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access pass into Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Miller Litte, CDW and four Everybody Jeff Joning Accalog with a broadcast partner from News Radio seven eighty and one to five point ifm WBBM mister Tom Thayer, the eighty five Bear. We're at Bears training camp. We are back to work. I can't believe it. It came so fast. It's a

much longer training camp. We got an extra preseason game, but everybody is thrilled to be here in Bourbon at on the campus, a bottle at Nazarene and our special guest today on Bears All Access here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the score, Big Charles Leno Junior, You seem to be getting bigger every year. I mean, you know, hitting that weight room. Hope, I'm looking leaner though, That's all I care. Well. You got the California strength thing going on. You got the T shirts so you look

you look fit to hit, are you well? I appreciate a yeah, I'm really but you know, but there's been a change in the weight room because I've had the pleasure going in there a couple of times this year, and there's a whole competitive atmosphere in the weight room, and I've always been a big fan of that because I think that spills right out of the field. The camaraderie you share in the weight room, the struggles that you go through and trying to lift heavier, get you

stronger to be better on the field. All that stuff. It helps you, guys. It helps you become closer and more encouraging to each other. Absolutely, Um, guys like me, Eric Cush, Cody, why Eric horonas cross suit we opened him trying to push each other every day, you know, push each other to be the best. Like if Eric Cush missus arab, I'm like, no, you gotta get back on there and hit it. And if I'm miss one,

he's telling me the same thing. Like when we're all looking at each other weights and we're trying to up want each other, you know, but it's all competitive. It's all for a better meaning better cause, you know, Jeff said, here we are and it's gone so quick, and I was trying to think back. You know, in our off seasons, we had the off season, we went to a two day mini camp, continued our off season, and showed up for training camp. You guys have so much interactive time

with each other. Do you do you like that where kind of the football stays continuous through the off season almost for you guys, or when you had this five weeks to be by yourself and collect your own thoughts, do you like those windows as well? Yeah? I like mix of both. I mean, I don't know how you can make it a perfect world, but having some time off is always good. But it's nothing wrong being in

and working out with the boys. As an old guy, I like you guys what you guys go through because I would like being around my teammates going through OTAs and have less of a you know, strenuous time going through training camp. And I always say, my first training camp, we had twenty two straight days of doubles and conditioning after every practice, and that's just not the way you dinna have time to really get to know the fellows

nor did you want to do? We were trying to catch up to all the information these guys have already digested. And I think that's a key ingredient to be able to digest that information because you're you're a veteran, you're learning the new offense yourself. Yeah, but when it comes to me, like I heard a lot of different offices, you know what I mean? I think this is four or five offensive coordinators five? Ye yeah, so some of the terminology is the same. So for me, it's just like,

you know, okay, I know what this is. I know what that means. Just put it all together now, Cash you are it is five. I'm thinking through my head, I thought, but you know what you are? Right? That's five? Is that tough? Yeah? It is confusing? It could be yea. It could be completely different language, you know that, you know, like completely different language. I mean you might have one block mean this and one word I mean this and might overlap was something that you just did last year

and it's completely different. Interesting hearing Mitchell Trubisky the other day the first day of camp, it was asked and I think I read it in a story. Actually it's easier, even though it's more complex. Last year was easier but difficult for him to process and execute in that. Do you feel the same as you look at it right now? Um? For me, it's different, yeah, because he was in quarters a rookie too, rookie, you know, rookie and a quarterback. He has a process a lot more than I have to. Um,

So I'll say it's completely different from me. But I see a lot of easy things in our offense right now, like terminology wise, up being a lot of stuff like carried over from when we did last year and from people I had it in previous years. It's a fit your skill set, yeah, definitely, But in what sense and what sense? Yeah? Oh, just the way we for it. First of all, the way we train. It fits my skills yet to work. Harry, he puts us to the grinder man. He makes his work. And I love it,

you know, I mean, that's my skills. I love to work. I love to work hard and just keep getting better and perfecting my craft. So that's the first thing I noticed, you know, forty five consecutive starts for you, It's an incredible number when you think about where you came from and where you are now. Rewarded with a nice contract and every all the hard work seems to be paying off.

But as much as you talk about offensive coordinators, thinks about think about the different offensive line coaches you've had, and as much as they want to train or change Charles Leno Junior, you always have to kind of self coach yourself after all this experience. What thirty nine or thirty five consecutive starts in college and now these do you self coach yourself some of the time or you know when you need it most on the field. Absolutely,

I'm probably the hardest critic on myself. You know, I'm looking at tape all the time, trying to advance my game. Whether I step poorly one time and I'm like, okay, we'll go back to the basics, step correctly the next time, or hands inside or pad level like little things like that. Always just trying to keep working on my game and keep being the better. You guys are two p's in a pod because you never missed snaps, and you know they starts. Starts are great, but finishing games is better.

