WEBVTT - All Access: Leno, Jr. on training camp kick off 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:04.040 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:08.559 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears Official 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:11.640 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:16.760 day and now welcome to Bears All Access, your all 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.320 access pass into Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:25.400 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Miller Litte, 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:30.840 CDW and four Everybody Jeff Joning Accalog with a broadcast 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.800 partner from News Radio seven eighty and one to five 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.160 point ifm WBBM mister Tom Thayer, the eighty five Bear. 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:38.800 We're at Bears training camp. We are back to work. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.120 I can't believe it. It came so fast. It's a 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.800 much longer training camp. We got an extra preseason game, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.440 but everybody is thrilled to be here in Bourbon at 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.400 on the campus, a bottle at Nazarene and our special 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.320 guest today on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:56.160 Radio six seventy the score, Big Charles Leno Junior, You 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.720 seem to be getting bigger every year. I mean, you know, 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.639 hitting that weight room. Hope, I'm looking leaner though, That's 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.840 all I care. Well. You got the California strength thing 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.160 going on. You got the T shirts so you look 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.920 you look fit to hit, are you well? I appreciate 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:12.800 a yeah, I'm really but you know, but there's been 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:14.920 a change in the weight room because I've had the 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.400 pleasure going in there a couple of times this year, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.920 and there's a whole competitive atmosphere in the weight room, 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:22.400 and I've always been a big fan of that because 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:24.520 I think that spills right out of the field. The 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.200 camaraderie you share in the weight room, the struggles that 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.680 you go through and trying to lift heavier, get you 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.520 stronger to be better on the field. All that stuff. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.440 It helps you, guys. It helps you become closer and 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:38.760 more encouraging to each other. Absolutely, Um, guys like me, 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.040 Eric Cush, Cody, why Eric horonas cross suit we opened 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:43.800 him trying to push each other every day, you know, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.480 push each other to be the best. Like if Eric 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.520 Cush missus arab, I'm like, no, you gotta get back 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:49.920 on there and hit it. And if I'm miss one, 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.800 he's telling me the same thing. Like when we're all 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.480 looking at each other weights and we're trying to up 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.200 want each other, you know, but it's all competitive. It's 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.120 all for a better meaning better cause, you know, Jeff said, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.280 here we are and it's gone so quick, and I 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.480 was trying to think back. You know, in our off seasons, 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.320 we had the off season, we went to a two 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.880 day mini camp, continued our off season, and showed up 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.959 for training camp. You guys have so much interactive time 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.119 with each other. Do you do you like that where 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.560 kind of the football stays continuous through the off season 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.359 almost for you guys, or when you had this five 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.800 weeks to be by yourself and collect your own thoughts, 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.600 do you like those windows as well? Yeah? I like 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.480 mix of both. I mean, I don't know how you 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.679 can make it a perfect world, but having some time 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.320 off is always good. But it's nothing wrong being in 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.400 and working out with the boys. As an old guy, 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.880 I like you guys what you guys go through because 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:39.320 I would like being around my teammates going through OTAs 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.840 and have less of a you know, strenuous time going 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.359 through training camp. And I always say, my first training camp, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.840 we had twenty two straight days of doubles and conditioning 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.200 after every practice, and that's just not the way you 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:52.359 dinna have time to really get to know the fellows 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.959 nor did you want to do? We were trying to 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.360 catch up to all the information these guys have already digested. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.480 And I think that's a key ingredient to be able 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.480 to digest that information because you're you're a veteran, you're 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.960 learning the new offense yourself. Yeah, but when it comes 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.200 to me, like I heard a lot of different offices, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.880 you know what I mean? I think this is four 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.679 or five offensive coordinators five? Ye yeah, so some of 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.239 the terminology is the same. So for me, it's just like, 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:21.320 you know, okay, I know what this is. I know 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.040 what that means. Just put it all together now, Cash 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.200 you are it is five. I'm thinking through my head, 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.799 I thought, but you know what you are? Right? That's five? 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:33.120 Is that tough? Yeah? It is confusing? It could be yea. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.680 It could be completely different language, you know that, you know, 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.480 like completely different language. I mean you might have one 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.160 block mean this and one word I mean this and 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.680 might overlap was something that you just did last year 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:47.400 and it's completely different. Interesting hearing Mitchell Trubisky the other 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.360 day the first day of camp, it was asked and 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:54.800 I think I read it in a story. Actually it's easier, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:59.440 even though it's more complex. Last year was easier but 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:03.400 difficult for him to process and execute in that. Do 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.960 you feel the same as you look at it right now? Um? 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.800 For me, it's different, yeah, because he was in quarters 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.080 a rookie too, rookie, you know, rookie and a quarterback. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.360 He has a process a lot more than I have to. Um, 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.120 So I'll say it's completely different from me. But I 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:20.600 see a lot of easy things in our offense right now, 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.880 like terminology wise, up being a lot of stuff like 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.840 carried over from when we did last year and from 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.840 people I had it in previous years. It's a fit 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:30.560 your skill set, yeah, definitely, But in what sense and 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.040 what sense? Yeah? Oh, just the way we for it. 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.040 First of all, the way we train. It fits my 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.360 skills yet to work. Harry, he puts us to the 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:41.480 grinder man. He makes his work. And I love it, 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:43.320 you know, I mean, that's my skills. I love to work. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:45.240 I love to work hard and just keep getting better 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.400 and perfecting my craft. So that's the first thing I noticed, 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.760 you know, forty five consecutive starts for you, It's an 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.000 incredible number when you think about where you came from 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.720 and where you are now. Rewarded with a nice contract 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.200 and every all the hard work seems to be paying off. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.599 But as much as you talk about offensive coordinators, thinks 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:02.040 about think about the different offensive line coaches you've had, 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.560 and as much as they want to train or change 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:08.599 Charles Leno Junior, you always have to kind of self 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.240 coach yourself after all this experience. What thirty nine or 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:15.560 thirty five consecutive starts in college and now these do 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:19.280 you self coach yourself some of the time or you 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.560 know when you need it most on the field. Absolutely, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.320 I'm probably the hardest critic on myself. You know, I'm 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.240 looking at tape all the time, trying to advance my game. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.080 Whether I step poorly one time and I'm like, okay, 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.480 we'll go back to the basics, step correctly the next time, 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.840 or hands inside or pad level like little things like that. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.720 Always just trying to keep working on my game and 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:40.760 keep being the better. You guys are two p's in 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.080 a pod because you never missed snaps, and you know 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.960 they starts. Starts are great, but finishing games is better. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.320 Twenty nine hundred three snaps, I don't know if you 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.240 know that number. That's how many in a earl. You're 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.040 at right now. Isn't that crazy? Yeah? That's crazy. I 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:58.560 mean no, Awi, there's no like oh wait yeah, no, 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.760 you think about it? Is there there is there is 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.120 you just can't you know. I always say you you 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.760 you have forty sect that moment. Yep, you got that 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.880 moment to take your breath and like all right back 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:16.080 to play right. Um, I would say I had a 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.800 bad one. It was it was, um two years ago, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.440 was our first year. Um, it was two years ago. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.840 We were at Indy. Um, yeah, we're at Indie on 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:30.320 my birthday. Actually it was on my birthday. Um. Josh, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.440 he fell behind me and my leg got caught right 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.479 behind him, and I ah loud one and like you said, 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.480 at that moment, I'm I got up. I was like, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.080 it's intact, take a breath. That's the place, that's the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.240 weight room investment. And that's what I you know, that's 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.480 one of the big positive changes that I've seen and 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:51.480 leading into the off season is you have to come 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.640 out of the weight room with confidence. And I I 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.600 always felt confident and the strength that was provided me 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.240 through the Clyde Clyde Emerck's education, and I think that's 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:02.880 kind of the chains. That has been really a positive 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:05.800 one because not only the offensive lineman defensive linement got 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.800 to be strong. Every one of these positions got to 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:11.040 be strong and healthy. Your your body's taking a lot 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:14.080 of beating and you're producing a lot of force. So 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.080 when you're producing a lot of forces and you're beating force, 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.640 it's got to take that impact. And no better way 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.560 than having weights come down, slamming on you on a 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:22.680 cane clean or putting some weight on your back right 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.200 starting left tackle Charles Lettle Junior, our guest here on 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:28.160 beers All Except in Chicago Sports Radio six seventies score. 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.840 Jeff jonny ak in timp there with you one more 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.440 on that weightlifting in your high school days? Did you 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.680 love it and you were a basketball guy? You love? 