WEBVTT - Week 6 takeaways, recapping London experience | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:05.920 Cut over that DJ Moore En Zode touchdown touchdown pair. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:07.480 I am Jeff Jonia. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:08.160 Glitz Is on. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.320 What was like playing for coache goodge. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:16.520 I don't want to answer any questions like that pressure 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:22.880 coming is a big trouble. Donnie Goos Montest Sweat. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:25.799 Now. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:28.560 Bears et Cetera brought to you by Geico with the 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.639 voices of the Bears, Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. Well, 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.120 there's nothing better than a flight home after a big win, 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.080 even more when it's coming back from London after a 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.080 week in the English countryside, and that's an investment of 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.879 time away and adapting to prepare for a game in 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:47.239 a training campush way the Bears Hamburg Jacksonville coming out 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.280 of that thirty five to sixteen with Super Bowl winning 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.320 Bears guard Tom Theayer. I'm Jeff Joniak. Welcome into episode 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:54.360 one oh two of the Bears et Cetera podcast were 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.040 brought to you by Geico. Bears four and two through 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.680 six weeks, extending their designated home winning streak to nine, 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.960 the longest since five oh six, and again the longest 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.960 active streak in the NFL, longest stretched by a defense 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:09.760 of sub twenty one point scoring, the longest since the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.120 two thousand and five Bears defense. So much to get 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:17.319 into tom Wow, but welcome back. We survived. We survived London. 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.600 Do you feel closer to me now that you spend 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.920 a week in the English countryside? 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:22.319 I do. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.680 We didn't really get on each other's nerves. A few 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.560 pot shots here and there. We enjoyed a couple of 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.959 doubt beverages. We enjoyed some dinners, some lunches, some breakfasts. 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.679 So yeah, all good, and we had a great time 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.280 calling that game. You have to admit these last few 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.600 weeks have been some of the best weeks we've had 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.520 in a long time, as you know. 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:41.080 Leading up to the game, though, I did have some 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.639 apprehension because of some of the substitute players that were playing. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.600 But they came in and they played right in the 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.840 tempo of the way they've been practicing since they've been here. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.600 And I think the efficiency of the way they went 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.720 about business last week in the English country side more 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.640 of a training cab atmosphere, I think it paid dividends 0:01:58.640 --> 0:01:59.080 in the game. 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.880 Yeah, And as far as you and I are concerned, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:03.840 we got to know some of the guys a little 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.920 bit better. Some guys you had never even met, and 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.720 I always want them to meet you. You got a 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.000 lot of knowledge, a lot of background. You wear that 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.880 Bear color proudly for some forty years of your life 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.360 as a player and a broadcaster, and certainly as a 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:18.040 homegrown fan. 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:20.360 So you know, it's in a casual surrounding. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.240 It's not like everything we're talking about at that point 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:26.480 is football. It's just kind of fun sitting around a 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:27.880 table in a cafeteria. 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:30.040 That is just idle conversation. 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.600 All right, let's break things down. We'll hear from head 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.120 coach Matt Everflu's coming up as well, And we should 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.600 also tell you the Chicago Bears and PNC are supporting 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.880 Chicago's small business community. If your small business is in 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:43.799 the food service industry, head over to Chicago bears dot 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:47.760 com slash small Business all Pros to submit your application 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.840 to get a two week marketing partnership with the Bears. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.360 So apply. Now let's start. Let's start on the offense. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.079 Let's start with Caleb Williams. I think we're all very 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:01.160 impressed with what's going on here. If you just slow 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.720 the tape down and watch them goes through progressions alone, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.960 you're impressed. I mentioned with Flus that we'll get into 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.440 about his rapid fire getting rid of the football and 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:16.720 his accuracy with that high percentage high percentage completion and touchdowns. 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.440 After that, the blitzes that are coming at him, he's 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.679 definitely sliding by. Yeah, he's been sacked in a tight 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.640 pocket a few times here, even in this game. But overall, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.840 the arrow if this were a diagram again, Tom, the 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:34.280 graph would be just one giant straight lineup. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.560 You know, since the existence of the NFL, you're never 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.800 going to talk about the quarterback as an individual accomplishment. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.960 It's how do you factor in and the system and 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.680 the team that you're playing with. And I think the 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:49.640 development of not only the offensive assets that Caleb has 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:53.480 at his disposal, but also the entirety of learning the 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.520 offense and the improvement from week one to what are 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:59.520 we in week six now through week six Yeah, yeah, 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:04.240 I just think it's an incredible accomplishment by the Bear's team, 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:08.000 the Bears offense, the Bears coaching staff, and so Caleb 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.119 is a huge part of it and a huge part 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.440 of where they're going. But the overall performance of the 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:17.480 Wiley veterans like DJ and Keenan to the young guys 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.400 like Rome, and I still consider guys like Cole a 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.479 young guy and another veteran in DeAndre. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.120 Back to back weeks, the offense going five touchdowns first 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.320 time in sixty eight years, Tom back to nineteen fifty. 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:31.840 I mean, come on, yeah. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.600 Well, we used to run the ball in the eighties, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.560 so it was more of a time consumption type of offense. No, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.120 I'm kind of joking about that, Listen. It's a part 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.440 of the explosiveness of this offense. And I think it's 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.960 been talked about almost at nauseum throughout the entire offseason 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:49.560 that if the Bears were able to use all these 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.200 weapons they have, it could be this type of a 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.080 scoring offense. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.240 And kept talking, Oh, there's only one football. 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:57.880 Wait, we know that, but look at how it's being 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.360 distributed inefficiently, you know, profited by all. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.520 Right, let's look at that. Targets are pretty much even 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.920 across the board. DJ's got the most, but it's not 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.760 by a big margin. Keenan's missed a couple games, so 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.760 his yards per catch at eight point one. Everybody else 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:18.279 is ten plus. So you're getting a first down every time. 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:21.240 These guys on average, you're touching the football, and so 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.760 that's all you're asking for. That's what we're talking about. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.000 This is good stuff, you know. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.680 The thing about it is, you know, I guess you 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.440 can talk about football and offensive football balance in a 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:32.480 couple different ways. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.880 What is your run to pass ratio? 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:38.720 And then as one guy being isolated so much that 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.160 now the defense can try to factor him out of 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.640 the game and then try to challenge you to get 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:48.359 to the other components of your offense. But that's the 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.760 great thing about this, and you talk about the amount 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:54.599 of equal targeting, it's super difficult for an opponent's defense 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.159 to just try to take one player out of the mix. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:00.240 Yeah, so right now the Bears are forty three percent 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:04.400 running the ball and fifty seven percent throwing the ball. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.120 So I prep with that, Yeah, one hundred percent. Uh, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.960 that's very solid right there, and and and the balance 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.880 on Sunday was incredible as it turned out. So in 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:18.400 terms of the defense, now, before we get into flues, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.440 what are they doing that you didn't expect them to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:26.279 be doing at a high level right now because obviously 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.360 they're number one of the league and taking the ball 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.320 the way since the start of last year, they're among 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:32.560 the tops. They are the tops now in points off 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:37.279 turnovers at fifty four points. Pass rush, maybe I would say, 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:38.960 you know, if I had answered my own question, i'd 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.080 say pass rush is better than I thought it would be. Actually, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:42.840 right now. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:45.640 I think they're undetectable. So they're not. 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.960 You can't preemptively get ready for what they're showing at 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:52.400 the line of scrimmage because they have deployable weapons. As 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.480 you always like to say, between brisk Er, between Kyler Gordon, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.400 between True Tremaine and TJ. Edwards and even Jack Sandbord 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.800 for that matter. So when you come to the line 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.320 of scrimmage as an offensive line, you understand what the 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.000 protection called. In the huddle, you look at all of 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.880 your commitments that include a linebacker. So now all of a sudden, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.160 you have Jakwan Brisker or Kyler Gordon that come in 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.960 and out of your responsibility. Now you're putting thinking and 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.200 confusion in the head of the responsibility. But you're also 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:24.600 making the quarterback responsible for one of those guys. So 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.120 that's what I mean about undetectable. It's yeah, the efficiency 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.480 of eight defensive linemen. They all have different asset abilities 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.080 about their type of game, but it's the way that 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:40.600 they put the assets in motion to make them undetectable 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:44.240 according to what they listen to in the huddle and 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:45.880 what they're seeing at the line of scrimmage. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.640 Okay, Tim, this is a great entrede to this question. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.400 If you are an offensive game planner right now looking 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.920 at the Bears defense, what are the things that you 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:58.679 have to concern yourself with? But they just play hard. 