
Speaker 1: You're gonna play a d and just come to all
Speaker 1: the away games and just get you some food and
Speaker 1: just eat, just eat your eat your life away, you know.
Speaker 1: So so I was just backing on the weight and
Speaker 1: I ended up I was like three twenty. Wow. So
Speaker 1: so yeah, in college, so eventually I had to had
Speaker 1: to drop back down and learn how to kind of
Speaker 1: mold my body into what I wanted it to be
Speaker 1: the strength to be able to carry the weight. And
Speaker 1: then I went back down to like three ten, and
Speaker 1: it was an optimal weight for me. That's the heck
Speaker 1: of a thing. When the coach when I was in college,
Speaker 1: after my sophomore year, they said, we want you to
Speaker 1: go home and gain as much weight as you can
Speaker 1: because you're gonna play left tackle next year. And I
Speaker 1: came back at three seventeen and I had no clothes
Speaker 1: at fit. I could barely breathe, but I was really strong.
Speaker 1: And then you got to kind of figure out how
Speaker 1: to run with all that weight on me. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: my knees were killing me. Yeah, my knees. I was like,
Speaker 1: I felt like my knees were like what are you
Speaker 1: doing to us? You know? Like, so I had to
Speaker 1: drop I had to drop that weight and then I
Speaker 1: came back up. So Sam Samford Sam not stand. So um,
Speaker 1: I heard that when you guys are introduced before the game,
Speaker 1: there's like us, all the students are in red shirts,
Speaker 1: and then there's a guy that's dressed up like Moses.
Speaker 1: He walks out parts Ye stand Stanfords the Christian Christian
Speaker 1: University down in Alabama, and we have the red sea
Speaker 1: of student section and they're going they're going crazy. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not many of them trust me, and they're
Speaker 1: going crazy. And we got this guy that dresses up
Speaker 1: like Moses every game, every home game. And I guess
Speaker 1: he passes it on because I'm like, this kid is
Speaker 1: not graduating college, you know what I'm saying. So so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he dresses up as Moses and parts the Red Seed
Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool. That's a funny. That's a funny thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: tell me the State Farm insurance connection. State Farm? My
Speaker 1: dad got to Stanford or got you to Pittsburgh, got
Speaker 1: me to Pittsburgh. Well, my dad used to work for
Speaker 1: State Farm, So, uh, I guess I guess he had
Speaker 1: a connection, right, your dad's your name is? And he
Speaker 1: knew Pat Sullivan, he knew, he knew I think he
Speaker 1: knew Patian knew one of the coaches Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pat Sullivan knows. Uh dang my defensive line coach, Mitch.
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting his last name. Yeah. But the point of
Speaker 1: it is, this is partly why you get found anywhere
Speaker 1: because the slightest little relationship. Hey, you gotta check this
Speaker 1: guy out here. They drafted you. Yeah, Mitchell was a
Speaker 1: Mitchell was the first I think he was the first
Speaker 1: African American defensive lineman at the University of Alabama. And
Speaker 1: one of my one of my strimp coaches actually came
Speaker 1: from Alabama and he was that year. He was asking, Hey,
Speaker 1: do you have anybody at Sanford? And uh, my strimth
Speaker 1: coach said, yeah, you should check you should check Nick
Speaker 1: Williams out. I mean, just just for giggles, you know,
Speaker 1: you should check him out. And so he came out
Speaker 1: and he liked he liked me, and he went on
Speaker 1: to Tuscaloose and looked at some more some more guys,
Speaker 1: but he ended up drafting me. John John Mitchell, John Mitch,
Speaker 1: I think that's a great story. That's a great story. Hey, um,
Speaker 1: Jeff said, where we haven't we talked to you seven
Speaker 1: weeks ago? A lot has change in seven weeks, Um,
Speaker 1: and you're from the Alabama area. Are you a good
Speaker 1: driver in the snow? Hey? Funny story, funny story. When
Speaker 1: I was in Pittsburgh, it's my first snow right epidemic
Speaker 1: I called it. So I was still driving my college car.
Speaker 1: It was a Chevallet and Paula two thousand and eight,
Speaker 1: and I was driving up this hill and they were like,
Speaker 1: they were telling me, yeah, man, you'll you'll be cool
Speaker 1: man if you got front real drive you'll be all right.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, cool, I'm driving my college car.
Speaker 1: So it was my rookie year and I was hurt.