Twenty nine hundred three snaps, I don't know if you know that number. That's how many in a earl. You're at right now. Isn't that crazy? Yeah? That's crazy. I mean no, Awi, there's no like oh wait yeah, no, you think about it? Is there there is there is you just can't you know. I always say you you you have forty sect that moment. Yep, you got that moment to take your breath and like all right back to play right. Um, I would say I had a bad one. It was it was, um two years ago,

was our first year. Um, it was two years ago. We were at Indy. Um, yeah, we're at Indie on my birthday. Actually it was on my birthday. Um. Josh, he fell behind me and my leg got caught right behind him, and I ah loud one and like you said, at that moment, I'm I got up. I was like, it's intact, take a breath. That's the place, that's the weight room investment. And that's what I you know, that's one of the big positive changes that I've seen and leading into the off season is you have to come

out of the weight room with confidence. And I I always felt confident and the strength that was provided me through the Clyde Clyde Emerck's education, and I think that's kind of the chains. That has been really a positive one because not only the offensive lineman defensive linement got to be strong. Every one of these positions got to be strong and healthy. Your your body's taking a lot

of beating and you're producing a lot of force. So when you're producing a lot of forces and you're beating force, it's got to take that impact. And no better way than having weights come down, slamming on you on a cane clean or putting some weight on your back right starting left tackle Charles Lettle Junior, our guest here on beers All Except in Chicago Sports Radio six seventies score. Jeff jonny ak in timp there with you one more on that weightlifting in your high school days? Did you

love it and you were a basketball guy? You love? You love the weight room? Yeah, always did, always did um even when I was playing basketball. Yeah, basketball not lifting. We know, we know it was all jumping and no little light stuff here. But when I first started playing football, that's one thing I like, gravitated towards. I really love the weight room. I love I love training, I love the conditioning. I love forbid me being a big guy.

I love running like I actually love running I actually you love, you know, moving around and stuff like that. I never was a guy to just sit down. Would you walk into boys yet? Two forty two? I remember, Yeah, I was two forty, but I was two thirty coming out of high school. Yeah. Did you play any tight end? No? I just played tackle. We had we had like a

lot of athletes in my school for sure. But you know, at an NFL level, for a guy to make a transition from a right tackle trying to become familiar with the league to be switched to left tackle and then

flourish Charles there not. There's not a lot of guys in the league that have been able to do that, you know, And it's something that you had to recognize and create a lot of self confidence in yourself to be able to make that change from right to left exactly because people don't understand, like, oh, it's like riding a bike. No, it's not like riding a bike, all right.

Imagine your world on the left side being so familiar, like you see everything on the left side, and imagine you just have to close your eyes and just open your right eye and only use that eye that's completely different, or use this one hand that you're so dominant with, but you can't use it because I will get you more beat than the other side. Oh, you know, like

little things like that. People don't understand how many times has it crossed your mind where you were picked and where you're at in this consecutive start streak for the charter franchise of the National Football League and really still building your career you're still a young player. Yeah, as it crossed your mind a time or two. Yeah, definitely, but it never it never just lingers there. You know, I'm always like, how can I help the Bears win?

You know, I'm always on the quest of being the best I possibly can be to help us win here. So all that stuff is cool, but I'm still moving as it's rare what you're doing, Like Tom even said, because if you talk to scouts, you know there's certain

positions you gotta have a first round pick. One of them is tackle right right, and it aggravates two guys I'm looking at right now who weren't first round picks but playing and charting Bears as it turns out, right, as it turns out, Charles Lenno Junior guest Tim there here, Jeff Joni ac We're at altavat Nazarene University in bourbon A as Bears Camp gets under way. Back with more after this on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.

Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas, and home warranty products to over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Charles Lenno Junior our guest here on Bears All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.

Jeff and Tim with you as well on your way to bourbon A. I retweeted it this week, h to Bears bus breaking down, but not without the valiant help of a Charles Lenno Junior. What I do? I don't know? You tell me no? So yeah, bus tune pictures everywhere. I don't know about to tell them you don't know about. I was driving against some toilet trees before getting down to camp, and I saw this bus like it's a

record bus. Look from a distance, like a guy just like telling everybody get over to the right, don't coming into this lane. So I just pull over I get closer, it's like blue and orange. I'm like, what bears bu and I see the sea in a bear head And when I'm driving past, I'm like, oh, the bears bust broke down. So I'm like, I'm not letting the Bears bust breakdown, not at all. So I hit a U turn, came right back around, I hopped out, and they had some people coming on the way anyway right when I

hopped out, so I didn't do much. I just was talking to guys and just letting them know, like I saw this bus breakdown and the Bears busts ain't breaking down this year. I don't care what you think. I'm anna help just bear. I'm gonna help just buzz out, you know, whatever I can do. And I said, exactly what an offensive lineman is born to do. But real for those people, are you kidding? They run there in the Iowa for a bike race, and I went to Iowa State and know about Rag Bryant that's across the

state race. So but you know they've been talking about it still, So good job, Charles. This is what you do. You're an offensive lineman man, exactly. I'm also a bystander too. I'm active by standard. Is something going on? I want to help. Got a lot of traction though. One of your I guess it's an old friend of yours, gabeck Is. Yeah he did he play at Oklahoma? Yeah, yeah, So I guess he's a talk show out there. And I'm just gonna take the liberty of reading it already already

