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young players. Yeah. I've always said about this season that if the star players are going to play to their potential what we expect, and then guys like a Roy Robertson Harris, like a Blow Nichols, like ro Kwan Smith, like Mitch Droubisky, like James Daniels, those type of guys elevate their play. You got a wow situation going on, and hopefully that happens over the course of the season. But you know, he's been here now several years and we're going to get a chance to talk to him

here about his development and so forth. But he's a guy that excites me. Yeah, every one of those positions, aside from the quarterback position, you have to include depth when you're talking about the game day need for you to play well. And if Roy Robertson Harris is getting thirty raps or if he's getting fifteen, you gotta see the destruction that he's capable of implementing on a poor

offensive lineman. That's a little bit off balance. But no, that's what you have to have out of all those guys, because you're not gonna go up to an atmosphere like Denver, where it's gonna be anywhere from eighty nine nine ninety one degrees. You talked about the elevation, but every guy who's dressing as an inside linebacker has to be ready, willing, and able to play, just like all the outside guys

in just like every one of the defensive lineman. But when they get their opportunity to play, they got to be productive. Yeah, and the production, obviously in that thin air of of Denver, will be something that will keep an eye on. And the heat. Are you hydrating? I am? I know it's I don't know, teeth six Saturday right now, it's Saturday, So you know I'm doing my best as we get in. We almost lost your last time. Now wait,

hold on, it was not last time. First of all, it's many years and nobody wants to hear this it was years ago, but yeah, I feel in my heart of hearts, I got out to teach six. Chuck Pogonoll, you know, gave me the business this week on the Bears Coaches Show. Well he heard about it too. Yeah, the good chuckle about it, that's for sure. He's from well, you know what, he's from Boulder, as you know, right, you know, his parents are still there and he's a big,

big Colorado guy. But getting back to the seriousness of the you know, the time, the temperature or the altitude and everything. And we talk about originally the development of Roy Robertson Harris. When you talk about these positions that everybody on the roster has a valuability and opportunity, then they do have to be productive. But you know, the Mitchell Trubisky is the offensive line for the most part. You know, these are the guy the cornerbacks. They're not

going to be substituted during the game. So I mean they have a full day on their hands. And with this Broncos team coming off the game against Oakland, I saw a team that was spinning its wheels offensively until the second half got going and then the running game came around. So that's something to keep an eye. They have a young offensive weapon team. You take away Emmanuel Sanders, the veteran, you take away Joe Flacco. They've got young weapons at receiver and running back. To keep an eye.

What were your impressions against the Raiders. You know, you could see that the crowd noise in Oakland was really supportive, so there wasn't perfect communication on the line of scrimmage. And the thing about offensive line play is that everybody's got to be perfectly sunk sync together in order for a play to run officially. So if you go out there and you have interruption in one out of five plays, that means you're behind the change and it's a it's

a hard maintaining success. And that's what the Bears have to be able to do. They have to go and do a really hostile environment. They have to go out there and they have to play efficient offense. But when you look at the Oakland Raiders offense, I'm I mean, I'm a little concerned about the the statuesque quarterback in the modern day NFL, you know, because we're seeing RPOs out of everybody driving Raiders dining. It didn't get touched

Denver didn't have one hit on the quarterback. No, no, But you know it's it's also what is the time you know that you're when you created your offense, when you started thinking about the way that hasn't Hammond's twenty fourteen. By the way, can you imagine man Well with two great pass rushers. Yeah, and I think everybody wanted to that game thinking about how destructive those two guys specifically

we're gonna be. But you also have a chance to be an offensive coordinator with the Raiders and devise a game plan that's properly timed against what you're gonna be facing. So you're not gonna go out there and have unprotected offensive tackles and a seven step drop. You're gonna have an our. You know, car is still an RPO threatening quarterback. You know, um, the Denver guy is not Joe Flecco. And the crowd will help Miller and Chubb, Yes, and

they get delirious over there in Denver. But you know, again, now Matt's thinking about that far enough in advance. How do I get the ball out of Mitchell Trubisky's hands? How do I threaten the edge. So now these guys got to respect upfield rush as much as to the point of the quarterback. So I I think it's I think it's gonna be one of the ultimate chess games of all season because of the VIC and the Matt