Speaker 1: I was hurting my rookie year. So I was driving
Speaker 1: up this uh, driving up this little hill, and then
Speaker 1: my car started just sliding back, and I was like
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh oh no, oh no. So
Speaker 1: it was kind of like my first a little a
Speaker 1: little incident with snow. But I've gotten much better. So
Speaker 1: from from Sunday night when you go to sleep till
Speaker 1: you wake up Monday morning to come into work, and
Speaker 1: it's like all hell broke clues? Is that, like you
Speaker 1: still have to get acclimated the driver. Have you gone
Speaker 1: around the cold weather enough with your career in Kansas City,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and in Chicago. Yeah, I've been. I've been around
Speaker 1: like Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, so it's it's I'm acclimated
Speaker 1: to it. We had Buster Screen as a guest last night,
Speaker 1: out out and about for bears after dark with w
Speaker 1: BBM and his cars a truck. I guess he parks
Speaker 1: outside so he could not get the car door. It
Speaker 1: was frozen to the point he couldn't shut it, so
Speaker 1: he drove all the way from Chicago to Hallis Hall
Speaker 1: with his hand clothed. So yeah, it's it's an indoctrination.
Speaker 1: I mean, Eddie, Eddie Paniero. I had never seen snow
Speaker 1: till last week. Oh, first snowball in his hand. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's crazy when you think about it because
Speaker 1: we're used to it. Well yeah, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot of firsts that come up in the life. You know,
Speaker 1: have you ever been in the Coliseum? So, yes, I played.
Speaker 1: I played at the Coliseum. You have two times. Actually,
Speaker 1: when I was in Kansas City, i played, Uh, I
Speaker 1: played against the Rams and uh I think when I
Speaker 1: was in Miami we played against the Rams as well.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's like one of the stadiums throughout
Speaker 1: a football player's career that you would like to you know,
Speaker 1: that you would like to play in. And it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of neat. We haven't been there for a long time,
Speaker 1: but I didn't realize that you would have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to play there yet. Yeah. Yeah, I've played there twice
Speaker 1: and it's it's been it's been pretty good. A lot
Speaker 1: of history in that stadium and so extreme cold or
Speaker 1: extreme heat I'm going to do extreme heat. I was
Speaker 1: in I was in Miami for training camp and we
Speaker 1: would have to take breaks. It would get like hot
Speaker 1: as crap, and we had to take breaks in between
Speaker 1: periods and stuff during practice. So I would take heat
Speaker 1: over extreme cold. I played my last year with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and there's times in December it was like two hundred degrees.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was so hot at practice. It was
Speaker 1: hard to make it was so hot. We always we
Speaker 1: always sometimes we always went to the bubble. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're not even going to chance here because guys are
Speaker 1: like falling out. So but I would still do extreme
Speaker 1: heat over extreme cold. Nick Williams our guests here on
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Speaker 1: sacks for a team that is you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: You're not gonna lie. You miss a chem Hicks, no
Speaker 1: question about it. But the attention surrounding you has increased significantly.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of reporters around your locker now, and
Speaker 1: you know, how are you with that? Because if you're
Speaker 1: not used to it, and sometimes it's intimidating for a guy,
Speaker 1: no matter what age they are in this league, some
Speaker 1: guys don't love the attention. I mean, some guys just
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about themselves. Khalil is one of
Speaker 1: those guys. He wants to talk about everybody else but himself.
Speaker 1: He's a great player. Uh. You seem to have the
Speaker 1: personality that is accepting of that and you can handle
Speaker 1: it well, but what is your what is your opinion
Speaker 1: on it all? I mean I can I can handle
Speaker 1: media and people being around my locker and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It was once a time when they weren't around my locker, Like, Okay,
Speaker 1: who's that, Who's that? Who's that on the team? Who
Speaker 1: is that guy? You know he's a big guy, but
Speaker 1: I don't know him, so I kind of hand a ittle. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I always try to pointing back to my teammates.
Speaker 1: You know this organization. Uh, these coaches. Um, so I'm
Speaker 1: very fortunate to play for the Bear. So there's an
Speaker 1: interview playing on all over TV today where you're getting interviewed.
Speaker 1: But the only thing you can hear was someone screaming
Speaker 1: in the background, and it's treet Cohen because they put
Speaker 1: the towel so high on the shelf so he couldn't
Speaker 1: reach him. Yeah, he gets pissed when that happens. You know,
Speaker 1: he's always he's always screaming. He's always screaming that he
Speaker 1: can't reach the towels, you know. So I think teammate,
Speaker 1: I think teammate is getting them a little step stool
Speaker 1: so he can I'm just playing Tony Medlin that had
Speaker 1: a quick manager for the Bears. He's probably an inch
Speaker 1: shorter than Turek calling so, I mean, he's not the
Speaker 1: guy that's putting him up on the top of chelf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely not the guy putting him up on the
Speaker 1: top shelf. I think him and Turek are pretty close.
