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Speaker 1: The head coaches here. It is game week, Broan Callahan. Welcome, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: welcome to kickoff week. It's exciting.

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Speaker 2: It is exciting, and we obviously have a lot of

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Speaker 2: at that event, you made the decision to announce the

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Speaker 3: I wanted them to make it special for the guys

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Speaker 3: so I can't take full credit for it. Tom Jones

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Speaker 2: Why is it important to you to establish traditions like

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Speaker 3: Because you're always trying to put your own twist on things,

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Speaker 2: You also have four defensive linemen on the roster. Depth wise,

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Speaker 1: All right, A lot of new on the Chicago Bears offense.

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Speaker 3: But there's definitely a don't beat yourself in the first week,

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Speaker 1: It's Bears coach Matt Eberflus's defense, that's his background. But

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Speaker 3: Twenty three, You know, I think that's his mo that's

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Speaker 1: But that's I love that stuff.

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Speaker 1: No? No, they can't.

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Speaker 1: No, they can't. Take good question it is.

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Speaker 3: I mean it would, it would. If you win it

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Speaker 2: You know what this Sunday is going to mean too,

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Speaker 2: Bears fans with their rookie quarterback opening at home for

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Speaker 2: this new season, filled with optimism for their team. You

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Speaker 2: know you're going to be walking into a crazy soldier field.

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Speaker 2: Are there concerns or how are you adjusting for the

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Speaker 2: fact that communication is probably going to be a bit

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Speaker 2: of a struggle because it will be quite loud.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think that's every road we every road game in

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Speaker 3: game for all the reasons you said, But we just

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Speaker 3: have to work our process. We we work our silent

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Speaker 3: cadence all through training camp. We use noise, We work

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Speaker 3: on our nonverbal communication. On both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 3: It's obviously a lot louder for us on offense, than

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Speaker 3: it is for our defense should be pretty quiet for them,

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Speaker 3: But that's always a process where we continually works. It's

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Speaker 3: not when we take for granted, and it's one that

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Speaker 3: we actually do spend quite a bit of time on.

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Speaker 3: So I feel good about where we're at there. I

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Speaker 3: mean not to say it's going to be super smooth.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you'd hope to not have any false starts,

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Speaker 1: You are going to a place that is very special

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Speaker 1: to the Callahan family. Dad is very much from there.

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Speaker 1: I think you were born there where you know, I

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Speaker 1: was born in Champagne, Okay, just Illinois Ish, but I

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Speaker 1: mean I grew up. I grew up a bearsman, because

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Speaker 1: that's what you know, Bears, Bulls, and black Hawks. When

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Speaker 1: remember watching was was the Bears because that's what all

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Speaker 1: my uncles and everybody lived in Chicago, and when I

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Speaker 1: But yeah, my mom and dad are are Chicago is

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Speaker 1: Chicago has got to be a little cool for my dad,

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Speaker 1: I think to some degree. But it's it's a great place.

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Speaker 1: It's a great city, it's a great football city. It's

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Speaker 1: great history there, it's a it's a fantastic organization, and

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's one that's been hungry for for

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Speaker 1: what they have right now, and that's a team that

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Speaker 1: people are excited to come watch. Great story about your

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Speaker 1: dad during the Wisconsin Days in the Athletic at the

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Speaker 1: end of last week.

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Speaker 3: It was I thought, yeah, I thought that was really cool.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how many people saw it, but but

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Speaker 3: I thought Joe did a really nice job researching and

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Speaker 3: writing it. It was really well done. And yeah, there's

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Speaker 3: some things that sometimes I still learned some things every

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that was a that was a wild time

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Speaker 3: those Wisconsin years and all that all the things that

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Speaker 3: was pretty awesome. But it was really well done and

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Speaker 3: really well researched by Joe rex Road there at the Athletic.

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Speaker 1: Brian Callahan, thank you so much for the time.

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure for Amy.

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Speaker 1: Well to coach Brian Callahan. I'm Mike Keith, thanking you

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Speaker 1: the OT people for joining us for the OT