know what he says. I'm gonna tell all of Oklahoma that you fixed their mechanical issues with only a paper clip and chewing gum. That, of course was after you siphon gas from your car for the bus by using fifteen bendy straws and scotch tape. It's just a better story story. I appreciate a good dude. Man, he's hilarious. Is he doing radio out there? And he was he an offensive line? Yeah, he was offensive lineman coming out. We both trained the same facility down in Arizona for

the for the pre draft process. So you know, Big Time's not on Twitter and never will be as far as I know, unless you know, I guess he did just give his mom and a man an iPhone first time, So there's there's still hope for you now, So in your world of Twitter and so forth, I'm sure you have a lot of football playing buddies from days gone by, all the way back to San Leandro, California. Do you enjoy that? And is that a good way to communicate

with the fellas and just have some good, clean fun. Yeah, it's a good way. Um. I'm honestly, I'm just not on there as much as people may think I am. I kind of just post stuff every once in a while. I'm kind of like a free solo on there. I'm just like you're searching. I'm just fine seeing what's going on in the world. But you know, when you realistically think about the time allotted to you during the course of training camp. Now your football season started, it's seven

days a week until it ends. So a lot of that free time that you had the luxuries, it's just not there because free time is taken up by your tablet, and then you got practices and then you got meetings. You gotta eat, right, you know, you gotta go to the treatments and everything that you need. So, you know, it's it's a nice focus because the living the itinerary life for football player is a positive for a lot of us because we have so much structure and it

helps us stay on course. Absolutely, that's the biggest thing. And that's that's what I think people should take going into the off season. It's some structure. Playing your days out, I know I do. I like to have a little schedule. I have a planner. What am I doing this week? What some goals I want to hit this week? And maybe if it's an offseason, just something that has nothing to do with football, maybe it's just, uh, well was

it this year? For example, if you're at Liberty to say, oh, for example, I wanted to one habit I wanted to do is just make sure I wake up in the morning, take my dog on a walk every single day, you know what I mean. And it just became a habit and I was taking them on a walk every single day, and then maybe the next week it was making my bed every day. Of course, some days you people forget that, you know, some people don't make their bed. I want to make my bed. It would be a little small things.

You know, when when you're a football player nowadays and you've earned the opportunity to get your second contract, how does that change yourself? I mean, not things that you can buy monetarily, But how does that change your focus on football? Do you feel that there's more pressure on me because these guys went out on a limb and signed me to a new deal. Absolutely, it's that's exactly what it is. Some people think you have the money, you can chill. No, it's no chill. Oh yeah, no chill.

It's as you get worse, you've got more pressure because it's more invested in you. So they want to see you perform at this level. Yeah, and you're no longer just a guy on a roster that's trying to hang out. Now you get the media attention and there's an expectation, which I always found kind of odd. Okay, there's the whole phrase in Mitchell Trubisky said it the other day to who much has given, much is expected. We've heard it.

It's a biblical verse and everybody feels that way. But just because you played, maybe at a place where it's two or beyond your potential, you're that that is now the next reward for you to keep chasing the next carrot, And so exactly, I'm always striving to be the best version of myself. I was just listening to a book today. It just said, you're not getting If you're not getting better, you're getting worse. You're not in between. There's no in

between in this game and life and anything. You're either you're getting better or you're getting worse. So I just want to keep improving. Well, that's Dick Stanfield's evaluation of us as a coach. He says, Look, I'm as your arrow's pointing up. I'm going to coach you and I'm going to supply you with all the information I can. But when your arrow starts pointing down, I have to look to make a change. And that is a struggle that every athlete faces. And now you know, you're not

a rookie, you're a veteran. You're a leader of this football team, and you're one of the guys that's expected to go out there, and you know, lead by example in every case, every day, every day you go out there, you gotta lead by example. You gotta bring it to the drill room, you gotta bring it to the meeting rooms. You gotta bring it every single time you step on that field. Whatever you're doing, you gotta do it at a high level because you know people are watching and

you want to set the example. Every coach that has ever been written about you or talked about you way back to college and whatnot, said the same thing about you. You've been consistent, you have not changed. They that's how you were then, that's how you were now from their view anyway, Do you see yourself that way as well? Absolutely, because I try to be myself. I don't try to do anything outside the extra ordinary. I just try to

be myself. I know I'm a hard worker. I know I always go to work every day with the mentality of getting better. That's how I always coached when I was back in college by coach with Chris Peterson, one of the greatest coaches of all time in my opinion. Um yeah, just you go to work every day and you go to practice, go to school. Whatever you're doing, you do it with intent. You're doing it to get better. You're not doing it just to get by. That's how

you waste days. And it's there's no wasted days in this world. What's different about your game with this offense? What is anything gonna have to change about Charles? Are you gonna have to be more fluid? Are you gonna occupy more space? Are you gonna have more responsibilities while you're reading during the course of the play. I would say my game is going to be the same because I can adjust. I mean, clearly we talked about being with you know, five different office of coordinators. My game

is gonna be the same. I'm like Charles little Junior ball and you're gonna see you don't feel Charles Leonard Junior, our guest here on Bears All Access brought to you by I JFF Energy time there with you and Jeff Joniak as well as we get ready for a long training camp portion of the off season training camp. Yeah, it's a long training camp and then you go to Hellas All and you still got many I mean it's it's seven weeks before the opener. It may seem like

