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Speaker 1: We're at Bears training camp. We are back to work.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. It came so fast. It's a
Speaker 1: much longer training camp. We got an extra preseason game,
Speaker 1: but everybody is thrilled to be here in Bourbon at
Speaker 1: on the campus, a bottle at Nazarene and our special
Speaker 1: guest today on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports
Speaker 1: Radio six seventy the score, Big Charles Leno Junior, You
Speaker 1: seem to be getting bigger every year. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: hitting that weight room. Hope, I'm looking leaner though, That's
Speaker 1: all I care. Well. You got the California strength thing
Speaker 1: going on. You got the T shirts so you look
Speaker 1: you look fit to hit, are you well? I appreciate
Speaker 1: a yeah, I'm really but you know, but there's been
Speaker 1: a change in the weight room because I've had the
Speaker 1: pleasure going in there a couple of times this year,
Speaker 1: and there's a whole competitive atmosphere in the weight room,
Speaker 1: and I've always been a big fan of that because
Speaker 1: I think that spills right out of the field. The
Speaker 1: camaraderie you share in the weight room, the struggles that
Speaker 1: you go through and trying to lift heavier, get you
Speaker 1: stronger to be better on the field. All that stuff.
Speaker 1: It helps you, guys. It helps you become closer and
Speaker 1: more encouraging to each other. Absolutely, Um, guys like me,
Speaker 1: Eric Cush, Cody, why Eric horonas cross suit we opened
Speaker 1: him trying to push each other every day, you know,
Speaker 1: push each other to be the best. Like if Eric
Speaker 1: Cush missus arab, I'm like, no, you gotta get back
Speaker 1: on there and hit it. And if I'm miss one,
Speaker 1: he's telling me the same thing. Like when we're all
Speaker 1: looking at each other weights and we're trying to up
Speaker 1: want each other, you know, but it's all competitive. It's
Speaker 1: all for a better meaning better cause, you know, Jeff said,
Speaker 1: here we are and it's gone so quick, and I
Speaker 1: was trying to think back. You know, in our off seasons,
Speaker 1: we had the off season, we went to a two
Speaker 1: day mini camp, continued our off season, and showed up
Speaker 1: for training camp. You guys have so much interactive time
Speaker 1: with each other. Do you do you like that where
Speaker 1: kind of the football stays continuous through the off season
Speaker 1: almost for you guys, or when you had this five
Speaker 1: weeks to be by yourself and collect your own thoughts,
Speaker 1: do you like those windows as well? Yeah? I like
Speaker 1: mix of both. I mean, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: can make it a perfect world, but having some time
Speaker 1: off is always good. But it's nothing wrong being in
Speaker 1: and working out with the boys. As an old guy,
Speaker 1: I like you guys what you guys go through because
Speaker 1: I would like being around my teammates going through OTAs
Speaker 1: and have less of a you know, strenuous time going
Speaker 1: through training camp. And I always say, my first training camp,
Speaker 1: we had twenty two straight days of doubles and conditioning
Speaker 1: after every practice, and that's just not the way you
Speaker 1: dinna have time to really get to know the fellows
Speaker 1: nor did you want to do? We were trying to
Speaker 1: catch up to all the information these guys have already digested.
Speaker 1: And I think that's a key ingredient to be able
Speaker 1: to digest that information because you're you're a veteran, you're
Speaker 1: learning the new offense yourself. Yeah, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to me, like I heard a lot of different offices,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? I think this is four
Speaker 1: or five offensive coordinators five? Ye yeah, so some of
Speaker 1: the terminology is the same. So for me, it's just like,
Speaker 1: you know, okay, I know what this is. I know
Speaker 1: what that means. Just put it all together now, Cash
Speaker 1: you are it is five. I'm thinking through my head,
Speaker 1: I thought, but you know what you are? Right? That's five?
Speaker 1: Is that tough? Yeah? It is confusing? It could be yea.
Speaker 1: It could be completely different language, you know that, you know,
Speaker 1: like completely different language. I mean you might have one
Speaker 1: block mean this and one word I mean this and
Speaker 1: might overlap was something that you just did last year
Speaker 1: and it's completely different. Interesting hearing Mitchell Trubisky the other
Speaker 1: day the first day of camp, it was asked and
Speaker 1: I think I read it in a story. Actually it's easier,
Speaker 1: even though it's more complex. Last year was easier but
Speaker 1: difficult for him to process and execute in that. Do
Speaker 1: you feel the same as you look at it right now? Um?
Speaker 1: For me, it's different, yeah, because he was in quarters
Speaker 1: a rookie too, rookie, you know, rookie and a quarterback.
Speaker 1: He has a process a lot more than I have to. Um,
Speaker 1: So I'll say it's completely different from me. But I
Speaker 1: see a lot of easy things in our offense right now,
Speaker 1: like terminology wise, up being a lot of stuff like
Speaker 1: carried over from when we did last year and from
Speaker 1: people I had it in previous years. It's a fit
Speaker 1: your skill set, yeah, definitely, But in what sense and
Speaker 1: what sense? Yeah? Oh, just the way we for it.
Speaker 1: First of all, the way we train. It fits my
Speaker 1: skills yet to work. Harry, he puts us to the
Speaker 1: grinder man. He makes his work. And I love it,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's my skills. I love to work.
Speaker 1: I love to work hard and just keep getting better
Speaker 1: and perfecting my craft. So that's the first thing I noticed,
Speaker 1: you know, forty five consecutive starts for you, It's an
Speaker 1: incredible number when you think about where you came from
Speaker 1: and where you are now. Rewarded with a nice contract
Speaker 1: and every all the hard work seems to be paying off.
Speaker 1: But as much as you talk about offensive coordinators, thinks
Speaker 1: about think about the different offensive line coaches you've had,
Speaker 1: and as much as they want to train or change
Speaker 1: Charles Leno Junior, you always have to kind of self
Speaker 1: coach yourself after all this experience. What thirty nine or
Speaker 1: thirty five consecutive starts in college and now these do
Speaker 1: you self coach yourself some of the time or you
Speaker 1: know when you need it most on the field. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I'm probably the hardest critic on myself. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at tape all the time, trying to advance my game.
Speaker 1: Whether I step poorly one time and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll go back to the basics, step correctly the next time,
Speaker 1: or hands inside or pad level like little things like that.
Speaker 1: Always just trying to keep working on my game and
Speaker 1: keep being the better. You guys are two p's in
Speaker 1: a pod because you never missed snaps, and you know
Speaker 1: they starts. Starts are great, but finishing games is better.
Speaker 1: Twenty nine hundred three snaps, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: know that number. That's how many in a earl. You're
Speaker 1: at right now. Isn't that crazy? Yeah? That's crazy. I
Speaker 1: mean no, Awi, there's no like oh wait yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you think about it? Is there there is there is
Speaker 1: you just can't you know. I always say you you
Speaker 1: you have forty sect that moment. Yep, you got that
Speaker 1: moment to take your breath and like all right back
Speaker 1: to play right. Um, I would say I had a
Speaker 1: bad one. It was it was, um two years ago,
Speaker 1: was our first year. Um, it was two years ago.
