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Speaker 1: home game for twenty twenty four ends and a six
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Speaker 1: winning Bears Guard Town Theayer. I'm Jeff Jonia. Welcome to
Speaker 1: episode one twenty three of the Bears et Cetera podcast.
Speaker 1: We're brought to you by Geico. Coming up some postgame
Speaker 1: thoughts from head coach Thomas Brown and quarterback Kato Williams.
Speaker 1: Tom Hard Doing digests what is now ballooned into a
Speaker 1: ten game losing streak. Hard for everyone involved, with a
Speaker 1: frustration level that has no definition. Right there again on
Speaker 1: Thursday Night, Game on the line, ball in the hands
Speaker 1: of the offense, seeking field goal range to four sot
Speaker 1: or get a game winning touchdown, and it all fizzled
Speaker 1: after a venturing into Seattle territory, a night with thirteen
Speaker 1: combined punts, no touchdowns, and just nine points on a
Speaker 1: game again, there to be one despite the ineffectiveness overall
Speaker 1: of the offense and a really superb effort at least
Speaker 1: in terms of their aggressiveness, physicality and stinginess on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's super frustrating.
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody who left that locker room last
Speaker 5: night feeling good about what happened, whether you're a fan,
Speaker 5: or you're a player or a coach, no matter what
Speaker 5: your involvement is with the Chicago Bears. But I will
Speaker 5: say this, going forward, you have one more game left
Speaker 5: on the docket. I am not going to necessarily forget
Speaker 5: what happened last night, but I'm not going to dwell
Speaker 5: on it because I want to go out on a
Speaker 5: high note, whether I'm a coach, a player, whatever my
Speaker 5: role is with the Chicago Bears, and I want to
Speaker 5: be prepared against the Green Bay Packers to go out
Speaker 5: there and put a performance unlike any others. And you
Speaker 5: have a full week of preparation, you have time to recover,
Speaker 5: you have the ability to be ready for an emotional
Speaker 5: game that they're going to have a lot at stake,
Speaker 5: So get ready and start preparing for the Green Bay
Speaker 5: Packers today. And that's in terms of rest and recovery.
Speaker 5: And then when you get back into the meeting room
Speaker 5: and on the practice field, do everything within your power
Speaker 5: to make sure that you're prepared for next Sunday.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: This game was something of a statistical oddity, only the
Speaker 1: third time in the Super Bowl era that the Bears
Speaker 1: allowed six points or few in a game and lost.
Speaker 1: Just an incredible circumstance that continues to haunt this team
Speaker 1: is the lack of a quick start and the inability
Speaker 1: to finish time. And that book ends are there important.
Speaker 1: Everything that happens in the middle is important too. But
Speaker 1: starting fast and finishing strong is an old adage that
Speaker 1: needs to take roots somehow with this Bear's team moving forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Is it getting a more competitive and more competent first
Speaker 5: fifteen plays? We often hear about every single team in
Speaker 5: the National Football League history where they start out with
Speaker 5: the script of the first fifteen plays, and if it
Speaker 5: takes you trying to get the quarterback involved and where
Speaker 5: his confidence is at the highest, What plays does he
Speaker 5: like the most, what protections does he have the most
Speaker 5: trust in, and what patterns does he have the most
Speaker 5: faith in? And then what running plays suit the Bears
Speaker 5: talent the best in terms of running back and offensive line.
Speaker 5: So you have to take a lot of those elements
Speaker 5: into consideration to make sure that when you go through
Speaker 5: that first quarter, first quarter and a half of football,
Speaker 5: some way, shape or form, it results in points.
Speaker 1: Right, just twenty first quarter points for the Bears this
Speaker 1: season and nothing on the opening drive.
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Speaker 1: warm this winner. Let's listen in to both Thomas Brown
Speaker 1: and Caleb Williams and maxcerpts from their postgame news conference
Speaker 1: at sold Your Field on Thursday night.
