WEBVTT - Recapping Thursday Night | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.960 Cut open man, DJ Moore, end zone touchdown, touchdown Bears. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.079 I am Jeff, Joni yack Litz is on. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:13.520 Donnie got what was like playing for Coachy Good? 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:16.400 I don't want to answer any questions like that pressure 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:17.600 coming is a big trouble. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.600 Donnie goes Mottest sweat. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:25.680 Now. 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.480 Bears et Cetera brought to you by Geico with the 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:32.880 voices of the Bears Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. Final 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:34.800 home game for twenty twenty four ends and a six 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:36.760 y three loss to Seattle. One week to go and 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:38.760 it's off to Green Bay we go with Super Bowl 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.000 winning Bears Guard Town Theayer. I'm Jeff Jonia. Welcome to 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.479 episode one twenty three of the Bears et Cetera podcast. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.440 We're brought to you by Geico. Coming up some postgame 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.159 thoughts from head coach Thomas Brown and quarterback Kato Williams. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.320 Tom Hard Doing digests what is now ballooned into a 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:56.400 ten game losing streak. Hard for everyone involved, with a 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.320 frustration level that has no definition. Right there again on 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:03.320 Thursday Night, Game on the line, ball in the hands 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.680 of the offense, seeking field goal range to four sot 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.759 or get a game winning touchdown, and it all fizzled 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.319 after a venturing into Seattle territory, a night with thirteen 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.800 combined punts, no touchdowns, and just nine points on a 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.760 game again, there to be one despite the ineffectiveness overall 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.400 of the offense and a really superb effort at least 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.120 in terms of their aggressiveness, physicality and stinginess on the 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.119 defensive side of the ball. 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:30.640 Yeah, it's super frustrating. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:32.880 I don't think anybody who left that locker room last 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.560 night feeling good about what happened, whether you're a fan, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.920 or you're a player or a coach, no matter what 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.399 your involvement is with the Chicago Bears. But I will 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.240 say this, going forward, you have one more game left 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.400 on the docket. I am not going to necessarily forget 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.640 what happened last night, but I'm not going to dwell 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.800 on it because I want to go out on a 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:55.040 high note, whether I'm a coach, a player, whatever my 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.400 role is with the Chicago Bears, and I want to 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.480 be prepared against the Green Bay Packers to go out 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.480 there and put a performance unlike any others. And you 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.640 have a full week of preparation, you have time to recover, 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.760 you have the ability to be ready for an emotional 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.440 game that they're going to have a lot at stake, 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.480 So get ready and start preparing for the Green Bay 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.639 Packers today. And that's in terms of rest and recovery. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.440 And then when you get back into the meeting room 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.079 and on the practice field, do everything within your power 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.720 to make sure that you're prepared for next Sunday. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:29.280 All right. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.799 This game was something of a statistical oddity, only the 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.280 third time in the Super Bowl era that the Bears 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.079 allowed six points or few in a game and lost. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.560 Just an incredible circumstance that continues to haunt this team 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.639 is the lack of a quick start and the inability 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.720 to finish time. And that book ends are there important. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.280 Everything that happens in the middle is important too. But 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.320 starting fast and finishing strong is an old adage that 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:03.320 needs to take roots somehow with this Bear's team moving forward. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:04.959 Yeah, I don't know. 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.000 Is it getting a more competitive and more competent first 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:11.160 fifteen plays? We often hear about every single team in 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.160 the National Football League history where they start out with 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.320 the script of the first fifteen plays, and if it 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.160 takes you trying to get the quarterback involved and where 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.959 his confidence is at the highest, What plays does he 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.080 like the most, what protections does he have the most 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.280 trust in, and what patterns does he have the most 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.480 faith in? And then what running plays suit the Bears 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.200 talent the best in terms of running back and offensive line. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.480 So you have to take a lot of those elements 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.560 into consideration to make sure that when you go through 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.560 that first quarter, first quarter and a half of football, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:48.600 some way, shape or form, it results in points. 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.240 Right, just twenty first quarter points for the Bears this 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.040 season and nothing on the opening drive. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.080 Have a new or gently used coat laying around. 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.880 Head to your local jewelasco until February tenth, and donate 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.160 one of your new or gently coach to the thirty 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.400 sixth annual Chicago Bears Coach Drive and help keep Chicagoans 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.240 warm this winner. Let's listen in to both Thomas Brown 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:10.400 and Caleb Williams and maxcerpts from their postgame news conference 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.840 at sold Your Field on Thursday night. 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:17.160 My acts that all three phases play their best together 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:19.960 at one time, and I thought special teams played the 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.840 swimming well. I thought defense played their butts off the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.400 entire night, and the offense was not good enough. Which 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.480 starts with me as far as the game plan that 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.680 I had coming into this game, having those guys ready 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:31.840 to go. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.640 We had plenty of opportunities to win it. 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:36.840 You know, had an unfortunate car early on it took 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.120 away one of the touchdowns, but still had plenty of 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.440 chances to take it at bats And that's extremely frustrating, disappointing, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.839 which is one hundred percent on me. And so We'll 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.840 have a couple of days off, have a regroup, and 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:51.960 then have one more crack at it. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.320 I'm swearing your kick lines on that last. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.320 Drive thirty four to thirty seven year old line, so 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.360 some more close to it. When you guys get first, 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:01.840 what you would you like to see after those next 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.479 four players? And did you have anything up for potential 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.839 running that? Yeah, I mean just be able to execute. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.240 Obviously were zero in this out, so there's not many 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.960 other than running a quarterback like design quarterback runs great 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.400 answers versus zero coverage. Just make sure we you know, 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.040 got in the spot where it was felt like a 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.360 legitimate chance to go make a field go at that point. 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.160 Obviously towards at the end of the game, had a 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.960 chance to try to go protect it by some time 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:28.719 and have a shot down the middle of the field 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:30.440 of DJ ball kind of got tipped I believe, or 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.200 cap got hit, our arm got hit releasing it, so 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.560 that didn't work out. But like I said, overall, it 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.160 wasn't good enough as far as the game plan I 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.000 had for these guys, and also didn't have officer ready 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:41.160 to go. 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:44.280 What happened with the operation with the two timeouts. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:45.640 On the raft, Yeah, I mean just being able to 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.760 have a cleaner communication, get down in the huddle, start 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.400 the ball faster, so didn't want to waste players. You 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.560 have a time out from a layer game standpoint, so 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.280 that was the whole reason for burning time out. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:58.200 What was a confusion on the first time on the 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:00.360 not knowing whether you're gonna play their. 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.279 Goal for what was a confusing row. I'll just changed 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:02.640 my mind. 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.560 I think of being able to have us tour as 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:06.480 a weapon, and uh we still had I think it 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.160 was two sixteen and the clock still that all three 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.320 time outs plus a two minute warning. So the way 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.320 our defense have been playing all day, possibly have a 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.800 chance to go flip the field and force the three 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.120 and out, get a shorter feel and having like a 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.880 last in the game drive. So that was my thought 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.680 processing in over the course of that change my mind, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:25.440 we said let's go for it now, and so sent 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:26.320 off with aggress. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.440 What made you change your mind? I just want to 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:29.120 be more aggressive? 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.440 Yeah, final play there? What are you hoping to get 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:33.760 there and not knowing they're bringing the house. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:34.520 What are your answers? 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.159 Yeah, my answer is, uh, where I tried to throw 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.520 it is to DJ knowing they're bringing the house. 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:41.360 Uh. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.640 We put as many guys as we could to block, 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:45.600 and uh, they just had one more guide to the 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.960 back and you know, tried to uh, you know, fade 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.280 away and throw the DJ on the runway one of 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.960 our fastest guys, you know, our fastest guy, and you 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:56.360 know missed, got hit or you know, however it happened. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.960 And yeah, what is your did you see on the 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.960 final drive as far as uh, lack of emergency and 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.880 clock management management? 