Speaker 1: We were at Indy. Um, yeah, we're at Indie on
Speaker 1: my birthday. Actually it was on my birthday. Um. Josh,
Speaker 1: he fell behind me and my leg got caught right
Speaker 1: behind him, and I ah loud one and like you said,
Speaker 1: at that moment, I'm I got up. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's intact, take a breath. That's the place, that's the
Speaker 1: weight room investment. And that's what I you know, that's
Speaker 1: one of the big positive changes that I've seen and
Speaker 1: leading into the off season is you have to come
Speaker 1: out of the weight room with confidence. And I I
Speaker 1: always felt confident and the strength that was provided me
Speaker 1: through the Clyde Clyde Emerck's education, and I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of the chains. That has been really a positive
Speaker 1: one because not only the offensive lineman defensive linement got
Speaker 1: to be strong. Every one of these positions got to
Speaker 1: be strong and healthy. Your your body's taking a lot
Speaker 1: of beating and you're producing a lot of force. So
Speaker 1: when you're producing a lot of forces and you're beating force,
Speaker 1: it's got to take that impact. And no better way
Speaker 1: than having weights come down, slamming on you on a
Speaker 1: cane clean or putting some weight on your back right
Speaker 1: starting left tackle Charles Lettle Junior, our guest here on
Speaker 1: beers All Except in Chicago Sports Radio six seventies score.
Speaker 1: Jeff jonny ak in timp there with you one more
Speaker 1: on that weightlifting in your high school days? Did you
Speaker 1: love it and you were a basketball guy? You love?
Speaker 1: You love the weight room? Yeah, always did, always did
Speaker 1: um even when I was playing basketball. Yeah, basketball not lifting.
Speaker 1: We know, we know it was all jumping and no
Speaker 1: little light stuff here. But when I first started playing football,
Speaker 1: that's one thing I like, gravitated towards. I really love
Speaker 1: the weight room. I love I love training, I love
Speaker 1: the conditioning. I love forbid me being a big guy.
Speaker 1: I love running like I actually love running I actually
Speaker 1: you love, you know, moving around and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I never was a guy to just sit down. Would
Speaker 1: you walk into boys yet? Two forty two? I remember, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was two forty, but I was two thirty coming
Speaker 1: out of high school. Yeah. Did you play any tight end? No?
Speaker 1: I just played tackle. We had we had like a
Speaker 1: lot of athletes in my school for sure. But you know,
Speaker 1: at an NFL level, for a guy to make a
Speaker 1: transition from a right tackle trying to become familiar with
Speaker 1: the league to be switched to left tackle and then
Speaker 1: flourish Charles there not. There's not a lot of guys
Speaker 1: in the league that have been able to do that,
Speaker 1: you know, And it's something that you had to recognize
Speaker 1: and create a lot of self confidence in yourself to
Speaker 1: be able to make that change from right to left
Speaker 1: exactly because people don't understand, like, oh, it's like riding
Speaker 1: a bike. No, it's not like riding a bike, all right.
Speaker 1: Imagine your world on the left side being so familiar,
Speaker 1: like you see everything on the left side, and imagine
Speaker 1: you just have to close your eyes and just open
Speaker 1: your right eye and only use that eye that's completely different,
Speaker 1: or use this one hand that you're so dominant with,
Speaker 1: but you can't use it because I will get you
Speaker 1: more beat than the other side. Oh, you know, like
Speaker 1: little things like that. People don't understand how many times
Speaker 1: has it crossed your mind where you were picked and
Speaker 1: where you're at in this consecutive start streak for the
Speaker 1: charter franchise of the National Football League and really still
Speaker 1: building your career you're still a young player. Yeah, as
Speaker 1: it crossed your mind a time or two. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: but it never it never just lingers there. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm always like, how can I help the Bears win?
Speaker 1: You know, I'm always on the quest of being the
Speaker 1: best I possibly can be to help us win here.
Speaker 1: So all that stuff is cool, but I'm still moving
Speaker 1: as it's rare what you're doing, Like Tom even said,
Speaker 1: because if you talk to scouts, you know there's certain
Speaker 1: positions you gotta have a first round pick. One of
Speaker 1: them is tackle right right, and it aggravates two guys
Speaker 1: I'm looking at right now who weren't first round picks
Speaker 1: but playing and charting Bears as it turns out, right,
Speaker 1: as it turns out, Charles Lenno Junior guest Tim there here,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joni ac We're at altavat Nazarene University in bourbon
Speaker 1: A as Bears Camp gets under way. Back with more
Speaker 1: after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
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Speaker 1: Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.
Speaker 1: Jeff and Tim with you as well on your way
Speaker 1: to bourbon A. I retweeted it this week, h to
Speaker 1: Bears bus breaking down, but not without the valiant help
Speaker 1: of a Charles Lenno Junior. What I do? I don't know?
Speaker 1: You tell me no? So yeah, bus tune pictures everywhere.
Speaker 1: I don't know about to tell them you don't know about.
Speaker 1: I was driving against some toilet trees before getting down
Speaker 1: to camp, and I saw this bus like it's a
Speaker 1: record bus. Look from a distance, like a guy just
Speaker 1: like telling everybody get over to the right, don't coming
Speaker 1: into this lane. So I just pull over I get closer,
Speaker 1: it's like blue and orange. I'm like, what bears bu
Speaker 1: and I see the sea in a bear head And
Speaker 1: when I'm driving past, I'm like, oh, the bears bust
Speaker 1: broke down. So I'm like, I'm not letting the Bears
Speaker 1: bust breakdown, not at all. So I hit a U turn,
Speaker 1: came right back around, I hopped out, and they had
Speaker 1: some people coming on the way anyway right when I
Speaker 1: hopped out, so I didn't do much. I just was
Speaker 1: talking to guys and just letting them know, like I
Speaker 1: saw this bus breakdown and the Bears busts ain't breaking
Speaker 1: down this year. I don't care what you think. I'm
Speaker 1: anna help just bear. I'm gonna help just buzz out,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever I can do. And I said, exactly
Speaker 1: what an offensive lineman is born to do. But real
Speaker 1: for those people, are you kidding? They run there in
Speaker 1: the Iowa for a bike race, and I went to
Speaker 1: Iowa State and know about Rag Bryant that's across the
Speaker 1: state race. So but you know they've been talking about
Speaker 1: it still, So good job, Charles. This is what you do.
Speaker 1: You're an offensive lineman man, exactly. I'm also a bystander too.
Speaker 1: I'm active by standard. Is something going on? I want
Speaker 1: to help. Got a lot of traction though. One of
Speaker 1: your I guess it's an old friend of yours, gabeck Is.
Speaker 1: Yeah he did he play at Oklahoma? Yeah, yeah, So
Speaker 1: I guess he's a talk show out there. And I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna take the liberty of reading it already already
Speaker 1: know what he says. I'm gonna tell all of Oklahoma
Speaker 1: that you fixed their mechanical issues with only a paper
Speaker 1: clip and chewing gum. That, of course was after you
Speaker 1: siphon gas from your car for the bus by using
Speaker 1: fifteen bendy straws and scotch tape. It's just a better
Speaker 1: story story. I appreciate a good dude. Man, he's hilarious.