Speaker 6: My acts that all three phases play their best together
Speaker 6: at one time, and I thought special teams played the
Speaker 6: swimming well. I thought defense played their butts off the
Speaker 6: entire night, and the offense was not good enough. Which
Speaker 6: starts with me as far as the game plan that
Speaker 6: I had coming into this game, having those guys ready
Speaker 6: to go.
Speaker 7: We had plenty of opportunities to win it.
Speaker 6: You know, had an unfortunate car early on it took
Speaker 6: away one of the touchdowns, but still had plenty of
Speaker 6: chances to take it at bats And that's extremely frustrating, disappointing,
Speaker 6: which is one hundred percent on me. And so We'll
Speaker 6: have a couple of days off, have a regroup, and
Speaker 6: then have one more crack at it.
Speaker 2: I'm swearing your kick lines on that last.
Speaker 7: Drive thirty four to thirty seven year old line, so
Speaker 7: some more close to it. When you guys get first,
Speaker 7: what you would you like to see after those next
Speaker 7: four players? And did you have anything up for potential
Speaker 7: running that? Yeah, I mean just be able to execute.
Speaker 6: Obviously were zero in this out, so there's not many
Speaker 6: other than running a quarterback like design quarterback runs great
Speaker 6: answers versus zero coverage. Just make sure we you know,
Speaker 6: got in the spot where it was felt like a
Speaker 6: legitimate chance to go make a field go at that point.
Speaker 6: Obviously towards at the end of the game, had a
Speaker 6: chance to try to go protect it by some time
Speaker 6: and have a shot down the middle of the field
Speaker 6: of DJ ball kind of got tipped I believe, or
Speaker 6: cap got hit, our arm got hit releasing it, so
Speaker 6: that didn't work out. But like I said, overall, it
Speaker 6: wasn't good enough as far as the game plan I
Speaker 6: had for these guys, and also didn't have officer ready
Speaker 6: to go.
Speaker 7: What happened with the operation with the two timeouts.
Speaker 6: On the raft, Yeah, I mean just being able to
Speaker 6: have a cleaner communication, get down in the huddle, start
Speaker 6: the ball faster, so didn't want to waste players. You
Speaker 6: have a time out from a layer game standpoint, so
Speaker 6: that was the whole reason for burning time out.
Speaker 3: What was a confusion on the first time on the
Speaker 3: not knowing whether you're gonna play their.
Speaker 7: Goal for what was a confusing row. I'll just changed
Speaker 7: my mind.
Speaker 6: I think of being able to have us tour as
Speaker 6: a weapon, and uh we still had I think it
Speaker 6: was two sixteen and the clock still that all three
Speaker 6: time outs plus a two minute warning. So the way
Speaker 6: our defense have been playing all day, possibly have a
Speaker 6: chance to go flip the field and force the three
Speaker 6: and out, get a shorter feel and having like a
Speaker 6: last in the game drive. So that was my thought
Speaker 6: processing in over the course of that change my mind,
Speaker 6: we said let's go for it now, and so sent
Speaker 6: off with aggress.
Speaker 7: What made you change your mind? I just want to
Speaker 7: be more aggressive?
Speaker 4: Yeah, final play there? What are you hoping to get
Speaker 4: there and not knowing they're bringing the house.
Speaker 8: What are your answers?
Speaker 3: Yeah, my answer is, uh, where I tried to throw
Speaker 3: it is to DJ knowing they're bringing the house.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: We put as many guys as we could to block,
Speaker 3: and uh, they just had one more guide to the
Speaker 3: back and you know, tried to uh, you know, fade
Speaker 3: away and throw the DJ on the runway one of
Speaker 3: our fastest guys, you know, our fastest guy, and you
Speaker 3: know missed, got hit or you know, however it happened.
