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Speaker 4: The aftermath that will went over the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 4: at lambeau Field yesterday moved the Bears into twenty twenty
Speaker 4: five planning. So tonight I'm Bears Weekly. We take a
Speaker 4: look back at the five and twelve season, what transpired,
Speaker 4: where the franchise is heading, and as it prepares for
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. Go to be back with you on
Speaker 4: this Monday night on Bears Weekly with Super Bowl winning
Speaker 4: Bears guard Tom Thayer.
Speaker 5: I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 4: Joining us as we will throughout the offseason, will be
Speaker 4: former Bears quarterback Jim Miller from Serious XM moving the
Speaker 4: chains and of the ESPN studio spend at the Dows Tonight,
Speaker 4: Justin Pottinger and thanks to our producers Dan Brillly, Jordan
Speaker 4: treadap from the Bears and the executive producer the Bears
Speaker 4: Radio Network is Eric Ostrotski. Coming up, we'll have the
Speaker 4: end of season news conference with interim head coach Thomas
Speaker 4: Brown a portion of that and quarterback Katab Williams reflecting
Speaker 4: on his rookie season. On Tuesday ten am news conference
Speaker 4: with general manager Ryan Poles with his end of season review.
Speaker 4: End of season with a win time for the first time.
Speaker 4: I didn't realize this first time since the twenty nineteen season.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a while. I Nevertheless, it kind of
Speaker 6: was fun walking out of lambeau Field because there's been
Speaker 6: so many disappointing walks from the press box down to
Speaker 6: the team bus, which is a long walk. I know
Speaker 6: it wasn't a cure all, but its shre sent twenty
Speaker 6: five off to a much better start than what the
Speaker 6: finish could have been. If it disappointingly, would have led
Speaker 6: to another loss.
Speaker 4: And another expat Jim Miller now joining us. First win
Speaker 4: at Lambo since twenty fifteenth Thanksgiving Day, it's a long
Speaker 4: time that we were all talking about it. Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: was fourteen years old the last time the Bears won
Speaker 4: at Lambeau.
Speaker 7: Really crazy, and you know, you give the guys a
Speaker 7: lot of credit. I thought they played hard, you know,
Speaker 7: all the way till the end. You know, had the
Speaker 7: unfortunate fumble, but they overcame that as well and able
Speaker 7: to knock in the game winner. But it just, you know,
Speaker 7: to really end a season against your rival when you know,
Speaker 7: you just have a bad taste in your mouth. So
Speaker 7: it really kind of just relieves a little bit of that.
Speaker 7: And I think that you know, to end that on
Speaker 7: a high note. And the guys had some professional pride,
Speaker 7: so you give them a lot of credit with the
Speaker 7: effort and getting a win on the road when it
Speaker 7: really didn't matter. So glad they didn't check it in.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I keep folks on this word resolved. They had
Speaker 4: the resolve, and you know that they could have just
Speaker 4: folded up after that fumble again, you know, like, oh,
Speaker 4: not another scenario or you're not going to be able
Speaker 4: to get the job done on the fourth quarter. But
Speaker 4: that drive, that throw to DJ Moore by catob was outstanding,
Speaker 4: and so you conquered adversity after the fumble, and you
Speaker 4: do you just kind of wipe out all that streak
Speaker 4: stuff that's done now forget about it now, fresh clean slate.
Speaker 3: Tommy, Well, you.
Speaker 6: Know the thing about it is it's a divisional opponent
Speaker 6: at home, and I think it's a really good learning
Speaker 6: experience for every one of these young guys that are
Speaker 6: going to be here for a while. You know what
Speaker 6: it's like in Minnesota, you know what it's like in Detroit,
Speaker 6: and now you know what it's like in lambeau Field.
Speaker 6: So now mentally and physically you know what to prepare
Speaker 6: for when you're getting ready to play those games in
Speaker 6: the future. You're going to play in a lot of
Speaker 6: hostile environments, but there's nothing like divisional opponents. And hopefully
Speaker 6: that puts a little bit of spark in Soldier Field.
Speaker 6: So the next time the divisional opponents come back there
Speaker 6: to play, they expect the Bears to win.
Speaker 5: Forty five wins in the division.
Speaker 4: Jim crazy number Hey, Detroit went six and zero, Minnesota
Speaker 4: six and four and two, and Green Band of Bears
Speaker 4: both one and five. So they're a black field goal away.
