WEBVTT - Matt Eberflus breaks down Bears win over Commanders | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.679 Right, justin middle of the field forty five to fifteen, 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.720 bring Russ in front of a leading Lions in this way, 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.800 I am Jeff Joniya litsus On dot go uscir. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.360 What was like playing for coach boddom Ah. 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.000 I don't want to answer any questions like that. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:17.480 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 --> 0:00:33.879 Bears Jeff Joniac all right, what is the value of 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.120 one win for a Bears team that went into Washington 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.760 to tax scored and finished the job forty to twenty I'd. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:41.520 Say it's significant. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.879 We're gonna find out how significant as the week rolls on. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.120 Welcome into episode twenty three of The Bears et Cetera podcast, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.080 alongside my broadcast partner at twenty seven year Super Bowl 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.360 winning Bear guard Tom Thayer, and coming up our weekly 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.480 visit with Bears head coach Matty Refluse. We come to 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.520 you every Tuesday and Thursday, and we appreciate you listening 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.040 and hopefully you are enjoying the show as much as 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:02.360 we are enjoy your weekend. 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.560 Tom, Yeah, I did you know? It's kind of you know, 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.399 fun after a victory, you know, you get some work 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.040 done that you don't get a chance to do that 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.240 in the course of the season, and then you get 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.720 a chance to watch football. So yeah, it was a 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.600 good weekend. Notre name got beat my high school one, 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.760 and of course we started it with the Bears victory 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:23.480 on Thursday. 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.600 Yeah, it's certainly more fun to talk about it, and 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.360 we talked about it on a Bears Game Night Live 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.640 last night. We were laughing, having fun breaking down big plays. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.200 It's always fun to see big plays. Sometimes over the years, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.840 you know, you become jealous when you're watching teams put 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.320 together an aerial show and you're stacking up victories and 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.120 their playoff contenders. So hopefully this is the spark that 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:43.240 lights the firetime. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.200 Yeah. You know, though, Jeff, when you look you think 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.280 about the Denver game and you think about this past 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.040 Washington game. I think there's a lot of value in 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.200 the film. And even though they lost the Denver game, 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.840 but they won the Washington game. I think you kind 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:01.400 of saw a lot of workable, workable type things that 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.040 you can reuse both offensively and defensively. So I think that, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.520 to me is the encouraging part of it, and hopefully 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.840 we'll see going forward how it fits into the remainder 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.040 of the year or at least the next game plan. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.480 Yeah, you know, I think there's gonna be a lot 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.799 of regret about that Denver game down the road for 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.560 some reason, that thing that was there to be one, 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.880 uh and it should have been one. And I think 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.160 that will be something that it may it may haunt 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.120 this team later in the year. But you know, this 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.560 is all the process of learning. That's that's football, that's 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:34.440 that's the NFL. 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.119 But I didn't I did the math. Zero to two wins. 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.639 There are eight teams in the league at that at 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:43.320 that number right now, we've got a bunch of one 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.359 and four teams. We've got a winless team in Carolina, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.359 a couple of two win teams. So everybody's not getting 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.120 out of the gate like a flash or playing five 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.480 hundred football. Everybody's still trying to figure it out. And 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:57.000 even the team. Look at Minnesota, an upcoming opponent eleven 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.320 one score wins a year ago, and that is not 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.679 the case one and four here in twenty twenty three 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:02.880 so far anyway. 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.919 Right, So you know that's why you talk about the 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.120 haunt of the Denver game, because if the Bears had 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.360 won two games in a row, got back, well, you know, 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.240 had a chance to get back in the division with 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.160 this upcoming game against Minnesota. But I guess you have 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.040 to leave the results in your rearview mirror. But you 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.680 have to take, like I said, the value out of 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.359 the tapes and you know how you improved, who's improving, 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.280 how guys are instrumentally fitting in their roles on this 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.000 football team, because in the if you look at the production, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.280 there's a lot of new guys that had a lot 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.600 of production in these games that I think that you 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.000 have to continue to capitalize on their performance and their 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.560 willing their ability to improve. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.360 Also, you're going to be looking at staring at two 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.240 more losing streaks. You got to get rid of one. 