Speaker 1: Is he doing radio out there? And he was he
Speaker 1: an offensive line? Yeah, he was offensive lineman coming out.
Speaker 1: We both trained the same facility down in Arizona for
Speaker 1: the for the pre draft process. So you know, Big
Speaker 1: Time's not on Twitter and never will be as far
Speaker 1: as I know, unless you know, I guess he did
Speaker 1: just give his mom and a man an iPhone first time,
Speaker 1: So there's there's still hope for you now, So in
Speaker 1: your world of Twitter and so forth, I'm sure you
Speaker 1: have a lot of football playing buddies from days gone by,
Speaker 1: all the way back to San Leandro, California. Do you
Speaker 1: enjoy that? And is that a good way to communicate
Speaker 1: with the fellas and just have some good, clean fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a good way. Um. I'm honestly, I'm just not
Speaker 1: on there as much as people may think I am.
Speaker 1: I kind of just post stuff every once in a while.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of like a free solo on there. I'm
Speaker 1: just like you're searching. I'm just fine seeing what's going
Speaker 1: on in the world. But you know, when you realistically
Speaker 1: think about the time allotted to you during the course
Speaker 1: of training camp. Now your football season started, it's seven
Speaker 1: days a week until it ends. So a lot of
Speaker 1: that free time that you had the luxuries, it's just
Speaker 1: not there because free time is taken up by your tablet,
Speaker 1: and then you got practices and then you got meetings.
Speaker 1: You gotta eat, right, you know, you gotta go to
Speaker 1: the treatments and everything that you need. So, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a nice focus because the living the itinerary
Speaker 1: life for football player is a positive for a lot
Speaker 1: of us because we have so much structure and it
Speaker 1: helps us stay on course. Absolutely, that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: And that's that's what I think people should take going
Speaker 1: into the off season. It's some structure. Playing your days out,
Speaker 1: I know I do. I like to have a little schedule.
Speaker 1: I have a planner. What am I doing this week?
Speaker 1: What some goals I want to hit this week? And
Speaker 1: maybe if it's an offseason, just something that has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with football, maybe it's just, uh, well was
Speaker 1: it this year? For example, if you're at Liberty to say, oh,
Speaker 1: for example, I wanted to one habit I wanted to
Speaker 1: do is just make sure I wake up in the morning,
Speaker 1: take my dog on a walk every single day, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it just became a habit
Speaker 1: and I was taking them on a walk every single day,
Speaker 1: and then maybe the next week it was making my
Speaker 1: bed every day. Of course, some days you people forget that,
Speaker 1: you know, some people don't make their bed. I want
Speaker 1: to make my bed. It would be a little small things.
Speaker 1: You know, when when you're a football player nowadays and
Speaker 1: you've earned the opportunity to get your second contract, how
Speaker 1: does that change yourself? I mean, not things that you
Speaker 1: can buy monetarily, But how does that change your focus
Speaker 1: on football? Do you feel that there's more pressure on
Speaker 1: me because these guys went out on a limb and
Speaker 1: signed me to a new deal. Absolutely, it's that's exactly
Speaker 1: what it is. Some people think you have the money,
Speaker 1: you can chill. No, it's no chill. Oh yeah, no chill.
Speaker 1: It's as you get worse, you've got more pressure because
Speaker 1: it's more invested in you. So they want to see
Speaker 1: you perform at this level. Yeah, and you're no longer
Speaker 1: just a guy on a roster that's trying to hang out.
Speaker 1: Now you get the media attention and there's an expectation,
Speaker 1: which I always found kind of odd. Okay, there's the
Speaker 1: whole phrase in Mitchell Trubisky said it the other day
Speaker 1: to who much has given, much is expected. We've heard it.
Speaker 1: It's a biblical verse and everybody feels that way. But
Speaker 1: just because you played, maybe at a place where it's
Speaker 1: two or beyond your potential, you're that that is now
Speaker 1: the next reward for you to keep chasing the next carrot,
Speaker 1: And so exactly, I'm always striving to be the best
Speaker 1: version of myself. I was just listening to a book today.
Speaker 1: It just said, you're not getting If you're not getting better,
Speaker 1: you're getting worse. You're not in between. There's no in
Speaker 1: between in this game and life and anything. You're either
Speaker 1: you're getting better or you're getting worse. So I just
Speaker 1: want to keep improving. Well, that's Dick Stanfield's evaluation of
Speaker 1: us as a coach. He says, Look, I'm as your
Speaker 1: arrow's pointing up. I'm going to coach you and I'm
Speaker 1: going to supply you with all the information I can.
Speaker 1: But when your arrow starts pointing down, I have to
Speaker 1: look to make a change. And that is a struggle
Speaker 1: that every athlete faces. And now you know, you're not
Speaker 1: a rookie, you're a veteran. You're a leader of this
Speaker 1: football team, and you're one of the guys that's expected
Speaker 1: to go out there, and you know, lead by example
Speaker 1: in every case, every day, every day you go out there,
Speaker 1: you gotta lead by example. You gotta bring it to
Speaker 1: the drill room, you gotta bring it to the meeting rooms.
Speaker 1: You gotta bring it every single time you step on
Speaker 1: that field. Whatever you're doing, you gotta do it at
Speaker 1: a high level because you know people are watching and
Speaker 1: you want to set the example. Every coach that has
Speaker 1: ever been written about you or talked about you way
Speaker 1: back to college and whatnot, said the same thing about you.
Speaker 1: You've been consistent, you have not changed. They that's how
Speaker 1: you were then, that's how you were now from their
Speaker 1: view anyway, Do you see yourself that way as well? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because I try to be myself. I don't try to
Speaker 1: do anything outside the extra ordinary. I just try to
Speaker 1: be myself. I know I'm a hard worker. I know
Speaker 1: I always go to work every day with the mentality
Speaker 1: of getting better. That's how I always coached when I
Speaker 1: was back in college by coach with Chris Peterson, one
Speaker 1: of the greatest coaches of all time in my opinion.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, just you go to work every day and
Speaker 1: you go to practice, go to school. Whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: you do it with intent. You're doing it to get better.
Speaker 1: You're not doing it just to get by. That's how
Speaker 1: you waste days. And it's there's no wasted days in
Speaker 1: this world. What's different about your game with this offense?