Speaker 4: The Packers were going zero to six in the division. Tim,
Speaker 4: I find that Tom, Tom and Jim I was calling you.
Speaker 3: I mixed, I mixed you guys.
Speaker 4: Tim is my new you guys, that's that's the author
Speaker 4: ego of Jim Miller.
Speaker 5: In town, there is Tim.
Speaker 7: We agree with what Tom said about learning your opponents
Speaker 7: on the road, Yes, but these are all playoff teams, right,
Speaker 7: These are playoff teams. So you know what you're looking
Speaker 7: at in division. You know what Green Bay has done,
Speaker 7: what Minnesota has done with Donald and obviously Detroit, I
Speaker 7: mean Detroit, what they did with Minnesota yesterday to take
Speaker 7: you know, home field advantage. It's looking right at you
Speaker 7: in Division of what you've got to do and what
Speaker 7: you're going to be competing against and what client or
Speaker 7: what hill that you need to climb to achieve this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and you know, and it's gonna it's going
Speaker 4: to be an interesting exercise because as these teams continue
Speaker 4: to build their resume in terms of success, there's a
Speaker 4: financial component that will come back to haunt all that greatness,
Speaker 4: right like in Detroit or you know you at some
Speaker 4: point the salary cap also screams a little bit, so
Speaker 4: you know, you just got to keep pound of that rocket.
Speaker 4: Hopefully that you can get into that conversation as a
Speaker 4: premier team in the division as well.
Speaker 5: But it's not going to be simple.
Speaker 3: No, you know that.
Speaker 6: You know that's the business side of it. That's for
Speaker 6: other people to figure out. To me is when I
Speaker 6: look at the upcoming schedule already, we don't know when
Speaker 6: they're going to happen, but we know who they're going
Speaker 6: to be. And so as a player, whether you're a
Speaker 6: rookie or you're a guy that's been around for six
Speaker 6: or seven years, and then you start thinking about where
Speaker 6: and when you're playing these different opponents, I think it
Speaker 6: kind of sets a little.
Speaker 3: You know, the ball is moving.
Speaker 6: You know you're not going to the Hall of Fame game,
Speaker 6: you don't know if you're going to play internationally yet
Speaker 6: you know you're just getting ready for nine away games
Speaker 6: and eight home games, and you want to start off
Speaker 6: with a spark at home and left that ignite something big.
Speaker 6: But maybe the spark started yesterday at Lambeau.
Speaker 4: Cleveland, Dallas, Giants, Pittsburgh and New Orleans. Coming to Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Washington, Vegas,
Speaker 4: and San Francisco are the road trips, Tommy.
Speaker 6: It's so tough road trips, man. When you look at
Speaker 6: where Washington's going, how hostile the environment is in Philly.
Speaker 6: I think when you think of uh Las Vegas, it's
Speaker 6: gonna be seventy percent Bears fans.
Speaker 3: So just put that one in the home column.
Speaker 6: But again, I do think when the conversation amongst all
Speaker 6: these guys, whether they're traveling on the plane home last
Speaker 6: night or they get together within the next couple of weeks, it's,
Speaker 6: you know, kind of hard not to think about now
Speaker 6: that you're on to next year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's funny, Jeff, because when Tom started he said, well,
Speaker 7: you know, I don't look at the financial things, And
Speaker 7: when I got done with football, I did not look
Speaker 7: at the offseason the way I do now. And there
Speaker 7: is so much going on in the off season with financials,
Speaker 7: with the draft, which free agency. I mean, we can
Speaker 7: go on and on of all the things that are
Speaker 7: going on, but money is a big part of it
Speaker 7: and how much you have to spend. In what's going
Speaker 7: on in the NFC North. We know the Lions have
Speaker 7: committed to Jared Golf, all right, The Packers have committed
Speaker 7: to Jordan Love. There are now talks that the Minnesota
Speaker 7: Vikings may be committed to Sam Darnold and they're gonna
Speaker 7: commit a lot of dollars. The Bears have an opportunity
Speaker 7: here because they've got the rookie quarterback in Caleb Williams
Speaker 7: where they can surround him and build build around him
Speaker 7: with a lot of things like how Seattle did with
Speaker 7: Russell Wilson. We can go through numerous examples, but the
Speaker 7: Bears could be the one unique team in the North
Speaker 7: that could be financially structured differently than those other clubs
Speaker 7: depending on what Minnesota does this offseason.