Speaker 1: And Hype I was there when all that was going down,
Speaker 1: and I and I left really hard, That's all I
Speaker 1: gotta say. Because he came flying out of that room,
Speaker 1: you know, and everybody was laughing. A Keem was in there,
Speaker 1: he was cracking up. He is one funny dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is, he's he's he's a character on this team.
Speaker 1: And I mean we just we just got a close group,
Speaker 1: close locker room and guys are joking on each other
Speaker 1: and we could take jokes and we give him back
Speaker 1: and we're just that's way it's supposed to be in
Speaker 1: the room. You know, definitely, you know, good times and bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta you gotta keep it lights sometimes
Speaker 1: and have those guys. There's always some guys. There's obviously
Speaker 1: your whole team was full of characters, including yourself, uh
Speaker 1: back in the day. But to have that, to to
Speaker 1: not make everything seem so serious all the time, unique
Speaker 1: guys like Tarik. Yes, yes, we're grown in playing a
Speaker 1: kids sport. You know, you always got to remind yourself
Speaker 1: that it's a business and you gotta win football games.
Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, we get to
Speaker 1: play a kid's sport and you gotta have fun with it.
Speaker 1: You got to are you trash talker? I'm not really.
Speaker 1: I'm be honest because I played defensive lineman at night
Speaker 1: and I said, I said when we were playing the
Speaker 1: lines last last Sunday, I was saying some crazy stuff
Speaker 1: out there. But I'm glad I wasn't miked up. But
Speaker 1: I'm not really, I'm not. I don't really go at it.
Speaker 1: I have to let it, let it come to me first.
Speaker 1: Have you come across any trash talking offensive lineman yet,
Speaker 1: because they really don't have a lot of time to
Speaker 1: talk because it's all about getting back to the huthole
Speaker 1: to hear the next play. Richie Incognito, Yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 1: he talks so much. Something else. He talks so much.
Speaker 1: When we played we played the Raiders, he was just
Speaker 1: talking the whole game, and I was just like, okay, okay, Richie, Okay.
Speaker 1: Well I was the reason I brought it up to
Speaker 1: see if you talk trash or whatever it is, because
Speaker 1: Schuster Smith, what's his first name, Schuster Smith, the wide
Speaker 1: receiver from the Pittsburgh Steelers, said Jalen Ramsey had talked
Speaker 1: more trash than any other player he's ever facing the
Speaker 1: history of his football life. So you know, you guys
Speaker 1: are getting ready to go see him, but you'll never
Speaker 1: face him because he's a defensive player. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's always interesting to see you know, who is that guy?
Speaker 1: You know, who is the who is the talker of
Speaker 1: your unit on the defensive line unit, well on the defense,
Speaker 1: on the front seven, on the front on the front seven.
Speaker 1: Who would be that guy? A key one he plays
Speaker 1: because I am, yeah, a key He can talk, you
Speaker 1: can talk now, and he can back it up with
Speaker 1: some good some good play. You know. That's that's the
Speaker 1: key to it. When you're talking, when you're doing some
Speaker 1: trash talking, you gotta have great play behind it, because
Speaker 1: if you're doing trash talking, you getting kieled out. There,
Speaker 1: wasn't it, wasn't it? You know? I think I'm if
Speaker 1: I'm vaguely correct on this. John Randall, and he had
Speaker 1: a whole book on a guy, so he would do
Speaker 1: research into your background and try to push your buttons
Speaker 1: to get your blood up. And you know, I would
Speaker 1: love to see that scenario with a guy like you
Speaker 1: or a guy like Olan Crutz and just hear that
Speaker 1: kind of conversation going on, because I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that would have been some memorable stuff, especially in today's
Speaker 1: day and h Everything's Mike. I still think Tim Harris
Speaker 1: of the Green Bay Packers was the ultimate trash talkers
Speaker 1: of all time because he didn't study in advance about
Speaker 1: your mom's maiden name, or maybe your brother and sister's name,
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff that John Randall would, But it
Speaker 1: was more of what came out of him. And you
Speaker 1: know he was a he had a good sense of humor.
Speaker 1: But that whole topic is an important one actually for
Speaker 1: this game because Jalen is one of the premier trash
Speaker 1: talking guys in the league and he can black back
Speaker 1: it up. But when you got young players and guys
Speaker 1: that are temperamental or emotional, you know, you don't want
Speaker 1: that to cause a problem during the game or get
Speaker 1: in their head. And that's his whole design obviously, because
Speaker 1: he's not gonna stop. It's gonna start in the first
Speaker 1: quarter and it's gonna end with the whistle blows to
Speaker 1: end the game. So with young players, tom, you know,
Speaker 1: it's got like Anthony. Anthony Miller is one who could
Speaker 1: give it back to you a little bit um And
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see Jalen and if in fact
Speaker 1: that is the matchup against Alan Robinson, two guys that
Speaker 1: practiced against each other during training camps and know each
Speaker 1: other very well, what that'll be like it'll be a
Speaker 1: subplot to the Sunday story in LA. I think it'll
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Speaker 1: Never looked at that until right there, right when you
Speaker 1: said you said shredded, I thought you were talking about Nickson. Right.
