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As you 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.280 can hear in the background, we are in front of 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.400 a live audience here and BANC Studios at a US hall. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.640 Good to have some Bear season ticket holders in the 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.920 audience for this February show that feels like February outside. 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:44.800 You guys are warming it up for us tonight. Thank 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.840 you so much for being here. You guys good, All right, 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.200 Tom you good, I'm good. How are you doing. I'm 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.680 fantastic and big Nick Williams is very good, the leading 0:00:55.880 --> 0:01:01.560 sacker on your Chicago Bears for twenty nineteen. Honestly, can 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.640 you have ever in your wildest thought that one day 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.760 we'd be saying that like you would be hearing that 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.560 out of somebody's mouth in week entering Week eleven of 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.520 the twenty nineteen NFL season when you first started. No 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:18.040 use that microphone right there, body. Yeah, yeah, uh, it's 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.080 it's a great story. You're a great story. Yeah it is. Uh, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.360 it's it's kind of surreal. I was talking to my 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.279 dad the other day and he was like, he's always 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.000 sending me like the whole stats from the league and 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:32.280 stuff like that, and I was like, he was like, man, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:34.160 can you believe it? Can you believe it? And I 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.680 was like, no, I can't. But I just knew if 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.200 I worked hard, you know, and uh, continue to keep 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.479 my head down and just keep pushing forward, I would 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:45.760 have The funny thing is I looked up a scouting 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.680 report that way back when you were getting into this 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:54.120 game from Stamford and not much pass rush, that's what 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:57.800 That's not much pass rush. But he's very athletic. He's 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.960 very fast off the ball and he ran a four 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.200 nine forty, so he's got a lot of athleticism. And 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.680 that that's funny when you hear it now, because boy, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.920 you've grown into a hack of a pocket pusher. Yeah, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.959 it's just sometimes it just takes time. It takes time 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.440 for players. Everybody has a different type of story to 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:16.519 get to where they're at in the league. So it 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.440 just takes time. You think, you come into your home, 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.840 you play for an amazing organization like the Bears, and 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:24.119 they just bring a lot out of you. So that's 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.360 what kind of happened, you know, offensive defensive linement, it's 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.600 kind of unique. With that offensive lineman. You're either good 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.840 against the run and you need work against the pass, 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:33.160 or you're good, you know, vice versa. It's just like 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.440 the same in defensive lineman. Have you looked at the 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.640 list of the leading sackler sackers in the NFL? I have? Okay, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.880 so there's six of you guys that are stuck at 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.640 six sacks. You and Jordan Phillips are the only two 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.639 defensive tackles in that list, and then the others come 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.520 behind you. You know, when you think about going into 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:54.280 this game last year and all the hype about Aaron 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.640 Donald and stuff, I mean, it's it's got to be 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.680 amazing to you that your work ethic has allowed you 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.400 to get yourself to earn yourself into this position. Because 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.600 when you look at that list, there's a lot of 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.280 names on that list, man, and you're you're you're right 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.080 there from the middle, from the middle of the line 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.720 of scrimmage, old and strong man. But I really don't. 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.399 I really I try not to look at the list 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:18.880 a lot, you know. I try to keep my head down, 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.480 do do what I've always done, uh, and that's just 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.119 come to work every day and try to get better 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:29.119 at something. So the immediate as soon as a Chem 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:32.080 Hicks's injury happened, did you know that you are going 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.840 to expand your role from that point? Or is it 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:38.440 because of the quality of play that you've displayed that 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.600 your role has expanded. I think it's a little bit 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:42.840 of both. You know, a Chem going down, I mean, 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.320 he's a pro bowled calibery, a defensive lineman in this 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:48.760 league and I respect this game a lot and that's 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.640 my guy, as you all may know. But when he 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.800 went down, I was kind of like, Okay, well, they're 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.120 gonna need more for me. So that's that's kind of 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.800 the approach I took to the game, and I've had success. Well, 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.640 you know, we are kind of introduced to you that 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.560 you are a middle of the line kind of a 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.600 defensive lineman, defensive tackle, nose guard. So you make a 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.000 play over the right tackle, you make a play when 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.760 you're lined up over the guard or are you lined 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:14.680 up over the guard and you rush over the center 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.719 and then you have another play from the inside. Man. 