Naggie attachment. Um, and we're forgetting that. You know, two guys from Chicago can rush the past are pretty good to him and Leonard Floyd, you know, I agree. And they got a tackle that went out what the tenth play of the game. Yeah, and they have you know, they got a rookie starting at left guard. They got a left tackle that is a little pushy after the whistle. Careful, yeah, even him, be careful, well, be careful after the whistle

right right now, it's not good because alcohol balls. He's he's a little he's a little bit chippy, all right. Paul's range your engineer, Dan Briley, our producer. We're coming to you from Haisaw at P ANDC Studios, breaking down the Bears and Broncos. Coming up next, Roy robertson Harris but an outstanding game and his opener against the Green Bay Packers. It's all coming up next here on Chicago

Sports Radio six seventy. The score Welcome back to Bears on Access brought to you by IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, natural gas at home warranty products over one million customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at igs dot com. Jeff Joni Yak here at BNC Studios at have us All, Tom there, my broadcast partner, kicked off our conversation today

with defensive lineman Roy Robertson Harris. All right, everybody, welcome back the big man, Roy Robertson Harris in the studio with us. It's kind of fun for me because I think about questions that I have for you all week long, and I have them listed as serious or fun. So first question, you want a serious question or a fun question,

I'm good. Well, you know, there's been a lot of talk about the elevation that you guys are playing at in Denver, so I looked up you tap thirty three thousand and seven hundred and forty feet Denver fifty two hundred and eighty. Are you in better shape now or when you were in college? I'm better say no, I'm thirty pounds bigger than what I was for forty pound I was too forty out of out of college. I'm

fifty pounds bigger than when I was in college. But I'm kind of take everything into consideration about you know, they talk about the running aspect of going to Denver, so you're training college, you're a little bit familiar with it. Is it will it be a big difference to you, even though you're in better shape now than when you were in college. Me personally know, just because we practice with them a year ago, um, for a whole week

in preparation for the game. So um, obviously it's a different you know, element elevation where we were at now, So it's you know, it's gonna be different, but it's not foreign to me being that we were there a year ago for a whole week. So right, you know, there's been a lot of change within your body, your system, where you're playing everything. So you get here, you're two sixty ish, now you're three hundred. No, I'm too ninety.

I'm not. I'm not. It's not it's not October, November, December yet, So what is um easier for you to be? Are you? Is it easier for you to be two sixty or is it easier and more fun to be too ninety. It's a little bit easier being too ninety, just because I'm an intrenches. Back in college, I was more on the edge. Well what about it? Just your lifestyle, you know, because you know here, you know, I played

offensive line my whole career. You're you're up there about you know, two eighty five to three hundred, and then you just want to be what you more are more naturally when you're done here. We've seen you go from two forty to two sixty to three hundred. So what do you enjoy more? Well, it's part of the job, So I don't really think about it too much. It was more fun, And what the weight is that? Just I could eat whatever I want. Joy I can enjoy eating a lot um, but I still have to keep

myself at a certain like. I can't just overeat all the time, if you know what I'm saying. So um, I could. I'm enjoying it because I'm at this level where I can just eat whatever I want. College, I couldn't do that. I had, you know, I didn't have the luxury of going to any restaurant I wanted to, you know, being a student athlete I wasn't a rich guy, so I can eat whatever I wanted to. Now I can go anywhere I want to eat. So that's what I like. I enjoyed. That is this facility. Is this

amazing to you? The facility here from what you saw at college, what you were a part of, but now you see what the Bears have been able to offer you in terms of the best of fitness, the best of nutrition, everything that is best. This is the best football I've ever been a part of. This building, this facility, everything about it is just awesome. I'm blessed to be where I'm at. I enjoyed every single day. Don't take

it for granted. I love it. You know, last year you said was the most fun year you ever had playing football. Was it winning or self improvement that made you enjoy that fun? Both? Since I've been here, I feel like I've gotten better each year. Each year is a step. But just to be able to win a division, that's just that was awesome to me being a being

able to be a part of that. But personal wise, you know, as far as stats and all this stuff goes a stepping stone each year, I feel like I've taken a bigger step, more improvement, more production on the stat sheet. So all that stuff is coming together, you know, a little bit at a time. Not trying to take too many big steps, baby steps right now. So enjoying the personal growth but also enjoying the team wins. All right.