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.320 You love the weight room? Yeah, always did, always did 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.240 um even when I was playing basketball. Yeah, basketball not lifting. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.240 We know, we know it was all jumping and no 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.960 little light stuff here. But when I first started playing football, 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.080 that's one thing I like, gravitated towards. I really love 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.400 the weight room. I love I love training, I love 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.520 the conditioning. I love forbid me being a big guy. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.000 I love running like I actually love running I actually 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.800 you love, you know, moving around and stuff like that. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.200 I never was a guy to just sit down. Would 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:10.040 you walk into boys yet? Two forty two? I remember, Yeah, 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:13.720 I was two forty, but I was two thirty coming 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.640 out of high school. Yeah. Did you play any tight end? No? 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.280 I just played tackle. We had we had like a 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:22.800 lot of athletes in my school for sure. But you know, 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:24.520 at an NFL level, for a guy to make a 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.400 transition from a right tackle trying to become familiar with 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.400 the league to be switched to left tackle and then 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.040 flourish Charles there not. There's not a lot of guys 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.599 in the league that have been able to do that, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:36.760 you know, And it's something that you had to recognize 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.040 and create a lot of self confidence in yourself to 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.000 be able to make that change from right to left 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.680 exactly because people don't understand, like, oh, it's like riding 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.360 a bike. No, it's not like riding a bike, all right. 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:51.560 Imagine your world on the left side being so familiar, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.079 like you see everything on the left side, and imagine 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.440 you just have to close your eyes and just open 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.080 your right eye and only use that eye that's completely different, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.760 or use this one hand that you're so dominant with, 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.240 but you can't use it because I will get you 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:03.959 more beat than the other side. Oh, you know, like 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.640 little things like that. People don't understand how many times 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.599 has it crossed your mind where you were picked and 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.880 where you're at in this consecutive start streak for the 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.560 charter franchise of the National Football League and really still 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.679 building your career you're still a young player. Yeah, as 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.000 it crossed your mind a time or two. Yeah, definitely, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.000 but it never it never just lingers there. You know, 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.040 I'm always like, how can I help the Bears win? 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.480 You know, I'm always on the quest of being the 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.120 best I possibly can be to help us win here. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.480 So all that stuff is cool, but I'm still moving 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.080 as it's rare what you're doing, Like Tom even said, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.840 because if you talk to scouts, you know there's certain 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.679 positions you gotta have a first round pick. One of 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.960 them is tackle right right, and it aggravates two guys 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.760 I'm looking at right now who weren't first round picks 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.800 but playing and charting Bears as it turns out, right, 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.240 as it turns out, Charles Lenno Junior guest Tim there here, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.720 Jeff Joni ac We're at altavat Nazarene University in bourbon 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.319 A as Bears Camp gets under way. Back with more 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.960 after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.440 Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.160 IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.800 natural gas, and home warranty products to over one million 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.520 customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.959 igs dot com. Charles Lenno Junior our guest here on 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.440 Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.760 Jeff and Tim with you as well on your way 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:37.760 to bourbon A. I retweeted it this week, h to 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:45.760 Bears bus breaking down, but not without the valiant help 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.559 of a Charles Lenno Junior. What I do? I don't know? 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:59.480 You tell me no? So yeah, bus tune pictures everywhere. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.840 I don't know about to tell them you don't know about. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.320 I was driving against some toilet trees before getting down 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.280 to camp, and I saw this bus like it's a 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.559 record bus. Look from a distance, like a guy just 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.000 like telling everybody get over to the right, don't coming 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.679 into this lane. So I just pull over I get closer, 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.720 it's like blue and orange. I'm like, what bears bu 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:21.559 and I see the sea in a bear head And 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.800 when I'm driving past, I'm like, oh, the bears bust 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:26.080 broke down. So I'm like, I'm not letting the Bears 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.680 bust breakdown, not at all. So I hit a U turn, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.520 came right back around, I hopped out, and they had 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.640 some people coming on the way anyway right when I 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:35.640 hopped out, so I didn't do much. I just was 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.400 talking to guys and just letting them know, like I 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.480 saw this bus breakdown and the Bears busts ain't breaking 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.559 down this year. I don't care what you think. I'm 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.640 anna help just bear. I'm gonna help just buzz out, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.080 you know, whatever I can do. And I said, exactly 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.560 what an offensive lineman is born to do. But real 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.079 for those people, are you kidding? They run there in 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.760 the Iowa for a bike race, and I went to 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.800 Iowa State and know about Rag Bryant that's across the 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.440 state race. So but you know they've been talking about 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.400 it still, So good job, Charles. This is what you do. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:08.120 You're an offensive lineman man, exactly. I'm also a bystander too. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.120 I'm active by standard. Is something going on? I want 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.719 to help. Got a lot of traction though. One of 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.760 your I guess it's an old friend of yours, gabeck Is. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.520 Yeah he did he play at Oklahoma? Yeah, yeah, So 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.280 I guess he's a talk show out there. And I'm 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.600 just gonna take the liberty of reading it already already 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.120 know what he says. I'm gonna tell all of Oklahoma 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.080 that you fixed their mechanical issues with only a paper 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.480 clip and chewing gum. That, of course was after you 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.680 siphon gas from your car for the bus by using 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:38.840 fifteen bendy straws and scotch tape. It's just a better 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:43.559 story story. I appreciate a good dude. Man, he's hilarious. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.719 Is he doing radio out there? And he was he 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.040 an offensive line? Yeah, he was offensive lineman coming out. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.880 We both trained the same facility down in Arizona for 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.400 the for the pre draft process. So you know, Big 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.920 Time's not on Twitter and never will be as far 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:58.120 as I know, unless you know, I guess he did 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:01.560 just give his mom and a man an iPhone first time, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.959 So there's there's still hope for you now, So in 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.880 your world of Twitter and so forth, I'm sure you 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.520 have a lot of football playing buddies from days gone by, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.959 all the way back to San Leandro, California. Do you 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.640 enjoy that? And is that a good way to communicate 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.120 with the fellas and just have some good, clean fun. Yeah, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.839 it's a good way. Um. I'm honestly, I'm just not 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:24.640 on there as much as people may think I am. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.200 I kind of just post stuff every once in a while. 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.800 I'm kind of like a free solo on there. I'm 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.600 just like you're searching. I'm just fine seeing what's going 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.760 on in the world. But you know, when you realistically 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:37.720 think about the time allotted to you during the course 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.160 of training camp. Now your football season started, it's seven 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.640 days a week until it ends. So a lot of 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.959 that free time that you had the luxuries, it's just 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.959 not there because free time is taken up by your tablet, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:49.959 and then you got practices and then you got meetings. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.640 You gotta eat, right, you know, you gotta go to 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.160 the treatments and everything that you need. So, you know, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.640 it's it's a nice focus because the living the itinerary 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.440 life for football player is a positive for a lot 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:03.959 of us because we have so much structure and it 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.640 helps us stay on course. Absolutely, that's the biggest thing. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.120 And that's that's what I think people should take going 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.880 into the off season. It's some structure. Playing your days out, 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:15.920 I know I do. I like to have a little schedule. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.199 I have a planner. What am I doing this week? 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:19.760 What some goals I want to hit this week? And 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.600 maybe if it's an offseason, just something that has nothing 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.480 to do with football, maybe it's just, uh, well was 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.480 it this year? For example, if you're at Liberty to say, oh, 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.560 for example, I wanted to one habit I wanted to 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.320 do is just make sure I wake up in the morning, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.480 take my dog on a walk every single day, you 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.160 know what I mean. And it just became a habit 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.120 and I was taking them on a walk every single day, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.880 and then maybe the next week it was making my 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.480 bed every day. Of course, some days you people forget that, 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.440 you know, some people don't make their bed. I want 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.560 to make my bed. It would be a little small things. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.440 You know, when when you're a football player nowadays and 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:56.000 you've earned the opportunity to get your second contract, how 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.280 does that change yourself? I mean, not things that you 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:00.640 can buy monetarily, But how does that change your focus 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.080 on football? Do you feel that there's more pressure on 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.760 me because these guys went out on a limb and 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.120 signed me to a new deal. Absolutely, it's that's exactly 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.280 what it is. Some people think you have the money, 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:13.600 you can chill. No, it's no chill. Oh yeah, no chill. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.080 It's as you get worse, you've got more pressure because 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.880 it's more invested in you. So they want to see 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.560 you perform at this level. Yeah, and you're no longer 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:25.240 just a guy on a roster that's trying to hang out. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.160 Now you get the media attention and there's an expectation, 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.320 which I always found kind of odd. Okay, there's the 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.880 whole phrase in Mitchell Trubisky said it the other day 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.360 to who much has given, much is expected. We've heard it. 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.440 It's a biblical verse and everybody feels that way. But 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.920 just because you played, maybe at a place where it's 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.760 two or beyond your potential, you're that that is now 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.000 the next reward for you to keep chasing the next carrot, 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.360 And so exactly, I'm always striving to be the best 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.360 version of myself. I was just listening to a book today. 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:05.200 It just said, you're not getting If you're not getting better, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.600 you're getting worse. You're not in between. There's no in 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.480 between in this game and life and anything. You're either 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.200 you're getting better or you're getting worse. So I just 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.840 want to keep improving. Well, that's Dick Stanfield's evaluation of 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.720 us as a coach. He says, Look, I'm as your 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:18.840 arrow's pointing up. I'm going to coach you and I'm 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.680 going to supply you with all the information I can. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.720 But when your arrow starts pointing down, I have to 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.560 look to make a change. And that is a struggle 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.680 that every athlete faces. And now you know, you're not 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.080 a rookie, you're a veteran. You're a leader of this 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.440 football team, and you're one of the guys that's expected 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.800 to go out there, and you know, lead by example 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.000 in every case, every day, every day you go out there, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.400 you gotta lead by example. You gotta bring it to 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.680 the drill room, you gotta bring it to the meeting rooms. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.800 You gotta bring it every single time you step on 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.720 that field. Whatever you're doing, you gotta do it at 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.520 a high level because you know people are watching and 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.440 you want to set the example. Every coach that has 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.760 ever been written about you or talked about you way 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.080 back to college and whatnot, said the same thing about you. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.920 You've been consistent, you have not changed. They that's how 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.720 you were then, that's how you were now from their 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.400 view anyway, Do you see yourself that way as well? Absolutely, 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:11.200 because I try to be myself. I don't try to 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.320 do anything outside the extra ordinary. I just try to 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.879 be myself. I know I'm a hard worker. I know 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.960 I always go to work every day with the mentality 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.040 of getting better. That's how I always coached when I 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.000 was back in college by coach with Chris Peterson, one 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:23.760 of the greatest coaches of all time in my opinion. 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.119 Um yeah, just you go to work every day and 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:29.440 you go to practice, go to school. Whatever you're doing, 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.360 you do it with intent. You're doing it to get better. 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.560 You're not doing it just to get by. That's how 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.320 you waste days. And it's there's no wasted days in 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:40.080 this world. What's different about your game with this offense? 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:43.600 What is anything gonna have to change about Charles? Are 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:45.160 you gonna have to be more fluid? Are you gonna 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.720 occupy more space? Are you gonna have more responsibilities while 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.440 you're reading during the course of the play. I would 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.639 say my game is going to be the same because 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:56.240 I can adjust. I mean, clearly we talked about being 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.840 with you know, five different office of coordinators. My game 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.480 is gonna be the same. I'm like Charles little Junior 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.280 ball and you're gonna see you don't feel Charles Leonard Junior, 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.040 our guest here on Bears All Access brought to you 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.480 by I JFF Energy time there with you and Jeff 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:12.200 Joniak as well as we get ready for a long 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:18.280 training camp portion of the off season training camp. Yeah, 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.200 it's a long training camp and then you go to 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:22.160 Hellas All and you still got many I mean it's 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.159 it's seven weeks before the opener. It may seem like 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.920 a very long time, but it will go fast. Easy 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.800 for me to say when I'm not dying out there, right, Charles, Uh, 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.040 You mentioned a book you read, and I know a 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.920 lot of players are into self motivation books and whatnotum 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.760 books are handed around, you know, locker rooms in every 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.640 sport and all that. What do you do you read 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.480 a lot? Do you like that type of book or 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.119 what's on your bookshelf. Yeah, I like to read books 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:55.600 like that. This book is called Black Privous Opportunities, Get Opportunity. Uh, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.119 forget the title of but it's called Black Prevous by 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.200 Charlie Magne and Guy, I forget the last part of title. Um, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:03.160 it's a really good book. He talks about his life 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:07.720