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.600 That's that's a big role. There's a wide variety of 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.560 positions you play, so when you play one position to 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.320 the next, are all your techniques the same or as 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.000 a defensive end technique for you a little bit different 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.120 than maybe when you're playing over the guard or over 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.240 the center. I think it's uh, I think it's the same. 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.719 You know, if you're lining up in a zero zero 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.719 nose right over right, the right over the top of 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.640 the center is no different from lining up in a 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.120 five technique. Five technique is the inside eye of the 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.560 head up of the tackle, head up of the ta 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:54.200 inside of it will be like a four. But it's 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.240 no different from that. So you can, you can. You're 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.520 very interchangeable. So I think that's one that's one reason 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.159 to Bear wanted me here. They loved me to be 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.320 here because I could play both nose and in the 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.960 end position. Nick Williams our guest here on Bears All 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.280 Access brought to you by I Just Energy here at 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.720 PNC Studios in front of a live studio audience of 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.720 Bears season ticket holders. Good to be with you. Dan 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.600 Briley is our producer and Bob Boxer is producing our 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.960 show here today. You were on with us, I think 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.279 it was seven weeks ago. Yes, so lots changed in 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.040 seven weeks before the Minnesota game, right, Yeah, So how 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.960 have you changed on the field in the last seven 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.160 weeks in terms of your incomplete game? I mean, I'll 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.360 just try to get better at at something each each 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.960 week in and out of practice and uh working on something, 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:40.840 you know, to try to get better, to try to 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.640 contribute to this team, to this team success. And you 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.000 know the story that you said the journey. Pittsburgh drafted you. 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:50.320 That had to be a thrill because a big guy 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.680 in that system where you could be interchangeable, and that's 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.880 a they're like big guys playing in their three four defense. 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.479 And unfortunately you got injured your rookie year that shut 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.360 your back to Yeah, it sent me back. I was 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.120 hurting my rookie year. I was on IR. I actually 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:08.880 had my surgery my rookie year October thirty first, I 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.680 never forget it Halloween and I kind of got set back. 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.320 But moving forward, I kind of put it in my 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.120 head to just bring my lunch pail to work, you know, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.400 and uh keep my head down and continue to work hard, 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.880 and uh not say much but just let my let 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.400 my play do the talk. I was looking after you 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.640 then as a rookie terms of guys, your big guy. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.920 Here's a keep who had Steve McClinton. Steve McClinton, he's big, 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.960 big no soucker for the Jets now and Al Woods, 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.800 you know, he's playing with the Seahawks. I had Cam Hayward. 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.800 He's still in Pittsburgh. So those were kind of like 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.560 my and then Brett Keisel. Brett Keisel was still playing 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.359 Bearded one. The Bearded one, he was still playing. And 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.040 those were kind of like my ogs of any sorts. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.520 So they kind of looked out for me or kind 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.440 of told me what to do. You know, when you're 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.400 a rookie, you get told what to do. So they 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.800 kind of looked out for me. And here I am. Now. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.080 You know if you didn't invest in the weight room 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:08.400 in yourself, that you would never be here right now. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.360 You're one of the biggest strongest guys in the NFL 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.920 and on this team. So you around the Steelers, we 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.440 all read about football fans around the NFL. You read 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:21.160 stories about James Harrison and him basically spending hundreds of 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:25.040 thousands of dollars on his body in the offseason. We've 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.320 been around the greatest player in the history of the league, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.480 and Walter Payton has never spent a cent on anybody 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.280 to train him for preparation for the next season. Where 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.360 do you fall in in terms of are you a 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:40.520 self motivated, self prepared guy or are you the James 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.440 Harrison that you have to have help or the Walter 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.840 Payton that I can do it on my own a 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.080 little bit of both. You know, I'm a weight room guy. Yes, 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.560 you know, I love the weight room. I probably don't 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:53.520 like running as much because because I'm more than three 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.600 hundred pounds, so I'm kind of like, but you know, 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:58.240 you have to run, you have to be in shape. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.680 But I'm in the weight room guy. You don't have 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.840 to really stay on me about working out every day 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.840 in the off season to get ready for the season. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:09.320 And I work out hard, and I work out long, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.000 long hours, and I sometimes I do two of days 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.720 in the off season. So I just I just love 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.520 working out. You love preparing for the next season? How 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.880 much you way right now. I think I think I'm 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.560 like three ten. What's the moost you ever weigh twenty? Really? 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.920 You know what he was when he was high school? Uh? 0:08:25.000 --> 0:08:27.760 He was a six foot two, one hundred eighty five 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:31.360 pound basketball player. Yes, that was oh my god, in 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.960 a senior year high school. Well, you know what, like 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.360 you would have actually actually my eleventh grade year, that's 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.160 how That's how big I was. I was like six two, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.040 one eighty five and then I was playing like I 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.800 was playing basketball. I never played football, and I was 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.480 playing basketball. And my dad was like, hey, son, uh, 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:52.280 you're playing You're playing center and you're six two. And 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.000 I had and I was fortunate enough to play against 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.800 like Eric Bletsoe. He's like a guard for the Milwaukee 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:03.640 Bucks Bucks. And I had had a good thing of 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:08.160 playing against the Marcus Cousins. And because he's from Alabama, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:09.959 so I played against him in high school. He was 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:13.040 like sixteen sixty eleven and I'm guarding him. My dad 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.400 looked at me and said, hey, Nick, you probably you 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:18.440 probably you probably need to go out for the football 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:22.400 team because you're not gonna have much sincess here on 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.440 the basketball court. So my senior year. I got to 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.679 like us two forty two hundred and forty pounds, and 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:30.760 then the way just kept kept coming. We're gonna pick 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:31.959 it up from there. I won't find out what the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.320 heck you were eating, that's for sure. How you got 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.840 to hear him? We gotta talk a little Bookie Cousins too, 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.559 because that locker room loves the NBA. Rudy Charles Little Junior. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.719 Nick Williams our guest here on Bears All Access for 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.600 step away More. Caught up with Nick Williams on Chicago 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:51.160 Sports Radio six seventy to star Man, Welcome back to 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.360 Bears All Access. Struck to you by IGS Center for 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.760 a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, actual 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:00.760 gashing homeward he products over one million trust frost the country. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.920 Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com, Jeff 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.680 and Town. When Nick Williams our special guest, thanks always 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.480 to Hurt Lawrence at Adams Dzinski in ORIM Chicago Sports 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.440 six seventy Score Studios and the crowd enjoyed it. I saw, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.560 I saw something I had. I had to take a 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:18.880 minute here because a lot of great Bears season ticket 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:21.520 old this year, having Bears jerseys, and I saw one 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:26.120 and said, since on back and this this fine young 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:30.520 couple over here, since together since and then he's wearing 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:34.320 nineteen and she's wearing sixty seven. And you should be 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.000 wearing nineteen, ma'am, and he should be wearing six center 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.280 because you know, you look like you're in nineteen year old. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.040 But that's beautiful. I love that. That was awesome. I 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.960 was wondering when I went to look, I always look 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:45.719 at the number of the jersey. Then if there's a 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.920 number I don't really recognize that, I always go back 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:49.560 to see if they have their own name on it 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.320 or the name of a player. And I went back 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.920 there and it said together, that's a Bears family right there. Goodness, 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:58.480 good to have you alongside. Before we went to break, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.600 we were talking about your weight. Yeah, we're talking about 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:02.679 how you how you added, how'd you pack it all? 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.120 Because it's not your weight room. You gotta have the 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.800 protein to build a muscles. So what we're diving into 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.120 to get all the way up to football weight back 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.360 to college. Man, let me start in high school. So 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:17.520 my senior year I started going to sonics, and man, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.679 this when this when they just came out with the 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.080 breakfast burrito and I was like, I was like eating 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:25.920 like two or three of them a day, and I 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.160 was my weight was just shooting up. I was like, oh, 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.920 this is great. So then I finally got to college, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.680 and you know, you get to college, you're still small. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.120 You know, you're coming in with other big, big guys. 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:38.439 So I was two forty when I came into college 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.960 and I just attacked the weight room and I read 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.360 shirted and my coach, my head coach, tricked me. He 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.400 was like, yeah, you're gonna play defensive in for us 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.760 out of the past Sullivan And he said, uh, he said, 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.200 You're gonna play a d and just come to all 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.040 the away games and just get you some food and 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.000 just eat, just eat your eat your life away, you know. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.880 So so I was just backing on the weight and 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.640 I ended up I was like three twenty. Wow. So 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.040 so yeah, in college, so eventually I had to had 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.040 to drop back down and learn how to kind of 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.400 mold my body into what I wanted it to be 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:15.040 the strength to be able to carry the weight. And 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:16.800 then I went back down to like three ten, and 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.160 it was an optimal weight for me. That's the heck 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:21.720 of a thing. When the coach when I was in college, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.840 after my sophomore year, they said, we want you to 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.640 go home and gain as much weight as you can 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.600 because you're gonna play left tackle next year. And I 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.920 came back at three seventeen and I had no clothes 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.640 at fit. I could barely breathe, but I was really strong. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:36.800 And then you got to kind of figure out how 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.280 to run with all that weight on me. Oh my god, 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:41.880 my knees were killing me. Yeah, my knees. I was like, 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.839 I felt like my knees were like what are you 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.760 doing to us? You know? Like, so I had to 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.480 drop I had to drop that weight and then I 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:56.480 came back up. So Sam Samford Sam not stand. So um, 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.240 I heard that when you guys are introduced before the game, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.440 there's like us, all the students are in red shirts, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.480 and then there's a guy that's dressed up like Moses. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:12.120 He walks out parts Ye stand Stanfords the Christian Christian 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.200 University down in Alabama, and we have the red sea 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.760 of student section and they're going they're going crazy. It's 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.040 not it's not many of them trust me, and they're 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.480 going crazy. And we got this guy that dresses up 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:27.160 like Moses every game, every home game. And I guess 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.320 he passes it on because I'm like, this kid is 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.720 not graduating college, you know what I'm saying. So so, yeah, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.920 he dresses up as Moses and parts the Red Seed 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.640 and it's pretty cool. That's a funny. That's a funny thing. Uh, 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:42.840 tell me the State Farm insurance connection. State Farm? My 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:48.120 dad got to Stanford or got you to Pittsburgh, got 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.240 me to Pittsburgh. Well, my dad used to work for 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.560 State Farm, So, uh, I guess I guess he had 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.360 a connection, right, your dad's your name is? And he 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.679 knew Pat Sullivan, he knew, he knew I think he 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.560 knew Patian knew one of the coaches Pittsburgh Steelers. Yeah, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:08.520 Pat Sullivan knows. Uh dang my defensive line coach, Mitch. 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.960 I'm forgetting his last name. Yeah. But the point of 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.800 it is, this is partly why you get found anywhere 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.040 because the slightest little relationship. Hey, you gotta check this 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.320 guy out here. They drafted you. Yeah, Mitchell was a 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.520 Mitchell was the first I think he was the first 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.320 African American defensive lineman at the University of Alabama. And 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.360 one of my one of my strimp coaches actually came 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.040 from Alabama and he was that year. He was asking, Hey, 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.320 do you have anybody at Sanford? And uh, my strimth 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.360 coach said, yeah, you should check you should check Nick 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.040 Williams out. I mean, just just for giggles, you know, 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.720 you should check him out. And so he came out 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.040 and he liked he liked me, and he went on 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.400 to Tuscaloose and looked at some more some more guys, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.160 but he ended up drafting me. John John Mitchell, John Mitch, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.720 I think that's a great story. That's a great story. Hey, um, 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.400 Jeff said, where we haven't we talked to you seven 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.320 weeks ago? A lot has change in seven weeks, Um, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.640 and you're from the Alabama area. Are you a good 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:11.280 driver in the snow? Hey? Funny story, funny story. When 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.000 I was in Pittsburgh, it's my first snow right epidemic 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.840 I called it. So I was still driving my college car. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.080 It was a Chevallet and Paula two thousand and eight, 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.520 and I was driving up this hill and they were like, 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.880 they were telling me, yeah, man, you'll you'll be cool 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.680 man if you got front real drive you'll be all right. 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.960 I was like, okay, cool, I'm driving my college car. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.640 So it was my rookie year and I was hurt. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.200 I was hurting my rookie year. So I was driving 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.640 up this uh, driving up this little hill, and then 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:41.520 my car started just sliding back, and I was like 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.920 and I was like, oh oh no, oh no. So 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.280 it was kind of like my first a little a 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.280 little incident with snow. But I've gotten much better. So 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.640 from from Sunday night when you go to sleep till 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:54.720 you wake up Monday morning to come into work, and 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.720 it's like all hell broke clues? Is that, like you 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.160 still have to get acclimated the driver. Have you gone 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.560 around the cold weather enough with your career in Kansas City, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.080 Pittsburgh and in Chicago. Yeah, I've been. I've been around 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.680 like Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, so it's it's I'm acclimated 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.080 to it. We had Buster Screen as a guest last night, 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:15.000 out out and about for bears after dark with w 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.320 BBM and his cars a truck. I guess he parks 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:23.360 outside so he could not get the car door. It 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.560 was frozen to the point he couldn't shut it, so 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:29.000 he drove all the way from Chicago to Hallis Hall 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:34.440 with his hand clothed. So yeah, it's it's an indoctrination. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.080 I mean, Eddie, Eddie Paniero. I had never seen snow 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.680 till last week. Oh, first snowball in his hand. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:42.800 it's just it's crazy when you think about it because 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.240 we're used to it. Well yeah, I mean there's a 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.040 lot of firsts that come up in the life. You know, 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:50.040 have you ever been in the Coliseum? So, yes, I played. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.240 I played at the Coliseum. You have two times. Actually, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.560 when I was in Kansas City, i played, Uh, I 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.520 played against the Rams and uh I think when I 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.960 was in Miami we played against the Rams as well. 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.600 You know, it's it's like one of the stadiums throughout 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:06.399 a football player's career that you would like to you know, 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.200 that you would like to play in. And it's it's 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.280 kind of neat. We haven't been there for a long time, 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.880 but I didn't realize that you would have the opportunity 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.040 to play there yet. Yeah. Yeah, I've played there twice 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.119 and it's it's been it's been pretty good. A lot 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.879 of history in that stadium and so extreme cold or 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.639 extreme heat I'm going to do extreme heat. I was 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.960 in I was in Miami for training camp and we 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:29.720 would have to take breaks. It would get like hot 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.159 as crap, and we had to take breaks in between 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.040 periods and stuff during practice. So I would take heat 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.960 over extreme cold. I played my last year with the Dolphins, 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:41.400 and there's times in December it was like two hundred degrees. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.600 Oh yeah, it was so hot at practice. It was 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.320 hard to make it was so hot. We always we 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.879 always sometimes we always went to the bubble. They're like, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.960 we're not even going to chance here because guys are 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.240 like falling out. So but I would still do extreme 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.399 heat over extreme cold. Nick Williams our guests here on 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.800 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. We're gonna take 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.639 another break again. We're brought to you Buy IGS Energy 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.240 here at Pancy Studios at ADASA. Stick around More to 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:09.119 come Bears Conversation on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:17.720 Score Tack from Fancy Studios at ADASAW. This Bears all Access. 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:23.960 You Buy IGS Energy with Tom Fair, I'm Jeff Joniak 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:28.080 and Big Nick Williams. Nick, you go and get six 0:18:28.119 --> 0:18:31.920 sacks for a team that is you know you're gonna 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:33.639 You're not gonna lie. You miss a chem Hicks, no 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:38.160 question about it. But the attention surrounding you has increased significantly. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.560 There's a lot of reporters around your locker now, and 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.640 you know, how are you with that? Because if you're 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.120 not used to it, and sometimes it's intimidating for a guy, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:49.359 no matter what age they are in this league, some 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:51.679 guys don't love the attention. I mean, some guys just 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:54.000 don't want to talk about themselves. Khalil is one of 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.280 those guys. He wants to talk about everybody else but himself. 0:18:56.600 --> 0:18:58.960 He's a great player. Uh. You seem to have the 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.680 personality that is accepting of that and you can handle 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.800 it well, but what is your what is your opinion 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.200 on it all? I mean I can I can handle 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:10.560 media and people being around my locker and stuff like that. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.919 It was once a time when they weren't around my locker, Like, Okay, 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.200 who's that, Who's that? Who's that on the team? Who 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.000 is that guy? You know he's a big guy, but 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.840 I don't know him, so I kind of hand a ittle. Well, 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.120 you know, I always try to pointing back to my teammates. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:29.439 You know this organization. Uh, these coaches. Um, so I'm 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:31.479 very fortunate to play for the Bear. So there's an 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:34.639 interview playing on all over TV today where you're getting interviewed. 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.760 But the only thing you can hear was someone screaming 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.680 in the background, and it's treet Cohen because they put 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:41.800 the towel so high on the shelf so he couldn't 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:45.480 reach him. Yeah, he gets pissed when that happens. You know, 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:48.600 he's always he's always screaming. He's always screaming that he 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.440 can't reach the towels, you know. So I think teammate, 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:54.760