So if you think about the fun and the fun elements you have in football, I could remember plays that still haunt me today from back in my career. Do you know your Can you remember your three sacks from last year? Yeah? I remember every one of my sex even in preseason, remember every single one of my sack. Okay, because all right, I'd like to go through this for a couple of minutes. So I'm an offensive guard my

whole career. You're a defensive tackle. And when I would get my stance, I would line up against and I would try to anticipate what you are going to do to me because I know the play call, I know the huddle. So the other night you come in, it's your first play. I'm an offensive lineman, I know snapcount. I set up and I get in kind of position, a defensive position to block you. You get your hand onto me faster than I did that. I got my hand on you, did you immediately know that you won

that play? No, I didn't realize it into last the sideline, really I didn't. Like. I saw Rogers standing there, and once he stepped up, I grabbed him. But I didn't realize that I won the initial I didn't realize it was a straight like bullrush into watched the play. So when you got your hand to him, how many steps into you going forward? Did you know? While? Because again I've lived that position and I know how bad of a position that is to be. Ind I mean, you

know it's gotta be he gotta feel that pretty quick. Yeah, I mean I felt it. But at the same time, I do go against a lot of guys that will feel the bull rushing, will sit on that. So I felt that's what he was doing. But once I seen it on tape, like I saw the replay on the Jumma tron, saw it on the iPads on the sideline, once I actually seen the play and seen I had him on one leg, then I was like old snap.

I didn't realize it was like that. I thought. I just I thought he was sitting on the bull and was trying to get his base under him. And then we end up going to the ground, Roger step up. I grab him. But initially I was I wasn't even thinking like, oh I got this dude, I got him on the ground, let's go get this side. I wasn't thinking about that as watching the tape of it, I just I just know how awkward of feeling that is. So when little kids see did they ever ask you

how much you bench? I've had? I've had younger kids asked me that. I Sometimes I really don't have an answer because I don't know if they actual for like a max or like what I did that pro day? Like how many reps I did at pro Day? Um, I have older people asking me what I've been right, that was that was my next question? Yeah, I mean I don't I've been shape. So it's like I don't bench for you know, to get a max. You know, we don't do that at this level anymore. It's it's

just to maintain strength, to get stronger. But but you're a big guy, so no matter wherever you are, you know, that's one of the questions I think it is going to be asked of you your whole life until here. The number one question I get is how tall I'm that's anywhere I go is hey do you play sports? How tall are you? If I'm in downtown Chicago, hey are you a Bears player? And it just depends on who it is. If it's a kid, I'll tell them yeah,

you know ninety five. The best feeling is though, when somebody, hey, you're Roy from the Bears. Yeah that's me a big smile on my face. But just I'm not I'm not real big on like a tension in public because I'm so big, so everywhere I go all eyes are on me, and it's like I hate that, Like I just like to go places and just you know, enjoy my time. But you know, being six six, as soon as you walk in the door, everybody's looking at you. Everybody sees you.

So you'll get the how tall are you question? And you'll get the are you a football? Are you an athlete? You play basketball? Or you know, are you a Bears player? Do you play for the Bears? My next fun question, I think, because I think you'll probably get asked this would you rather be WWE or the World's Strongest Man? Because right now they got this show I watch every once in a while about these super events that these worlds strongest men are and there are different feats of strength.

But then you also got kind of an appearance that could captivate an audience like The Rock did when he made the transition WWE. What's your you know, what would be your second passion? So a little A lot of people don't notice, but I was a big w wfan as a kid early, like elementary school, middle school, high school, and during that time, I wanted to be those guys the Rock Stone Cold can undertake all those dudes out a huge and they, you know, have successful wrestling careers.

I wanted to do that. Um back in high school high school. I didn't think about football until like my senior year, until I looked at by schools. But why is that why? I mean, like, so if you're there's a little kid out there that has talent and he's just I don't know, shy to try out or not, you know, you know what is it that ignited you know, saying Okay, I'm gonna take Roy Robertson Harris what you were and now what you are becoming. I mean, I

I just didn't enjoy football my first year playing. I was still living in Oakland, um left when I was thirteen, went to Texas, and everybody knows that Texas is like the football capital of the world. And it made me enjoy it because everyone was playing football, even people that didn't like football. Everyone was playing. So just being a part of that made me enjoy it more. And as I got older and learned to appreciate it, I started

lifting weights, started running track. Just those little things helped me improve as an athlete. And then just every morning my dad had me working out. There's just made me enjoy it. Made me want to get in the weight room, maybe want to get, you know, on the field, and just enjoyed the game. So six six, two ninety have you ever been in a real three point stance? And I'm talking that he has a sixty or seventy or

fifty number an offensive lineman. I played. I played right tackle my first year, my first year playing ball, I played right tackle. I wanted to be a receiver. I was sick. I was I was six one, one hundred and forty pounds in the eighth seventh grade. Were you a better receiver or a right tackle? I'll shoot, I don't even I couldn't even tell you that because I don't even remember playing right side. I'll just remember my

first play out there. I threw a dude to the ground, got a holding penalty because I didn't know the process of like, hey, you need to shoot your hands to all that stuff. All right, Thanks Tom, We're gonna pick up our conversation with Roy Robertson, Harris ourrh coming up next here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy The Score.