Speaker 4: And that's what I was driving at a little bit.
Speaker 4: You know that you got to take advantage of.
Speaker 6: That, right, Oh, of course you have to take advantage
Speaker 6: of it when you have two guys like Caleb and
Speaker 6: Rome and what you can put around.
Speaker 3: But the question too, I don't I don't even know
Speaker 3: when the Bears are drafting, do you do?
Speaker 6: We know that tent Okay, so now you're looking at
Speaker 6: the tenth picking the draft. But yeah, when you have
Speaker 6: a couple of assets that you just recently brought a
Speaker 6: board that aren't just you know, aren't killing your salary cap,
Speaker 6: you can really, you know, to make some significant strides
Speaker 6: within the next couple of years within the draft.
Speaker 4: And of course this is the day when news breaks
Speaker 4: on on many fronts in the coaching universe. And so
Speaker 4: right now, to my knowledge, Jim five Openings and NFL
Speaker 4: Network and ESPN's Adam Schefter putting forth a bunch of
Speaker 4: names that the Bears are asking to interview permission. So
Speaker 4: these are all attributed to those guys, of course, the
Speaker 4: Ben Johnson, Aaron Glenn, Anthony Weaver, Thomas Brown's gonna get
Speaker 4: an interview. There's a request according to NFL Network, that
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy, the Dallas head coach, before he has an
Speaker 4: exclusive negotiating window with Dallas that expires, I believe on
Speaker 4: January fourteenth. The name Drew Petsing, the Arizona offensive cordner,
Speaker 4: Tom Monkin, Baltimore offensive cordner, Arthur Smith according to Adam Schefter,
Speaker 4: the Pittsburgh offensive coordinator, and the Saint Rita alum Northwestern
Speaker 4: alum Mike Kafka.
Speaker 5: According to the NFL Network, the Giants offense.
Speaker 4: So again, they said it was going to be a
Speaker 4: broad scope view of.
Speaker 5: How they're going to look at this, and so.
Speaker 4: A lot of names there to work through, and we'll
Speaker 4: learn more tomorrow potentially from Ryan Poles about some of this.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a lot of names there, but that'll get
Speaker 7: cut down pretty quickly. A lot of that stuff. The
Speaker 7: interviews are a lot of those are zoom calls where
Speaker 7: they can narrow in on, say, their top four candidates
Speaker 7: is what it'll be. And Pat and I had a
Speaker 7: good discussion about that, and Pat typically the guys that
Speaker 7: he is prepped for interviews, that's typically Helby'll do a
Speaker 7: lot of zoomans. When you hear that volume.
Speaker 5: Of games, Well, tell everybody who Pat is.
Speaker 7: Oh, Pat Kerwine for GM of the Jets.
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Speaker 4: when we come back, we're gonna hear part of the
Speaker 4: news conference from Thomas Brown, the Bears interim head coach,
Speaker 4: as we continue on breaking down twenty twenty four and
Speaker 4: looking ahead to twenty twenty five here on Bears Weekly
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Speaker 4: XMNFL Radio. As we begin to break down the season
Speaker 4: and look ahead a little bit here. But first I'd
Speaker 4: like to play some of the fifteen minute news conference
Speaker 4: at Thomas Brown conducted up here at Hallisaul so broke
Speaker 4: off about ten minutes of it. We'll sit back and
Speaker 4: listen in right here to Thomas Brown.
Speaker 2: Some stuff I said yesterday.
Speaker 8: I was excited for that locker room, of the filling
Speaker 8: of winning again, the fitting of a couple first, you know,
Speaker 8: beating the Packers in a while, first one in the year,
Speaker 8: but one that kind of just made a point of
Speaker 8: emphasis of a lot of those guys that finished the
Speaker 8: right way right. So we talked about the night before
Speaker 8: and team meeting about a couple of things that you
Speaker 8: know kill success. Are enemies of success, which ease is
Speaker 8: one of them. Are the desire for things to be easy,
Speaker 8: so difficult game kind of and doing some difficult moments
Speaker 8: throughout this year. So it's good to better see those
Speaker 8: guys persevered and come through and you know, capitalize on
Speaker 8: some opportunities even the end of it, just how it ended,
Speaker 8: just to still believe the same mentality and so excited
Speaker 8: for the group. I was excited for organization as well,
Speaker 8: and now having an opportunity to meet with those guys
Speaker 8: one on one for the most part throughout the day,
Speaker 8: haven't actually gotten through the whole roster yet, but about
Speaker 8: maybe a third of the way through, maybe less than that,
Speaker 8: but just to be able to give those guys feedback
Speaker 8: on what I felt about the season for them individually,
Speaker 8: but also advice moving forward, regardless of how it shapes out,
Speaker 8: just for them their development, their growth, or any game
Speaker 8: of football. But what I cared probably the most about
Speaker 8: it is just their development and growth in life questions.