a very long time, but it will go fast. Easy for me to say when I'm not dying out there, right, Charles, Uh, You mentioned a book you read, and I know a lot of players are into self motivation books and whatnotum books are handed around, you know, locker rooms in every sport and all that. What do you do you read a lot? Do you like that type of book or what's on your bookshelf. Yeah, I like to read books

like that. This book is called Black Privous Opportunities, Get Opportunity. Uh, forget the title of but it's called Black Prevous by Charlie Magne and Guy, I forget the last part of title. Um, it's a really good book. He talks about his life and he was a DJ or interesting character. Yeah, he's a what were you calling him? MC? Yeah, so he

has a breakfast show. That's the show he could ask and he was just talking about his life growing up in South Carolina and how he had went through a lot of stuff that people don't see him ask because you only see the finished product, you know, you never really see what people go through. We only see their finished product and where they are right now. No, he's been through a lot of stuff, and the way he got there was just by being true to himself, being honest,

you know, seeing opportunities and taking advantage of it. Always like, Okay, he had to work jobs where he wasn't getting paid, things like that, and now he's getting paid millions. So nobody ever sees that. Nobody talks about that, Oh you've been rich, you have money, Like, No, it's not like that, Like guys have to work. Wherever you're doing in this world, you gotta work for it. His journey. We talked about this very topic back in Punta Katay, around that Poota

Kata trip. We'll pick up where we leave off. Tom always laughs every time I say it was on that trip, the Bears trip to Puntakata. Tom There, Jeff Joniac and left Tech with Charles Leto Junior. Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to Score. Get the latest Bears news, photos and videos delivered straight to your mobile device. Download the Chicago Bears Official Mobile app, presented by Verizon. Welcome back to Bears All Access, brought to you by IGS Energy.

Here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventies. Score coming to you from Bears training camp at Olivet Nazarene University in bourbon A. Jeff Joni Act, Tom There, and Charles Leno Junior. Before the break, we're discussing journeys and the finished product doesn't tell the whole story. And you got eighty nine other guys in that room, in that building, in those dorms that you may or may not have time to get to know, Guys that may or may not make

the football team. Do you take the time to find out about your new teammates, about their stories or is that reserve for when the regular season gets under way and you guys really become a family. Yeah, I mean it starts inland first, you know what I mean. It kind of starts in on line. You kind of talk to like the rookies in online, and you know, can I get them formed in like how we're going to play, this is the way the offense line is going to play,

then you can work your way out. I actually I have talked to a couple of guys just you know, just being myself, just saying what's up to him in training room or whether it's in the lunch all stuff like that. I'm not really like a shy guy, just

kind of like mingle with whoever. So when I'm doing that mingling, I'm always like trying to drop a gym on him, you know what I mean, Like there's a little piece of knowledge, Like you know, I remember telling Mike, I forget his last name, but he's a cornerback and he's a rookie. I remember telling him when I give him a ride back to the hotel a while ago. I'll just tell him, like when you go to training camp, like a couple of things you got to worry about.

Learn to playbook. That's the first and foremost thing. Learn to playbook. Because if you're not going to make the field, if you don't know the play first and foremost second is whatever the coaches tell you to do technique wise, you do it. You do whatever it takes. You stall after practice, you go before practice, whatever it takes. You get that done and go from there. Because that's what

I did. I just made sure I learned the playbook, made sure I tried to work on the techniques as best as I possibly can, and the rest is history. It took care of itself. You shouldn't go in there a training camp as a rookie thinking so much like I have to do this after that. No, it's gonna it's gonna wear you down. You're gonna be all over the place. You wouldn't know what to do. Just go in there and keep it simple, our offensive lineman, Why guys? Or do you can you not afford to be a

why guy? Like meaning like if they tell you this is why did you do it this way? Yeah? Is that okay? I'm a big why guy, I mean like not in the fact that like I'm challenging. I'm just I'm like coming at you like, well know why I don't have to do it this way now? I'm like I'm always a person that's always asking questions like what do you mean by this? Or yeah? I would say that's like I'm more of the what do you mean? So explain more? Not I wouldn't say yes, why Yeah,

It's more like what do you mean? Kingpoint? Would you be ever that way back in the day? Are you just no? Because I mean two years one moth listened twice as much as you speak. He just you know, you who's telling who's telling you what you need to know? And I respected everything Deck Stanfield told me as an ex player and a coach. And I assume it's the same with Harry because now you're a veteran and Harry's coming back into the professional atmosphere. How how has that change? Ben?

Is you guys as veterans, you know, had to absorb Harry into that room. But he's got the credibility where he deserves everything he gets. You just said he got the credibility, Yeah, he has, he has the resume. Um, he comes in a room, and it's nothing more exciting than a coach that wants to see you succeed. And on top of that, he's going to coach you to be the best. He's not going to coach you just to coach you. He's coaching you to be the best. So he brings a passion, he brings energy, he brings

excitement when he's coaching you. So you feel that, and all you want to do as a player is matched that when you go out on the field. Have you ever had a guy that wanted to change your technique instead of refining what you've already accomplished. That Most guys see me and they look at me like, Okay, you got here the way you did. I'm not going to try to change anything. I'm just going to try to refine. I'm just gonna try to make it more christs and

more like you know, detailed as possible. Charles Leno junior I guest here on bears All Access. Uh, it sounds like coach Naggi has said this more than one. It's going to be a physical camp. What definition and what that shape takes, Well, we're gonna learn here in the short term. Um is that good with you? Fine with me? We're playing office in line. I gotta get physical, you know what. To me, in my eyes, I think they have had physical training camps the last couple of years since.