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I want to talk about the the level of attention you're one snap got from last week's game, because everybody I'm running into showing me a highlight on their phone. And I know guys don't like to dwell on one small piece to a large puzzle that's about to be put together over the season, but in that one instance, and I had this conversation with your de line coach J Rodgers, just how many people in this sport can't

make that play? Not everybody can make that play the way you made that play destroying a guard, putting him on his back, reaching out being held, and then snatching a Hall of Fame quarterback with one hand and ripping him down to the ground. Be sensitive how you say destroying a guard, Well, it was all I know, and I felt it every step. It was destruction and no disrespect at all to Lane Taylor outstanding offensive linement. But to me, that that encompasses everything that you're capable of,

down in and down out. When that is put in that context, what goes to your mind is I'm explaining that about how the few people can make that play. It just makes you want to go out and do it again. M everybody talks about that one play, but I don't want that to be the one play that I have for the twenty nineteen season, So I want to be able to do it again. It's all a good hand placement and just get off all that stuff that we're coached to do. And I just got the

better of it. There was a scout that one time told me and Tom, I don't know you, you've probably heard me talk about this, But the beauty of scouting players who can do that one tenth of one percent of the entire world population has the ability to take that one step that makes a play or the hand placement has much power to drive somebody back for that instant in time. That's the joy of scouting. When you find guys like that, you can't wait to get him

on your team. And I think that's the beauty of it, because this could be simplifies it's just run, tackle, pass, throw, catch, you know, No, it's it's much more than that. Marrying the physical attributes that your guide given size and what you've worked to build your body up, marry that with the technique and the fundamentals. I think that's what that's art. To me, that's art. I know that is for you as an offensive lineman as well. Do you see it

that way too? I mean, anybody could be you know, six six two nine, but if you don't have the coaching, the technique, everything that you're taught to do, then you'll just be out there six six two ninety Guys it's all technique. You saw coaching. Um, you know stuff that I see a Kim Do you know Kim. Yeah, he's he's six five three ten three twenty. He ain't just out there going his bulling guys. Tech his technique is there. He's not just bull rushing. He's swiping guys. You know

his technique. He's a technician. He's out there. You guys seen him in practice. You've seen what he does. He's he not does doing it overnight. He's working that stuff. So that's little stuff that I feel like I'm working on trying to get better at. But like I said, it's that one play. I want to do it again and again and again. Um, But it's all it's all how you approach it, how you take coaching. UM want to continue to do stuff like that throughout the season.

But you know, one of the things that Jay Rodgers says about you is he's surprised that you could go from an edge of rusher to the messy world of the defensive line play because you know, when you're out there on the outside and you have the outside container rush or you're trying to win sacks to the outside man, you bring it down inside you get in a four point stance, You're gonna be hit by a lot of

different guys in a lot of different directions. That's kind of a neat thing for the defensive line coach to say, because it's hard to transitioning whether you're going defensive line to become an offensive lineman or outside the inside. You got to be willing to take that abuse. I mean it was. It was a lot harder for me to transition from defensive lineman outside lineback when I first got here because of the different route concepts I had to pick up. I had to go outside the box and

cover guys right. That was something that I've never done before. So people, oh, man, how was the transition from oil B to D line. Well, I was a D lineman in college. People don't realize that I was at the four down d N so I was in the trenches. Yeah, I was an outside guy, but I was able to rush inside. I was able to play nose and play all across the board. Um, but people will think that I was just a stand up guy my entire career as an athlete football player and just coming in and

being moved inside. What was your old moment in pass coverage, when this past, this pass, any time you're like whoa um. Double teams in general, whether it's passed or run. Just I didn't take on them any double teams in college. So double teams are one of the things I'm trying to continue to grow in. Is that give you a lot more, Give a lot more respect for what Eddie

Goldman goes through. He's doubled at. Eddie is one of the most underrated and underappreciated knows defensive defensive linement in the league. I just went on the air this weekend said he's the most underrated defensive player possible. He is, he Eddie, And it's the thing. Eddie just he does what he does and he don't say nothing. He doesn't complain. I've never well, I've only heard Eddie say five words since I've been here. But Eddie takes on double teams,

triple teams. It doesn't a plane out one bit. He just does what he does and he goes on get ready for the next play. Coming out of college, you guys, I think you're seventeen and thirty four in college as a down, as a down defensive lineman. Did you get the ball run at you a lot, or did they still continue to throw the ball regardless of what the lead was or I mean it was a mix we I mean I got a lot of run to me, run away, a lot of screens away like it was balanced.