Speaker 2: Lam said yesterday that you're going to interview for the job.
Speaker 2: Do you know what day you're going to do that?
Speaker 2: I do not yet.
Speaker 9: Now we want to stress to him and Kevin George
Speaker 9: anything about anything about what you live five weeks and
Speaker 9: why you'd be the best candidate for the job.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think having atentially had my whole vision of playing
Speaker 8: I have for this football team moving forward is going
Speaker 8: to be part of it. But I think them having
Speaker 8: a chance to see me in the building something that
Speaker 8: to me should be more impressed with everything else. The
Speaker 8: situation I kind of had a chance to take over
Speaker 8: having three different jobs in the same season, which I'm
Speaker 8: not sure that's happened before in the history of football.
Speaker 2: They may have been.
Speaker 8: It might be being dramatic, but can you guys can
Speaker 8: google that and look at it, which I.
Speaker 2: Haven't heard of it.
Speaker 8: But I think just the approach that I've had every
Speaker 8: single day in the building of the entire doy I
Speaker 8: brought to the group, and I understand.
Speaker 2: The results that we're all hunting up. I understand the
Speaker 2: expert taking.
Speaker 8: As far as everybody assumes stuff gets changed because you
Speaker 8: snap your fingers, that doesn't know how it.
Speaker 2: Change happens. Change happens over time.
Speaker 8: I think oftentimes when you're making radical changes, things get
Speaker 8: worse before they get better. But I think just being
Speaker 8: able to have him being my meetings, see how I
Speaker 8: conduct myself in a team meeting, see myself at practice
Speaker 8: with as far as how I am with the group,
Speaker 8: should be more beneficial than anything else. But it's gonna
Speaker 8: be just more about myself, my personality, but also the
Speaker 8: plan for this organization.
Speaker 10: Times how challenging it was the situation you walked into
Speaker 10: for you personally knowing it, it's not something that you
Speaker 10: had set up all the pieces in place with staff
Speaker 10: and the way things have gone, and you inherited a
Speaker 10: team that was I can't remember the exact record at
Speaker 10: the time, maybe before ETCE a team that was really
Speaker 10: in bad shape.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so it was challenging, but I learned a lot
Speaker 8: more about myself this year and I've probably grown more
Speaker 8: as a coast this year than the last maybe two
Speaker 8: three years combined, just because of having to wear three
Speaker 8: different hats in the same building and also have to
Speaker 8: adjust and adapt on the fly, which is.
Speaker 2: A desire trait.
Speaker 8: You should have a one a half to be in
Speaker 8: this position because the game has ever evolved, ever changing,
Speaker 8: and it's never consistent as far as what.
Speaker 2: May happen from day to day.
Speaker 8: But also having a chance to learn on the fly,
Speaker 8: adapt to the fly, and make adjustments on the fly
Speaker 8: when it comes to how you communicate with players. They
Speaker 8: also being able to offer myself at a different light,
Speaker 8: and you go from being in the back of the
Speaker 8: quarterback room as a past game coordinator to being the
Speaker 8: coordinator to being the head coach give you a different
Speaker 8: respective as far as how the group views you, but
Speaker 8: also give a glimpse of what it looks like when
Speaker 8: you have an opportunity to do with the rightway from
Speaker 8: the beginning. So difficult one thousand percent, probably more so
Speaker 8: than people are willing to admit and will ever put
Speaker 8: themselves in a spot.
Speaker 2: That they actually ever do.
Speaker 8: But difficult as a part of life and difficult to
Speaker 8: me is relevant.
Speaker 10: Tomas, if you got a second year with Caleb, how
Speaker 10: different would the offensive.