And so I don't said, Man, that really you know, but I don't, I don't. I remember we talked about it a lot. I don't agree with their observations because I remember two years ago it was the nastiest last day of training camp practice I've ever seen, where Yeah, Ted Larson was going to fight at chem Hicks and there's guys hanging right now. That was a practice right there. Yeah, that was so. I was I'm saying, you're not gonna take guys like Charles and Bobby Massey and stuff and say, okay,

no'll visit. No they to me, I think they agree with you. I definitely agree with that. That was. That was something. And so but it looks like there's gonna be more live drills and more contacts. So it should be fun to see and as players, um, I'm sure that with the extra game and all that, a lot of young guys are gonna get a lot of opportunity that'll help, you know, find some maybe find some gems too. Yeah, at the end of the day, this is training camp. Um,

I know for me, I'm here to get better. Uh. This is a time where you're just refining and detailing your work that you've been putting in throughout the off season and OTAs and mini camps and stuff like that. You're just trying to refine it. So when you go on the field, Um, when it's Sunday and it's live,

you just want to have you know everything right. You want to go out there and make sure your upsets are right, your hands are in the right spot, you know your pad level is good, you're coming off the ball with explosion like all those things that we we're gonna drill and training camp, that's what I'm ready for.

Have you had enough experience with this terminology that when you break the huddle you know exactly what you're doing even if they go to an audible because I know you know, as you learn the system, it takes a little while. So when you go out there for your first day of practice, are you taking a tenth of a second to think something forward or are you breaking the huddle? Good to go? I'm breaking huddle good to go. The way we the way they installed it for us,

the way they installed it. It's all about like how somebody's processing it. The way they installed it, it was perfect. Do you install it? You go over it again. You go out there to practice and you're going the field and you don't even see a defense yet. You just keep working on it until you got it. Then you see a defense and it's not a live defense yet. Then you can go against you know, walk through and stuff like that. Then you go see the real defense.

So if you run this play four or five times, you should get it right. You know, you should get it whether it's against the defense or not. So it's it's really good how they installed in. And it's like, hits my brain right. It sounds like it hits Mitch Dubisky's brain right too. He has had articles written a bottom, people have had a chance to visit with him a prior to camp, and he is beaming with confidence. Thinks

it's a perfect fit for him. This offense appreciates how Coach Naggie and the offensive coaches have, as you just pointed out, delivered the product to you guys to digest and learn. Have you seen it for yourself just in your practice with him and your conversations with him. Oh yeah,

he's been just getting better every day. Really, yes, going back to OTAs just thinking about it, like every day is like like I'm just getting like my eyes getting big because I see a play makes like dang, all right, Okay, stepping up big time, you know, And he's just embracing the leadership role and he's just trying to be the best Mitchell trubi He a boss he can be. And it's it's good to see. You know, the initial interview process that they did with Mitchell Trumps even before the draft,

they really got it right. Because everything that I've seen Mitchell Trubisky invest himself, whether it's his teammates, the information he needs to know when he was informed that he was going to be a starter, He's everything you wanted when you went up and made that that draft choice for that quarterback position. And I think every day, even listening to the press conference today, what did you think about?

What do you had to say the other day? You know, I like the confidence in him home, but I but I like tone. I like the edginess too, because I don't think there's a quarterback out there that doesn't live with that edginess. Whether it's John Elway Marino or the Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers and Cam Newton's up today, I think they all got that edge. And that's what I like to see about Mitchell. I don't want to see a pascifist as a quarterback. And I think with

coach Nage and you can amplify on this more. As you said, you're who you are and he is allowing you. He's giving you, guys the freedom to be who you are. That he has let that message out many times. Be you. He wants you to be you, whoever you are, be that person. But he doesn't want you to be average for you. He wants you to be the best version of you. And I love that because you don't. Guys are cut different shapes and sizes, mentally, physically, whatever it

may be. But whoever you are, if you bring that best version, he can use you in that aspect. And that's what I love about it. And that doesn't mean go fly off and do what you want. You gotta reel it in a little. Yeah, he has rules. He sets rules here and yeah, it's gonna be fun to watch it unfold. That's for sure. Charles Letto Junior guest here on Bears All Access Jeff and time with you

here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Sign your child up for a fun, non contact Chicago Bears Youth football camp brought to you by Gatorade and Athletical Physical Therapy. Visit www dot Bears camps dot com to say fifty dollars today. Charles Letto, Junior guest today on Bears All Access with Tom There Jeff jonah Ac on Chicago's Sports Radio six seventy The Score. Tell us about the rest of the offensive line, all the fellows doing. Kyle Long looks like he'll be ready to roll to