Speaker 1: Here's here's something nicest. That's a lesson always read your
Speaker 1: copy ahead of time. Like, what is this? Hey? Nick?
Speaker 1: I got one more college question for you. So November
Speaker 1: twenty third, Samford plays Auburn. What is did you guys
Speaker 1: play one of those ultra opponents when you were at Stanford? Yes,
Speaker 1: we always played a big school when we were at Sanford.
Speaker 1: What was that like for you? Was it? I mean?
Speaker 1: Was it kind of a benchmark? Though? Because if Nick
Speaker 1: Williams out of Stanford, you go out there and you
Speaker 1: compete against this bigger team. Then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it gives you street credit, it gives you self confidence. Yes,
Speaker 1: I always looked at those games before the season started
Speaker 1: when I was at Stanford, who what's the big school
Speaker 1: we're playing? Because I always knew, Man, man, I need
Speaker 1: to really perform against that school because especially at SEC screen.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, man, I need to really go out
Speaker 1: there and like play well because the scouts are looking
Speaker 1: at this game, they're looking at a couple of the
Speaker 1: other games that we're playing, like conference games. Play We
Speaker 1: played Appalachian State, we played Furman, we played Georgia Southern.
Speaker 1: Those are some good, good schools. But if we played Auburn,
Speaker 1: who played Glorida State, we played Kentucky, we played all
Speaker 1: those Always on the road, right, when you play these
Speaker 1: bigger they're not coming to us, right, they're not coming
Speaker 1: to Stanford. I mean, it's it's even you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know, is it more difficult because you know, when
Speaker 1: you're a defensive lineman and you're playing a team at home,
Speaker 1: the crowd is quiet to let the quarterback communicate. Do
Speaker 1: you like hearing the quarterback's voice or do you kind
Speaker 1: of like what if you're playing at home when you
Speaker 1: can hear it, what is your preference. I mean, I
Speaker 1: played in Kansas City, and when you play defense in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, it's like one of the loudest stadiums in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So I've had it both ways. You know,
Speaker 1: at Sanford, I can hear my mom, and my mom's
Speaker 1: talking to me, talking to me at in the in
Speaker 1: the crowd's like, come on the car. You could do it, dude,
Speaker 1: this isn't I'm like, you know, we just have like
Speaker 1: one on one conversations because it wasn't many people at
Speaker 1: the games. So I've had it. I've had it both
Speaker 1: and I like, I like, I like when the crowd
Speaker 1: is in it, the fans are in it, and it's
Speaker 1: like going crazy. How big a thrill is it? Because
Speaker 1: for a lot of a lot of these guys, you know,
Speaker 1: their families can't always come to every game or just
Speaker 1: to have your parents and teams. Uh, it's it's it's great.
Speaker 1: My dad was at the Lions game and I was
Speaker 1: able to get a sack for him and flex for him,
Speaker 1: and he was like flexing in the in the crowd
Speaker 1: and yeah, spot it out. Yeah, I had him spot
Speaker 1: it out. And my mom was at a at a
Speaker 1: inch game to the I want to say the Minnesota game,
Speaker 1: and I had I had a great game in the
Speaker 1: Minnesota game. So it's it's always good to have your
Speaker 1: parents in town and see you. They know you when
Speaker 1: you were trying to when you're just starting out, and
Speaker 1: to kind of see you out there on the field
Speaker 1: on TV. It surreal to them. So is that your
Speaker 1: goal to move after a sack that a double bicet
Speaker 1: flex or or something. Is something going to be different
Speaker 1: this week? Now? I'd probably be the DOUBLET flex. He
Speaker 1: got thirty inch charms you might have roll from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got to throw them up, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: something everybody can do. You know. I did it. I
Speaker 1: did it in the Minnesota game and I looked. I
Speaker 1: looked at the fans in the end zone. They were
Speaker 1: like throwing it up, like yeah. So it gets him
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah, it doesn't take long for something to
Speaker 1: gain momentum. So yeah, it could be a thing for
Speaker 1: Williams here in twenty nineteen. Still seven more games to
Speaker 1: go to add to the to the success you're having
Speaker 1: right now. All right, we're gonna take another break here
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Speaker 1: holders the stch experiences. Addition, here live at We've got
Speaker 1: a wonderful facility. Loved this place. Pick Nick. Have you
Speaker 1: been down here before the studio? Probably one time at
Speaker 1: the beginning the season. Yeah, Yeah, it's great in here, man,
Speaker 1: this is where it all. This is where all this
Speaker 1: is where Tom shines. Yeah, you know all these videos