Speaker 8: A lot different? I think from one standpoint of he's
Speaker 8: going he's been through a season already won since obviously
Speaker 8: some growing page he's already worked through. But just from
Speaker 8: a foundational standpoint as far as uh the work and
Speaker 8: they all season, I think if you want to be
Speaker 8: a great team, want to be a great quarterback, want
Speaker 8: to be a great player in general, it's built in
Speaker 8: the off season, long before the cameras on you, but
Speaker 8: long before you play a football game.
Speaker 2: So the foundational piece is going to be different.
Speaker 8: Obviously, understanding more about him and how he learns and
Speaker 8: how to communicate with him, but also what he needs
Speaker 8: to be at his best will be different because I
Speaker 8: have a chance to uh to address that approach there
Speaker 8: from day one. But also it's overall his growth and
Speaker 8: development as far as the player will grow, So it.
Speaker 2: Would not to be better because of that too.
Speaker 11: Tell Us, whether you're the coach next year or somebody else's,
Speaker 11: what will your message be to Ryan and Kevin when
Speaker 11: it comes to addressing what this organization needs or this
Speaker 11: locker room needs. UH that you feel that you've seen
Speaker 11: from the inside to turn the corner and actually become
Speaker 11: a winning team.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've already begun that dialogue started and five weeks
Speaker 8: ago when as we first took over the interim head
Speaker 8: coach role. As far as my thoughts of the roster, UH,
Speaker 8: the personal the other guys in the locker room, the
Speaker 8: ability to players, but also the intangiles we need to have.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 8: As far as the collective us be on the same page,
Speaker 8: for sure, it's gonna be a big part of that,
Speaker 8: like the collaborative effort to move into kind of a
Speaker 8: one one focused mentality. But I've challenged every guy in
Speaker 8: a locker room to have a different perspective, have a
Speaker 8: different mentality, and ultimately, best teams are player led, so
Speaker 8: the more they control the locker room.
Speaker 2: Of course, the head coach is important.
Speaker 8: Of course it is important, the scheme is important, But
Speaker 8: in between those lines, players play, so have an opportunity
Speaker 8: for them to address issues in the off season, to
Speaker 8: command it and UH, to get the respect to need
Speaker 8: from a locker room standpoint is gonna be important. So
Speaker 8: we've already had those dial lagus to some degree. But
Speaker 8: I'll go in deeper detail in my in my interview.
Speaker 3: So what do you what do you feel is missing?
Speaker 8: It's not really short answer to that question. So I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna I can't. I'm gonna have the time to
Speaker 8: go through everything. I think it's kind of missing. But
Speaker 8: I think from the standpoint of the the culture being
Speaker 8: about the people, uh, the foundational pieces that start for
Speaker 8: using the all season with the mentality of expecting in
Speaker 8: the belief to win, in approaching that way every single day.
Speaker 8: As far as how you go about your business, that's
Speaker 8: one thing that's missing.
Speaker 9: Do you think that that was the disconnections that everybody wasn't.
Speaker 2: On the same page. You know, I can't.
Speaker 8: I can't speak to that because I wasn't here before,
Speaker 8: and I wasn't here at the beginning when the foundation
Speaker 8: was set.
Speaker 2: I just speak to my perspective.
Speaker 8: Of being around winning organizations, uh, and the ones that
Speaker 8: haven't been at this one missing piece just not being
Speaker 8: a line as far as everyone moving in the same direction.
Speaker 8: But also think I think shared accountability throughout the building, right,
Speaker 8: So we are all here because of the ball and
Speaker 8: so we all get judged because of how the ball is,
Speaker 8: but we all in the building have to operate with
Speaker 8: the mentality of my job is important. I got to
Speaker 8: be excellent every single day for this whole thing to
Speaker 8: function the right way. So from how you deal with everybody, uh,
Speaker 8: and from a in the cafeteria to the janitorial service,
Speaker 8: everybody has to have mentality of winning and being excellent
Speaker 8: and be held at that same standard.
Speaker 4: As you reflect what your perspective of why this team
Speaker 4: wasn't able to activate the parachute.
Speaker 2: During that ten year extreme.
Speaker 8: Uh, you know, I think it's it's all the foundational
Speaker 8: issue from the very beginning of the mentality you have
Speaker 8: and expecting to win and also not shying away from
Speaker 8: the adverse moments, and the understanding of every guy in
Speaker 8: that locker room, every guy in that field, and every
Speaker 8: every single phase expecting and being demanded and held accountable
Speaker 8: to be at his best. Because most most games in
Speaker 8: this league, you know, bore down to one score game,
Speaker 8: so that's not like it's a big shock of a projects.