I wasn't a guy that maybe we can't run the ball against this guy or towards this guy. Wasn't It wasn't nothing like that. I wasn't. I wasn't like a keen coming in college. You know, I wasn't one of those crazy dominant players in college. What they didn't want to run the ball away from me. It wasn't like that, right,

I mean, well that's surprising. You know. I think when you go back and you look at coming out of college, because I you know, it's you know, you pass the eye test, you got the structure, you got the size and the frame that you can you can invest in. Um are you? Are you surprised at where you came from to where you're at right now and what you've been able to accomplish. Does that surprise you? Or is it the right team, the right organization, the right position,

coach and everything. Yeah, exactly what you just said. I feel like the team that I'm on perfect fit, perfect defense. Coach is doing his best job with me. I feel like Jay does his awesome job coaching me as well as everybody else. I think I'm just in the right position where I'm at the right position, right team. Everything. I think everything played out the way it should have.

You know, you mentioned Jay like that. Do you look forward to going to practice every day because of every single day because you don't know what you might learn, some little thing to make a difference. Yeah. When I first when I first moved, it was a little it was a little difficult because I was still learning the scheme and um, you know, taking on taking on a right tackle in the NFL is a lot different in college.

So just getting my technique right my first my first year at defensive end, it was kind of a struggle. But now I feel like I approach it a lot differently, like, hey, let's get this right. You struggle with double teams, all right, Let's let's get as many half line runs as you can and get that stuff right. Just little stuff that I could get better. Everybody talks about last week's game,

but I'm not thinking about that. I'm looking at how I can get better and do it again next week because I can enjoy it last week and forget that I have a game on Sunday. You know, Be where your feet are? Yeah, what's it all mean? And I love it? Man? Is it more than just football? Oh yeah, absolutely, that's the whole point of Absolutely. But for me, it's for football. Um, Like I just said, with last week's game, you know, I'm not thinking about that. People are still

talking about, oh man, you had a great game. Well yeah, it was a great game. But I want a great season. I want a great career. But I'm not looking down the line to week fifteen. You know, I got week two right now to what's today's Friday. So right now I'm doing the radio show with y'all, and later on I'm getting the tub and get off my feet and getting my iPad and you know, go over the stuff that I need to go over. And then tomorrow I got Saturday. I got walked through, but I got filmed.

I still gotta watch. You know, be where your feet are. Don't think about tomorrow, don't think about the next day, don't think about what just happened last week. To just be where your feet are, you have to prepare for the for the games that you're about to play, and it's it's what it says a great I mean, it's great advice. I love it. I love when Chuck tells us that I love it. It's I feel like, one of the best things that you could tell a player at this level. That's one thing I wish I had

heard when I was in college. You know, just be where your feet are, don't don't think too much, don't be a thinker. I was always my problem is thinking too much. Overthinking Really still to this day, I have that issue just overthinking. That's two of us. That's two of us. Well, when you think though, what happens Town think your beat. We'll take a break with Right robertson Harris Town There Jeff joniac here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy to score. The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside

the Bears, brought to you by Verizon. Anthony Adams and Lauren Screeden cover the world of Bears football on and off the field, every Sunday night at ten thirty five pm on Fox thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com or on the Bears official app. Kind Enough to join us here tonight. Roy Robertson Harris, I mentioned double a here. You've done big big guys in small cars, is that right? Or big small guys? How come I'm never asked? How come I'm never asked

to be on? Have you been on? Yes? You have? Of course? Who hasn't everybody? Somebody? I think it'd be a great study to have me on that show. But he's shrinking up. Have you seen him? I haven't seen Spice in a wall. Wow, he's a bunch. I think I saw him. I saw him on the sideline warm ups against Green Bay, but I haven't seen him in a while in the building. Yeah, he's his whole persona. You know, he may have to reinvent another kid. He's

looking good. We talked about that, you know that earlier, that transition from you know to medium size the big where you're at now? What do you want to do when you're done? And it seems like everybody gravitates towards that, trying to get to get to the smaller side. I definitely hope I'm not huge when I'm done playing because I love to eat. I love eating, so I hope h stage just keep the blood moving. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,

I gotta I gotta stay in the gym. You know, my my little boy's gonna be playing sports, so I gotta keep up with him and make sure I'm training to him. I don't want to just be watching them train. I want to make sure I'm setting the example and out there with him in the hot sun. How he was he three? Yeah, So how's it going? I last time you were with us? Yeah, it was a great conversation about being dead. He's doing good, man, He's he's doing his thing. He's he's being a three year old.