Speaker 8: And yeah, what is your did you see on the
Speaker 8: final drive as far as uh, lack of emergency and
Speaker 8: clock management management?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I haven't been able to obviously digest at all,
Speaker 3: so I can't really give you a full answer.
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think we simply didn't execute.
Speaker 3: I think obviously, you know, there's times where you can
Speaker 3: have a better call, want a better call, things like that,
Speaker 3: But you know, we didn't execute. I didn't execute on
Speaker 3: many different occasions this game, and you know, it's frustrating,
Speaker 3: but I gotta find a way. You know, I think
Speaker 3: today was was one of those games that you know,
Speaker 3: I think we played on two sides of the ball
Speaker 3: today pretty well, special teams and uh defense, and then
Speaker 3: you know, offense, we.
Speaker 7: Didn't play well.
Speaker 3: There was miscues, there was stupid sacks that I was taking,
Speaker 3: you know, losing ten fourteen yards, which is frustrating. But
Speaker 3: you know, I will say that, uh I put I
Speaker 3: will definitely take the you know, the heat for this one,
Speaker 3: just because some situations that I that I put us in.
Speaker 3: You know, I like I said that that sack that
Speaker 3: I took that I didn't need to take, which put
Speaker 3: us you know, we were an empty and I brought
Speaker 3: a guy from the boundary. Uh I just throw it
Speaker 3: over the guy's head, and you you know, you're still
Speaker 3: plan Obviously you don't want to you want to get
Speaker 3: a positive play there, but in that sense, it's a
Speaker 3: positive play.
Speaker 7: So I gotta be better.
Speaker 8: Frustration level with this game. You looked understandably very angry
Speaker 8: after the way that it ended.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was. I was frustrated, still frustrated.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna probably be frustrated until tomorrow, you know, after
Speaker 3: I get you know, a good chance to watch it
Speaker 3: and things like that.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean, I didn't play well enough.
Speaker 3: I didn't I didn't do I didn't help put the
Speaker 3: team in a in a good position to win, a
Speaker 3: better posi position to win.
Speaker 7: And you know, that's what it is.
Speaker 8: Set on the Amazon pregame interview, we saw that you
Speaker 8: didn't meet the expectations this season of winning and up
Speaker 8: playing your best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean particularly about your performance?
Speaker 3: Yeah, just just being able to from start to finish,
Speaker 3: be able to be consistent throughout the whole season. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, their their job over there on
Speaker 3: the defense side is to be able to provide you
Speaker 3: know that that inconsistency and things like that, but find
Speaker 3: ways to just be consistent play play, you know, good football,
Speaker 3: consistent football when the balls in my hand and and
Speaker 3: and you know, from all the alerts and things like that,
Speaker 3: and then you know, I think obviously in the expectation
Speaker 3: of of winning, that will always be my expectation is
Speaker 3: to win as many games as we have, you know, obviously,
Speaker 3: that's not not always the the case, but that will
Speaker 3: always be my goal, you know, whenever I'm on the
Speaker 3: field or you know, preparing throughout the week and things
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: There's the term execution is has repeatedly come up, and yes,
Speaker 1: there was a lack of execution, and Caleb took a
Speaker 1: lot of responsibility, took some responsibility for some of those
Speaker 1: seven sacks, some off target throws. Thomas Brown took his
Speaker 1: own responsibility. You had opportunities defensively that could have changed
Speaker 1: the game. Obviously, we thought we had a sixty two
Speaker 1: yard fumble return by Cayler Gordon heads up that he
Speaker 1: went all the way to the end zone. They say
Speaker 1: he was touched down. He also said a referee said
Speaker 1: he didn't watch the play. Tremaine Edmonds is going to
Speaker 1: be not able to sleep for a couple nights. That
Speaker 1: interception of the red zone should have been a takeaway
Speaker 1: and not three points. It could have made a difference
Speaker 1: in the game in this real weird, low scoring game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's just whenever you look at the
Speaker 5: end result of a football game, I think there's a
Speaker 5: lot of frustration that comes from everybody when you lose
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 4: In the immediacy of.