Speaker 2: Rather just have multiple blowouts in back to back games.
Speaker 8: So that's kind of an understanding, But just the mentality
Speaker 8: of how not to fall apart in the critical moments.
Speaker 2: It's got to be talk from the very beginning, and
Speaker 2: he said about.
Speaker 9: Months of coaches going to challenge him. He talked specifically
Speaker 9: about what it's been like for you when you got
Speaker 9: when the head coach, how does someone how do you
Speaker 9: get through to him the most? What have you learned
Speaker 9: about just like what buttons he needs to have pushed
Speaker 9: to get the.
Speaker 8: Most out of him? To me as honesty, I think
Speaker 8: one of the difficult parts about the quarterback position that
Speaker 8: I found is people baby the quarterback too much and
Speaker 8: they worry more about being liked by the quarterback than telling.
Speaker 2: Them what he needs to hear.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 8: It is a it is by falling away to the
Speaker 8: most difficult persis in play.
Speaker 2: We all know that.
Speaker 8: But to whom much is given, much is required. And
Speaker 8: so I think one of the things we connected on
Speaker 8: at the beginning was I was honest from the gig
Speaker 8: go about what I wanted to bring to the table,
Speaker 8: but also what issues I saw in him. But my
Speaker 8: overall goal, my goal being about making and the best
Speaker 8: he can be. That is my goal in that role
Speaker 8: and the roles moving forward. So I think it starts
Speaker 8: with that first, I think the understanding of how every
Speaker 8: player learns and how you can have to do a
Speaker 8: really good job of being innovative and creative. As far
Speaker 8: as how you approach that, it's always important, particularly that position.
Speaker 8: But I think it's honesty, just being open honest from
Speaker 8: a communication standpoint, you know, taking feedback, but also your
Speaker 8: coach for a reason, So coach them and don't pass
Speaker 8: the buck, don't overlook issues because it won't just go
Speaker 8: away by itself. And I think the more time it
Speaker 8: goes by, of course he'll grow and mature more, which
Speaker 8: is normal for any play, not just him. But I
Speaker 8: think the understanding of how to teach guys, not expecting
Speaker 8: guys to come in from day one and just have
Speaker 8: all the answers like that's not realistic and it.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't be the expectation.
Speaker 8: So, like I said before, from the very beginning, from
Speaker 8: a foundational standpoint, putting those things in place. I think
Speaker 8: collaboration piece is something you kind of get to is
Speaker 8: from a down the road as far as we work together,
Speaker 8: but the beginning different any other position.
Speaker 2: You coach. THEMM accountable. He showed us God how to
Speaker 2: be better.
Speaker 4: So that's a portion of Thomas Brown today, very frank conversation.
Speaker 4: That's been the consistent theme from Thomas and there's a
Speaker 4: lot there that I appreciate coming from that head coach.
Speaker 4: And during that process, Jim Thomson, I have had some
Speaker 4: technical problems.
Speaker 5: So we're gonna stick with you.
Speaker 3: Jim.
Speaker 5: What's your takeaway when you hear that?
Speaker 4: You know, especially the things that he identified as something
Speaker 4: you know, and that is like, okay, the belief that
Speaker 4: you're going to go in every week and win a game.
Speaker 4: And he felt that that was was not something that
Speaker 4: the team felt coming into, you know, when he was
Speaker 4: taken over.
Speaker 5: So that's that's a big thing. That's a big thing.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, and he well, he touched on it, and
Speaker 7: it put him in a difficult spot because, like he said,
Speaker 7: he's wearing three different hats. You know, at one point
Speaker 7: he's the passing game coordinator. All of a sudden, he's
Speaker 7: thrust into these different roles as the as the play
Speaker 7: caller and then the interim head coach. That even more
Speaker 7: is put on his plate, So it's tough. I think
Speaker 7: he said a lot of good things there and maybe
Speaker 7: why the Bears until this year hadn't let go a
Speaker 7: coach early. Look at the coaches who have been fired
Speaker 7: this year, did there was there any positive change, whether
Speaker 7: it was you know, Robert Salah or what happened with
Speaker 7: Dennis Allen or the situation with Matt Eberflus. If anything,
Speaker 7: it compounded the issues because then you lost play callers
Speaker 7: on both sides of the ball. You had already fired
Speaker 7: Chane Waldron, and then once you relieved Matt Eberflus, really
Speaker 7: their top play caller for the defense was gone, So
Speaker 7: you affected both sides of the ball. So very rarely
Speaker 7: like what Thomas Brown was talking about, does radical change work,
Speaker 7: you know? So maybe it's a caution to the win
Speaker 7: that people think about, Hey, I just fire the coach
Speaker 7: and everything will get better midseason, and it really doesn't.
