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Everybody, welcome 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.320 in as we are brought to you by IGS Energy, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:36.559 Jeff Joni Acabong with Tom Dare and Jim Miller our 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.680 producer tonight to Sean Anderson, and we got a full 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.120 show tonight coming up at about six to ten, joined 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:42.879 by one of the Bears, a rookie members of the 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.520 twenty twenty draft class seventh rounder of the Chavs, Pig Simmons, 0:00:46.840 --> 0:00:49.200 offensive lineman. Then at the bottom of the hour, which 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.960 joined by Bear strengthening conditioning coach Jason Loscalzo. That'll be 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.680 around six thirty. We're gonna have a portion of an 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.760 interview I did this week with former Bears Director of 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.120 Player Personnel Rod Grey As we've spent thirteen years with 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.560 the Bears organization. Now the executive director of the Fritz 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.679 Poler Alliance. Big news this week with the NFL owners 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.839 meeting virtually and making changes to the Rooney rules. We'll 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.160 discuss all of that, but without further ado as we 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:15.120 await the arrival a big time getting his technical aspects 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.360 off fired up, we go to my friend Jim Miller 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.800 from Serious x M NFL Radio, the former Bears starting 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.000 quarterback in two thousand and one, the great playoff run 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.440 the Bears made our things going over at NFL Radio. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.720 We're doing great, Jeff, obviously. Yeah, the rules proposals came 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.880 out today. The NFL owners will vote on it next week, 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.679 but the Competition Committee, you know, still a lot of talk, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:38.880 you know, will there be technically a booth judge or 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.280 a sky judge is how it's been talked about. So 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.000 that proposals out there, and you know, supposedly what was 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.720 reported today about the on side kicks, you know, we 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.280 know because of the new kickoff rule, they really haven't 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.280 had an impact in the game. They've really plummeted for 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.360 on side kicks. So if your team wants to get 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.400 back in the game, they're considering a proposal to go 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.880 for it on fourth and fifth team at your own 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.320 twenty five, and if you get it, you could advance 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.680 and try to fight your way back into a game, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.040 and your teams would be allowed to do that two 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.720 times per game. So there's still a lot of football 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:14.480 talk going around, Patton. There's still or excuse me, Jeff, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.639 and still a lot of signings that are going on 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.920 right now. So there's a little lot going on in 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.600 free agency in this virtual world that we live in, 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:23.840 right I believe that's the most interesting one of the 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.520 alternate way to go about it. The onside kick. So 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:31.040 as in former quarterback, it's fourth and fifteen from your 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.960 twenty five, you're trailing. It's obviously you can be for 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:39.040 teams trailing. Is it in your DNA to say, hey, coach, 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:43.480 we're going for it. The percentage is very low, and 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.080 that's not what I asked you. I personally, I probably 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.320 would still take my chances with an onside kick. You 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.239 don't have my kicker try to hit one of those 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:56.440 front linemen because as you know, with the onside kicks now, 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.160 you can't overload. You can't overload. It's got to be 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:01.320 five and five on each side of the kicker, meaning 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.760 five players to the right of the kicker, five players 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.360 to left before you could overload it. But for safety reasons, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:11.200 that's why they wanted to eliminate and they adjusted that rule. 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.680 But it has plummeted when you look at that number. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.640 I mean on side kicks, the recovery rate used to 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.600 be over twenty percent, and now that number is plummeted 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.160 to less than eight percent. We did see the Bears 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.520 do one last year, right, the Bears got one last year. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.880 I probably would still take my chances with an on 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.160 site kick, is what I would do. Because the field 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:32.560 position you're giving up. Imagine you don't get the fourth 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.080 and fifteen at your own twenty five I mean, I 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.760 mean right away, the other the oppositions already in field 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.080 goal range. Right. Yeah, Well, you know some of the 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.120 math out there, and we're gonna welcome our guest here 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.640 in a second. Twenty four percent on fourth and fifteen 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.480 or longer under ten percent on the on side kickoff. 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.920 So if you're a guy likes to heave it deep 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.960 and feel good about your weapons, I think that's gonna 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.640 be a great conversation. And our conversation picked up. Now 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.840 Tom Thare's gotta love this because Lachevius, Pig Simmons, the 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.320 man is from Tennessee State, seventh round pick of the Bears. 