Speaker 5: Answering questions completely when you haven't seen the film yet.
Speaker 5: I think it's super hard for a quarterback, a head coach,
Speaker 5: or a position player. So I think you just have
Speaker 5: to listen to the tone of their voice and the
Speaker 5: way they answer questions.
Speaker 4: And these guys are professionals.
Speaker 5: Man, this is not a way they wanted to leave
Speaker 5: that locker room on Thursday night. So will I give
Speaker 5: them a little bit of time and I'll see the
Speaker 5: next time they revisit the podium, and if you want
Speaker 5: to reask some of those questions, maybe you'll get a
Speaker 5: complete answer. Because the frustration is in the voice of
Speaker 5: Thomas Brown and the frustration is in the voice of
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams. And I think anybody that you talk to
Speaker 5: privately and inside that locker room is feeling the same way.
Speaker 5: There's nobody walking out of that locker room feeling good
Speaker 5: about what happened. So that's why I think about what
Speaker 5: you're going to do moving forward, in what you can
Speaker 5: do to finish this thing.
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Speaker 2: A couple of big plays.
Speaker 1: Let's break him down, Tommy, because you watch the tape
Speaker 1: about two and a half before the half, they had
Speaker 1: that thirteen play sixty seven yard drive the screen to
Speaker 1: Swift for twenty four. That was a nice play the
Speaker 1: screen game at its moments, third and seven for DJ
Speaker 1: Moore for eighteen on a screen on a third and nine,
Speaker 1: that bouncing shotgun snap that Caleb picked up and hit
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen for sixteen. The seventeen yard touchdown Aroma Dunese
Speaker 1: that were wiped out.
Speaker 2: By the Jake kerhan Hold.
Speaker 1: I mean were there were a bunch fourth and three
Speaker 1: late in the game from their own thirty four Caleb
Speaker 1: retreating Yeah, I think three or four guys chasing him
Speaker 1: down hit More for fourteen. Kind of a back foot
Speaker 1: heave throw turns into a fourth down conversion of DJ so.
Speaker 1: But that all amounted to one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 1: yards of offense three point one yards per play against
Speaker 1: that Seattle defense. And when you take the sacks into
Speaker 1: account of negative pass plays just two point two yards
Speaker 1: per pass attempt. It's not gonna catch you a lot
Speaker 1: of points.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, you can say talk about all those
Speaker 5: pauses of the plays and when you talk about the
Speaker 5: overall performance of the game, when you talk about that
Speaker 5: amount of sacks and negates everything that you talk about
Speaker 5: the good. However, I will say this, Caleb Williams could
Speaker 5: be the best screen thrower the lateral passes in football.
Speaker 4: The guy is unbelievable.
Speaker 5: His accuracy, his immediacy of the completion, putting the ball
Speaker 5: carrier in a positive position to be able to convert
Speaker 5: it into yards. I've been impressed with that all year.
Speaker 5: When you talk about the pass to Keenan Allen, when
Speaker 5: they had the ball that was rolling on the ground,
Speaker 5: he picked it up and he kept his focus downfield.
Speaker 5: Those are the types of building blocks that you can
Speaker 5: surround Caleb with and building this offense off of those
Speaker 5: things that he does so well time and time again.
Speaker 2: Coming into the game.