If anybody has kids, know how three year olds at? Yeah, exactly what you got past the terrible twos. Now I'm dealing with the table three years. Well, that's a good thing. Yeah, it is a good thing, you know. And I just want to get back to the defensive line. Just one more question is so you know you make this transition you've been around for a little while. If you know, a few thousand reps underneath your belt, are you at

a position where you can self coach yourself. You do a one on one, you do a rep, you see something on film that now I think that's this a significant sign to the development of a good player is when you can finally coach yourself. Do you feel you've had enough reps to do that? Absolutely? Um. At the end of every year that I play, I always go back and watch all of my run tape and like just specifically runs, and then I'll go back watch all

the passes. And it's every single time I do that, there's so many plays that I was like, man, I left I left too many sacks out there. I left too many tackles out there. I could have made this player, could have did that, could have, should have, would have. But right now, like we're going in a week two after watching Green Bay tape, I'm like, Okay, I could have did this better. I could have did that. My feet were terrible on this play. I gotta make sure I get my feet right. My hand and my hand

placement needs to be better. Somebody asked me after the game, like, oh, you had a great game, and you guys, you know, how do you feel he played well? I missed four opportunities. I missed two sacks. I feel like I had another three players. I know I missed a tackle. I miss a few few too many players. Then it's all technique We'll get in the film room. Man, if you if you do it like this, this will happen. So I

feel like that's when guys are coachable. They are able correct the mistakes themselves, and that's what I want to be able to do continue to do. What about reading offensive lineman? You know, some of the smartest defensive lineman I've ever played with, as they were reading the towels at the offensive lineman, we're giving them so you break you coming to the huddle on those guys are in their stances or in whatever position they can take. Can you feel their balances and stuff at this point in

your young career. Yeah, I feel like I feel like I've done a better job of being able to read an offense, knowing what players are coming. But I saw that's all when you study. Whenever you're studying your opponent. And that's why you get guys that are going to the Pro Bowl every year, going All Pro first team. They do that because they prepare very well throughout the week. You know, people outside of football think that, and these guys come in and they're awesome, They're they're one of

the best. What are that way? Because they prepare throughout the week. The only thing that people see is you're dressed in the in the jersey, in the helmet. They don't see what goes on in between those sundays. They don't see that we're in here watching take five hours out of the day and then going outside the practice where we just watch. Right, it's all preparation. How do you avoid bad habits as a as a defensive linement? Because keep talking about technique, but sometimes you just lean

on what you what you know, where your origins come from. Right, that's what the practice is for, though, you just have to get out of those bad habits. Um. A bad habit for me is I play with high pads, which is understandable. Yeah, but it is understandable giving your says, but I can't use an excuse of oh I'm six six, I'm gonna continue to play tall like Calais is six eight. But Klais learned that he learned at some point in his career learned how to play with lower pass and

put him in great position to make plays. Um. So I mean that's what absolute practice is for. And you and that's what we were talking about, like you were saying, Um, do you get excited to go to practice. Well, yeah, because I want to correct those things. I don't want to be content with Oh well you're playing with high pass. Oh well, you know it's because I'm six six. We'll know. Let's get under the shoot. Let's go work half line,

and let's get this stuff right. So you can't make those plays plain to people that don't know what the shoot is and the half line and all that. The shoot. The shoot is when you know we get our getoffs in the shoot. If you playing too how you hit your head on the bar, which I've done countless times I've hit and I'm thinking like, okay, let me make sure i don't hit my head on the bar. I'll come up out of my stands. I'm too ai I hit my head on the bar. And then half line.