Speaker 1: What is anything gonna have to change about Charles? Are
Speaker 1: you gonna have to be more fluid? Are you gonna
Speaker 1: occupy more space? Are you gonna have more responsibilities while
Speaker 1: you're reading during the course of the play. I would
Speaker 1: say my game is going to be the same because
Speaker 1: I can adjust. I mean, clearly we talked about being
Speaker 1: with you know, five different office of coordinators. My game
Speaker 1: is gonna be the same. I'm like Charles little Junior
Speaker 1: ball and you're gonna see you don't feel Charles Leonard Junior,
Speaker 1: our guest here on Bears All Access brought to you
Speaker 1: by I JFF Energy time there with you and Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniak as well as we get ready for a long
Speaker 1: training camp portion of the off season training camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a long training camp and then you go to
Speaker 1: Hellas All and you still got many I mean it's
Speaker 1: it's seven weeks before the opener. It may seem like
Speaker 1: a very long time, but it will go fast. Easy
Speaker 1: for me to say when I'm not dying out there, right, Charles, Uh,
Speaker 1: You mentioned a book you read, and I know a
Speaker 1: lot of players are into self motivation books and whatnotum
Speaker 1: books are handed around, you know, locker rooms in every
Speaker 1: sport and all that. What do you do you read
Speaker 1: a lot? Do you like that type of book or
Speaker 1: what's on your bookshelf. Yeah, I like to read books
Speaker 1: like that. This book is called Black Privous Opportunities, Get Opportunity. Uh,
Speaker 1: forget the title of but it's called Black Prevous by
Speaker 1: Charlie Magne and Guy, I forget the last part of title. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a really good book. He talks about his life
Speaker 1: and he was a DJ or interesting character. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a what were you calling him? MC? Yeah, so he
Speaker 1: has a breakfast show. That's the show he could ask
Speaker 1: and he was just talking about his life growing up
Speaker 1: in South Carolina and how he had went through a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff that people don't see him ask because
Speaker 1: you only see the finished product, you know, you never
Speaker 1: really see what people go through. We only see their
Speaker 1: finished product and where they are right now. No, he's
Speaker 1: been through a lot of stuff, and the way he
Speaker 1: got there was just by being true to himself, being honest,
Speaker 1: you know, seeing opportunities and taking advantage of it. Always like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he had to work jobs where he wasn't getting paid,
Speaker 1: things like that, and now he's getting paid millions. So
Speaker 1: nobody ever sees that. Nobody talks about that, Oh you've
Speaker 1: been rich, you have money, Like, No, it's not like that,
Speaker 1: Like guys have to work. Wherever you're doing in this world,
Speaker 1: you gotta work for it. His journey. We talked about
Speaker 1: this very topic back in Punta Katay, around that Poota
Speaker 1: Kata trip. We'll pick up where we leave off. Tom
Speaker 1: always laughs every time I say it was on that trip,
Speaker 1: the Bears trip to Puntakata. Tom There, Jeff Joniac and
Speaker 1: left Tech with Charles Leto Junior. Here on Chicago Sports
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Speaker 1: Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies. Score coming to
Speaker 1: you from Bears training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in
Speaker 1: bourbon A. Jeff Joni Act, Tom There, and Charles Leno Junior.
Speaker 1: Before the break, we're discussing journeys and the finished product
Speaker 1: doesn't tell the whole story. And you got eighty nine
Speaker 1: other guys in that room, in that building, in those
Speaker 1: dorms that you may or may not have time to
Speaker 1: get to know, Guys that may or may not make
Speaker 1: the football team. Do you take the time to find
Speaker 1: out about your new teammates, about their stories or is
Speaker 1: that reserve for when the regular season gets under way
Speaker 1: and you guys really become a family. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it starts inland first, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 1: kind of starts in on line. You kind of talk
Speaker 1: to like the rookies in online, and you know, can
Speaker 1: I get them formed in like how we're going to play,
Speaker 1: this is the way the offense line is going to play,
Speaker 1: then you can work your way out. I actually I
Speaker 1: have talked to a couple of guys just you know,
Speaker 1: just being myself, just saying what's up to him in
Speaker 1: training room or whether it's in the lunch all stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'm not really like a shy guy, just
Speaker 1: kind of like mingle with whoever. So when I'm doing
Speaker 1: that mingling, I'm always like trying to drop a gym
Speaker 1: on him, you know what I mean, Like there's a
Speaker 1: little piece of knowledge, Like you know, I remember telling Mike,
Speaker 1: I forget his last name, but he's a cornerback and
Speaker 1: he's a rookie. I remember telling him when I give
Speaker 1: him a ride back to the hotel a while ago.
Speaker 1: I'll just tell him, like when you go to training camp,
Speaker 1: like a couple of things you got to worry about.
Speaker 1: Learn to playbook. That's the first and foremost thing. Learn
Speaker 1: to playbook. Because if you're not going to make the field,
Speaker 1: if you don't know the play first and foremost second
Speaker 1: is whatever the coaches tell you to do technique wise,
Speaker 1: you do it. You do whatever it takes. You stall
Speaker 1: after practice, you go before practice, whatever it takes. You
Speaker 1: get that done and go from there. Because that's what
Speaker 1: I did. I just made sure I learned the playbook,
Speaker 1: made sure I tried to work on the techniques as
Speaker 1: best as I possibly can, and the rest is history.
Speaker 1: It took care of itself. You shouldn't go in there
Speaker 1: a training camp as a rookie thinking so much like
Speaker 1: I have to do this after that. No, it's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna wear you down. You're gonna be all over
Speaker 1: the place. You wouldn't know what to do. Just go
Speaker 1: in there and keep it simple, our offensive lineman, Why guys?
Speaker 1: Or do you can you not afford to be a
Speaker 1: why guy? Like meaning like if they tell you this
Speaker 1: is why did you do it this way? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: that okay? I'm a big why guy, I mean like
Speaker 1: not in the fact that like I'm challenging. I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm like coming at you like, well know why I
Speaker 1: don't have to do it this way now? I'm like
Speaker 1: I'm always a person that's always asking questions like what
Speaker 1: do you mean by this? Or yeah? I would say
Speaker 1: that's like I'm more of the what do you mean?
Speaker 1: So explain more? Not I wouldn't say yes, why Yeah,
Speaker 1: It's more like what do you mean? Kingpoint? Would you
Speaker 1: be ever that way back in the day? Are you
Speaker 1: just no? Because I mean two years one moth listened
Speaker 1: twice as much as you speak. He just you know,
Speaker 1: you who's telling who's telling you what you need to know?
Speaker 1: And I respected everything Deck Stanfield told me as an
Speaker 1: ex player and a coach. And I assume it's the
Speaker 1: same with Harry because now you're a veteran and Harry's
Speaker 1: coming back into the professional atmosphere. How how has that change? Ben?
Speaker 1: Is you guys as veterans, you know, had to absorb
Speaker 1: Harry into that room. But he's got the credibility where
Speaker 1: he deserves everything he gets. You just said he got
Speaker 1: the credibility, Yeah, he has, he has the resume. Um,
Speaker 1: he comes in a room, and it's nothing more exciting
Speaker 1: than a coach that wants to see you succeed. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, he's going to coach you to
Speaker 1: be the best. He's not going to coach you just
Speaker 1: to coach you. He's coaching you to be the best.
Speaker 1: So he brings a passion, he brings energy, he brings
Speaker 1: excitement when he's coaching you. So you feel that, and
Speaker 1: all you want to do as a player is matched
Speaker 1: that when you go out on the field. Have you
Speaker 1: ever had a guy that wanted to change your technique
Speaker 1: instead of refining what you've already accomplished. That Most guys
Speaker 1: see me and they look at me like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: got here the way you did. I'm not going to
Speaker 1: try to change anything. I'm just going to try to refine.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna try to make it more christs and
Speaker 1: more like you know, detailed as possible. Charles Leno junior
Speaker 1: I guest here on bears All Access. Uh, it sounds
Speaker 1: like coach Naggi has said this more than one. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a physical camp. What definition and what
Speaker 1: that shape takes, Well, we're gonna learn here in the
Speaker 1: short term. Um is that good with you? Fine with me?