Speaker 1: One of the top yardage totals in the screen game
Speaker 1: this year for Caleb Williams, so something to build on
Speaker 1: because that is a deadly play when hits, and it
Speaker 1: does take the starts out of a pass rush. Let's look,
Speaker 1: he went his first twenty seven throws without an interception,
Speaker 1: so he winds up with three fifty three without one,
Speaker 1: a franchise record, a Bears rookie record for the longest
Speaker 1: stretch by any quarterback in a single season in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Of course, on the blitz by Kobe Bryant, on that
Speaker 1: blitz at the end of the game with nine guys
Speaker 1: on line of scrimmage that was intercepted. Riek wooing with
Speaker 1: the interception and the game, but you got to give
Speaker 1: him his props on that one. Top five now in
Speaker 1: team history and single season passing yards. I know it
Speaker 1: off falls short of the win column, but these are
Speaker 1: things that you notate and you take a good look at.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you know, listen, at the end of every season,
Speaker 5: it's always about the next season. And I think one
Speaker 5: of the building blocks of a football team is the
Speaker 5: importance in the role of a quarterback. And we can listen,
Speaker 5: we can go through the history of the NFL and
Speaker 5: we can talk about Hall of Fame quarterbacks that had
Speaker 5: a rough start team wide. And you know that's thing
Speaker 5: about Caleb what I see the exciting things about him.
Speaker 5: I just I can't believe how tough of a guy
Speaker 5: is from some of the hits that he's taken this year,
Speaker 5: the way he scrambled out of pressure and in the
Speaker 5: in the pocket, and the way he's you know, had
Speaker 5: a ball maybe fall on the ground, but pick it
Speaker 5: up without hesitation and throw the ball.
Speaker 4: So all those types of things that we've seen.
Speaker 5: Out of other other quarterbacks in the history of the
Speaker 5: league to what we know that Caleb is going.
Speaker 4: To offer in the future.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, he's just got to grind through it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, I keep thinking about Troy Aikman. He
Speaker 1: had that eleven game losing streak. There's there's others, there's
Speaker 1: a list.
Speaker 5: I mean, yeah, that's what I'm saying. You got the
Speaker 5: Troy Aikman, you got Peyton Manning throwing twenty seven interceptions.
Speaker 5: You got a lot of these guys throughout the history
Speaker 5: of their career that they suffered through that first year.
Speaker 5: But it also gave the organization an understanding of what
Speaker 5: they needed to the pieces they needed to put in
Speaker 5: place to build around Caleb.
Speaker 1: Time for our Geico gives you more football staut of
Speaker 1: the week. The Bears allowed the fewest points at a
Speaker 1: game for the season and the fewest since twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: They allowed week three excuse me allowed three in Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: It was also a second half shoutout for the second
Speaker 1: time since Week one against Tennessee, and the defense held
Speaker 1: opponents without a touchdown of the first half for a
Speaker 1: fourth time and again mentioned the still stingy red zone
Speaker 1: defense third best in red zone touchdown efficiency in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Should have had a sixth takeaway.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get to the defensive line because some
Speaker 1: of the guys that have been you know, Byron Coward
Speaker 1: to start at seven straight games, big sack in the
Speaker 1: second quarter in his fiftieth NFL game, Darryl Taylor had
Speaker 1: a strip sack. Who batted down the ball at the
Speaker 1: Lion of scream Jacob Martin at the Lion of screaman
Speaker 1: so you know, everybody had a hand into something there.
Speaker 1: Montes Sweat got another sack. So there's some good things
Speaker 1: done by the defense. TJ Edwards got to talk about
Speaker 1: him too. TJ team high six tackles now won twenty five.
Speaker 1: Second Bear linebacker to reach that and back to back
Speaker 1: season since the turn of the century, and that would
Speaker 1: be Rero qwand Smith in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2: And remarkably, Tom remarkably.
Speaker 1: Just the fourth Bears player in history with multiple one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five tackle seasons.
Speaker 2: Think about the great defenses. That's that's kind of crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it tells you how competitive TJ is
Speaker 5: and what a force he is at linebacker, and how
Speaker 5: he accepts his role and he's able to convert it
Speaker 5: into tackles. He's you know, you're playing in front of
Speaker 5: a defensive line that's had a lot of rotational pieces
Speaker 5: in the middle. So rather than formulating and understand a
Speaker 5: plan of attack working with the same defensive tackles like
Speaker 5: a lot of great linebackers have, you know, TJ is
Speaker 5: a guy that's probably worked with eight different interior packages
Speaker 5: from the just the defensive tackle position alone. And any
Speaker 5: anybody knows that a linebacker that has that amount of tackles,
Speaker 5: a lot of it is a result because.