Speaker 1: you see, Oh yeah, this is his this is his place,
Speaker 1: right A Hall of Famer in the crowd though we
Speaker 1: bear man, bear Man's Man's in the house. You ever,
Speaker 1: you ever as you come out of here, Legan and
Speaker 1: see the guy in the forty six jersey with the
Speaker 1: bear head on, I think I've seen him like on
Speaker 1: the Jumbo on the Jumbo Trump ye on them Tim
Speaker 1: and Living Color. Yeah, in the in Pro Football Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. I think that's a that's awesome. Is that
Speaker 1: it's the greatest thing about being a Bear because I
Speaker 1: grew up a Bears fan in my whole life, so
Speaker 1: I kind of have more of an attachment as a
Speaker 1: fan than I do as a player as a broadcaster,
Speaker 1: and you know, when we go to these stadiums, like
Speaker 1: going to LA this week, it's gonna be insane how
Speaker 1: many Bears jerseys you see there. It is gonna be
Speaker 1: an awesome site because my experience as a play in
Speaker 1: the coliseum was Notre Dame USC and it would sell
Speaker 1: out and it would be a majority sc I played
Speaker 1: there in the USFL when there was nobody, and now
Speaker 1: you're gonna come back and play in the NFL with
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of Bears. So
Speaker 1: they know it's coming too, because they've been asked about
Speaker 1: it up there over there in LA, so they know
Speaker 1: it's coming. So if you're going, be loud and proud,
Speaker 1: I mean you always are, so Bear fans travel very well.
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Speaker 1: dot com. Nick Williams our guest, Nick, are you a
Speaker 1: patient man? Because you had to be setting you up?
Speaker 1: You got you got in the league in tw thirteen.
Speaker 1: Oh my, oh my, wife, it's not here, it's not
Speaker 1: listening to this. I think I'm a very patient man,
Speaker 1: you know. So yeah, I know she's gonna listen to it.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be like, no, you're not, especially with the kids.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I feel like I'm a patient man,
Speaker 1: you know, as far as my story in the league, Uh,
Speaker 1: you just gotta you just gotta have belief in yourself.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of guys kind of fall if
Speaker 1: you're not getting the playing time or seeing the snaps
Speaker 1: that you want to see, you kind of like give
Speaker 1: up on it. So you just gotta stay patient and
Speaker 1: it'll work out where you ever, you ever have a
Speaker 1: crossroads moment where your thought, I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if I can keep this train rolling. Man. When
Speaker 1: I first got when I first got to Pittsburgh and
Speaker 1: I saw how big the guys were, like Steve mcclindon
Speaker 1: and Casey Hampton had just retired and we're looking at
Speaker 1: film in the defensive line room and John Mitchell was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what I want you to do. I'm calling
Speaker 1: my dad like I'm not gonna be able to do this.
Speaker 1: Do this. And then we go to Latrobe. What they
Speaker 1: do they do training camp at And it's like miserable
Speaker 1: there and we're like practicing hidden every day and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of like, oh my god, what am I doing?
Speaker 1: So that was kind of like a moment I kind
Speaker 1: of had to kind of had to focus, recalibrate and say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can do this, man, you got drafted here and
Speaker 1: you can play in this league. But you were you
Speaker 1: were out of football for a season, right, So from
Speaker 1: the time that you were out of football for the
Speaker 1: time you got back into football, did you gain a
Speaker 1: lot of strength during that time? I mean, were you
Speaker 1: did you present yourself as a different player in that
Speaker 1: second goal around? Oh my god. In twenty seventeen, I
Speaker 1: actually worked out with the with the Bears around like
Speaker 1: week five and Jay Rodgers did the workout and they
Speaker 1: didn't have a spot for me. It didn't work out,
Speaker 1: but I went back home and I was and I
Speaker 1: was I was. I was happy, you know, and I
Speaker 1: was just started working out like crazy. I was just
Speaker 1: attacking the weight room, getting strongest crap. And then in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen when they had the voluntary mini camp, they
Speaker 1: called they called me and said, hey, do you want
Speaker 1: to come for a tryout? And when I came for
Speaker 1: the tryout, you know, it was kind of like I
Speaker 1: was strongest crap. It was. It was kind of like scary,
Speaker 1: you know, like because I have been lifting that whole time,
Speaker 1: and you know, when you're when you're playing games in
Speaker 1: NFL during the season, you don't lift as much. So
Speaker 1: when I came in for that that mini camp, I
Speaker 1: was strongest. Crap. I just knew. I just knew it
Speaker 1: was something. It was something new about this goal around.
