WEBVTT - Bears look ahead after big win vs. Lions | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.240 Right justin middle of the field forty five fifteen, bring 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.720 Russ in front of them, leaving Lions in his way. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.720 I am Jeff joni Acklitz. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.560 Is not done us. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:13.800 What was like playing for coach Bogdom. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.000 I don't want to answer any questions like that. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:17.400 Sixty one yards? 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:20.040 What's Sunday stroll for? Justin field? 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.400 Ye Bears et cetera with the voices of the Chicago 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:34.040 Bears Jeff Joniac. The Bears have won two in a row, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.519 three of four and five of nine, and they've stoked 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.919 thoughts of a late season playoff run after knocking off 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.199 the visiting Detroit Lions at Soldier Fields Sunday twenty eight 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.720 thirteen in the final with Super Bowl winning Bears guard 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.879 Tom Thayre. I'm Jeff Joniak and this is Bears et 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.240 Cetera episode number forty one. We discussed and sit down 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.640 with Bears head coach Mattyberflus for our weekly chat in 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:55.920 a little while. But Big Tom, the feelings are different. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:59.280 They're different up at Hallis Hall today. I listened to 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.560 some of the press conferences, not only coach Eberfluss and 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.800 then having a chance to talk to him, but Lucas 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.120 Patrick's perspective from a veteran coming over from Green Bay 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.399 two years into this the long road to get here. 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.759 Also Jiakwan Brisker, who is emblematic of what growth looks 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.000 like and what starting from scratch looks like and getting 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:24.560 guys with his mentality to become immediate impact players and leaders, 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.399 and you see the growth and it all came to 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:28.480 fruition yesterday with a seventeen tackle game. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:28.760 Yeah. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.600 You know, the neatest thing about the game is we 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:35.199 can talk about individual great efforts like Toakwan Brisker, DJ Moore, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:39.480 Cole Kamd or Justin Jones, those types of efforts. Well, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.119 you know, Jeff, after watching the game live and then 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.559 going back to watching again on video, it's the best 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:50.200 team efforted game by every segment that I've seen around 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.480 here in quite a while. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.240 And it was a complete group effort. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.440 Although I mentioned the individual outstanding efforts, I think it's 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.480 more important when you play great as a team. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:03.200 Rather than us just. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:08.679 Highlighting great individual efforts that don't factor and wins. This 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.440 kind of compute this computer to everything that we want 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:13.640 to see going forward. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:14.720 Can you be specific? 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:17.760 I mean watching the tape as well, just the the 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.520 individual blocking efforts that we're done in every phase of 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:25.440 the offensive side, the special teams impact the punt return game, 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.119 the blocking and the punt return the you know, that's 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.200 the tough you're talking about, the gang tackling, the awareness 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.000 of everybody on defense at layers. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.520 It's exactly. It's you know, you go back and you 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.440 look at the reason. 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:42.519 The Bears defense played so well against the run, that 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.200 kind of gained momentum throughout the game and really was 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:49.079 a force in the second half. Go back and look 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.400 at some of these plays. How many guys are in 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.000 ont of the tackle. I mean, there's a fourth and 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:58.480 one that stops the drive that Jack Sandborn makes initially 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:03.040 an unbelievable tackle after deflecting a block of a tight 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:06.000 end and a pulling offensive lineman. But then you got 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:10.040 Tyreek Stevenson on the spot, he got Montes Sweat involved, 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:14.400 he got Tremaine Edmonds right there. It's just those multiple 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:19.240 layered efforts of everybody giving such a high percentage of 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.000 just desire and willingness. And it's that one play stands out, 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.880 But there's ten or twelve plays versus the run game that, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.200 like I said, it's the best combined effort that I've seen. 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:34.120 Just the shutdown of you know, Sam Laporta and also 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.840 i'man Ross Saint Brown less than fifty yards and receiving 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:41.120 on five catches fifteen targets combined. It's because they were surrounded. 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.800 At me, there were so many people involved in defending 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.920 those two players. I could see why that quarterback Jared 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.640 Goff had some difficulty. And then on top of it, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.040 you know, whether it's the pressure, accombination of the weather, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.160 the glove you talk about, but the ball wasn't coming 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.760 out of his hands. Well, I mean I don't think 0:03:58.760 --> 0:03:59.720 he trusted his throes. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.280 Yes, I don't think he had time to trust himself. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.800 Because if you look at Montese Wepon, you look at 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.240 you Econ Gakway, you look at Justin Jones, you look 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.320 at your Von Dexter, you look at the blitzes of 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.200 Brisker or Tremaine Admins or TJ. 