start training camp. That's good news. I got Coodye White here at center right now battle with left guard, right tackle Bobby Massey Warford. Warford is in here from Arizona. Very nice gentleman. Met him back in mini camp. Had a long conversation. It's got a lot of different characters. Now you mentioned Cush, A lot of character, A lot of characters love it, a lot of character we have on a line. We're just a bunch of guys that just love each other man. We just try to embrace

each other, push each other every day. You know how it is. Time Like the offensive line group is unique, um, tight knit group, dinner every day, breakfast, whatever, like we don't we like to be around each other and snow better feeling than a bunch of big guys walking around, you know, walking around a facility and you're like, Okay, that's offensive. I think that's where you want it though. You want the confidence from the offensive line. You want

the confidence from the defensive line. You want those guys to be the protectors of the rest of the units and stuff, and offensively, with this system that the Bears fans are gonna see, it's going to be the most it's gonna be the most wide system they've ever seen in Bear history. And so it's got to be by the playmaking ability the offensive line to make the whole system. Right.

I know, we sit here and give a lot of credit to Mitchell Tchubiski or Taylor Gabriel or Trey Burton and the rest of the crew that are going to touch the football, but it is about the ability. The offensive always starts up front, regardless and both sides of the will always Yeah, that's never gonna change. Is it. No, I don't care how many tweaks to the game. The only time it will change if they just turners game to seven or seven. Yeah about it? Yeah? Does that

ever worry? No, because they need office line right, and you know it's going to be interesting, you know, and you know, how are your habits gonna be throughout training camp when repetitiously you're going through these drills and nine on seven seven on seven TeamWorks and stuff. Are there new rules? Are they going to be filtering through your

practices and in your head? And is your head placement going to be a concern at the conclusion of a block the new rules like what would you say, the helmet, the helmet, the helmet, and the hell helmet? Oh no, like for all of us a line play, you gotta have your eyes up right, So it's no, my crown of the helmet should not be going down to anybody's chest or anybody's helmet. I should be having my eyes

up seeing everything going on in the field. And when I'm blocking my guy, I should be looking at what I'm seeing. And that's what I think that, Uh, there's a problem, like coach guys helmet keep their eyes up, put their hands inside. Well, you know what if it comes to the point point where there's you know, second down and one, they hand the ball to Jordan Howard and he has to lower more than just a shoulder to push beyond that first down marker, it's gonna kind

of be an unfair ending to the play. If Jordan can't be the most powerful Jordan, he can to conclude the right and get the most lower and get lower and you know, lower shoulder or whatever it may be. Uh, it's tough. I mean, that's the rules that they interesting. Even quarterback sneaks right, well, you know what I mean. Are they gonna I don't know how how is a

person gonna get lower than Tree Cohen? You know, if he's gonna make some really quick cut, how are they going to react and make sure they're in the perfect body position to hit him. It's he only has a small target, a jackling target of about a foot. It'll be interesting to see we're gonna I think preseason games could be difficult. I think they're gonna be a lot. They're always difficult. It'll be always, I don't know, they

always get a little bit more difficult every year. Is it cool for you as a player, because it's cool for fans, it's cool for broadcasters. I can't I mean, I can't wait to attend Brian or Lackers Hall of Fame induction. Now they've changed it so the game is a couple of days before that. But you're going there to represent this franchise to play the Baltimore Ravens on August second, and Brian is elected on inducted on August fourth.

Is it an honor for you to be there on the weekend that one of the great players in Bears history is is going into the Hall of Fame. Yeah, why wouldn't it be? You know, I mean, you just I remember seeing this guy on TV play lights out ball for the Chicago Bears, and uh, it's just really cool to see on both sides him ray Lewis, you know what I mean, Like, this is a this is this is great. You know, you know, it was amazing in our experience when they inducted coach Mike Dickett into

the Hall of Fame. We are up at training camp and we were having an inter squad scrimmage in the stadium at Platteville. We halted the game. They showed his induction into the Hall of Fame and we went back and finished the you always have some. It was amazing. It was amazing though because Vince Toby, you know, the rest of the all the other coaches, Greg Landry and

saw On. But it was it was something because you think about the respect because Charles, you're an NFL player now and they're talking about a teammate, Brian Urlacker, you know, by organization going into the Hall of Fame, just like it was for me seeing your head coach as a player going into the Hall of Fame and stuff, and you know that whole attachment is it's neat because you're playing the game and here's your peers going into the

Hall of Fame at this time exactly. Um never met never met Brian, don't know him personally, but like you said, the attachment right when you wear that that see you on the side of your helmet, you know what I mean, Like you're a brother regardless right, Well, the first time you went up and met him, he would be like you guys have known each other for ten years, the greatest. He is a people person, nice guy. If you're a bear, he's part of You're a part of his family. That's

how it was supposed to be. That's exactly the way. You know what, you have to agree, that's the way he is. Oh yeah, he brought Brian. Brian is an awesome It's just like Lance and Peen and a lot

of guys from that team. The thing that is going to be weird for the Bears going forward is if the Bears stay with a thirty four defense throughout a period of time where someone can earn the Hall of Fame on that defense, because the Bears have only played one style of defense and that's where all their Hall of famers come from. So you're not going to see the traditional middle linebacker of the Bears. It's gonna be a guy like Roquan running all over the place, or