Speaker 1: But I mean, do you do you lift now during
Speaker 1: the season, Because for me, self confidence was always getting
Speaker 1: stronger during the football season. So I think I think
Speaker 1: you have a similar attachment to the weight room that
Speaker 1: I did during my time. Yes, I love lifting. I
Speaker 1: love lifting. Uh so. I mean Loco, our strimp coach,
Speaker 1: our head strimp coach. Loco, I'm always in his ear
Speaker 1: trying to see what numbers I need to hit this week.
Speaker 1: I need to increase my numbers in a in a
Speaker 1: squad or or a bench or a low incline and
Speaker 1: just just any just any lift that you want to do.
Speaker 1: I always want to put put on weight, put on
Speaker 1: more weight each week. Jason Lescouzoe for the uninformed out there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he tell me know what's and local. Well, no,
Speaker 1: that's funny because at the one hundred, uh, we're introducing
Speaker 1: the team and Tom didn't know his name because even no,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I didn't know how to read his last name.
Speaker 1: Loco makes it nice and easy. Uh. That strength though,
Speaker 1: now that you you know, you know, you mature into
Speaker 1: your body. I mean you haven't always been three hundred pounds. Clearly,
Speaker 1: this is like, this is new territory. It's it's not
Speaker 1: that long that you've been carrying this kind of weight around.
Speaker 1: But I've I've always felt and listening to time talk
Speaker 1: about the weight room, not only does it give you
Speaker 1: your a little bit of your confidence. Obviously, knowledge is power.
Speaker 1: On Sundays, you know your assignments, you know your technique,
Speaker 1: you know you studied your opponent. But if you don't
Speaker 1: feel strong, that could sneak into your head and cause
Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem. Oh heck yeah, especially
Speaker 1: when you're playing any trenches, when you're playing defensive line,
Speaker 1: offensive line, if you get a guy that's clearly stronger
Speaker 1: than you, you kind of you kind of get into
Speaker 1: your own head like, oh man, what can I do
Speaker 1: against him to kind to kind of help me have
Speaker 1: success during this game. So Steve McClinton a long time
Speaker 1: ago told me, Nick, if you're strong in this league,
Speaker 1: nobody can mess with you. And I kind of took
Speaker 1: that approach to the weight room. I need to get
Speaker 1: strong as crap. I need to get I need to
Speaker 1: hit crazy numbers. So that's the kind of approach that
Speaker 1: I took, that that I take to the weight room. Now,
Speaker 1: did it also help you bond with your teammates because
Speaker 1: Tom has always told me that's where it all starts
Speaker 1: in the offseason programmer, the camaraderie, and you better adjusted
Speaker 1: because you've been in several places. Obviously this is your
Speaker 1: fourth team. And did it help you transition into to
Speaker 1: this place a little bit? Yes? Yes, you meet guys
Speaker 1: in the weight room. It's just like it's just like
Speaker 1: going a lifetime or twenty four hour fitness You meet
Speaker 1: guys in the weight room that you probably think you
Speaker 1: didn't You probably thought you didn't have anything in common
Speaker 1: with them, but they love lifting weights and you kind
Speaker 1: of get into it and you just find a common ground,
Speaker 1: a common lift, and you just your relationship with that
Speaker 1: person just takes off, you find that young defensive lineman
Speaker 1: or the young players gravitate towards you in the weight
Speaker 1: room because obviously they look at you and they know
Speaker 1: what you've been able to accomplish. They got to know
Speaker 1: what you know, what you're talking about, but they also
Speaker 1: want to kind of be around your work ethic. Yes,
Speaker 1: so we were, we were me and a team. We're
Speaker 1: kind of like the big dogs in the weight room.
Speaker 1: You know. So, uh, last year allowed Nichols. He wasn't
Speaker 1: he wasn't a lifting with us. So this year he
Speaker 1: decided to lift with us. And you can you can
Speaker 1: tell him, you can tell him the field he's way stronger.
Speaker 1: Abdula Anderson, it's another one that lifted with us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the law says he's never been stronger in his life.
Speaker 1: So good work helping out the young guy. We got
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Speaker 1: ever met Spice? Yes? Have you done big big guys
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Speaker 1: three digits. He looks great. He looks like a guy
Speaker 1: in a magazine, movie movie star. That's what you're looking
Speaker 1: at it right now? So um yesterday, I can't believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks fantific. For him, I think a great job.
Speaker 1: You know, that's the pursuit of every athlete that once
Speaker 1: they get done playing football, as you have a decision
Speaker 1: to make when you're done, and it's either gonna your decision. Yeah. Time.
Speaker 1: The most ever weighed is three seventeen. At the conclusion
Speaker 1: of my last season, I weighed about two ninety. But then, um,
Speaker 1: when I knew, I convinced myself I wanted to retire.