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.440 Edwards, there are just so many multiple. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:22.440 Levers level levels of pressure coming at the quarterback. He 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.640 doesn't have the luxury of time. So now you're trying 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.440 to speed up the thinking process in your head and 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.280 maybe you don't have to get your arm at the 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.599 right angle. You don't have a chance to release the 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.120 ball perfectly. You're trying to avoid contact with the helmet 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:40.000 of an incoming defender because they're giving up pressure. So 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:42.800 you have to take all these little increments of time 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:46.520 into account when you talk about a defense being able 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:51.160 to create create, create deficiencies in specific timing. 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.480 We're brought to you by PNC Official Bank of the Bears. 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.560 This is the Bears, et cetera podcast with Tom Thayer. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:00.920 We'll get to coach Eberflucent just a moment. Go right 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.400 to the two guys that just mentioned, and they are 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.360 bringing up some of the same things you brought up, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.880 but that it started a long time ago and it's 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.400 been building to this. First of all, they're healthy, they're together, 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.960 they're starting to get that chemistry. Brisker touched on that, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.720 and then Lucas Patrick. You know, he was the winning 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:19.360 program with a winning quarterback and a Hall of Fame quarterback, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.320 so they got used to it up there in Green Bay. 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.680 But he felt the impact in the room was really 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.640 starting to become a big deal about the cross pollination 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.640 of offense and defensive players hanging out and you know 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.600 that better than anybody from your eighty five stretch and 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.200 all the way into the nineties, what close that team was? 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.000 Is that important to note right here at this point 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.360 with four games to go in the season and winning 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:47.360 five of nine. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.880 You know, I can't state how important that is. I 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.960 think every team I played on I liked, enjoyed the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:58.640 company of every guy I played with offense, defense, from 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.960 defensive backs to and kickers, and I enjoyed the friendships 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.719 and the camaraderie that you are able to develop because 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.680 when you had something that carried from the cafeteria to 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.320 the weight room, to the meeting room, walking onto the 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.799 practice field, walking off the practice field at training camp, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.560 you have to enjoy the people that you're working with, 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:22.360 and it creates a more positive working atmosphere, and it 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.240 creates a lot more underbelly of encouragement. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.560 And I think when you look. 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.640 At some of these veterans that have been around other teams, 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.640 they have an understanding what it takes to get to 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:39.000 that level that you need to be considered a competitive, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:41.400 you know, a competitive champion. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:42.160 All right. 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.400 So what I referred to Lucas Patrick, the Bears starting 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:47.719 center on the team growth this locker room. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:49.640 This is probably the best week I've seen this locker 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.560 room in a long time. You could just you could 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:57.440 just tell that there was a confidence, like a calling confidence. 0:06:58.480 --> 0:06:59.920 The other cool part is there's a lot of crow 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.960 across the locker room talk. I know y'all are in 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:05.520 there a lot. See how it's kind of O and 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.240 D split, But it's just fun. 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:09.000 We're walking around. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.720 You can see guys mingling, and his team's pretty close 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.040 right now. You know, kind of build build over the 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.720 season and relationships build. But it's credit to the importance 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.320 Fluis has put on that since since the spring. Kind 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.000 of all we put into that, I think we're seeing 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.400 a lot of that come to fruition now. 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.240 And that's exactly what you're pointing out here. And this 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.360 is also how he's felt about the turnaround. It's it's 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.040 not about him, it's about everybody else. But he's had, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 you know, a star cross time here with injuries and 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.400 moving in and out of the lineup. But it's a 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:41.640 nice stretch here as the starting center, I. 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.720 Think, I think and taking more gratification and the guys 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.480 around me seventy six couldn't be doing better than he 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.960 is now. What he's I guess what everyone sees his tape, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.320 but y'all should see what he's doing in the locker room, 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:59.160 what he's doing, communicating, what he's doing off the field. 