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:55.040 You've lost eight in a row in the division, and 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.800 you'll you got a nine game home losing streak. Time 0:03:58.040 --> 0:03:59.720 it's time to get back Soldier Field. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:02.680 Yeah, yeah, you know, I think the fans, the fans 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.160 did a nice job last week of really being involved 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.200 in the game, and the Bears gave him something to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.000 be involved in. And I think the same thing is, 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:14.640 you know this week, like you said you got to 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:16.880 get you got to get ownership of that stadium back. 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:19.800 And I think it's really important for a lot of 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.240 these guys that were here last year and guys that 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.960 have been here this year haven't seen leaving Soldier Field 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.360 during the regular season after a victory, and how appreciative 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:30.359 the fans will be. 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.839 All right, some of the roster moves designating cornerback Kyler 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.680 Gordon and offensive center Doug Kramer for return from injured reserve. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.640 So the hand injury that Kyler Gordon had, he was 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.839 off to a great start looking forward to his return. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.520 In Doug Kramer's battled injury his first two years in 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.560 the league, the local product from Hensdale in the University 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.960 of Illinois, always a smile on his face in the 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:52.440 locker room, looking forward to getting back. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:53.719 And Darrington Evids's back. 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.880 Got a call Friday, call Friday from his agency, Hey, 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.880 you know they might want to get you into Chicago 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.280 and so here back. He played against him in the 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.760 preseason with Miami, had a big thirty five yard running 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.679 with a motion. You remember that run he had against 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.159 against the Bear. So he's back on the fifty three 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.200 man coming off of Miami's practice squad. 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.039 So and he had a choice. 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.240 He had a choice, you come to a roster and 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.719 get paid as a rostered player, or stay on a 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.880 really good team right there down in Miami hoping for 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.880 an opportunity. That's always big decision now for players. 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.280 It is, but players want to play, Jeff, And that's 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.800 the thing about it is if you're buried on the 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.000 depth chart and you may never be able to sniff 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:33.480 the active roster. These guys are type A personalities that 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:38.320 they want to have the opportunity to contribute wherever they play. 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.599 And Nathan Peterman back to the practice squad as a linebacker, 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.680 Deslin Alexander. It was released before we get to a 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.760 coach eber Flus and hear what he had to say. 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.760 And again we tape this interview with coach on Friday 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.400 after the game after we got back, so we'll get 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:53.680 you up today on what he had to say at 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.080 his news conference on Monday. 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:56.760 But a happy six. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.440 Whenever I hear an eighty five bear is turning sixty 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.040 five or older, it freaks me out. But Mike Singletary, 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.920 Happy birthday on Monday at the age of sixty five 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:08.159 for the Hall of Famer. 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.359 Yeah, you know, I was talking to Hampton and I 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.200 know that he recently had a birthday too, maybe within 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.800 the last two weeks. And you know, our generation or 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.720 our our group of players, they're climbing the ladder and 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.920 age and you know, you know, look, man, you look 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:28.120 at Singletary nowadays, great shape, he's great character, you know, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.120 And to me, he doesn't seem any older than the 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.599 guy that I used to locker directly across from in 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.520 the old Hallas Hall and spend plenty of years, you know, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:42.920 enjoying his company, and you know, looking at his his 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:47.560 dedication to being great in you know, being a great contributor. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.440 Yeah, what do you learn football wise from Big Mic? 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.080 He's the most well prepared professional football player I've ever 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:59.280 been around, physically, mentally, spiritually, The way he wanted his 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:04.640 teammates to grow, the way that he was super informative 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.919 in the locker room, the way he would take charge 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:12.000 his leadership role. He didn't shy away from some uncomfortable 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:16.120 conversations with management, whether you're talking about the conditions of 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.760 the practice field or what we needed as a team. So, 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:25.280 you know, I just think that Mike is just the 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.200 type of CEO player that you want in a locker room. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.280 So Monday, Matt Eberfluss out of the break, talked about 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.120 the self scout, looking at the scheme, looking at each individual, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.560 then looking at each position group, couple of improvement suggestions 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.200 for each player, also looking at the scheme, but now 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.800 also looking at a little help. So he's going to 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.600 add a senior defensive assistant. Could be somebody that works 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.480 a little bit at home, works about here. It's more 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.240 about the advancing of the next opponent, to take a 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.880 little bit off that plate and get them maybe hitting 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.560 the ground running a little faster for weeks. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.360 I don't know who it's going to be. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.360 It's somebody that he has not mentioned the name, but 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.600 you know, people jump to Rod Marinelli right away, but 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:09.440 he said no, he's. 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:10.760 Enjoying retirement down in Vegas. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.360 So do you think this is a good idea if 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.200 it's if it's a good idea for coach, I guess 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:17.760 it's a good idea if it's going to help them, 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.000 you know, I don't know. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.600 You know, I guess if you can give some pre 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.280 scouting advice from watching an opponent beforehand, and they don't 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.800 only watch one game. They'll watch several games and they'll 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.080 get their tendencies, and they'll get information from their past 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.079 experience in the league and how to pass that information forward. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.760 I want them to be, you know, help constructively. I 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:48.640 don't want another voice of confusion. So if Matt feels 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.360 that he would welcome the help of someone out there 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.440 that he is familiar with, hey, I'm all for it. 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:57.599 Yeah, So Matt continue to call the plays and be 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.760 the defensive coordinator's last head coach. Injury news, he won't 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.080 get into that until Wednesday, but there could be some 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.800 promise for Jalen Johnson returning, Eddie Jackson returning as well potentially. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.800 And now we don't have an official word on Khalil Herbert, 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.800 but looks like the running back could have an ankle 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:13.920 injury that could keep him down. 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.280 Yeah. I mean it was kind of evident of that 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.280 when he taped his ankle up and he tried to 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.240 come back in the game and it was a one 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.280 play trial and he head back to the sideline. Thankfully, 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.760 they had a guy like Cary blasting game. And because 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.840 he is in the role of a full back, he 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.600 has to be equally knowledgeable about the role of the halfback. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.520 So I'm sure any play that Luke gets, he wanted 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.960 a call from the sideline. You know, he had one 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.640 hundred percent you know, opportunities with blasting game in the game. 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.760 And in terms of Minnesota, Justin Jefferson coming down with 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.520 that hamstring injury and I know they are going to 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.120 have a hard time keeping him off the field. They 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:56.640 had a hard time keeping him on the sideline. He 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.520 doesn't like miss a play, let alone a game, but 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:00.599 a they're going to take it slow unless it's just 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.240 gaming ship and he'll show up and have a great game. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.480 I don't know, but uh, that's that's Kevin O'Connell basically 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.840 saying they're going to take it slow with Jefferson. To me, 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.600 still the best player in the division, regardless of position. 0:10:13.720 --> 0:10:15.160 That's my personal opinion. 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.160 Well, you know, it kind of surprises me because if 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.120 he was close, if it wasn't that significant of a poll, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.360 and they were in that game yesterday up until the end, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.600 I thought maybe he would go back in there and 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.520 try to get that isolation rep that he needed that 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:35.640 resulted in a score. Justin Jefferson is a great football player, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.160 like you said, probably one of the top one or 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.640 two in the division, and I I, you know, I 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:42.680 never want to wish. 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.040 A guy in No, no, absolutely, you know, you. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.079 Know he's he's a tremendous player and he has been 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.200 since the minute he walked on an NFL field. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.920 We're brought to you by Middle of Life, the official 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.600 beer of the Chicago Bears. Tastes like Middle Time Chicago. 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:57.440 Here's my conversation with head coach Maddy Bruflues following the 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.280 win in Washington. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.720 All Right, good to have you back. Congratulations first and foremost. 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:04.400 I know it's just it's. 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.079 Just one and you'd treat a loss like a win, 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.320 but this just feels different, you know, feels different. 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:10.680 No, what's happening for the guys? 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.599 You know, you know, it's good that they had the 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.000 weekend off and it's important that we build on this momentum. 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.959 And I thought the guys did a heck of a 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.920 job of coming out and executing and on a short 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:25.520 week and having their minds right, you know, in terms 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.800 of their preparation, because you can certainly feel the passion 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:30.520 and the fire that came out on Thursday night. 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.319 I love the attack first snap. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.160 It just soind of set the tone then for everybody 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:40.040 all three phases. But did you feel that everybody kind 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.200 of just like just let it. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.520 Loose, just let it loose. 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.439 Well, it's you know, I think it was just a 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:46.640 mindset for the whole week. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.000 You know, we talked about, you know, being on the 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.760 attack and making sure that we had our bodies right, 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.360 you know, and then really the focus of the detail 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.040 during the walk through, because you get a ton of 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.800 walk throughs, you know, during that time. The first day, 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.360 I think we got sixty plays have walked through, and 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:05.240 the next next day we almost got a hundred, you know, yeah, 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:07.560 oh yeah, and it's it's. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:08.640 Really good for the preparation. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.080 And then you get a Friday that that that gold 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.080 zone practice there on Wednesday before you leave, and then 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:15.720 you get another walk through the day of the game 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.839 on Thursday, so you get a bunch of reps. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.680 And the execution was high on Thursday. 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:22.240 So I got to be honest with Yeah, you know, 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.079 I have friends that played high school football or whatever, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.080 you know, maybe held in college or whatever, and they 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.960 kind of scoff at the whole walk through thing. Say, hey, 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.959 Matt always talks about walk throughs, and I think in general, 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.160 I think the average football fan. I mean, who cares 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.480 like it's a walk through? It's not full speed, You're 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:40.439 not fit, you know what I mean? 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.080 What's the the meaning. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.040 Of it in the bigger picture that people maybe overlook? 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:49.480 Yes, yes, so a walkthrough is really you're actually running 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.920 plays against the opponent. So you have a show team 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:57.760 offense running a play against our defense, and a show 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.720 team defense, you know, aligning up against our number one offense, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.360 and they can do everything live up into the snap. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.560 So it's feet, hands and eyes. You're getting in a 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.800 fitted position. You're you're stepping through and it's almost like 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.360 a jog through pace. You're stepping through your assignment, you know, 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.120 your protection, your your blitz path, whatever it may be. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.400 The coverages, you know, the matching of the routes and 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.800 the coverages, the adjustments for the receivers you know, you 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.440 know buy the coverage and you know so to me, 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.040 there's a lot of things that go in. You're actually 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.960 physically running the plays and it's just not at full speed. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.760 And you can get a ton of reps on that, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.000 a ton of different looks, and you can get your 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.040 assignments down, you know, so, and your technique you can 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.280 work on your technique, even it's a slower pace, so 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.240 there's a lot of benefit from it. We do it 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:50.240 all the time. Before every practice, we do a twenty 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.959 five minute walk through before we actually practice the plays. 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:56.920 So we do it every single day and it's an 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.679 important part of what we do. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.760 So have to belabor that point. There's much to talk about, 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.920 but is this kind of the exam portion of the week. 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.560 If if they're not mentally right, they're making mistakes and 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:08.920 walk through, that's a red flat. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.920 Yeah, because you what we do is we install during 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.640 the meetings, you know. So with that we'll you know, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.760 obviously have powerpoints and different things, diagrams, video to back 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.000 that up exactly how we want it done, you know, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.560 give them the perfect picture, and then we'll go immediately 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:23.880 to the walkthrough, you know. So they got to transfer 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:27.600 the information that they gathered during the meeting onto now 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:31.640 functional intelligence, which is you know, actually executing you know, 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.520 the play call or the defensive call or the special 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:35.480 teams assignment. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.880 One of the things I enjoy about wins around the 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:43.080 NFL Peter King's Dinner for years. It's like there's a 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.880 there's a story behind the win, especially a big one 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.680 and he writes about it on Monday morning and gets 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.160 to talk to the coach and the quarterback, like, not 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.880 just these the stuff that everybody else is, like something 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.960 behind the scenes that led to this, a creative thought 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:56.600 and idea. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:57.120 Whatever? 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.920 Is there one to describe this win? Given what you 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.720 guys have gone through? 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:01.480 Is there a story? 