Speaker 1: I went and lost so much weight that I didn't
Speaker 1: have I couldn't go back at many camp. So that's
Speaker 1: what I did. Yeah, and he stayed in fine shape
Speaker 1: ever since. I tell you right now, So let let's
Speaker 1: talk a little ramps because you're you're here last year obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: that game last year was one of my favorites, right right, guys.
Speaker 1: I mean that that was it was like a blueprint
Speaker 1: to stop something that the twelve thirteen games have you
Speaker 1: count the playoffs, scoring thirty or more points, and until
Speaker 1: the Patriots got a hold of them using chunks of
Speaker 1: your game plan to stop him, nobody could stop him.
Speaker 1: So what was it about that day, that scheme, that
Speaker 1: that that plan to make it difficult for Jared goffin
Speaker 1: the Rams? I think it was just it was just
Speaker 1: our time. It was just our day. You know. Teams
Speaker 1: have those nights, those days, defenses have those days when
Speaker 1: they just can't be stopped and just throwing the kitchen
Speaker 1: sink at him to try to stop him. And uh,
Speaker 1: my favorite play in that game was the Eddie Goldman
Speaker 1: and Keem Hicks safety on Jared Goff And I was like, man,
Speaker 1: they some monsters. I wouldn't even playing. I wasn't even playing,
Speaker 1: but I was like, man, it's some monsters out here.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to play against us. So it was
Speaker 1: a ferocity about it. Yeah, the whole thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was just a vicious game. And had a pick
Speaker 1: you know, uh I think I think did Prince have
Speaker 1: a pick? I know Eddie had a pick? Pick? Hey
Speaker 1: listen there were four yea, it was four him. It
Speaker 1: was just crazy. It was just a crazy game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three sacks. The defense was going crazy. So it was
Speaker 1: a great you know, you said you threw the kitchen
Speaker 1: sink at him. And one of the audience members wanted
Speaker 1: to ask, or do you have a preference whether you
Speaker 1: play a thirty four front or you play a four
Speaker 1: man defensive line front, because you really kind of just
Speaker 1: morphed to the offensive personnel you're facing, But do you
Speaker 1: have a preference in your rush ability, your ability to
Speaker 1: work with a blitzer no matter what it is. I
Speaker 1: don't have a preference because you know, three fours can
Speaker 1: are kind of interchangeable depending on what the offense puts
Speaker 1: out personnel wise, like against eleven personnel you might go sup.
Speaker 1: So it's just two defensive linemen on the field, and
Speaker 1: that looks like a four to three. So you're able
Speaker 1: to rush with Khalil Mack and Flow and Aaron Lanch
Speaker 1: those guys. So I mean, well, you know, numbers are
Speaker 1: getting difficult because even Detroit last week against the Bears,
Speaker 1: they had one defensive lineman in the stance and then
Speaker 1: they had five linebackers standing up at a different distance.
Speaker 1: That now the offensive line has to decipher who their
Speaker 1: responsibilities are according to the depth they're coming from, and
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of different variations of different fronts. Yes,
Speaker 1: it is, I prefer three four. You know, as many
Speaker 1: big guys you can get in there in a three
Speaker 1: four defense to stop the run and then you can
Speaker 1: get after the passer when you stop the run. Now,
Speaker 1: do you feel you have an advantage if you're over
Speaker 1: the top of the center because he has to snap
Speaker 1: the ball first and a little bit of his inertia
Speaker 1: is going backward. Oh yeah, I love rushing over the cities.
Speaker 1: Man's I think about it at night. You know, they're
Speaker 1: probably the worst past defenders. Uh on the on the
Speaker 1: office will be careful, I know. Thank god, Jay Hilgenberg
Speaker 1: isn't here. He's listening. No, no, no, no, man. Man,
Speaker 1: when you when you get the rush over the center,
Speaker 1: I mean you kind of you kind of get get
Speaker 1: get kind of riled up to do it. So it's
Speaker 1: a I love rushing over the center. And it's interesting.
Speaker 1: The Ramps have some serious They got a serious situation
Speaker 1: on their offensive line right now with bodies and injuries.
Speaker 1: They've been just wiped out. So I don't even know
Speaker 1: what the alignment's going to be or how you guys
Speaker 1: are planning for it, but it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: an interesting task. But all that greatness last year doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if you guys don't stop the run. And you
Speaker 1: did that game against Gurley and you have to do
Speaker 1: it this week. Yes, we have to do it this week.
Speaker 1: You have to stop the running the National Football League period.
Speaker 1: So h oh yeah they like that. No no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Jay hig messages. I heard that. I heard that. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Jack and with and with that, I mean, if you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's a necessity because that team with
Speaker 1: their their their play action is what they want to do.