eventually you're going to develop that position. It's interesting to analyze the game from a perspective of history because because it just jogged something with me with Roquan, and it was something I think it was written by Larry Mayer on the Bear's website. He is a prototypical New Age inside linebacker meaning heightwaight speed ratio. And I don't know

if that aggravates you. Tom as a veteran player, because the game has subtly changed over time, and you know, well, it's it's just kind of weird to hear that, because that's what everybody's saying, you know, as the game changed that much that you have to have linebackers. Well, I think if you if you stamp somebody as prototypical, you know, they wanted to think, you know, Detroit wanted to think that when they needed a receiver that was over six four and they went and drafted three of them in

a row and they all failed. You know, so nobody's pro your prototypical of your desire to play the game, your investment and everything. And you're not going to go out there and find five guys that look exactly like Charles Lennell Junior and start stacking them up at left hack all Yeah, no, do they have his feet, Do they have his willingness to work hard in the offseason, hand placement, all that other stuff. Did you study the game at all as a as a young kid? Study

the game? Yeah? Loving it? Did you? I know basketball was maybe kind of your thing, yeah, back in the day. But when when did it start clicking where you were a fan first and then you were a players second? Or was that ever the case for the game of football. Maybe not. No, no, like yeah, honestly no. I was always a basketball kid growing up. Did you ever go to an NFL game? Oh? Yeah, oh yeah, So actually I have to take yeah when you now that you

say that, my dad had season tickets for the Raiders. Okay, so going to the Raider game that was big. That was a big deal to me because now I put night as she said that now thinks now I'm thinking back. I remember the Raiders. They always had just bail that they always hit before they showed, like the big, nastiest offensive lignment come down, and it was Lincoln Kennedy And

I remember looking at that. I still have pictures in my head and it's like, Dan, that's really cool, like you know, and then things went south when I saw guys like Robert Gallery, I was like, Okay, there's this guy, because Lincoln Kennedy was the guy. Yeah, I haven't won the Raiders line, you know what I mean, Like that was something guy I always looked up too. So yeah, definitely, like I would say at that point, and yeah, I mean I will watch that and when he had tickets

and we'll go to the game. We're still all kids at heart. I mean I'm older than than yeah. Yeah, but the think about I mean to think you're here, Yeah, I never if you told me I was gonna be here at that moment, Oh no, I would never guess it. You'd be thinking you'd be posting up somebody in the NBA. Yes, Raymond Green, right Daymond Green. We'll talk a little Warriors with our guy. Yeah yeah, that tougher road now maybe with the Southern California teams. That's Charles Leno Junior, our

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coming from bourbon A and Olivet Nazarene University. I don't recall what year it is here already, but you know, you kind of check time and mile posting your life by training camp because it seems like we're just here. But obviously three hundred and sixty three days had passed before that's happened. But it just feels that way. It's a part of your life. You're you're literally putting years

of your life into a camp with the fellas. Yeah, man hours, years, minutes, whatever you want to seconds, whatever you want to call it. This is a lot of work that you're putting in to get this right. You know, it's awesome down here is the fan support, because I can you imagine if you just went out to some boring practice that there was nobody there either yelling encouragements or whatever they do. And I think it's it's pretty

neat too. When you go through the practice field, you're you know, not dragging, You're just trying to get walking up the start the day. And then you see the sport support of the fans spill around the stadium or the fences. It's pretty neat here. Absolutely. I remember when I fell in love with this place, and that's weird. I said I fell in love with training camp, but like really I did. It was my rookie year and it was the first practice in pads. It was like

a Saturday practice. We had first practice and pads and the amount of people they had here. It was insane, right, I think it was like, oh I might be wrong on this, but it had to be like ten thousand people out there. There's been some five digit attendances. Yeah, it was crazy, and I'm just like, wow, that's that's impressive. Well, like that being said, do you feel the vibe? Do you feel the energy? You've been around now long enough

to know what feels right? What doesn't remember? I remember you asked me this a while ago, and when I was moving to him in place. Oh oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah, when I don't know. I don't know. If you eat, you eat, you were on the show, Yeah, yeah, so a lots changed, a lot of change. Yeah, if you want to know now you said, what's the feel? The feel is good. The feel is good. The feel is um, I don't know, like just thinking about it, like there's no there's no doing what we did, it's

no settling for what we were. It's um, we're trying to be the best now. It's not. It's the vibe is no more. I don't know, like no more what we no more being the same? You can't be the same, like I said, he's either you're getting better. You're getting worse now, we were just getting worse. No, we got to change that. Now the arrow has got to point up rights too. And that's the that's the mindset you have to have. You gotta believe within your own division.