Half line is half line. You're rolling up about at the stands when the ball snapping, two old lineman are coming at you. You gotta play the blocks that they give you. You gotta have great technique in order to win half line because the ain't no linebackers, so the

mold lineman gonna stay on you. You got a lot of You've got a lot of reps in the preseason and there's been so much conversation, and now that week one is in the bucks, how do you feel about the amount of time that you had in games, about the attachment of the practices to whatever times you didn't get in the games. Did you feel good coming in the last week's game. Yeah, I feel like I feel like we prepared well. I feel like I did a good job of preparing. Um. You know, I'm not a

I'm not a guys man. I want all these snaps I want. I want to get my snaps when they're given to me, whenever the opportunity is given. That's what i want, my opportunities. But I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be down on myself or coaches if I'm not getting the right amount. Um, No matter when coach puts you in, they're gonna evaluate you if you get four snaps or you get fifty snaps, They're gonna evaluate you

for those four snaps that you get. So I'm just trying to take advantage of the snaps on giving with its all in preseason, all the regular season. You know, however mean it is, I'm being evaluated each one. Well, it's like you talked about they don't see a Sunday through Sunday when you go to training camp and you see that you got a period that you're probably going you know, fifteen one on ones or or double team, you know type of work there, right, You know every

one of those players are being evaluated ex equally as much. YEP, for sure. Roy Robertson Harris, our guest. One more segment to go with the veteran now defensive linement of the Chicago Bears getting ready for a trip to Denver to take on the Broncos on Sunday at three twenty five. You can hear it on News Radio seven eighty and

one or five point at FM WBBM. Break here on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy the Score, Welcome back to Bears All Access here at PNC Studios at Alishan, Jeff Joning, Act, Tom There and our guest, Roy Robertson Harris getting ready for a trip to Denver for the first road game of the year to take on the Denver Broncos and see his old coach, Vic Fangio on the sidelines. You catch some of that money and I you know a

couple of things he had specs on. He had the glasses and you know, he's not used to being on the field. It's flat out. He's a easy guy that would like to be upstairs, but as a head coach that's not the case. But boy, a lot of love in the building for that man, and I think everybody wishes him great success, except for Sunday. Absolutely definitely appreciate Vick giving me a shot while while he was here. And you know, one of the best defensive minds in

the game. I found an interesting time back when he was a rookie, somebody did an article on him and it just struck me. I usually don't look at these little things, but a bunch of favorites, So favorite players. He mentioned former Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, La Ram's defensive end, Robert Quinn, a guy from the Oakland Raiders by name Khalil Mack now a teammate. But uh, that was what

somebody wrote about you. I don't know if it's all what you said, but is that pretty a pretty accurate description of your favorite NFL players at the time and now working with him? Yeah, man, college, whenever I was playing, um, I was a big Robert Quinn fan, just based off of his build. Coach, my coach will say, you know, find a guy that you feel like you resemble, and um, he was one of the guys I feel like, you know, being as tall as he is, he's fast off the ball. Um,

so I wanted to model my game like Robert Quinn. Mac. Mac was just a he was just a dude. Um. I grew up in Oakland, so I was a Raider fan. The fact that Mac went to the Raiders, I just followed his game and everybody knows what he has done since he's been in the league, so there's no need to explain. But um, he was also a guy that I wanted to be like, wanted to play like. Uh So,

now being able to play with Mac is is pretty awesome. Um. Just learning from him, just learning the game from him when it comes to pass rush and um, just learning how to be a better pro every day. You know, Vic took away the music in Denver. You can't make mantelaire. So when you're something new is being installed, you gotta pay attention. You gotta know it. Um. Where are you at? Are you a fan of the music at practice? I'm a fan of music at practice. I feel like it

gives a guy's juice. Yeah, do you dance a lot? Because you know, we we sit up there and we watched practice every day. And it amazes me that how often every everybody dances. What about you? Are you a practice dancer. I'm not a dancer dancer. I'm more like when a certain song is on and all my boys are dancing, I'm I'm I'm the hype man. So like when Nick and the Kim and my boys are dancing, I'm just like, I'm the hype man. I hype them up, and uh, y'all get one little dancing. I got the

little toe tap. That's just about it. So CLUBB Dub. When you get into a winning locker room, are you shoulder pads off immediately? Are you kind of dwelling in this fun and this success? And you know, I'm shoulder pads off, cleats off, and I'm watching my boys dance. I'm watching them. I get excited to watch my boys go crazy after a win. Um. Now when we score we get a turnover that I'm running down to the

ends one with them. I'm getting in the picture. I'm celebrating with them, like I'm doing all that but when it comes to dancing, I'm not dancing, not really my thing. Roy Roberts and Harris our guest. You know you're doing a lot in the office. She's had a camp. I don't know if you've had it more than yeah. I had. So I had my second one. This is my first one was in Dallas at my high school and then my second one. I just had UM in Chicago a

week before training camp. And that's working with Big Brothers Big Sisters. Yea, yeah, yeah, so my marketing team, King Sports Entertainment, they put the whole thing together. Um. We worked with Big Brothers, Big Sisters UM during the season as well as offseason. But we had UM a few of their kids from their program come by and then UM a lot of kids from the West Side of Chicago. UM. So it was awesome. We had paintball there, they had laser tag set up. We had pizza hut and power hands.