Speaker 1: They want to create those plays to draw you guys
Speaker 1: in and hit down the field. But they got a
Speaker 1: lot a lot of great weapons they do. And and
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley's he's a great talent in this league. And
Speaker 1: we're not. We're not. We're not a defense that we're
Speaker 1: listening to. Oh they're beat up on offense out of
Speaker 1: we're not. We're not taking this team lightly, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go in there and put our best defense on
Speaker 1: the field. You know. So you're going and you prepare
Speaker 1: before Detroit, and at the last minute you find out
Speaker 1: that Matthew Stafford's not playing. It can't change anything about
Speaker 1: your preparation. You have to use the preparation that you
Speaker 1: did against the next quarterback you're gonna play. So you're
Speaker 1: you're now you have a little bit of an awareness
Speaker 1: of that there's gonna be some offensive line missing from
Speaker 1: the Rams. Would you just rather thrust upon you like
Speaker 1: the Stafford decision? And then there's nothing you can think about,
Speaker 1: or you don't have time to change it or do
Speaker 1: you like a little bit of notification about the changes
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, because I don't know how much
Speaker 1: tape you're gonna have to look at of some of
Speaker 1: the guys you're gonna face this week. Yeah, you want to.
Speaker 1: I mean, going into the week in preparation, during practice,
Speaker 1: you want to have as much tape as you can
Speaker 1: get on guys to kind of see how they how
Speaker 1: they move, see what their strengths, what their weaknesses are.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you want to have a lot of tape
Speaker 1: on those guys. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: their nameless gray faces in this league, if they're not
Speaker 1: playing for the Bears, we're trying to go out there
Speaker 1: and beat the crap out of them. And they're in
Speaker 1: the NFL for a reason. I don't care if they
Speaker 1: they were inactive for a few games. It's they're in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So we're gonna put our best defense. Well,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. There's gonna be a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna have to read your bio because they're gonna
Speaker 1: look and they're gonna, oh my god, this guy's got
Speaker 1: six sacks. The three of the they're gonna be they
Speaker 1: gonna be like, who the heck is this guy right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's awesome for you. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: congratulations for it. But it's also kind of neat that
Speaker 1: you're you're the guy that they're gonna be reading about
Speaker 1: coming into Chicago, I mean coming when Chicago comes in,
Speaker 1: because yeah, who is gonna who's working with Leonard Floyd,
Speaker 1: who's working with Khalil Mack and Eddie Goldman, Roy Robin,
Speaker 1: the whole crew. Yeah, it's it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of kind of crazy that they even think
Speaker 1: that they're reading about me, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like I was kind of like like when I was
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, I was kind of like the extra
Speaker 1: d lineman to come in. If they went into a
Speaker 1: heavy package, they're run the ball, you know. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of crazy to think. But like
Speaker 1: I said, I'm just gonna put my head down and
Speaker 1: do my job. How do you guys feel as a
Speaker 1: unit when you'll lose a team. You'll lose now Danny
Speaker 1: Trevisan for an unknown amount of time, and you guys
Speaker 1: that are the on the depth chart must feel very
Speaker 1: good about what you did in that Minnesota game, and
Speaker 1: it is trickled all the way through the rest of
Speaker 1: the season that they believe in you and you believe
Speaker 1: in each other. Yeah, I think it speaks to not
Speaker 1: only this group, but the but the organization, the front office,
Speaker 1: the scouting department, the coaches that put together this team.
Speaker 1: You know, we're we got a lot of depth, and
Speaker 1: I think fans, I think I think the league is
Speaker 1: seeing that. You know, we got a Keem Hicks out,
Speaker 1: we got Danny out. They're great, great players in this league,
Speaker 1: in this defense, and we're gonna miss them when they're
Speaker 1: not with us. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's the next man up. You know, it's the next
Speaker 1: man up. We're gonna perform at our best as much
Speaker 1: as we can, as much as we can do to
Speaker 1: get to get a W in the college. You know,
Speaker 1: Nick Kotkowski's performance last week is kind of a salute
Speaker 1: to the coaches because here's a guy that was didn't
Speaker 1: know if he was gonna play, knew that he was
Speaker 1: gonna play on special teams. All of a sudden, his
Speaker 1: opportunity is presented. Bam. Nick is ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got we got all the respect for that. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a great He's a great player in this defense
Speaker 1: and in this league. And I think people are seeing that, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we had Roquan roke On was the draft pick last year.
Speaker 1: But Nick Nick can still play. You know, Nick, he
Speaker 1: just goes about his business. Man, He just goes about
Speaker 1: his business just like me. I mean, he's white Nick
Speaker 1: on black Nicks. You know, there's a big promo there
Speaker 1: somewhere we can work to Nick Man. That's Nick Williams
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