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.240 He definitely, Uh, he's a guy that's going to check 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.000 in early. Lachevius, Welcome to Bears all Access here in 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.880 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. Good to have 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:18.280 you along. And Uh, it's hard to say, but are 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:20.480 you settling in at all? I mean, this is so 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.600 bizarre how the season is starting for off football players 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.960 college or pro. And but are you settling in a 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:30.000 little bit as a Chicago Bear? Uh? Yeah, thanks for 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.800 having me on the show, by the way, But yeah, now, 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.880 but everything's been so it's just like we just had 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.280 to just had to adapt to the situation. So well, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.919 it's been pretty smooth being a Bear of And what 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:47.640 is your first impression of what you're seeing firsthand with 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:54.719 these virtual meetings? Um, the the relationships were building, like 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.240 with my other teammates, Like we always have these coffee 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.960 shop meetings and stuff, and it's like we're getting to 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.719 know each other as a person less than a player, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:08.200 and I think that's very important. Um and down the line, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.400 Lachevis Jim Miller here, Welcome to the Chicago Bears. You're 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.360 with a great organization, and maybe just talk about that. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:17.840 You know, you know, this is your dream. It's a 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.720 lot of young football player's dream to get an opportunity, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.080 and that opportunity is presented in front of you. It 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.080 does have its challenges that you just pointed out, but 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.200 what does it mean to you to reach a goal 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.080 of yours and now to knock that door over and 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.400 down to make this football team. It's amazing, man. Like 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:38.160 It's sometimes I'd be thinking about it when I'll be 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.200 waking up in the morning, like wow, like I'm really 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.760 in the NFL. Like I mean, I've been thinking about 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.720 this ere since I was a little kid, and like 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.240 everybody used to always ask me, like what what' you're 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.400 gonna do in your career? Like I said, I always 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.680 want to be an NFL football player. At matter what 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.360 position I played, I just want to be in the 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.760 NFL because I used to play decease a line and 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.919 linebacker and running back everything. I just I want to 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.160 be in the NFL. But Chvus Simmons our guest here 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.239 on Bears All Access, Jeff Joniak and Jim Miller awaiting 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.960 Tim Thayre's arrival as well. Um, you know, iferred to 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.920 you as pig, and I don't want people to think, Okay, 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.039 where'd this come from? And your story has been told 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.200 a little bit once you've been drafted, but you know 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.159 you grew up on a farm man throwing a hale 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:24.640 baal's a hay and getting your your strength that way, 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.880 that natural strength that comes with that being a kid 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:30.000 growing up on a farm. But it sounds just like 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:33.159 a total blue collar existence for you. But that's part 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:34.599 of it, right is that is that part of the 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.440 nickname and what your family decided to refer to you 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:43.960 as nah is really like my grandma would these homemade 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.880 meals like some college greens and corn bread, and I 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.960 never used a fork and I used to just pig 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.039 out on it and that's how I got it, and 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.560 she just called me a pig and it just stuck 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:57.200 meror since I was a baby. Well, when you look 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.480 at that in terms of your eating habits, obviously you're 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.680 over three hundred, so it's still continued. I would assume, right, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.760 oh yeah, I gotta have them greens man. Well, let 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.640 me ask you this, because you are such a good athlete. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.680 You mentioned all the other positions that you played growing up. 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:15.880 You have played all five offensive line positions where you know, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.000 for you, where do you feel the most comfortable. I 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.320 think they project you as a guard. But as you know, 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.920 even Cody Whitehair, he's a talented guy that's played even 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:29.360 left tackle in college, what do you prefer? Like, it 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.000 really doesn't matter. It's just I want to be put 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.480 in whatever position like the coaches want me to be 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.520 to help the team be successful. And like that's what 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.160 that was my mindset in college too, Like I just 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.360 wanted to help the team be successful a matter where 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.240 it was. Because some guys can only play left side, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.240 and I feel like, okay, well he gonna play left side. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.520 He good at left side, and maybe I'm I can 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.200 go try the right side because I can play multiple positions. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.400 So it's just to put the team in the better 0:07:55.440 --> 0:08:00.320 situations and like help them for the win. All right, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:04.560 Well wait with Lachevia Simmons, the big guy working his 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.120 way up the chart now, and I want to introduce 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.240 you to my broadcast partner of the Chevas fellow offensive lineman. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.960 He's very excited about you, and mister Hambright as well. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.200 In that seventh round, Tomp there. I've played ten years 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.600 in the National Football League and was a bear starter 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.800 on the Super Bowl team Big Tom. Hey, it's nice 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.080 to talk to you, Pig. I don't know. I was 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.760 a little late to the party, so I don't know 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.480 how to talk to you. But I gotta say, I 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.120 gotta ask you one thing. So in my generation, there 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.559 is a basketball player's name was Alan Iverson and one 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:39.360 of the most famous press conferences was after after a 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.360 workout where he missed, he said, practice and so I 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:46.000 look at your priority one, two three and practice, can 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.080 you and listen? I agree with it because I think 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.360 I think strength and conditioning is the most important element 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:55.320 to get you into the game. Film study what's going 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.480 to keep you in the game, and then practice is 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.440 going to sharpen your technique. So how did you come 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:05.400 to that one two three list of priorities? Um? Pretty 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.600 much because like before you even get out on the field, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.600 like I feel like you gotta have you gotta have 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.360 the strength and conditioning, and like you gotta be in 0:09:14.400 --> 0:09:16.840 tip top shape. And then when you also when you 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:18.840 get out there, you gotta be prepared. So you don't 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.200 just go out there just for fun, just just doing stuff. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.600 You gotta be prepared. So that's what film study and 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:27.160 stuff come in. And then after you get everything polished up, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:28.439 and then you're go on the field and you work 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:31.480 on your technique and get rid of the game day. So, like, 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.199 you know, you you are identified as being a candidate 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:37.520 to come here and be a part of the NFL, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.200 so they want at practice. You know you're so you 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.080 go through the film says, you go through the meetings. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.079 What is going to be the one thing that you 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.560 do so well is the reason you have been I 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.400 identified that you have more talent behind you. What's the 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.079 one thing that's going to bring you confidence to camp 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:59.760 when it begins? Just the ability to finish people. Like 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.280 just I just love finishing blocks. Like because when I 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.920 was in when I used to play football in high school, 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.640 like I really didn't want to play offensive line. I 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:12.080 played defensive line, and like because I felt like offense 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.520 was kind of soft. But my coach he told me, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.160 he was like, man, you can do the same stuff 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.480 you do on defense on offense. So I just got 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.600 physical with it. And I feel like that's one of 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.440 my main, like one of my main characteristics on the field. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.240 It's just being physical and finishing people. I see that 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:31.680 you got your certification in welding. How did you get 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.840 this welding? I mean that's you know what the welders make, 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:38.360 don't you have? It makes some pretty good money. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.160 I got my certification in high school. Like, um, I 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.439 actually could have participated in the ACE competition, but my 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.520 my wellderness structor, he knew I was gonna win it, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.960 so he was like, there's no purpose that you entered 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.800 the competition, and um, like winning the competition and you 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.640 don't be able to get a scholarship to no one. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.959 So he wouldn't even let me enter the competition because 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:03.320 I was really good. Well Lachevia Simmons Tackle Bears Draft 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.760 choice and getting his NFL curer getting out of the 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.400 way a big six foot five I'm impressed with a 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.000 couple of things. One, you know, I got some guy 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.679 giving size obviously, and you've had a chisel yourself into 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.400 into your three hundred and fifteen pound plus body or 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.040 whatever it is you're weighing at right now. But the 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.360 thirty five plus inch arms, I've always been intrigued with that. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.800 For offensive lineman tom My broadcast partner here, Jim, They 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.160 may have different opinions to bout it, but those so, 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.840 how does that serve you well at all those variety 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:32.200 of positions that you play, And do you feel that 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.360 gives you some sort of edge against some of these 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.600 bigger defensive linemen out there. Yeah, I feel like like 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.640 my arms like they give me a big time. Is 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.240 because one thing about my hands, though, once I get 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.000 my hands on you, it's no getting them all. This 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.920 is like some vice gripts so like, and then come 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.560 from from them old the farm days and stuff like 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.960 taking changing the oil with your barging hands and not 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.520 using those tools and then and there were all my 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.599 Griffins stuff came from So it's just it just it 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.960 just the family tradition. We just had some big, strong hands. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.839 And can you feel the difference though if you're playing 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.000 inside at guard and then outside at offensive tackle, because 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.720 there's a different tempo that you use the your hands 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.040 to each of those positions. Have you had enough reps 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:24.679 at each where you you understand the fundamentals from inside, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.000 but how they transfer to the fundamentals and the needs 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:32.600 to the outside. Yeah, in the inside you're more, You're 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:35.400 more in the phone booth and things happen more quicker. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.720 So that's another reason I like using my Landloar event 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.640 because I'm going to get my hands on the defensive 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.040 tackle first and then on the outside you gotta tackle. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.480 You gotta be more patient and because you gotta wit, 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:49.960 you to defend your comes through you. And is this 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.040 just just working on it, working on it every day 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:57.200 and just refixing your craft. Well, how's the virtual world 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.679 going for you? I know you you're tree it out there. 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.520 I mean, do you even have internet where you're at 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:05.079 where you can get on the virtual world and learn 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.160 the playbooks, get to learn your your teammates a little 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:09.840 bit and get to know everybody. But how was the 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.760 concepts and everything going virtually for your lat husband, It's 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.000 been going well. Like Coach one, he's he really have 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.800 been breaking everything down with us, and like the stuff 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.680 really is easy to me, really because like most of 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.800 the things that we're doing like I kind of did 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:29.560 in college. So it's the same stuff really, and I 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.720 feel like it's gonna be a very smooth transition and 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.960 knowing everything and it's just gonna able me to go 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.160 out there and just play fast. Lachevia Simmons, our guest 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:41.040 here on Bears All Access. It's brought to you by 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.240 Igs Energy, Jeff Johnniac, Tom There and Jim Miller with 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:48.280 you until seven o'clock tonight, Lachevias, how much pride do 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.079 you take in the aspect of a couple of things. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.920 One year from Tennessee State. You know the Super Bowl 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.679 MVP on Time's name was Richard that you met him 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:01.280 last spring. And two Todd Jones, another Hall of Fame player, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:05.280 outstanding player. And you're the only pick this year in 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.839 the twenty twenty drafts from an historical black college and university. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.840 Does that Does that resonate with you in any particular way? 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.760 And then just talk about Denton the history of Tennessee 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:20.040 State football man. That's it's an honored man to be 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.960 the Olio HBCU player to get drafted this year. And 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.040 I feel like like like I gotta I gotta carry 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:30.040 everybody on my shoulder for the HBCU, on the community, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.360 because there's some very talented players like in the HBCU, 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:37.480 like my teammate Chris Rowland, who he got picked up 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.680 phrasing by the Atlanta Factus. Like that guy, he's amazing. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.680 He broke Jerry Rice's record and um receptions this year, 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.440 and like it's just so much talent and they come 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:52.040 through Tennessee State and then just like it's just amazing, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.360 like what we call the Old Line University because Russe Arnfield, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.600 like this man, he even put so many guys in 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.600 the NFL. Don't make no sense. That was one of 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.440 the main reason I went to Tennessee State because his resume. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.400 What's his philosophy? That's that was kind of an interesting 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:11.400 point that you let up to. Is it a physical philosophy? 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.160 Is at an athletic a technical philosophy? Why why are 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:21.400 are so productive in developing offensive lineman there? Because he 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.200 he's he's like working on your fundamentals. So if your 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.160 seat ain't right, you're not right. That's that's his mindset 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.480 going into everything. So and he's just he's just so 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.080 technical with all, like he just pay attention to the 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.880 details of everything, and he just wants us to like 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:40.200 perfect our craft. And like if you buy into what 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.400 he's saying, like you're gonna see improvement fast. Because I 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.360 only had one year of offensive linement experience coming out 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:49.440 of hospital. I only played offensive line my senior year, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.880 and he pretty much made me the player I am 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.600 is today because me just listened to him. Well, last 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.880 one for me, we appreciate your time. What is your 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.160 right tenerary every day? Like how much do you get 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.440 to go out? And do you have a park near 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.200 you or where are you working on your your techniques 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.600 and things like that, and in terms of your time 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.240 that you're spending virtually as well, but how is your 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.200 itinerary set up and how you're working out to incorporate 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.400 all these fundamentals you're you're talking about. Um, I wake 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.840 up early in the morning, I get me some get 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.800 a workout in, and I go to treatment and just 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.320 make sure just fine to my body. And then I 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:32.080 have we have meetings start at ten about ten to 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.160 about three. And then after I got the meets, I 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.200 come straight to the country and my dad he got 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.520 a whole of weight room type thing set up down here, 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:45.320 got the bench, the squat rack, try sepumstensions, all that stuff. 