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.440 I mean, it's the growth from him him has been impressive, 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.120 and then you know, getting to mix in with seventy 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.840 and his leadership role is improving, and you know, getting 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.560 Nate back from the injury that he had and him 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.640 finally settling in and really kind of settling down Darnell 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:20.120 and letting Darnell be Darnell Becauseate Nate's a veteran and 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:22.600 just doing amazing with that and getting of course to 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:26.840 work with one such a dynamic player. I mean, we 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:29.080 saw that kind of backed up clip where he got 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.920 us completely Scott free out of there, of course protected 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.920 and watching to go play. Like I don't take as 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:39.880 much gratification, I guess from my success or playing or 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:43.120 it's about the team, it's about the sea, it's about 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:49.360 this city, like you know, it's this place deserves deserves. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.360 I think what's coming to us. We've put the work in. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 There's a lot of good people here, a lot of 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.720 good people, and they've been nothing but good to me 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.000 and kind to me. Since I've got here, So. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.400 You know, and you know, you have to admire what 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:06.320 Lucas has gone through because there's a psychological aspect to 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.840 his game. When you're in and out of the lineup 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.000 and you take over for a guy like Cody Whitehair, 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.200 who has tremendous respect in the locker room, but you're 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.760 also expected to come in and do the job that 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.720 you were brought in to do. And Chris Morgan, the 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.680 offensive line coach, he definitely hasn't had an easy job 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.600 since he's been here. But when you can get a 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:31.040 stabilizing force, you can get a veteran that has experiences 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.960 of success and the way that you can relate that 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.480 message to some of the younger guys and how they 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:42.160 need to work in order they get better individually, and 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.280 how if they get better individually, it affects the rest 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:48.160 of the lineman up front, including the tight end. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.080 I let me get to Brisker in his work at 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.520 the podium, because you know, the guy has a lot 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.840 of fun playing the game, but it's raw. It's raw 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.440 enthusiasm and love of the game, and we know he 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.319 studies the game. It's important to him and it always 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.600 has been. And the way he explained it at the 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:09.520 podium on Monday really gets you to understand why he 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:10.760 is how he is. 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:11.679 Let's take a listen. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.679 Just you know, a couple of weeks, maybe before the 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.000 Vikings game or during the Vikings game, I just told 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.520 myself I want to be able to take over a 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:19.240 game and show. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:19.560 That I can. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.640 And yesterday wasn't my perfect game. No, I still had 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:28.240 a drop interception. I probably could have had another interception 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.640 later in the game that ended off and I feel 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.640 like when I beat the running back, I probably could 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.839 have been quicker to get that strip sacked, but Jalen 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.120 ended up getting an interception anyway. So I feel like 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.640 I'm just getting there, but I'm not where I want 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.200 to be because I know I could take over a 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.640 game how I want. I want to take over, and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.160 that's not a complete game for me. So that's not it. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.400 That's not that's not it. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.120 It was a little frustrating for you earlier in the 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.480 season because you weren't maybe taking as big as steps as. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.680 You wanted, or uh, frustrating just because we didn't have 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:03.880 an identity as a defense and just the certain scheme 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.480 that we went from last year to this year, we 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.120 were just trying to still find ourselves. Obviously we went 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.600 from two different dcs, but so it was kind of 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.560 you know, frustrating how I was playing and how my 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.120 body was reacting and things like that. But now I'm 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.160 getting back into swing of things. I feeling like more 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.280 of myself and then I'm definitely picking out the right time. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:26.160 So Tom, he's had some issues with injuries here this year, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.160 all the way back to training camp, and so you know, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.480 one more cut before I get your comments on it, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.040 because he's now feeling really good and it's showing in 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.280 his play. He's all over the field. He's all over 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.360 the field, and he's bringing the physicality to the game. 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.400 It's a portant just because you know, we came in 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.960 and you know, they they wanted us to turn it around, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.920 and I'm one of those guys that they brought in, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.520 you know, very early to do that, Me and Caler 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.480 to start off with the new coaches staff. So, you know, 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.800 just coming in and just focusing on changing this thing around, 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.320 changing the secondary, you know, changing the whole team. You know, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:01.640 it's always been poor to me, especially the lead, and 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.160 getting my foot in the door was very important and 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.360 show who I am as a player, who I am 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:07.959 as a leader, and who I am on and off 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.880 the field was always important to me and to get 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.200 this this Chicago thing into a winning direction. 