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.560 I would say that, you know, working back to the 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.680 Denver week, you know, we really you know, we had 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.960 just had a hard loss to Kansas City, you know, 0:15:11.120 --> 0:15:14.480 we were going into Denver, and you know, we focused 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:18.480 on the details of your position and I challenged everybody 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.320 at your position that they play their very best this 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:27.480 week coming up in the Denver game. And we focused 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.440 on details of the positions. So we did it for 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.920 the walkthroughs, we did it for the drills during individual 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.520 we did it during the practice, and you know, I 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.640 had everybody write it up exactly. You know, two things 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:40.760 in the run, two things in your past techniques that 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.680 you need to get better at. And we just focused 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.560 on that, the details of that, and I said, if 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.240 we can get better at that, guys, we'll be a 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.640 better football team. And they did that. You know, we 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.400 did a really good job of that, and they and 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.040 the guys. Obviously we executed a high rate in the 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:58.800 first half of the Denver game and really through three quarters, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.120 you know, And then my to them after that game was, hey, guys, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:05.000 really a good job and there's a lot of momentum 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.120 to build from Denver, I said, but the one thing 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.480 we have to do is learn how to finish, and 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.520 and how you do that is just keep. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:12.120 Doing the same thing. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.080 It's a cycle of the snap, one play at a 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:18.080 time and focus on those details because the little details 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.080 make the big things happen. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.560 And that's what we did on Thursday. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.680 All Right, how does that become sustainable? 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:27.440 Thinking, Yeah, it's just you got it's repetition, consistency and repetition. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.480 You know, you can never get you know, board with 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.240 the mundane, you know, with the with the you know, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:36.160 the constant repetition of the fundamentals again and it changes. 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.920 Your fundamentals don't change, but the scheme changes a little bit. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.200 You know, the way you dress a play up, the 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.440 way you you know, maybe have a blitz. It looks differently, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.520 but it's really the same type of blitz. But you know, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.560 those things are always constant in football, and you really 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:53.160 have to be a laser like focus in your mind 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:53.960 to get that done. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:55.840 All right, You've had a ton on your plate as 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.920 a head coach that goes without saying, now the defensive calls, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:02.200 and I've defended this decision to call your own plays 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.080 and be the defensive corner at why you're head coach, 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:08.320 because it's been done many times before. And then I 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.720 heard something on Wato and Sylvie that this week you 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:13.840 said last week you said, you know, they asked you 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.040 if you talked to folks? 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.240 Are you talking to your old coaches? Is that where 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:18.600 this is? 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:20.600 You mean my mentors? 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.639 Yeah, the guys, and like, what's that conversation? 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.639 Like, Yeah, I've talked to a lot of them, a 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.520 lot of them, you know, have given me words of encouragement, 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.639 you know, have you know, But really the thing that 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.120 I take most from those guys is what I modeled 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.320 the you know, you model the behavior you see, right, 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.159 you know, as a as as a child growing up 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.359 and you're in your family, as a young coach growing up, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.560 you model the behavior of the guys that are ahead 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.600 of you. And I had some really good ones, some 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.840 Hall of fame guys and some really good coaches to 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:51.520 be able to do that. And the one thing that's 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.840 consistent with every one of them is they stayed consistent. 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.080 You know, they didn't ebb and flow with the tide. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.840 What they did was they said, hey, this is the principles, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.400 these are the standards, and if we keep doing right, 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.760 it'll be right. And you just keep doing that over 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:09.400 and over. It's repetition again. We've won one football game, right, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.000 and and but we understand that the momentum is swinging 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:16.439 in the right direction. And we also understand that this 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.920 league is hard and every week is a challenge and 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:24.040 we have to focus in every single week and to 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:24.720 get this done. 0:18:24.760 --> 0:18:27.600 All right, So when you get up every morning last 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:33.159 week during this streak, because frankly, I know, I know 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.240 it's a new year, but you know, you personally have 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.680 had experienced fourteen straight losses, no matter what the team 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:43.240 looks like. So did you fight the urge to change 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.600 what you do typically you personally or did that those 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.360 little like pep talks from your peers and mentors help 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.679