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:00.680 They play hard, they get in your face, they hit 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.640 you hard. There's hustle on this team. How is it 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.520 offensive core? Are you looking at the Bears defense right now? 0:08:06.720 --> 0:08:08.600 I need to have the commitment out of my offensive 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.400 tackles to be primarily responsible on a one on one 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.520 commitment to the defensive ends that they're facing, because I 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.240 need multiple bodies on the inside to be able to 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.920 take care of the first level and that could be 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:26.280 Billing in, Javon Dexter along with Tremaine TJ. Kyler in 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.880 Jikwan and I need multiple bodies to take those guys 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:32.520 out of the mix. And then I need if it's 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.520 a running game, I need a commitment to a point 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.920 of attack run because I need an organized plan of 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.760 attack exactly where I'm going with it, no matter what 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.520 the Bears are going to do. And I'm not giving 0:08:42.559 --> 0:08:45.760 away secrets about what I would do if I'm looking 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.120 at to block the bear, block the Bears, but primarily 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.400 I need my offensive tackles committed to the defensive end position, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.559 both run and pass. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.880 I think big picture, you're worried about how my points 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.160 you're going to be able to score because they're not 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.800 letting you score right. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.000 And you know the thing about it. 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.840 Over the last two weeks, Jeff, even though that Jacksonville 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.640 Jaguars open up with a twelve play drive, I believe, 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.120 and they were limited to a field goal. And you 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.120 look at Carolina last week with Andy Dalton an experience 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.360 at the quarterback position, they're limited to field goals. Same 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.480 thing with the Rams a couple weeks ago, with experience 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.000 at the quarterback, they're limited to field goals. And we 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.760 sit up there in the booth now for almost thirty years, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.560 and every time we think about field goals, we always say, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.880 field goals will get your beat. And that's what this 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.120 defense is doing is keeping the opponent out of the 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.079 end zone and making them settle for three. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.520 All right, let's get the status from hallis from Bears 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.160 head coach Maddy b Reflus and Bears fans. Steinhoffel's a 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.079 proud partner of the Chicago Bears this Bear season. Steinhoffels 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.559 is partnering with Special Spaces Illinois to create dream bedrooms 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.400 for children battling cancer. For every false start cause by 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.720 Bears defense during the home game, Steinhoffels donates one thousand 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.040 dollars to Special Spaces Illinois shop in store and online 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:57.240 at Steinhoffels dot com. And the Bears are forcing a 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.800 fair number of false starts already this season. All right, 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:03.800 here my conversation with a head coach. First of all, congratulations, 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:08.320 Now what's transpired not only the winning streak that's obviously 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.600 the fruits of the labor, but what's been going on 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:13.880 between the coaching staff and the players and the communication 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.720 that we've been talking about for weeks now. But it's 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.000 evident in the way you guys are playing and the 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.600 way the respect, the mutual respect for one another, teammates, 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.120 the teammate and coach the teammate has really taken off. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.440 Matt really impressed. How do you feel about it? 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:32.040 I feel good about it, you know, because the foundation 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.000 that's been laid for a couple of years now. We 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:38.280 started off in twenty two and then working into twenty 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.520 three of building that foundation of you know, mutual respect, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:46.320 how we respect everybody in the building and really working 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.200 to get the right answer, not necessarily your answer, you know, 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.280 going forward. That could be anything and performance, you know, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.800 and you know, training, if it's nutrition, whatever that might 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.679 be for that particular player. I mean, it's all about 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.320 the players always, right, So we're always trying to the 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.839 players are the performers. We're always trying to put them 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:07.160 in the best position to perform. And that's no different 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.480 with what we're seeing now in terms of the communication 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.080 and putting guys in position, you know, to make plays. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.080 And that's going to be ongoing. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.120 That's an ongoing process as you go during the course 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.640 of the season. You're going to have adversities during the 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.160 course of a game. You're going to have adversities during 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.880 the course of the season, but the communication has. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.120 To be there and it's got to be on point in. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.400 Terms of what you're going to pivot to or move 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:32.000 to next to get the job done. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.880 And it really boils down the one simple word. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:35.760 It's trust. 