They have weighted gloves UM for training and uh, the kids enjoyed it. This. You know, it's all about the kids and UM. You know one of my main goals is a guy playing at this level is just inspired young kids because I didn't have that growing up. You know, I didn't have guys in the fl NBA come in and and doing stuff like that. So I just want to impact kids, whether it's here, whether it's back in Texas,

uh in al Passo. Like I joined my teammate Aaron Jones for Green Bay, him and his brother, they had their camp in al Paso, so I was able to be a part of that and they had I think almost two thousand kids one day, a thousand and the next day, you know, eight hundred, nine hundred. You can get your hands on him on last Saturday or last Thursday, I didn't. I did. I had one tackle his rookie year. I had one tackle on him. Now was just about it.

But um, yeah, that's that's my guy. We came we didn't come in together, um, but he didn't red Shirts. So we ended up playing freshman, sophomore, junior year together and then I left. It's his brother with the Redskins, the Ravens, and Ovens with the with the Ravens. Um he's doing this thing at linebacker. And then we've got a few other guys around the league, Will Hernandez, Eric Tomlinson, my boy Cedric Lane. So we've got a few few

guys in the league. Is there any one standard question at that A majority of those kids who want to ask you either you know from your size, or about another player on the Bears, or you know, what is their thrill point. They asked me about mac Y when I when I'm around kids, they always ask if I know Khalil Beck. Yeah, so yeah, I know Khalil I see I see him every day. He's a good guy. Um. But the first thing they see the Bears look at us, first thing to ask is about Khalil. Yeah, it's what

you might expect. Yeah, right, of course, no question about it. So you got your Star Wars shirt on it last time we met. I know that's natural thing. So, um, I don't think I've gotten past like the first three or four back when I was a younger man. But the Rise of Skywalker? Is that coming out here right in December? Yeah, I was gonna say November. Yeah, I think December twentieth. As I looked at it, I looked it up, I looked, Okay, there we go. I just

know that's the anticipation. Like, so, I don't know, but I don't know how I felt about saying this on the radio. But Disney. Disney is kind of jacking this. It's missing, it's messing it up for me a little bit. Disney is making it a little too kid friendly compared to the ones I grew up on, So Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Refriends of the City. They were all very serious, and then every now and then you have like maybe a laughable moment like episode one, jar

Jar Binks was a laughable guy. Everybody laughed at him because you say funny stuff. Now it's like every other scene, like the first scene and the last one they had Luke Skywalker just throwing his lightsabe. But I'm like, bro, that's not Star Wars. That's not that's not the Star Wars we came up on, Like Luke, No, that's not No, that's so off rip. As soon as I saw that, I'm like, Okay, I don't think I'm gonna enjoy this too much. And I'm just saying I didn't really enjoy

the last one that much. I wasn't too fond of it. Um, what was the what was the first one with Kylin ran When they started making the new ones, I can't tell you. That shows how much of a Star Wars fan I am, but but no, the other ones were pretty good. Rogue one was good, Solo was pretty good. Um, but Disney's kind of uh, it's a little iffy for me. I did this summer. I did go to Disneyland. I took my kid and um and my niece to Disneyland and and Galaxy As was pretty awesome. They did their

thing with that. Um they've got stormtroopers walking around and I took a picture with you, Bodka. It's pretty cool. Did they have those things where you say if you can't get on the ride unless you're this tall, but that you got one for you. You You can't because you're this I was actually able to get on all the kid rides with my son, so that was that was pretty cool to be able to do that. Pictures and videos all that stuff. So he'll never forget it, Yeah,

well you won't. He won't remember it yet, but I won't forget so we'll saw all the pictures and videos when he gelded all right with our movie critic Roy Robertson Harris. That's gonna wrap us up, big fellow. Have a great rest of your season. I go get them Broncos. Thanks you for taking the time Roy Robertson Harris Chicago Bears defensive linement with Tom There. I'm Jeff Joniac, thanks

again to Paul's arranging. Dan Barelli, our producer. We'll talk to you next time on Chicago Sports Radio six seventy. The score first