Speaker 1: We're playing office in line. I gotta get physical, you
Speaker 1: know what. To me, in my eyes, I think they
Speaker 1: have had physical training camps the last couple of years since.
Speaker 1: And so I don't said, Man, that really you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't, I don't. I remember we talked about
Speaker 1: it a lot. I don't agree with their observations because
Speaker 1: I remember two years ago it was the nastiest last
Speaker 1: day of training camp practice I've ever seen, where Yeah,
Speaker 1: Ted Larson was going to fight at chem Hicks and
Speaker 1: there's guys hanging right now. That was a practice right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was so. I was I'm saying, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: take guys like Charles and Bobby Massey and stuff and say, okay,
Speaker 1: no'll visit. No they to me, I think they agree
Speaker 1: with you. I definitely agree with that. That was. That
Speaker 1: was something. And so but it looks like there's gonna
Speaker 1: be more live drills and more contacts. So it should
Speaker 1: be fun to see and as players, um, I'm sure
Speaker 1: that with the extra game and all that, a lot
Speaker 1: of young guys are gonna get a lot of opportunity
Speaker 1: that'll help, you know, find some maybe find some gems too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, this is training camp. Um,
Speaker 1: I know for me, I'm here to get better. Uh.
Speaker 1: This is a time where you're just refining and detailing
Speaker 1: your work that you've been putting in throughout the off
Speaker 1: season and OTAs and mini camps and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: You're just trying to refine it. So when you go
Speaker 1: on the field, Um, when it's Sunday and it's live,
Speaker 1: you just want to have you know everything right. You
Speaker 1: want to go out there and make sure your upsets
Speaker 1: are right, your hands are in the right spot, you
Speaker 1: know your pad level is good, you're coming off the
Speaker 1: ball with explosion like all those things that we we're
Speaker 1: gonna drill and training camp, that's what I'm ready for.
Speaker 1: Have you had enough experience with this terminology that when
Speaker 1: you break the huddle you know exactly what you're doing
Speaker 1: even if they go to an audible because I know
Speaker 1: you know, as you learn the system, it takes a
Speaker 1: little while. So when you go out there for your
Speaker 1: first day of practice, are you taking a tenth of
Speaker 1: a second to think something forward or are you breaking
Speaker 1: the huddle? Good to go? I'm breaking huddle good to go.
Speaker 1: The way we the way they installed it for us,
Speaker 1: the way they installed it. It's all about like how
Speaker 1: somebody's processing it. The way they installed it, it was perfect.
Speaker 1: Do you install it? You go over it again. You
Speaker 1: go out there to practice and you're going the field
Speaker 1: and you don't even see a defense yet. You just
Speaker 1: keep working on it until you got it. Then you
Speaker 1: see a defense and it's not a live defense yet.
Speaker 1: Then you can go against you know, walk through and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Then you go see the real defense.
Speaker 1: So if you run this play four or five times,
Speaker 1: you should get it right. You know, you should get
Speaker 1: it whether it's against the defense or not. So it's
Speaker 1: it's really good how they installed in. And it's like,
Speaker 1: hits my brain right. It sounds like it hits Mitch
Speaker 1: Dubisky's brain right too. He has had articles written a bottom,
Speaker 1: people have had a chance to visit with him a
Speaker 1: prior to camp, and he is beaming with confidence. Thinks
Speaker 1: it's a perfect fit for him. This offense appreciates how
Speaker 1: Coach Naggie and the offensive coaches have, as you just
Speaker 1: pointed out, delivered the product to you guys to digest
Speaker 1: and learn. Have you seen it for yourself just in
Speaker 1: your practice with him and your conversations with him. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he's been just getting better every day. Really, yes, going
Speaker 1: back to OTAs just thinking about it, like every day
Speaker 1: is like like I'm just getting like my eyes getting
Speaker 1: big because I see a play makes like dang, all right, Okay,
Speaker 1: stepping up big time, you know, And he's just embracing
Speaker 1: the leadership role and he's just trying to be the
Speaker 1: best Mitchell trubi He a boss he can be. And
Speaker 1: it's it's good to see. You know, the initial interview
Speaker 1: process that they did with Mitchell Trumps even before the draft,
Speaker 1: they really got it right. Because everything that I've seen
Speaker 1: Mitchell Trubisky invest himself, whether it's his teammates, the information
Speaker 1: he needs to know when he was informed that he
Speaker 1: was going to be a starter, He's everything you wanted
Speaker 1: when you went up and made that that draft choice
Speaker 1: for that quarterback position. And I think every day, even
Speaker 1: listening to the press conference today, what did you think about?
Speaker 1: What do you had to say the other day? You know,
Speaker 1: I like the confidence in him home, but I but
Speaker 1: I like tone. I like the edginess too, because I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a quarterback out there that doesn't live
Speaker 1: with that edginess. Whether it's John Elway Marino or the
Speaker 1: Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton's up today,
Speaker 1: I think they all got that edge. And that's what
Speaker 1: I like to see about Mitchell. I don't want to
Speaker 1: see a pascifist as a quarterback. And I think with
Speaker 1: coach Nage and you can amplify on this more. As
Speaker 1: you said, you're who you are and he is allowing you.
Speaker 1: He's giving you, guys the freedom to be who you are.
Speaker 1: That he has let that message out many times. Be you.
Speaker 1: He wants you to be you, whoever you are, be
Speaker 1: that person. But he doesn't want you to be average
Speaker 1: for you. He wants you to be the best version
Speaker 1: of you. And I love that because you don't. Guys
Speaker 1: are cut different shapes and sizes, mentally, physically, whatever it
Speaker 1: may be. But whoever you are, if you bring that
Speaker 1: best version, he can use you in that aspect. And
Speaker 1: that's what I love about it. And that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: go fly off and do what you want. You gotta
Speaker 1: reel it in a little. Yeah, he has rules. He
Speaker 1: sets rules here and yeah, it's gonna be fun to
Speaker 1: watch it unfold. That's for sure. Charles Letto Junior guest
Speaker 1: here on Bears All Access Jeff and time with you
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Speaker 1: Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff jonah Ac on
Speaker 1: Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Tell us about
Speaker 1: the rest of the offensive line, all the fellows doing.
Speaker 1: Kyle Long looks like he'll be ready to roll to
Speaker 1: start training camp. That's good news. I got Coodye White
Speaker 1: here at center right now battle with left guard, right
Speaker 1: tackle Bobby Massey Warford. Warford is in here from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Very nice gentleman. Met him back in mini camp. Had
Speaker 1: a long conversation. It's got a lot of different characters.