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.280 If there's a lack of trust in either direction, then 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.080 you know progress is probably going to be muted. Would 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:42.680 you agree with that? 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.960 Yeah? And I trust the leadership of this football team. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:47.360 You know they've done a really good job. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.040 You know, not only the captains, but throughout, you know, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.840 the guys that are you know, the the younger players 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.640 that are developing, or if it's the guys that have roles, 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.520 certain roles and on our team, but those guys have 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.040 all worked together for a common goal. That's just working 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.720 to be our very best on Sunday and getting better 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:07.520 every single week. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.439 You learn a little something more every day, let alone 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.720 every week about every performance. What'd you learn this week? 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.920 What did you learn about your football team this week? 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:18.120 Yeah? 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.120 I learned that they can handle adversity in game. There 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.800 was a lot of adversity. We didn't start out the 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.440 way we wanted to. You know, on offense, we had 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.400 a couple of three and outs. Defensively, they had a 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:28.960 long drive. We did a nice job in the red 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.560 zone stopping them. And then we just know that we 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:34.439 just stay at it. You know, we just stay at 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.000 it and keep going. And you know, it's always about 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.720 execution and always about us being on the same page, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.480 you know, in terms of that execution. You know, all 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.080 eleven of us out there at the same time, and 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.720 we just kept pressing forward and eventually it turned our way. 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.040 But you know, you know, all games are different, you know, 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.439 and you can't really, you know, predict exactly how it's 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:57.560 going to be. You can predict some things, but there's 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.840 unforeseen events that happened during the course of the game 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.000 and you have to be able to respond to those 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:04.840 rather than react. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.000 Obviously, fans are going bananas. I mean the whole week 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.560 in London. Anytime you met a fan, it's all about 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.640 you know, Caleb and I know it's the team, but 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.600 his attention is obvious. It is, and we knew it 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.880 would be this way. But I mean, we're talking about 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.240 people coming up with research about things that haven't happened 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.400 since nineteen seventy or nineteen fifty eight. In terms of 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.240 the passing game. I know it's early, but I don't 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:31.680 know how you look at that, or even if you 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.320 look at that, but it's pretty eye opening what's going 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.800 on here. And it's just the beginning. It's like new 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.680 floors keep getting set and we know that ceiling is 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:40.960 super high. Right. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.320 Yeah, you know, you can look at those things, but 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:46.520 you know how the football season is, it's all about 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.040 right here, right now. So we have to really do 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:51.839 a good job of focusing on where our feet are 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.200 and our feet are planet right here after week six 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.840 in a bye week, and we're going to focus on 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:00.240 getting ourselves better. I will meet with the coordinators here 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.760 this morning and we'll outline two or three items we 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.680 need to improve on on offense, defense, and special teams, 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.720 and then we'll have an outline for how we're going 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.760 to get that done in the meetings, in drill work, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.760 in practice, and then in the game, and then we'll 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.320 follow through with checkups on those items. So it's important 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.240 that we do a good job of detailing this plan 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:24.280 during the course of the bye week. And it's no 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.040 different than any other bye week we've had since we've 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:31.120 been here. And it's important that the individual position coaches 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.960 meet with the individual players in terms of one or 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.120 two items they can get better at, you know, in 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.720 terms of their fundamentals and technique, you know. So we'll 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.640 be looking at that over the next couple of days. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.080 Get that to the players when they come back on 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:48.080 the bonus Monday next week and after a good recovery 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.360 and rest that well needed for those guys as they 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:52.640 enjoy their family and friends. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.360 I recently saw a quote and it kind of stuck 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.240 with me because it can apply to all walks of life, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:03.840 let alone sports and specifically football. But yesterday's success is 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:07.560 the most dangerous thing in the world because people fall 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.480 back on there, you know, whatever the case may be. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.400 I think we all know what that means. Do you 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.200 feel this group, your guys, you know them better than 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:19.400 anybody is equipped to handle success that they're experiencing right now. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:20.400 Yeah. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.080 I think we have really good veteran leadership here and 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.240 also a bunch of good young leaders as well, and 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.400 you can see that throughout our football team. So I 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.320 trust those guys, you know, to be where their feet 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.600 are and really have that mindset of getting better every 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:35.240 single week. 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:37.880 And you know, we know what time it is and 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:38.920 where it is in the season. 0:15:39.000 --> 0:15:42.200 We're still early on in this process of running our race, 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:44.800 and we got to make sure we focus on it's 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.080 always going to be about us and how we do things. 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:48.640 All right, So there have been ten games played. We 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:50.600 talked about this a couple of weeks ago. The majority 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:52.960 of those have been away from home, including preseason, and 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.040 a lot's happened. Do you feel this bye week? Some 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.280 might say it's so early. 0:15:58.160 --> 0:15:58.600 I don't know. 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.720 If it were me, I'd say it's in just the 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.880 nick of time, especially after a trip to London. How 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:05.360 do you feel? 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:08.440 Yeah, I think the season sets up well in terms 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.440 of that, you know, in terms of the natural breaks 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.800 in it. We had six weeks and then our normal 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.200 buy and then we got six weeks coming up, and 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.200 we got what we call here a mini buy for 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.440 a Thursday game, you know, in Detroit. So it's important 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.400 that you know, we focus on, you know, this next 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.760 block of games. But really the first thing is that 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.480 is executing the BUYE week correctly and then working on 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:32.040 to that Washington Commander week. 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:36.360 The thirty third report, the team report a bunch of 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.920 NFL former coaches, gms or whatever they have other research 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.640 people that write stories, and one was about Caleb said 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.600 he had his best game is a quick passer. In 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.760 week six he was thirteen or fourteen for one hundred 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.320 eleven yards and three touchdowns on throws under two and 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.920 a half seconds. So I don't know how detailed you 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.720 are about all that. But if you heard that from 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.920 one of your researches or or research assistants or coach, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.440 is what what did that mean? Does it mean that 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.399 he's seeing it so well? You know, is that what 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:06.159 that answer is? 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:06.600 Right there? 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.959 Well, I think it's about you know, going through his progressions. 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.080 You know, he's been going through his progressions well, him 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.160 understanding the concepts of where the ball needs to go 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.600 and just getting better at it. You know, he's just 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.800 improving his game as a as a quarterback. You know, 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:24.919 that's part of that's getting the ball out of his 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.760 hands and and getting it to his first, second, or 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.159 third read. And he did that yesterday, and you know 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.040 that to me, it's always about good quarterbacking. 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.840 And he did a nice shot of that yesterday. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.560 I had a quarterback rating of one twenty four that 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.440 you know, had all those touchdown passes, you know, so 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.640 to me, that's that's the mark of a good quarterback. 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.480 And he protected protected the ball well too. I know 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.440 he had the one interception, but again that's a that's 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.280 a that's a shot that we took in that particular 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.879 part of the game. And again that's got to be 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.800 our ball or nobody's ball and then working it there. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.359 I'm sure he you know, he would tell you that 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.719 he need to put a little bit more error on 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.359 that one, a little bit deeper. But you know, again 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.160 that's that's just something that we responded to. On defense. 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:07.679 We went three and out and then the defense offense 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.399 gets the ball at the fifteen and goes down the 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:13.280 field with a couple of quarterback runs scrambles you know, 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.919 for twenty three and nineteen, him using his legs when 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:19.000 everything is covered, and then we score a touchdown there 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:23.199 with giving those guys thirteen seconds on the other side. 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.600 So to me, that was good, you know, really good 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.520 complementary football by the whole. 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:32.160 Team there, absolutely one hundred percent agree. And the balance, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:33.760 I mean, I think it was twenty nine and twenty 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.520 nine run pass, which is, you know, these things just 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:40.520 fall together that way sometimes, right, because when you're hot 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.239 at hot at one thing, you keep going with it. 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.679 And so but the balance and the whole notion about 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.399 spreading the ball around. I looked at the overall statistics 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.840 here through six weeks, and it's Keenan missed a couple games. 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.800 Otherwise you'd have five guys basically having the same number 0:18:55.840 --> 0:19:00.000