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.200 So Tom like his arrow is rising, that arrow is 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.440 pointed straight up in the air, aline with Kyler Gordon 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.640 and a bunch of other defensive players, veterans and or 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.480 young second year first year players. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.560 But you know, Jeff, it's the journey on how you 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:28.120 got here. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.920 Why were you evaluated by the staffs and the scouting 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:33.600 departments thinking, Okay. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.120 I got an eye on this guy. He's on my radar. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.560 Let's watch him a little bit and see what he 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.280 we think he can develop into. How many levels can 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.240 he play on the defense, what can his contributions be, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.960 and what's his attitude like? And when you start investigating 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.840 all that information, also you set your sights on saying, listen, man, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.760 we need this guy in our organization. 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.679 We need him on our team. And then when you. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.680 Talk about the positive influences some of the veterans that 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.960 have been around, you have to have that same influence 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.360 of some of the new guys coming aboard, because they're 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.040 important to these young guys that are coming into the 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.440 locker room, whether they just have been drafted or they're 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.760 free agents that are coming in as young people. Because 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:20.520 you need a positive working atmosphere that filters from the 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.840 experienced veterans down to the guys that have been around 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:24.720 for a year or two. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.760 Miller Lite, the official beer of the Chicago Bears, tastes 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.240 like Miller Time Chicago. Here's the status that had us 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.160 with Bears head coach Mattieberflution in his weekly Monday visit. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.760 All right, welcome back, Big Matt. That was scintillating yesterday. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.120 I want to thank you because you and your guys 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.000 just brought a motion. The building came to life. The 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:47.800 touchdown throw by Justin to DJ just kind of brought 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.719 the house down. On the defense, it felt like, I 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.680 feel like the Monsters of the Midway. Man, How did 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.040 that feel to you from your perspective on the sideline? 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.880 That was good because of the We were able to 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.200 seize momentum, and that's a big part of it. You know, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.840 you you're playing good fundamentals and good technique, but there's 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:06.760 points in the game where you seize momentum and you know, 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.640 we hard counted there and got them to jump and 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.520 you know certainly got the you know, great pass and 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.720 you know in great catch by DJ, and that was 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.160 a momentum, uh, you know, clincher right there. And then 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.800 you know they fumbled two plays later and you know 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.040 TJ's just the heads up play and and you know 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.160 jumped on the ball and again we got momentum there again. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.400 So and then you got to finish it. You know, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.600 it's always about you know, winning the ball, which we did. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.800 We were plus three yesterday. And also it's about finishing 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:32.640 the fourth quarter. We were nine to zero in the 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.760 fourth quarter yesterday. So that to me is is what 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:37.960 it's all about. But it takes plays. You have to 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.360 make plays down it's down the stretch. It takes what 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.880 it takes, you know. So when our defense was out 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:44.520 there playing the two minute, you know, we had to 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.160 stop them on four downs. You know, I think we 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.480 did that twice. I believe maybe three times. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.280 Well they were one of five on fourth. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:52.120 Right, and then one of them was a turnover. We 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.640 got to main. Tremaine's interception was another one. But you 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:57.680 have to make those plays. And then to seal the deal, 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.480 you got to come back on offense and you got 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.200 to get a first out and the guys did that. 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:02.960 I think in two plays they got a first down 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.400 then wenealed it out for victory. But it's about finishing really. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.920 And field position changed dramatically also in the second half 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.320 for you guys, and that's an ode to complimentary football. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.360 Yeah, yeah, no question. On the In the first part, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.960 it seemed like we were playing on alongside a lot 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.400 of times our offense had to go you know, ninety 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.440 yards or we were back on the minus field a lot. 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.320 But the second half, and that's really attributed to a 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.200 couple of things. Our defense going three and out. I 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.240 believe we went three in a row, and on the 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.080 short on when they were on a long field. And 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.080 then our punt return did a heck of a job. 