WEBVTT - DeAndre Houston-Carson on staying prepared to play | All Access Podcast 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.760 Welcome and everybody to Bears All Access. It's brought to 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.840 you by IGS Energy with Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff Jonahak. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:08.880 We'll have the game Bears Packers Sunday on WBBM, starting 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.400 an amr pregame kickoff at noon. Thanks for producers Dan Barelli, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:15.319 Jordan Truentip and the folks here at the score coming up. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.120 We'll be joined by DeAndre Houston Carson. The veteran safety 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.759 and writer Ty Dunners authored a book it's called The 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.200 Blood and Guts How tight Ends Say Football. Substantial time 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.040 with Mike Ditkill will get into that first eighteen pages 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.520 of the book about coach and how tight end position 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:34.120 kind of revolved around him in the sixties and beyond, 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:36.519 and we'll get into that. But right now, big time, 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.920 we're talking Bears Packers meeting two o six, and it 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.920 looks like Justin Fields and Aaron Rodgers will share the 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.680 field on Sunday. Well, definitely trending that way, and I 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.640 think the crowd is excited both on a national scope 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.760 of the NFL and whomever is gonna be at Soldier 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.680 Field on Sunday, And I'm excited for myself. I want 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:58.560 to see Justin get back on the field, and I 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.680 want to see him go out there play a high 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.800 profile opponent like the Green Bay Packers in the division 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.640 and Aaron Rodgers, and I hope this is super motivating 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.000 to the defense to make sure that they have to 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.240 be on their best and take care of business according 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.720 to what Aaron Rodgers offers them. But I think it 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:21.160 complicates the situation for the defensive coordinator of the Green 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.959 Bay Packers because you have a formula of how you 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:28.200 want to play against Aaron Rodgers. There's net not necessarily 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.679 a formula how you play against Justin Fields. And they 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.280 just played against Jalen Hurts who put up a big 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.640 rushing number against them. Joe Berry's under attack up there. 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.759 For sure. The three sixty three is a crazy number. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.080 It has happened before, but it just seems weird to 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.800 keep here in that number, that three hundred and sixty. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.000 But when you watched the tape of how the Packers 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.720 played it, there were a lot of runs that Jalen 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 Hurts made that we've seen from Justin Fields. There's creases 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.960 that open up, there's green grass, and he's going to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.960 take it. You can't stop him from taking it if 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.640 he sees it. The invitations too great. Just get out 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.680 of bounds, try to avoid the hit. That's one way. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.280 But second, what did you think of the tackling of 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.040 the Packers Because I thought that defense heading into this 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.000 year was going to be really good. Obviously, Rashine Garry 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.240 out with an ACL takes away the pass pressure. But 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.400 are you a little surprised at what they've given up? 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.760 You know? So, Jeff, I heard earlier on a broadcast 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.080 you talked about the importance in the role of David 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.760 Montgomery and the running backs according to the Running Game, 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.880 which I still believe that is a super point of emphasis. 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.760 But you know, Jeff, when you look at hot do 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:40.079 you a tackle Jalen Hurts Hottia tackle justin fields? There 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.200 is no formula because these guys can have a two 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.600 and a half to four yard separation and you're not 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.640 going to hit them. So to say, okay, you know, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.040 they used to have this term for playing Barry Sanders 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:53.600 back in the day, and they said, oh man, you 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.680 gotta fire. You gotta fire when you go to tackle 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.560 Barry Sanders. There you can't because he's gonna you miss 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.760 in space. The great Gael stairs. If you try to 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.600 fire on him, you're gonna miss in space. It's the 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.280 same thing with Justin. You better be able to have 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.000 a condensed area in multiple bodies around him to slow 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.839 him down or escort him out of bounds. And that's 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.880 still not a guarantee because Justin is so fluid on 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.640 his feet that if there is that I talked about, 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.400 that separation of distance between him the nearest defender, he 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.280 can turn a four yard separation into a forty yard run. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.200 So it's a hesitation that kicks in then and now. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.240 It's a little bit though, isn't it if you're thinking 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.320 you're beat? Because if you're thinking how about how to 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.200 approach him instead of firing, your canon so to speak, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.120 as you say, that puts you in major conflict. Is 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.480 that what you're suggesting here? It slows down a defense 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.120 because they got to think about how they're going to 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.720 attack him, right, It's probably more if you slow your reaction, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.960 you're guaranteed you're gonna get beat. And that's the thing 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:58.320 about just firing and trying to make a tackle is 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:01.520 that you got to commit to it, and then you 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.120 hope that if you commit to him, and then you 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.480 slow him down or you make him take an alternate 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:10.040 direction that there's teammates near you that can help you 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.320 limit the success of the run. But you know, again, 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.120 I'm glad you brought that up if you think you're beat, 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.440 because if you slow your reaction, you're guaranteed you're gonna 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:21.920 get beat. All right, Where are you in the risk 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.000 reward category with this, if at all? Because there's a 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.000 camp out there that says, hey, you know, why rush 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.400 him back? Why do this? Let him get some risk, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.760 get the bye week, come back finished the final four. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.680 What's your take on all that? Football's a risk always, 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.320 whether you're healthy or you have some type of in 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.200 some type of setback issue that he had when he 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:47.960 didn't play against the Jets last week. But to me, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.719 it's you give him a week to get his legs 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.680 back to the freshness that it was when this whole 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.000 journey started. That would scare me as much as anything. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.640 And I know it's his left shoulder, and I would 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.200 be cognizant of that. I would try to put him 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.520 in a play calling position that he's not exposed to 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.040 getting pounded to his left side. And you can't guarantee 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.640 that because it's a reactionary sport. But I'm not gonna 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.479 sit there and dwell on why he missed the game 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.880 last week as opposed to why he's playing this week. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:23.800 And even from a personal standpoint, he's a twenty three 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.280 year old kid who is the future of the Bears. 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.240 It appears as that's the case, and he wants to 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.000 face some of the greats of the game. Those days 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.600 are dwindling with Aaron Rodgers. So if you're gonna have 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:40.520 another crack at Aaron Rodgers, I say go take it 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:45.520 right as he is. You know, at home, you're in 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.680 control of the volume of the snapcout. You can have 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.599 a variety of formations now that Chase Claypool has been 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:56.159 more involved in the mix and they got some speedback 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.960 with Pringle, And then you think of where Cole Commet 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:01.760 is at from the first time they played Green Bay 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.320 into where he's at right now. There's a lot of 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.479 different weaponry that you can use this goal around against 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:11.160 the Green Bay Packers that you are still trying to 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.599 figure out your formula the last time they played them. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.920 Still a signific number of injuries obviously on this football 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.360 team and in the secondary. As if this show. We're 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.440 not sure what the situation is in that regard, but 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.279 it's a young secondary right now, A couple of three 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.800 year veterans and you got DeAndre Houston Carson back there. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.320 But these are guys that, no question, Aaron Rodgers will 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.360 be zeroing in on. Yeah, you know, I don't look 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.880 for mental mistakes out of the defensive backfield because I 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:44.240 think guys like Jalen Johnson and DHC DeAndre Houston Carson 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.800 will get everybody in the right place and if someone 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.880 if there is a mistake that's being present, sometimes they 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.520 can make up for that. All Right, we're gonna step 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.040 away our first segment in the books as we get 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.440 ready to meet DeAndre Houston Carson here on Bears All Access. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.680 We're brought to you by IGS Energy, and this is 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:05.600 Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score. Back to Bears 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.240 All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy. Choose clean 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.880 energy for your home at IGS dot com because every 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.680 good choice adds up to a better world. Jeff Joniak 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.800 here with DeAndre Houston Carson, our guest, Thank you've taken 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.120 the time. Thanks for having I know it's valuable time. 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.080 You know, as your pro man, you're a pro through 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.280 and through, and so your workday continues all the way 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.720 to who knows when, and it's not just about the 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.240 meetings and the practice, it's getting your body right and everything. 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:36.360 What is your typical week like in terms of post 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:42.040 practice preparation for Sunday? Yeah, so post practice, obviously, I'm 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.720 trying to do some stuff to recover, getting the training 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:48.080 room and do some massage or whatnot. But I typically 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:50.560 trying to do all my film study when I'm when 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.600 i'm in the building. That way, when I go home. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.560 I got two kids, my daughter she's almost three, of 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.520 my sons eight months, so there's not too much time 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.600 to be watching too much film when I get home, 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:00.800 so I try I do my work when I'm not 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.520 working that way, when I go home, I could just 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.520 be a dad. I always joke with it with the 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.200 guys that say me they see me leaving at five 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.000 o'clock with a coffee and he's shaking coffee. I'm like, 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.840 I'm going to my real job, you know. I like, Yeah, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.200 kids don't care what I did to day, so that's typical. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.560 And then once they go to sleep, I might watch 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.440 a little extra family spence some time my wife. You know, 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.720 I watch a lot of tape too, certainly not as 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:23.200 much as a player, but that that pad is always 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.400 there calling your name, right, you know, and do you 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.680 think you know, God, maybe I should watch a little more. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.880 Is that happen a lot. It's like a magnet and 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.720 it does. It changed over the course of your career. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.160 Kids aside, I mean, as a pro, how much tape 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.160 are you actually diving into? Arla Carya should tell me, 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.560 you know, I can't watch too much to night start 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:45.000 overthinking that that was his way? What's your way? Um? 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.800 That is a reality. You can watch too. You can 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.960 watch too much or get to start thinking too much 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.760 about it. I would say, you know, I try to 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.959 watch a lot of film in the morning times, so 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.840 maybe an hour or so in the morning, and obviously 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.840 whatever we're watching during the day, and then post practice 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.360 all in all, maybe another maybe another hour and a half, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.960 so probably a day, you know, by myself, you know, 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.200 two to probably two to three hours. Had it ever 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.680 burned you when you have looked into it too much? Yes? Yes, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.600 because sometimes you can get to guessing, you know, you 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:23.760 think you know what they're gonna run based on their formations. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:25.920 It can help you make a lot of players book. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.280 It can burn you, you know, if you think they're 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:28.880 gonna run a slant. In the next team they run 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.680 a slant and goal or give a memory in your career, 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.040 even college where you know you're so glad you did 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.000 it because you know you saw it. It just came 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.800 to life and you made a big play. Yeah. So 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:43.319 we were playing James Madis universally. Actually my senior year 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.360 is a big game Halloween. I think we won like 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.920 forty four to forty one, so we weren't stopping too much. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.160 But there was one I knew. I just knew he 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:52.640 was gonna run a slant and I was in the 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.280 post and U I mean, I just jumped the slant 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.120 and they ran a goal ball and just completely left 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.880 my corner out the dry. He dropped a touchdown. He 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.160 dropped it. So then the very next play they come 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:08.000 back and they run the slant and I picked I 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.680 ended up picking it off. So I was happy. You know, 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:12.760 That's that's what I'm saying. That's a that's a risk 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.880 in some reward, but um, yes I was. I was 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.280 happy on that one. DeAndre Houston Carson, our guest here, 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.000 on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. I love 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.200 how you laid out the day and then you're going 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.200 home to your your family, because I'm certain a lot 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.199 of folks don't think of it in terms that way. 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:30.280 And now you got a young team. While of those 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:33.240 guys are not married, they don't have kids, they're rookies, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:35.040 they're young guys in the locker room, they've seen you're 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.160 basically you're briefcase and it home to work after a 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.080 day at the office. Right You don't visualize that as 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.480 a football fan, you know, I don't think so. I 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.760 think I think it's just something different. I don't know, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.440 but I kind of like it because you are one 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:50.319 of the senior members of this football team, as young 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.000 as it is. I don't think you played on a 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.960 younger team right in your seven years. Yeah, I don't 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.920 know if anyone has played on a younger team right 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.840 right now in the second arry, I just counted up. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.680 I think it's six rookies knock out woods. Some guys 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.240 are gonna come back who knows, but injured or otherwise. 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.280 There's six rookies, two new guys just picked up a 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:14.199 month ago, two three year vets, in Villedoor, who's limited 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:19.040 as of this taping this week for practice, Jaylen and yourself. Yeah, no, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:20.880 it'll be exciting an opportunity for a lot of guys. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:23.120 But I had that experience one time. I can't remember 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.080 who we're playing, but we're when the kickoff holder before 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.360 the kickoff, and I'm looking around, it's like there's literally 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.320 seven rookies out here in the kicker. So it's just 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.160 me and you know, two other guys who are Yeah, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:40.280 have any you know, specialties? Yeah? Yeah. Do you do 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:44.280 you drive some energy from these guys because their wide eyed, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.439 they're excited, this is their big chance. You know, I'm 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.640 sure some of them don't feel like rookies anymore. That's 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.800 deep in the season. But how about that you do 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:53.679 drive some juice from that? Oh? Yeah, for sure. A 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.160 lot of guys bring a lot of energy, and it's 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.000 always fun being around the rookies day. You know, they 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.079 keep you young. It's funny saying that, right because you're 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.120 still a young guys exactly. You're a young guy in 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.920 the in the bigger picture for sure. DeAndre Houston Carson 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.520 our guest here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:14.240 Score brought to you by IGS Energy. So I said 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.319 this on the TV show that we had on Sunday 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.400 Night recap in your nine tackles. I know you're a 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.880 team first guy, but we have to individually, you know, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.040 go through you know, highlights of the game and whatnot. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.400 And I said, this is a guy and I said 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:29.760 this at the outset here, you're a professional. You just 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.240 there's so much trust and belief when you're on the field, 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.920 no matter what you're asked to do, how in frequent 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.840 or frequent you're asked to do it. I think that 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.880 could possibly be some of the most complimentary thing you 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.839 can hear as a player. Is it not even from 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.079 your coaches they speak the same way about you. Yeah, no, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.560 I'd say so. Obviously you want to be someone who's 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.280 trustworthy in life in general. That's the way I look 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:53.960 at it. And then football is just an extension of 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.520 you know, just another aspect of life that I want 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.440 to be trustworthy in and to be in. To be 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.840 completely frank, there's there's times where you know, I make 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.920 mistakes out there and I think it hurts me. Um 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.160 might hurt me a little bit more because I do 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.760 pride myself a lot in that, and I have a reputation, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:11.400 you know, so then when I when I do make 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:14.280 a mistake, it's like I was, you know, I just 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:15.880 gotta make a mistakes. So I had a few in 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.440 the game, to be honest, that that I wasn't proud of, 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.600 but because it's just part of it, you know, learning 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:24.400 from learning from those as well. And frankly, you haven't 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.680 had a ton of defensive snaps this year. Is it is? 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.000 It takes some time to get comfortable out there. No, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.280 I want to sound so, I mean that is something 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.040 that a couple of people have asked me. You know, 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.120 like I've played a lot of football, but I haven't 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.520 started or play, you know, a whole bunch on defense. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:39.600 But I don't think you can really account for all 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:42.880 the accumulated reps over time practice, you know, preseason, all 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.800 those reps of playing football, watching a lot of tape, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:48.880 seven years worth of tape. Um. So although you know, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.680 having started a whole bunch, it doesn't feel like I 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:53.520 have to go in and get a groove or anything. Well, 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.480 I know this, you're one of the one of if 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:57.640 that's the first guy on the field every day. Oh yeah, 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:06.280 why is this? Um? So really everyone likes doing extra work. UM, 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.440 and I know I know myself, I'm I'm more likely 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.880 to be inconsistent if I do it after after practice 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.000 every day. I might have a hard practice and I'm 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:17.840 tired and I'm like, okay, I'm gonna skip. I'm gonna 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.720 skip the jugs today. So I just decided I started 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:22.760 doing it probably two years ago. I decided to start 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.160 doing all my extra work before practice. That way, I knew, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:27.320 um two things. I knew I was gonna get that 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:29.600 extra work, and then I could I can direct call 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.840 one of my practice to go. You know, say you're 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.000 wearing pads, you might go a whole day you're wearing pads, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.960 but you haven't you still don't hit, just because you 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.240 know the play didn't come. So then I go out 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.040 and do my tacles before. That way, I know that 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.400 I'm you know I'm hitting. UM, So that that's really 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.280 the only reason. Um, I don't really do any reason. 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.720 Have others followed you, have others asked about especially these 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.640 young guys, and then they say, can we work with you? Yeah? 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.640 For sure. Um. Before it was me and my boy 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.400 Dion Bush, we'd be out there, we'd be out there early. Um, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.320 a lot of a lot of Jurkis asked me about it. 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.600 Just we're not just Wurkies but guys in general. And 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.440 I just explained that to him. And you know, some 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.000 guys try to come out early and stuff. I've actually 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.520 adjusted a little bit this year. Um, adjusted a little bit. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.840 I still try to get out early, but I'm not 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:17.200 a slave to it. I used to kind of be 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.400 a slave to it, where if I if I wasn't 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:21.440 able to do it, then I would just feel like 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:26.200 completely unprepared. Um. But now you know, it's really nice. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.760 Actually I'm not a slaved to that, to that ritual anymore. Yeah. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:31.000 I still get out there early as much as I can, 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.640 but I've definitely adjusted as the years I'm talking about. Yeah, 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.320 does it also signal to these younger guys? And again 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.240 Coach keeps talking about building a foundation, and he made 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.880 a point of the Coaches Show on Monday Night, this 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.160 is not a rebuild. This is a building building. So 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.840 building something fresh from the foundation that that guys get 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.000 into a routine that they feel works for them. It 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.160 doesn't have to be replicated. I mean, it could be 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:58.440 the same thing on Sundays, you know, ottawalle Guli. I 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.800 used to come in are in defensive end and he'd 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.680 take three showers before kickoff. I mean that that was 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.760 his route he had to he'd go out there getting 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.480 the shower. Yeah, I mean why, I have no idea, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.920 but it worked for him. Do you kind of counsel guys, hey, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:18.040 do what works for you? Um? I have I have. UM, Like, 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:20.600 if they do ask me about my routine specifically, it's like, 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:22.680 you don't have to, you don't have to do this, Yeah, 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.800 you know, but it is very important, I think to 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.920 have a consistent schedule. Um. So something that was told 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.240 to me, Um, you know kind of the pre draft 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.280 process is, you know, you want to kind of do 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.280 the same thing every day of the week. So like 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.040 on Monday, I do the same thing every Monday. I 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.320 do the same things every Tuesday, Wednesdays. It's just stills 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.280 routine as far as you recovery your body. Also watching 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.640 the film. That way, you have less things to think about. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.200 It's just taking some of that mental energy away, you know. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.920 Sometimes exactly, I eat the same breakfast every morning. That way, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.200 I don't have to think about okay for breakfast, you're 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.960 not eating the same way how you eat the same breakfast? 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.920 What do you eat? Yeah, so typically I do two pancakes, 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.240 a couple pieces of bacon, three four piece of bacon, 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.080 and some eggs. Put some hot sauce on it, Sir. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.120 Doesn't get boring? No, I mean sometimes it does. But 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.119 you are a man of routine. So I'm messing up 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.400 your vibe right now because you're ready to get home 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:19.280 to be with the kids and Mama. Yes, DeAndre Houston 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:21.760 Carson our guests another segment to go here with the 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.320 veterans safety and special team star back with you after 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.920 this break on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score. 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.879 This segment of Bears All the Access is brought to 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.720 you by Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit athletical dot com to 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.480 request an employment in clinic or virtually and start feeling 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.639 better tomorrow with Bear safety DeAndre Houston Carson, just talking 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.119 about life and football. You know, it's funny some of 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.080 these interviews. You have a couple of questions or ideas 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.320 and then you just start a conversation. You never get 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.480 to the questions. Those are the best ones. I had 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.360 one recently with Cole Comet a couple of weeks ago 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.040 on television, and you know, I think players get a 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.879 kick out of that too. You know, we're just talking. 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.280 We're just talking about things that relate to the game, 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.879 and those are always, to me the best interview. So 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.919 I appreciate you being open and talking about you know, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.560 just stuff stuff right here. I don't like using the 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.639 interview voice that you know, what is the interview interview 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.639 voice and someone asks you a question and you just 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.800 have to turn on that, you know, it's that voice. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.160 I gotta go watch the tape. Yeah, yeah, right, you know, yeah, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.919 you can't give him all the all the info right 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:26.280 right yet. Um, this is not an easy year. Uh, 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.720 but it's weird. I had a conversation Mike Pannell in 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.399 the locker room and a veteran who has been on 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:34.800 many many teams, some very successful teams, Packers Kansas City, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.240 and you know, he's another veteran guy who guys come 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.480 to him for information on the defensive line. And I said, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.200 I'm in the locker room the other day and it's bustling. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.719 I mean, I've been in here and you have to there. 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.600 There are there are guys who come in there on 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.679 Wednesdays and Thursdays, and meet the media, and they do 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:55.680 so diligently. But in the past, you know, at place 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.639 with crickets, sometimes you know, guys don't want to answer 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:02.880 questions about losing. What's different about this team because it 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.600 doesn't feel like a losing season. I'm just that's from 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:10.119 my perspective. Maybe you guys are internally looking at it 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.320 a different way, but I just hear it. I feel 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.399 that there's energy in that room. What are you What 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.800 is your guess? I guess do you feel that? Or 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.919 am I? Or am I just making it up? No? 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:21.960