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.280 Yeah, I haven't been able to obviously digest at all, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:11.560 so I can't really give you a full answer. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:12.120 I think. 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:18.560 I think, you know, I think we simply didn't execute. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.320 I think obviously, you know, there's times where you can 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.760 have a better call, want a better call, things like that, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:26.840 But you know, we didn't execute. I didn't execute on 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.920 many different occasions this game, and you know, it's frustrating, 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.240 but I gotta find a way. You know, I think 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.040 today was was one of those games that you know, 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.800 I think we played on two sides of the ball 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.360 today pretty well, special teams and uh defense, and then 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:45.480 you know, offense, we. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:46.160 Didn't play well. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:51.400 There was miscues, there was stupid sacks that I was taking, 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:57.720 you know, losing ten fourteen yards, which is frustrating. But 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:05.040 you know, I will say that, uh I put I 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.640 will definitely take the you know, the heat for this one, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.800 just because some situations that I that I put us in. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.400 You know, I like I said that that sack that 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.360 I took that I didn't need to take, which put 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.360 us you know, we were an empty and I brought 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.160 a guy from the boundary. Uh I just throw it 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.880 over the guy's head, and you you know, you're still 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.760 plan Obviously you don't want to you want to get 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:27.840 a positive play there, but in that sense, it's a 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:28.480 positive play. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:29.600 So I gotta be better. 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:34.280 Frustration level with this game. You looked understandably very angry 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.480 after the way that it ended. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:40.520 Yeah, I was. I was frustrated, still frustrated. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.320 I'm gonna probably be frustrated until tomorrow, you know, after 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:47.000 I get you know, a good chance to watch it 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:47.520 and things like that. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:52.040 So yeah, I mean, I didn't play well enough. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.719 I didn't I didn't do I didn't help put the 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:56.679 team in a in a good position to win, a 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.800 better posi position to win. 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.959 And you know, that's what it is. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:04.559 Set on the Amazon pregame interview, we saw that you 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.280 didn't meet the expectations this season of winning and up 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:08.960 playing your best. 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.200 Yeah, what do you mean particularly about your performance? 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.640 Yeah, just just being able to from start to finish, 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.880 be able to be consistent throughout the whole season. Obviously, 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.520 you know, you know, their their job over there on 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:24.439 the defense side is to be able to provide you 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:28.200 know that that inconsistency and things like that, but find 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:31.520 ways to just be consistent play play, you know, good football, 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.319 consistent football when the balls in my hand and and 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:37.280 and you know, from all the alerts and things like that, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.360 and then you know, I think obviously in the expectation 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.719 of of winning, that will always be my expectation is 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.480 to win as many games as we have, you know, obviously, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.719 that's not not always the the case, but that will 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.640 always be my goal, you know, whenever I'm on the 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.640 field or you know, preparing throughout the week and things 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:57.839 like that. 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.800 There's the term execution is has repeatedly come up, and yes, 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.800 there was a lack of execution, and Caleb took a 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:08.439 lot of responsibility, took some responsibility for some of those 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.719 seven sacks, some off target throws. Thomas Brown took his 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:17.720 own responsibility. You had opportunities defensively that could have changed 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.560 the game. Obviously, we thought we had a sixty two 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:23.079 yard fumble return by Cayler Gordon heads up that he 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:24.520 went all the way to the end zone. They say 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.400 he was touched down. He also said a referee said 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.719 he didn't watch the play. Tremaine Edmonds is going to 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.719 be not able to sleep for a couple nights. That 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.720 interception of the red zone should have been a takeaway 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.560 and not three points. It could have made a difference 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.000 in the game in this real weird, low scoring game. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.120 Yeah, I think it's just whenever you look at the 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.760 end result of a football game, I think there's a 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.640 lot of frustration that comes from everybody when you lose 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:48.120 the game. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:49.920 In the immediacy of. 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.520 Answering questions completely when you haven't seen the film yet. 