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:34.680 Our punt return team in the heck of a job 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.320 of putting it back to midfield. So that was a 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:38.120 big part of it too. 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.000 You know, you talk about this in other weeks, but 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.680 I always feel a loud defense is a good defense. 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.920 And your defense is roaring right now. The attitudes, the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:52.040 confidence from from Brisker, obviously he's the guy that gets 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.480 everybody moving to mind twice sets addition to Kyler Gordon 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.800 to t everybody's feeling it, and now it feels like 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.520 a knitted together, do you get that sense? 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.640 Yeah, the guys are a tight group, you know, they 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.680 always have been. But since the you know, the consistency 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.160 of the lineup, you know, with getting everybody back, you know, 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.360 I think it was really, you know, right after the 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.360 Denver game. I believe it was where we started to 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:16.560 get guys back, and not fully really until a little 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.840 bit after that. So I really feel that the consistency 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.240 with the group and those guys being able to play 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.720 off each other. You know, our system is a system 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.960 that that's been in place for a long time. You know. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.200 It started way back, you know, with the Steelers of 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.320 the seventies, you know, and then it went you know 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.120 through the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Right then it came to 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.320 Chicago the first time, right and then we had it 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.480 in Dallas, and had it in Indianapolis, and now it's 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.560 back in Chicago again. So the system has a history 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.200 to it, and away we play and how we go 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.400 about our business and how we practice and and those 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.760 guys are really starting to buy into that and understand 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:53.680 what the system's about. 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:54.000 See. 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:54.480 I love that. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.520 I love that because people like to take systems and say, yeah, 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.280 well they're out of out of bowl and offenses are 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.280 different now and and hey everything goes in a dip, right, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:10.040 But you said the magic word yesterday. Proof, it's proof, 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.520 right this proof guys are leading the league and takeaways 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.280 the last how many weeks? Uh, And it's it's like 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.760 the ball just doesn't happen to be bouncing that way. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.320 I know people like to dig into that a little bit, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.960 says it's a little luck involved, but you. 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.400 Got to be in the right place at the right time. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.320 How else can you explain Jalen Johnson who's could have 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.880 had six interceptions this year and Brisker knocked one away 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.160 that could have been a seven. You know what I mean? 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:34.640 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.200 It's really about two things. You know, all my mentors 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.520 would say this is that it's about rush and cover. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.000 Cover and rush, so they go hand in hand. So 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.680 in order to uh get the sacks or the strip socks, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.040 you got to have great coverage because it takes you know, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.480 a tick. You know, the pass rushers don't get home, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.560 you know, you know, just clean all the time. Right, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:54.119 there's going to be a guy blocking them and it 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.600 takes them just another second half a second to get home. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.600 So the coverage has got to be tight and it's 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.600 got to be good. So our back end has been 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:02.520 doing a great job with that in terms of the skies, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.919 in terms of you know, getting them to hold it 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:06.760 an extra second. We got a couple of sacks because 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:08.560 of that, you know, And then the rush has always 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:09.960 got to be there, you know, when you could rush 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.240 with four, you know, and cover with seven, that obviously 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.280 you can do more with your coverages. And that's what 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.399 we've been able to do as of late. And it's 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.159 not to say that we don't butz we still but 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.440 you know, quite you know, quite often. But I think 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.399 it's important that that we tie it in together to 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:26.560 the front and of the back end. 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:26.960 All right. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.240 So if you have dexter and i'd have to go back, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:35.520 you probably know I don't dexter sweat and blitzing Tremaine 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.200 at six six sixty six, six ' five, all that 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:44.639 coming at a quarterback. Keep blitzing them. I mean, man 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.280 that that like he's got the wing. The wing, I mean, 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.600 doesn't that cloud vision significantly? 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:51.480 It sure does, it sure does. And those guys we 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:53.280 got a lot of good blitzers, you know. You know, 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.199 Kyler's a really good butzer. You know, Uh Briskers are 0:18:57.200 --> 0:18:59.639 really good from the second level. And both our inside 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.119 backers can pressure, you know. So it's good to be 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.960