Speaker 4: Of the play in front of you.
Speaker 5: So those guys up in front that you talked about,
Speaker 5: there was a solid rotation of them all.
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Speaker 1: Let's touch on special teams that got a thumbs up
Speaker 1: from the head coach Thomas Brown.
Speaker 2: They did do some good things.
Speaker 1: Let me start with Tyler Scott. Tyler Scott in the
Speaker 1: kick return game showing an aggressive burst, but that you know,
Speaker 1: downfield tackle on Jalen Darden that brought the house down.
Speaker 1: That was a big stick by him as a gunner,
Speaker 1: and that's a position he has dabbled in but has
Speaker 1: not been consistently a part of this season because of
Speaker 1: the logitam at receiver. But I thought that was a
Speaker 1: good good way to put something on tape for Titer Scott.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 5: You know, listen, there's a lot of guys that could
Speaker 5: have folded their tent when they haven't been on the
Speaker 5: active list for a lot of games this year. Then
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, you see Tyler Scott, who's a
Speaker 5: wide receiver. Now he's being offered the opportunity to be
Speaker 5: a tackler. And then he's able to escape the guys
Speaker 5: that are trying to block him as a flyer on
Speaker 5: the punt team, get in the open field and make
Speaker 5: a super important tackle that put off the opponent's offense
Speaker 5: behind the eight ball with their starting field position. So
Speaker 5: I kind of applaud Tyler Scott for not being frustrated
Speaker 5: for not being included, but when he is included to
Speaker 5: make some plays.
Speaker 2: Sam of Dominique Robinson.
Speaker 1: You know guys that don't get a lot of snaps
Speaker 1: making the most of the minimal opportunities.
Speaker 2: Tory Taylor, I know you're gonna get all crazy onm me,
Speaker 2: but no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: I listened five punchs in Sad of the twenty five
Speaker 1: punchs in Sada, the twenty ti for second most by
Speaker 1: any Bears punter in a single game since at least
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. He is now fourth inside the twenty
Speaker 1: this season, and he blasted the Bears rookie record away.
Speaker 1: He's got thirty two now for the season. Is he's excellent?
Speaker 2: He's excellent?
Speaker 4: Well, no, he came.
Speaker 5: He came out of a really inept offense his senior
Speaker 5: year in college, and now he's got an understanding of
Speaker 5: what's required of him on the NFL level. And just
Speaker 5: because Tory is a good punter in college, it doesn't
Speaker 5: mean he understands all the details of the job coming
Speaker 5: into the NFL. Now he understands the snapping, the timing,
Speaker 5: the pressures, the variations.
Speaker 4: Of fronts that he's going to see.
Speaker 5: And I think that he's just scratching the surface of
Speaker 5: what he's gonna what altimately he's going to be throughout
Speaker 5: his career.
Speaker 1: Blue crossing Blue Shield of Illinois right here at home,
Speaker 1: driving access toward healthier communities through it all. And then lastly,
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos, who's been an ultimate consistent weapon for the Bears.
Speaker 1: They tried to get him his field goal arranged last
Speaker 1: night to try to get the tie. Didn't work out,
Speaker 1: but five hundred and forty five points, fifth most by
Speaker 1: any player in team history, passing the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: kicker George Blanda, and the eighty fourth consecutive game with
Speaker 1: the point that second most, trailing Robbie Gold's team record
Speaker 1: at one fifty two. So some really good things from
Speaker 1: Cairo over the course of his Bears career. Got to
Speaker 1: give him a heads up on that no doubt.