Speaker 1: Now you mentioned Cush, A lot of character, A lot
Speaker 1: of characters love it, a lot of character we have
Speaker 1: on a line. We're just a bunch of guys that
Speaker 1: just love each other man. We just try to embrace
Speaker 1: each other, push each other every day. You know how
Speaker 1: it is. Time Like the offensive line group is unique, um,
Speaker 1: tight knit group, dinner every day, breakfast, whatever, like we
Speaker 1: don't we like to be around each other and snow
Speaker 1: better feeling than a bunch of big guys walking around,
Speaker 1: you know, walking around a facility and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's offensive. I think that's where you want it though.
Speaker 1: You want the confidence from the offensive line. You want
Speaker 1: the confidence from the defensive line. You want those guys
Speaker 1: to be the protectors of the rest of the units
Speaker 1: and stuff, and offensively, with this system that the Bears
Speaker 1: fans are gonna see, it's going to be the most
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the most wide system they've ever seen
Speaker 1: in Bear history. And so it's got to be by
Speaker 1: the playmaking ability the offensive line to make the whole system. Right.
Speaker 1: I know, we sit here and give a lot of
Speaker 1: credit to Mitchell Tchubiski or Taylor Gabriel or Trey Burton
Speaker 1: and the rest of the crew that are going to
Speaker 1: touch the football, but it is about the ability. The
Speaker 1: offensive always starts up front, regardless and both sides of
Speaker 1: the will always Yeah, that's never gonna change. Is it. No,
Speaker 1: I don't care how many tweaks to the game. The
Speaker 1: only time it will change if they just turners game
Speaker 1: to seven or seven. Yeah about it? Yeah? Does that
Speaker 1: ever worry? No, because they need office line right, and
Speaker 1: you know it's going to be interesting, you know, and
Speaker 1: you know, how are your habits gonna be throughout training
Speaker 1: camp when repetitiously you're going through these drills and nine
Speaker 1: on seven seven on seven TeamWorks and stuff. Are there
Speaker 1: new rules? Are they going to be filtering through your
Speaker 1: practices and in your head? And is your head placement
Speaker 1: going to be a concern at the conclusion of a
Speaker 1: block the new rules like what would you say, the helmet,
Speaker 1: the helmet, the helmet, and the hell helmet? Oh no,
Speaker 1: like for all of us a line play, you gotta
Speaker 1: have your eyes up right, So it's no, my crown
Speaker 1: of the helmet should not be going down to anybody's
Speaker 1: chest or anybody's helmet. I should be having my eyes
Speaker 1: up seeing everything going on in the field. And when
Speaker 1: I'm blocking my guy, I should be looking at what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing. And that's what I think that, Uh, there's
Speaker 1: a problem, like coach guys helmet keep their eyes up,
Speaker 1: put their hands inside. Well, you know what if it
Speaker 1: comes to the point point where there's you know, second
Speaker 1: down and one, they hand the ball to Jordan Howard
Speaker 1: and he has to lower more than just a shoulder
Speaker 1: to push beyond that first down marker, it's gonna kind
Speaker 1: of be an unfair ending to the play. If Jordan
Speaker 1: can't be the most powerful Jordan, he can to conclude
Speaker 1: the right and get the most lower and get lower
Speaker 1: and you know, lower shoulder or whatever it may be. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's tough. I mean, that's the rules that they interesting.
Speaker 1: Even quarterback sneaks right, well, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Are they gonna I don't know how how is a
Speaker 1: person gonna get lower than Tree Cohen? You know, if
Speaker 1: he's gonna make some really quick cut, how are they
Speaker 1: going to react and make sure they're in the perfect
Speaker 1: body position to hit him. It's he only has a
Speaker 1: small target, a jackling target of about a foot. It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see we're gonna I think preseason games
Speaker 1: could be difficult. I think they're gonna be a lot.
Speaker 1: They're always difficult. It'll be always, I don't know, they
Speaker 1: always get a little bit more difficult every year. Is
Speaker 1: it cool for you as a player, because it's cool
Speaker 1: for fans, it's cool for broadcasters. I can't I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to attend Brian or Lackers Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame induction. Now they've changed it so the game is
Speaker 1: a couple of days before that. But you're going there
Speaker 1: to represent this franchise to play the Baltimore Ravens on
Speaker 1: August second, and Brian is elected on inducted on August fourth.
Speaker 1: Is it an honor for you to be there on
Speaker 1: the weekend that one of the great players in Bears
Speaker 1: history is is going into the Hall of Fame. Yeah,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't it be? You know, I mean, you just
Speaker 1: I remember seeing this guy on TV play lights out
Speaker 1: ball for the Chicago Bears, and uh, it's just really
Speaker 1: cool to see on both sides him ray Lewis, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, this is a this is
Speaker 1: this is great. You know, you know, it was amazing
Speaker 1: in our experience when they inducted coach Mike Dickett into
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. We are up at training camp
Speaker 1: and we were having an inter squad scrimmage in the
Speaker 1: stadium at Platteville. We halted the game. They showed his
Speaker 1: induction into the Hall of Fame and we went back
Speaker 1: and finished the you always have some. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: It was amazing though because Vince Toby, you know, the
Speaker 1: rest of the all the other coaches, Greg Landry and
Speaker 1: saw On. But it was it was something because you
Speaker 1: think about the respect because Charles, you're an NFL player
Speaker 1: now and they're talking about a teammate, Brian Urlacker, you know,
Speaker 1: by organization going into the Hall of Fame, just like
Speaker 1: it was for me seeing your head coach as a
Speaker 1: player going into the Hall of Fame and stuff, and
Speaker 1: you know that whole attachment is it's neat because you're
Speaker 1: playing the game and here's your peers going into the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame at this time exactly. Um never met
Speaker 1: never met Brian, don't know him personally, but like you said,
Speaker 1: the attachment right when you wear that that see you
Speaker 1: on the side of your helmet, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like you're a brother regardless right, Well, the first time
Speaker 1: you went up and met him, he would be like
Speaker 1: you guys have known each other for ten years, the greatest.
Speaker 1: He is a people person, nice guy. If you're a bear,
Speaker 1: he's part of You're a part of his family. That's
Speaker 1: how it was supposed to be. That's exactly the way.