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.120 I think it's super hard for a quarterback, a head coach, 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:00.319 or a position player. So I think you just have 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.959 to listen to the tone of their voice and the 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.440 way they answer questions. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:06.240 And these guys are professionals. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.679 Man, this is not a way they wanted to leave 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.439 that locker room on Thursday night. So will I give 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:14.160 them a little bit of time and I'll see the 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.200 next time they revisit the podium, and if you want 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.719 to reask some of those questions, maybe you'll get a 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.040 complete answer. Because the frustration is in the voice of 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.959 Thomas Brown and the frustration is in the voice of 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.640 Caleb Williams. And I think anybody that you talk to 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.440 privately and inside that locker room is feeling the same way. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:35.559 There's nobody walking out of that locker room feeling good 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.439 about what happened. So that's why I think about what 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.200 you're going to do moving forward, in what you can 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:42.400 do to finish this thing. 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:42.880 Bears. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.559 Fan Steinhoffels is a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.160 This Bear season, Steinhoffels is partnering with Special Spaces Illinois 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.800 to create dream bedrooms for children battling cancer. 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The seventeen yard touchdown Aroma Dunese 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:24.480 that were wiped out. 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:25.959 By the Jake kerhan Hold. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.079 I mean were there were a bunch fourth and three 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.200 late in the game from their own thirty four Caleb 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.400 retreating Yeah, I think three or four guys chasing him 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.679 down hit More for fourteen. Kind of a back foot 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.199 heave throw turns into a fourth down conversion of DJ so. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.320 But that all amounted to one hundred and seventy nine 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.120 yards of offense three point one yards per play against 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.640 that Seattle defense. And when you take the sacks into 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:52.360 account of negative pass plays just two point two yards 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:54.760 per pass attempt. It's not gonna catch you a lot 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:55.160 of points. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.600 Yeah, you know, you can say talk about all those 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.719 pauses of the plays and when you talk about the 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.520 overall performance of the game, when you talk about that 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:09.319 amount of sacks and negates everything that you talk about 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.240 the good. However, I will say this, Caleb Williams could 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.640 be the best screen thrower the lateral passes in football. 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:18.959 The guy is unbelievable. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.200 His accuracy, his immediacy of the completion, putting the ball 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.160 carrier in a positive position to be able to convert 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:29.600 it into yards. I've been impressed with that all year. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.000 When you talk about the pass to Keenan Allen, when 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.280 they had the ball that was rolling on the ground, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.360 he picked it up and he kept his focus downfield. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.880 Those are the types of building blocks that you can 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:46.280 surround Caleb with and building this offense off of those 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.559 things that he does so well time and time again. 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:51.079 Coming into the game. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:53.360 One of the top yardage totals in the screen game 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.280 this year for Caleb Williams, so something to build on 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.640 because that is a deadly play when hits, and it 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.760 does take the starts out of a pass rush. Let's look, 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.080 he went his first twenty seven throws without an interception, 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.240 so he winds up with three fifty three without one, 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.000 a franchise record, a Bears rookie record for the longest 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.040 stretch by any quarterback in a single season in NFL history. 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.640 Of course, on the blitz by Kobe Bryant, on that 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.320 blitz at the end of the game with nine guys 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.200 on line of scrimmage that was intercepted. Riek wooing with 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.840 the interception and the game, but you got to give 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.080 him his props on that one. Top five now in 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.080 team history and single season passing yards. I know it 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.960 off falls short of the win column, but these are 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.240 things that you notate and you take a good look at. 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.200 Yeah, but you know, listen, at the end of every season, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.200 it's always about the next season. And I think one 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.520 of the building blocks of a football team is the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.680 importance in the role of a quarterback. And we can listen, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.480 we can go through the history of the NFL and 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.680 we can talk about Hall of Fame quarterbacks that had 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.280 a rough start team wide. And you know that's thing 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.200 about Caleb what I see the exciting things about him. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.200 I just I can't believe how tough of a guy 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.040 is from some of the hits that he's taken this year, 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.000 the way he scrambled out of pressure and in the 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.560 in the pocket, and the way he's you know, had 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.600 a ball maybe fall on the ground, but pick it 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.520 up without hesitation and throw the ball. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.760 So all those types of things that we've seen. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.520 Out of other other quarterbacks in the history of the 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.520 league to what we know that Caleb is going. 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:28.440 To offer in the future. 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.160 Yeah, I mean, he's just got to grind through it. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:31.680 Yeah. 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.200 And you know, I keep thinking about Troy Aikman. He 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.720 had that eleven game losing streak. There's there's others, there's 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:38.040 a list. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.200 I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got the 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:44.320 Troy Aikman, you got Peyton Manning throwing twenty seven interceptions. 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.480 You got a lot of these guys throughout the history 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.400 of their career that they suffered through that first year. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.280 But it also gave the organization an understanding of what 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.200 they needed to the pieces they needed to put in 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.440 place to build around Caleb. 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.360 Time for our Geico gives you more football staut of 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:02.000 the week. The Bears allowed the fewest points at a 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.760 game for the season and the fewest since twenty twenty one. 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:09.080 They allowed week three excuse me allowed three in Week seventeen. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.160 It was also a second half shoutout for the second 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.560 time since Week one against Tennessee, and the defense held 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.840 opponents without a touchdown of the first half for a 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:20.160 fourth time and again mentioned the still stingy red zone 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.200 defense third best in red zone touchdown efficiency in the NFL. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:25.800 Should have had a sixth takeaway. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.240 I'm going to get to the defensive line because some 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.440 of the guys that have been you know, Byron Coward 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.440 to start at seven straight games, big sack in the 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.120 second quarter in his fiftieth NFL game, Darryl Taylor had 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:41.600 a strip sack. Who batted down the ball at the 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.080 Lion of scream Jacob Martin at the Lion of screaman 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.480 so you know, everybody had a hand into something there. 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:50.800 Montes Sweat got another sack. So there's some good things 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.640 done by the defense. TJ Edwards got to talk about 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.480 him too. TJ team high six tackles now won twenty five. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.320 Second Bear linebacker to reach that and back to back 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.520 season since the turn of the century, and that would 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.399 be Rero qwand Smith in twenty twenty one. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.280 And remarkably, Tom remarkably. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.479 Just the fourth Bears player in history with multiple one 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.199 hundred and twenty five tackle seasons. 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.720 Think about the great defenses. That's that's kind of crazy. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.800 Yeah, I mean, it tells you how competitive TJ is 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.600 and what a force he is at linebacker, and how 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:26.720 he accepts his role and he's able to convert it 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:30.440 into tackles. He's you know, you're playing in front of 0:17:30.480 --> 0:17:33.440 a defensive line that's had a lot of rotational pieces 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:37.280 in the middle. So rather than formulating and understand a 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.359 plan of attack working with the same defensive tackles like 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.840 a lot of great linebackers have, you know, TJ is 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:47.879 a guy that's probably worked with eight different interior packages 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.080 from the just the defensive tackle position alone. And any 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.560 anybody knows that a linebacker that has that amount of tackles, 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.280 a lot of it is a result because. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:00.119 Of the play in front of you. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.000 So those guys up in front that you talked about, 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.159 there was a solid rotation of them all. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:09.080 Tastes like Miller Time Celebrate responsibily, Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.000 ninety six Cavalies three point two carps per twelve ounces. 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.359 Now we're brought to you by PNC Official Bank of 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:14.720 the Bears. 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:17.119 Let's touch on special teams that got a thumbs up 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:18.920 from the head coach Thomas Brown. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:20.560 They did do some good things. 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.680 Let me start with Tyler Scott. Tyler Scott in the 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.520 kick return game showing an aggressive burst, but that you know, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:32.040 downfield tackle on Jalen Darden that brought the house down. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.800 That was a big stick by him as a gunner, 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:37.560 and that's a position he has dabbled in but has 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.960 not been consistently a part of this season because of 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:42.280 the logitam at receiver. But I thought that was a 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.640 good good way to put something on tape for Titer Scott. 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:45.479