Speaker 5: You know, those kickers come into some difficult situations when
Speaker 5: they come aboard a team and they're trying to impress
Speaker 5: some coach enough that they realize that they have the
Speaker 5: ability to be the kicker for their team. And when
Speaker 5: he goes out and does that and performs under some
Speaker 5: really difficult circumstances. I employed plod Cairo for what he's done.
Speaker 1: And Mike McDonald with the head coach, the youngest head
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL right now at thirty six. On
Speaker 1: that final play he blitz Kobe Bryant, that version of
Speaker 1: the blitz with nine up front. They just put it
Speaker 1: in two weeks ago, and the guys are waiting waiting
Speaker 1: see when it was going to run.
Speaker 2: I appreciate when coaches do that.
Speaker 1: He also gave Caleb a lot of praise, and he
Speaker 1: clearly made some phenomenal plays under duress, and he's been
Speaker 1: under dress all season long. The sack total of seven,
Speaker 1: obviously that's not all on the offensive line. You know
Speaker 1: that some of that's on the quarterback as well, but
Speaker 1: it's happened four times now. That's tie with Jim Harbov
Speaker 1: with the second most and Bears history in a game
Speaker 1: Bobby Douglas five times, sacks seven times or more in
Speaker 1: a game. Hopefully that could end quickly because that has
Speaker 1: to for operational reasons.
Speaker 5: Listen, I've been a part of that same thing against
Speaker 5: the Minnesota Vikings in Minnesota, so I know what a
Speaker 5: game like that is to live through. And that's why
Speaker 5: I was saying, I think you got to set your
Speaker 5: sights and your determination on being the best possibly prepared
Speaker 5: football team you can next Sunday and go out there
Speaker 5: and give a performance on.
Speaker 4: A high note. Whether you're a guy on a one
Speaker 4: year contract or in the guy.
Speaker 5: In the midst of an early career, I think you
Speaker 5: want to start the off season with some confidence.
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Speaker 1: look at the NFC North the Packers at Minnesota three
Speaker 1: twenty five on Sunday, Detroit at San Francisco on Monday
Speaker 1: Night football. You got Minnesota and Detroit with thirteen wins.
Speaker 1: Packers sitting there already eleven, then Week nineteen Packers Bears.
Speaker 1: We don't know what it's going to be Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping for a Sunday at noon and then Vikings
Speaker 1: at Lions. So it's coming down to the wire with
Speaker 1: everybody in the toughest division in football, and that division
Speaker 1: is going.
Speaker 2: To remain tough moving forward.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot in place with the three other teams,
Speaker 1: and they've they've got stability, they've got quarterbacks, they've got
Speaker 1: time on task without a lot of turnovers. So it's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see moving forward time. I
Speaker 1: don't know what your thoughts are on all this.
Speaker 4: Oh you know what, listen man, I'm all for the
Speaker 4: schedule makers.
Speaker 5: I know the difficulty of making sure they get all
Speaker 5: these games lined up and everything, but they have a
Speaker 5: bunch of divisional games at the end of the season.
Speaker 5: I think no matter if you're a football fan from
Speaker 5: Chicago or California, I think it's a little it's fun
Speaker 5: for everybody.
Speaker 2: And a shout out to the fans for showing up.
Speaker 2: They had.
Speaker 1: They really came out strong all season long. Last couple
Speaker 1: of years been wanting to cut it loose. They've been Hey,
Speaker 1: they voiced their opinion, right. They in good times and bad,
Speaker 1: and they're a loyal fan base and we love them.
Speaker 5: I love the support of these fans because I'm as
Speaker 5: much of a Bears fan as i am anything else
Speaker 5: involving the Chicago Bears. And you know, I just live
Speaker 5: to see those seats get filled and the people shouting
Speaker 5: and share when they get a big play, and you know,
Speaker 5: it's just exciting to see them show up.
Speaker 1: That's gonna wrap up Bears, et cetera, Episode one twenty three.
Speaker 1: For Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniac.
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