Speaker 1: You know what, you have to agree, that's the way
Speaker 1: he is. Oh yeah, he brought Brian. Brian is an
Speaker 1: awesome It's just like Lance and Peen and a lot
Speaker 1: of guys from that team. The thing that is going
Speaker 1: to be weird for the Bears going forward is if
Speaker 1: the Bears stay with a thirty four defense throughout a
Speaker 1: period of time where someone can earn the Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame on that defense, because the Bears have only played
Speaker 1: one style of defense and that's where all their Hall
Speaker 1: of famers come from. So you're not going to see
Speaker 1: the traditional middle linebacker of the Bears. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a guy like Roquan running all over the place, or
Speaker 1: eventually you're going to develop that position. It's interesting to
Speaker 1: analyze the game from a perspective of history because because
Speaker 1: it just jogged something with me with Roquan, and it
Speaker 1: was something I think it was written by Larry Mayer
Speaker 1: on the Bear's website. He is a prototypical New Age
Speaker 1: inside linebacker meaning heightwaight speed ratio. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if that aggravates you. Tom as a veteran player, because
Speaker 1: the game has subtly changed over time, and you know, well,
Speaker 1: it's it's just kind of weird to hear that, because
Speaker 1: that's what everybody's saying, you know, as the game changed
Speaker 1: that much that you have to have linebackers. Well, I
Speaker 1: think if you if you stamp somebody as prototypical, you know,
Speaker 1: they wanted to think, you know, Detroit wanted to think
Speaker 1: that when they needed a receiver that was over six
Speaker 1: four and they went and drafted three of them in
Speaker 1: a row and they all failed. You know, so nobody's
Speaker 1: pro your prototypical of your desire to play the game,
Speaker 1: your investment and everything. And you're not going to go
Speaker 1: out there and find five guys that look exactly like
Speaker 1: Charles Lennell Junior and start stacking them up at left
Speaker 1: hack all Yeah, no, do they have his feet, Do
Speaker 1: they have his willingness to work hard in the offseason,
Speaker 1: hand placement, all that other stuff. Did you study the
Speaker 1: game at all as a as a young kid? Study
Speaker 1: the game? Yeah? Loving it? Did you? I know basketball
Speaker 1: was maybe kind of your thing, yeah, back in the day.
Speaker 1: But when when did it start clicking where you were
Speaker 1: a fan first and then you were a players second?
Speaker 1: Or was that ever the case for the game of football.
Speaker 1: Maybe not. No, no, like yeah, honestly no. I was
Speaker 1: always a basketball kid growing up. Did you ever go
Speaker 1: to an NFL game? Oh? Yeah, oh yeah, So actually
Speaker 1: I have to take yeah when you now that you
Speaker 1: say that, my dad had season tickets for the Raiders. Okay,
Speaker 1: so going to the Raider game that was big. That
Speaker 1: was a big deal to me because now I put
Speaker 1: night as she said that now thinks now I'm thinking back.
Speaker 1: I remember the Raiders. They always had just bail that
Speaker 1: they always hit before they showed, like the big, nastiest
Speaker 1: offensive lignment come down, and it was Lincoln Kennedy And
Speaker 1: I remember looking at that. I still have pictures in
Speaker 1: my head and it's like, Dan, that's really cool, like
Speaker 1: you know, and then things went south when I saw
Speaker 1: guys like Robert Gallery, I was like, Okay, there's this guy,
Speaker 1: because Lincoln Kennedy was the guy. Yeah, I haven't won
Speaker 1: the Raiders line, you know what I mean, Like that
Speaker 1: was something guy I always looked up too. So yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: like I would say at that point, and yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I will watch that and when he had tickets
Speaker 1: and we'll go to the game. We're still all kids
Speaker 1: at heart. I mean I'm older than than yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but the think about I mean to think you're here, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never if you told me I was gonna be
Speaker 1: here at that moment, Oh no, I would never guess it.
Speaker 1: You'd be thinking you'd be posting up somebody in the NBA. Yes,
Speaker 1: Raymond Green, right Daymond Green. We'll talk a little Warriors
Speaker 1: with our guy. Yeah yeah, that tougher road now maybe
Speaker 1: with the Southern California teams. That's Charles Leno Junior, our
Speaker 1: guest down Bears All Acts This with Tom. I'm Jeff
Speaker 1: on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. This segment,
Speaker 1: it Bears All Access is orchestrated by CDW, CDW people
Speaker 1: who get it. Charles Leto Junior, tip there, Jeff jonihac
Speaker 1: here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. Our
Speaker 1: training camp is underway, our version of Bear All Access
Speaker 1: coming from bourbon A and Olivet Nazarene University. I don't
Speaker 1: recall what year it is here already, but you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of check time and mile posting your life
Speaker 1: by training camp because it seems like we're just here.
Speaker 1: But obviously three hundred and sixty three days had passed
Speaker 1: before that's happened. But it just feels that way. It's
Speaker 1: a part of your life. You're you're literally putting years
Speaker 1: of your life into a camp with the fellas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: man hours, years, minutes, whatever you want to seconds, whatever
Speaker 1: you want to call it. This is a lot of
Speaker 1: work that you're putting in to get this right. You know,
Speaker 1: it's awesome down here is the fan support, because I
Speaker 1: can you imagine if you just went out to some
Speaker 1: boring practice that there was nobody there either yelling encouragements
Speaker 1: or whatever they do. And I think it's it's pretty
Speaker 1: neat too. When you go through the practice field, you're
Speaker 1: you know, not dragging, You're just trying to get walking
Speaker 1: up the start the day. And then you see the
Speaker 1: sport support of the fans spill around the stadium or
Speaker 1: the fences. It's pretty neat here. Absolutely. I remember when
Speaker 1: I fell in love with this place, and that's weird.
Speaker 1: I said I fell in love with training camp, but
Speaker 1: like really I did. It was my rookie year and
Speaker 1: it was the first practice in pads. It was like
Speaker 1: a Saturday practice. We had first practice and pads and
Speaker 1: the amount of people they had here. It was insane, right,
Speaker 1: I think it was like, oh I might be wrong
Speaker 1: on this, but it had to be like ten thousand
Speaker 1: people out there. There's been some five digit attendances. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was crazy, and I'm just like, wow, that's that's impressive. Well,
Speaker 1: like that being said, do you feel the vibe? Do
Speaker 1: you feel the energy? You've been around now long enough
Speaker 1: to know what feels right? What doesn't remember? I remember
Speaker 1: you asked me this a while ago, and when I
Speaker 1: was moving to him in place. Oh oh yeah, yeah
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, when I don't know. I don't know. If
Speaker 1: you eat, you eat, you were on the show, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so a lots changed, a lot of change. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you want to know now you said, what's the feel?
Speaker 1: The feel is good. The feel is good. The feel
Speaker 1: is um, I don't know, like just thinking about it,
Speaker 1: like there's no there's no doing what we did, it's
Speaker 1: no settling for what we were. It's um, we're trying
Speaker 1: to be the best now. It's not. It's the vibe
Speaker 1: is no more. I don't know, like no more what
Speaker 1: we no more being the same? You can't be the same,
Speaker 1: like I said, he's either you're getting better. You're getting
Speaker 1: worse now, we were just getting worse. No, we got
Speaker 1: to change that. Now the arrow has got to point
Speaker 1: up rights too. And that's the that's the mindset you
Speaker 1: have to have. You gotta believe within your own division.
Speaker 1: And that's the key here. No matter what big names
Speaker 1: there are in the division. I think when you put
Speaker 1: an entire team together to go out and in battle
Speaker 1: these guys, that's what it's gonna take it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: take that that big time win against Green Bay week one,
Speaker 1: you know, bringing Seattle into Chicago here, and so you know,
Speaker 1: eventually you guys have to develop that belief in yourself
Speaker 1: that when you go into the locker room, you're gonna
Speaker 1: come out victorious. And this is where it starts. I mean,
Speaker 1: the mindset started a while ago. The mindset started on
Speaker 1: April third, fourth, whatever day we started, that was when
Speaker 1: the mindsets started. But this is when the work starts.