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.960 And then I got beside our garden. I have attractor time. 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.200 And I had flied up this field with attractor and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.920 pretty much I just flipped the tire going down and back. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.920 It's like forty five yards. I flipped the tire down 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:01.880 and back, and then I drank the tied down and back, 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.080 and then I give me some home sprints in It's 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.760 like some half gasses. And I pretty much just do 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:14.080 that every day. I just switched it up, Lachevis. We're 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.240 gonna have your strength and conditioning coach Jason Lescalzo on 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:18.840 here at the bottom of the yar. You're gonna make 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.800 You're gonna make him real happy when you're talking about 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.920 all what you're doing. We're gonna let you go here. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.399 But we know it's Memorial Day weekend as we honor 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.600 those who served over the years and gave of themselves. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.520 And we understand you do have a military connection to 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:36.359 in your family from the army. Isn't that fact true? 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.920 And what can you tell us about that? Um? Yeah, 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.080 my uncle he was in the military for a couple 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.959 of years, and like I had the time to like 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.040 just go out there and spend some time with him 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.840 while he was in UH station in Fort Hood in Texas. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:55.600 And it's just he's just he's always he's always had 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.920 me run with him, like doing his little peat stuff. 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.760 And I just I just I just I just speak 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:05.119 everything he'd done for our country and I just just 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.320 just proud to say he's uncle and you can take 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.199 a little bit of him into the NFL on your 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:13.440 first snap, how about it, buddy? Yes, sir, all right, Lachevias, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.119 thank you so much for joining us. We'll meet you, sir, 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:20.480 Lachevias Simmons our guest here on Bears All Access. We 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.600 continue on after this break on Chicago Sports Radio six 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:29.200 seventy The Score. Hey, welcome back to Bears All Access, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.280 brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of 0:18:31.280 --> 0:18:34.320 the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas at home warranty 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.840 products to over one million customers across the country. Learn 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:40.720 more about IGS Energy at igs dot com and enjoyable conversation, 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.160 to say the least, with the Chevas Big Simmons out 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.200 of Tennessee State offensive lineman. I'm gonna try and carve 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.560 out a long NFL career like your old team. Mattim 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.160 there Jim Metal with us as well. Richard Dent, whom 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.800 he met last spring. Everything he had to say, I 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:58.440 was checking boxes, you know what I did. It made 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.639 me gain belief in what Ryan Pace was saying before 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.199 the draft that he wanted to go out there in 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:09.040 draft guys with high football intelligence, Jeff, every single rookie 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:12.600 draft choice that we've talked to this season, this all 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:17.760 access season, every one of them has displayed intelligence beyond 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:23.560 a college senior, whether they're an underclassman or a graduating senior. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:28.040 And that's probably left the most impressionable mark on me, 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:32.359 because you have to have these canvases to design into 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.959 a player, to build to build into a player. And 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.840 I'm really excited about what I've heard out of these 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:43.399 young guys so far. Hit the head with all the 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.560 positions he's played across the line, how significant is that 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:48.639 for his future? Yeah, I think he's a He's a 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.280 terrific athlete. I don't think you can really just label 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.640 him and put him in one box. I think I mean, 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.000 I would give him a shot at tackle. I think 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.200 everybody's projected him as a guard, but that arm length 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.840 is impressive thirty five inches. You can always kick him 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:05.640 into guard if you want, and he has the ability 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:07.960 to play him all so it's not like he comes 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.520 in completely green from that standpoint. But as Tom mentioned 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.000 and just piggyback and off of that, you know, I 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:17.320 do think there is a maturity level about every one 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.159 of these draft picks. I've read the article earlier that 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:23.359 I believe you guys were sent as well. I thought 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:25.840 in one of the interesting answers, basically it was a 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.320 question and answer session of Lachevius, and the question was 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.040 would you rather be liked or respected? And why he 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.040 goes He goes, I would rather be respected, because anybody 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.399 can be liked, you have to earn your respect. And 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:38.920 I think this is the type of guy. He wants 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:42.200 to earn everything. He gets nothing, He doesn't want anything 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:43.920