And that's the key here. No matter what big names there are in the division. I think when you put an entire team together to go out and in battle these guys, that's what it's gonna take it. It's gonna take that that big time win against Green Bay week one, you know, bringing Seattle into Chicago here, and so you know, eventually you guys have to develop that belief in yourself that when you go into the locker room, you're gonna come out victorious. And this is where it starts. I mean,

the mindset started a while ago. The mindset started on April third, fourth, whatever day we started, that was when the mindsets started. But this is when the work starts. Now we've been putting in a lot of work during out the time, but now this is the real deal work, and this is where we go from changing that arrow to up And I think the character and mental makeup of the individuals that are going to be a part of this, whether it be coaches or players, is also

it's palpably different. There's guys that are they got some sas to him, a little bit not over the top cocky like I'm I'm the guy. But you got you got guys that are talking, they speak up. You got guys with juice, Tarik, Yeah, Tarik, you got Danny Trevithan has been here obviously a little bit um. I even see it from Kyle full Or, even though he's a soft spoken guy, but you could see it in his eye. I mean, he's he's feeling. There's all there's a chem

there's you. Kyle Long has always been like that. Even Jordan Howard has got you know, there's just something about this group of guys. I'm starting to come together. I think the free agent veterans that were brought in here too, they have the same Alan Robinson and Taylor Gabel, all these guys. I think that they have an understanding that they're here for better wherever they came from, they are here to make this organization, this team, the situation better here.

And you got to understand the guys that you just named, Tarik, Kyle Fuller, Kyle Long, Danny trevethan myself, guys, those guys that you name, we've been through some stuff that we don't want to see again. We want to get somewhere else. So that's what it's us. That's all it is. We're trying to go somewhere else. We're not trying to do what we did. You chimed in with me when I mentioned Trey. He at time thinks it's it's an unbelievable

acquisition to put on this offense. And he's an unbelievable guy. Have you dig a little deeper into him, tell us more about him, a few conversations. Talk to Trey when he first got here. I remember seeing him when he pulled up. I'll just like, thank you for coming here. Um, we're trying to do what you did already, and teach us. You know what I mean, because you know some things right, He's he's got it, he's done it before, so you

know some things. Teach us help us. But you know a lot of you know a lot that we don't know. But we have been to some stuff that you haven't, so so you know what I mean. Like, we're hungry as well. Everybody's hungry in this aspect. You know Trey Burton is your you tight end. He's gonna be split out a lot, maybe come out of the backfield and stuff the guy that you're going to stand next to both Dion Sims. But I want to talk about Adam Sheheen because I think there's a lot of unknown about Adam.

When you line up next to him, you have double team blocks. You guys are working together. What is his tempa? What is his personality like in and then out of the huddle. He's trying to he's trying to dominate guys, but he also is trying to learn because I had him yea last year was a rookie. So I'm teaching him like, this is how we should do this block. Just listen to me. I'm going to be here. You just gotta set it like this. And he's engaged. He's looking at me in my eyes. He's like, Okay, I'm

going to do it like this. So when you got guys like that, there's nothing more I need to tell I think he's got a really high upside. There's nothing more I need to tell him. He wants to work, he wants to be good, so he's going to show it. Charles Leno Junior. Our guests are remaining moments here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score and we are

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Com around the Chicago Bears Official app. Anytime, he did a very nice thing for your high school this spring as well, didn't you getting them some football uniforms? What was that motivation? And then how does that make you feel to give back to or your roots out? Yeah, I don't know. I was really from my coach. My coach he helped me out a lot. I was. I was a pudgy kid, you know in high school. I remember being a big kid, and he saw something in

me that I didn't see it myself. He remember doing the suicides in the in the gym, you know, like basketball suicides, but you have to push ups and go down and push ups and come back down to do it. I don't know how many reps she did, thousands of them, whatever we did, and I was struggling hard. I wanted to quit. I wanted to quit. Honestly, where would I be if I quit? But he looked me in my eyes and I saw him looking at me from a distance, and I looked at him and it was just a look.

It wasn't any like you're better not It wasn't anything. It was just like a look of I know you can do it. And right then and there I did it and the rest is history, you know, like it was a It was a real moment. Name coach Brad Bowers, coach boom boom, still doing it? Yeah, I'm still doing it. So who is that game for you? It had to be Gordy Gillespie because I thought I was going to be a running back like my brother. And he said, look, well this gotta be a reality. You're not gonna be

You're not gonna be a running back. You're gonna be an offensive lineman. You know. Last last week I went to this They had this freshman skills offense and defensive lineman kind of a fun camp and Joliet. So I went down there and talk to all the kids and stuff, and I told them, you know, it's not easy for you guys to be lineman because linemen are blessed to be lineman. You're not going to pick some other position.

And then for you guys to come out here in your summertime and give this type of effort, and you know, that's what that's what you know. You're out there to find the Charles Lennol. You're out there to find the guy who's going to emerge not above all these other kids, with all these other kids and take their encouragement and try to take it to the next level. So I think it's important gesture for you to go back and

support the kids that need someone like you to go. Okay, it's important to us, absolutely, and that's what I want to do. I just want to give them, you know, let them know that I was there, I've been there before, and you can do whatever you want in this world. Charles was outstanding, wonderful talk. I get excited when a guy we just had one big football conversation. Here a little journey talk about where you guys have been and where you're going, and I think it's going to be

a great ride. So thank you for joining us. Great have a great training camp. Charles Letto Junior, our guest. Thanks to everybody for listening tonight. Director of Content Dan Barelli, Jordan tread Up, our coordinating producer, and Greg Miller tonight helping us spend the hours along with Paul's the rank from training camp. Thanks everybody for listening. We'll talk to you next week. For Charles Letto Junior and Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac. This is Bears All Access on Chicago

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