Speaker 1: Now we've been putting in a lot of work during
Speaker 1: out the time, but now this is the real deal work,
Speaker 1: and this is where we go from changing that arrow
Speaker 1: to up And I think the character and mental makeup
Speaker 1: of the individuals that are going to be a part
Speaker 1: of this, whether it be coaches or players, is also
Speaker 1: it's palpably different. There's guys that are they got some
Speaker 1: sas to him, a little bit not over the top
Speaker 1: cocky like I'm I'm the guy. But you got you
Speaker 1: got guys that are talking, they speak up. You got
Speaker 1: guys with juice, Tarik, Yeah, Tarik, you got Danny Trevithan
Speaker 1: has been here obviously a little bit um. I even
Speaker 1: see it from Kyle full Or, even though he's a
Speaker 1: soft spoken guy, but you could see it in his eye.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's feeling. There's all there's a chem
Speaker 1: there's you. Kyle Long has always been like that. Even
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard has got you know, there's just something about
Speaker 1: this group of guys. I'm starting to come together. I
Speaker 1: think the free agent veterans that were brought in here too,
Speaker 1: they have the same Alan Robinson and Taylor Gabel, all
Speaker 1: these guys. I think that they have an understanding that
Speaker 1: they're here for better wherever they came from, they are
Speaker 1: here to make this organization, this team, the situation better here.
Speaker 1: And you got to understand the guys that you just named, Tarik,
Speaker 1: Kyle Fuller, Kyle Long, Danny trevethan myself, guys, those guys
Speaker 1: that you name, we've been through some stuff that we
Speaker 1: don't want to see again. We want to get somewhere else.
Speaker 1: So that's what it's us. That's all it is. We're
Speaker 1: trying to go somewhere else. We're not trying to do
Speaker 1: what we did. You chimed in with me when I
Speaker 1: mentioned Trey. He at time thinks it's it's an unbelievable
Speaker 1: acquisition to put on this offense. And he's an unbelievable guy.
Speaker 1: Have you dig a little deeper into him, tell us
Speaker 1: more about him, a few conversations. Talk to Trey when
Speaker 1: he first got here. I remember seeing him when he
Speaker 1: pulled up. I'll just like, thank you for coming here. Um,
Speaker 1: we're trying to do what you did already, and teach us.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, because you know some things right,
Speaker 1: He's he's got it, he's done it before, so you
Speaker 1: know some things. Teach us help us. But you know
Speaker 1: a lot of you know a lot that we don't know.
Speaker 1: But we have been to some stuff that you haven't,
Speaker 1: so so you know what I mean. Like, we're hungry
Speaker 1: as well. Everybody's hungry in this aspect. You know Trey
Speaker 1: Burton is your you tight end. He's gonna be split
Speaker 1: out a lot, maybe come out of the backfield and
Speaker 1: stuff the guy that you're going to stand next to
Speaker 1: both Dion Sims. But I want to talk about Adam
Speaker 1: Sheheen because I think there's a lot of unknown about Adam.
Speaker 1: When you line up next to him, you have double
Speaker 1: team blocks. You guys are working together. What is his tempa?
Speaker 1: What is his personality like in and then out of
Speaker 1: the huddle. He's trying to he's trying to dominate guys,
Speaker 1: but he also is trying to learn because I had
Speaker 1: him yea last year was a rookie. So I'm teaching
Speaker 1: him like, this is how we should do this block.
Speaker 1: Just listen to me. I'm going to be here. You
Speaker 1: just gotta set it like this. And he's engaged. He's
Speaker 1: looking at me in my eyes. He's like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going to do it like this. So when you got
Speaker 1: guys like that, there's nothing more I need to tell
Speaker 1: I think he's got a really high upside. There's nothing
Speaker 1: more I need to tell him. He wants to work,
Speaker 1: he wants to be good, so he's going to show it.
Speaker 1: Charles Leno Junior. Our guests are remaining moments here on
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Speaker 1: a very nice thing for your high school this spring
Speaker 1: as well, didn't you getting them some football uniforms? What
Speaker 1: was that motivation? And then how does that make you
Speaker 1: feel to give back to or your roots out? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was really from my coach. My
Speaker 1: coach he helped me out a lot. I was. I
Speaker 1: was a pudgy kid, you know in high school. I
Speaker 1: remember being a big kid, and he saw something in
Speaker 1: me that I didn't see it myself. He remember doing
Speaker 1: the suicides in the in the gym, you know, like
Speaker 1: basketball suicides, but you have to push ups and go
Speaker 1: down and push ups and come back down to do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many reps she did, thousands of them,
Speaker 1: whatever we did, and I was struggling hard. I wanted
Speaker 1: to quit. I wanted to quit. Honestly, where would I
Speaker 1: be if I quit? But he looked me in my
Speaker 1: eyes and I saw him looking at me from a distance,
Speaker 1: and I looked at him and it was just a look.
Speaker 1: It wasn't any like you're better not It wasn't anything.
Speaker 1: It was just like a look of I know you
Speaker 1: can do it. And right then and there I did
Speaker 1: it and the rest is history, you know, like it
Speaker 1: was a It was a real moment. Name coach Brad Bowers,
Speaker 1: coach boom boom, still doing it? Yeah, I'm still doing it.
Speaker 1: So who is that game for you? It had to
Speaker 1: be Gordy Gillespie because I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: be a running back like my brother. And he said, look,
Speaker 1: well this gotta be a reality. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be a running back. You're gonna be
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. You know. Last last week I went
Speaker 1: to this They had this freshman skills offense and defensive
Speaker 1: lineman kind of a fun camp and Joliet. So I
Speaker 1: went down there and talk to all the kids and stuff,
Speaker 1: and I told them, you know, it's not easy for
Speaker 1: you guys to be lineman because linemen are blessed to
Speaker 1: be lineman. You're not going to pick some other position.
Speaker 1: And then for you guys to come out here in
Speaker 1: your summertime and give this type of effort, and you know,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what you know. You're out there to
Speaker 1: find the Charles Lennol. You're out there to find the
Speaker 1: guy who's going to emerge not above all these other kids,
Speaker 1: with all these other kids and take their encouragement and
Speaker 1: try to take it to the next level. So I
Speaker 1: think it's important gesture for you to go back and
Speaker 1: support the kids that need someone like you to go. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's important to us, absolutely, and that's what I want
Speaker 1: to do. I just want to give them, you know,
Speaker 1: let them know that I was there, I've been there before,
Speaker 1: and you can do whatever you want in this world.
Speaker 1: Charles was outstanding, wonderful talk. I get excited when a
Speaker 1: guy we just had one big football conversation. Here a
Speaker 1: little journey talk about where you guys have been and
Speaker 1: where you're going, and I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a great ride. So thank you for joining us. Great
Speaker 1: have a great training camp. Charles Letto Junior, our guest.
Speaker 1: Thanks to everybody for listening tonight. Director of Content Dan Barelli,
Speaker 1: Jordan tread Up, our coordinating producer, and Greg Miller tonight
Speaker 1: helping us spend the hours along with Paul's the rank
Speaker 1: from training camp. Thanks everybody for listening. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you next week. For Charles Letto Junior and Tom There,
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access on Chicago
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