Speaker 7: So now they've cleared the deck and where it goes.
Speaker 7: And Thomas Brian will get his bite at the Apple
Speaker 7: for an interview, and I'm sure he has good perspective
Speaker 7: of insights where he's been previously to what he's experienced
Speaker 7: as a Chicago Bear coach, of where he feels that
Speaker 7: they need to go.
Speaker 4: All right, that's Jim Miller. Tom, We'll rejoin us on
Speaker 4: the other side We'll take a break here. Bears Weekly
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Speaker 4: Tom's reconnected Tom listening in to Thomas Brown today.
Speaker 5: What's your takeaway?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I like Thomas Brown. I like the
Speaker 6: way he approaches the podium. I like his serious approach
Speaker 6: and his ability to communicate with the.
Speaker 3: Press and the players.
Speaker 6: And one thing about you think about every coach they're
Speaker 6: going to interview, the things they're gonna ask every coach
Speaker 6: that comes in the building, they already know those things
Speaker 6: about Thomas Brown. There are questions are not necessarily going
Speaker 6: to ask have to ask him because they've been around
Speaker 6: him for that long period of time. The one thing
Speaker 6: that they need to hear from Thomas Brown is what
Speaker 6: is your offensive philosophical beliefs? What are you gonna do,
Speaker 6: What are you gonna change about the offense? What are
Speaker 6: you going to install? And how can you make Caleb
Speaker 6: that you know that decade star, that franchise quarterback, whatever
Speaker 6: you want to call them, and in the high regards,
Speaker 6: that's what you need to learn, and from Thomas Brown,
Speaker 6: because I do think all the details of what they
Speaker 6: need out of a head coach they already know about him.
Speaker 6: But what is your offense going to include to help
Speaker 6: Caleb in the entire offense be the guy that you
Speaker 6: want him to be?
Speaker 4: And Jim the other big component of this also is
Speaker 4: who's going to be on your staff all these guys
Speaker 4: that come in, you know, because that's as important as anything.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it really is gonna be key no matter who
Speaker 7: they hire as a head coach, who is going to
Speaker 7: be the key guy to bring along Caleb Williams. And
Speaker 7: it's hard to believe that we now are a year
Speaker 7: past that that we thought that this was going to
Speaker 7: be solved when you draft him and you try to
Speaker 7: court and work that out with with Shane Waldron. But
Speaker 7: here's where they are. So whatever coaches, you know, who
Speaker 7: they hire as the head coach, the offensive coordinator is
Speaker 7: going to be crucial for Caleb's development. I don't want
Speaker 7: to say this was a completely wasted year for Caleb
Speaker 7: because it wasn't. He saw a lot of looks. Defensively,
Speaker 7: he did learn a lot of things. He worked with people,
Speaker 7: sees the professional level, how the preparation it takes. All
Speaker 7: those things are bonuses. But how this new head coach
Speaker 7: and where this offenses is going to go and what
Speaker 7: vision they have for it is going to be crucial
Speaker 7: for his development.
Speaker 4: Yes, some of the things he accomplished franchise rickey records,
Speaker 4: obviously a ton of them. Completions, passing yards, touchdowns, total
Speaker 4: yards number one in franchise history at four thousand, when
Speaker 4: you had in the run game the fourth fewest interceptions
Speaker 4: by a Bears quarterback minimum ten starts in franchise history.
Speaker 4: But Tom, for me, the biggest one of all, for
Speaker 4: all that math's great is he started all seventeen games,
Speaker 4: and he finished all seventeen games. Other than kneel downs
Speaker 4: or I think one time Tyson came in for a
Speaker 4: couple of plays here, but that's it. I mean, he
Speaker 4: he made it, and that en't happens in two thousand
Speaker 4: and nine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't easy because unfortunately he took a lot
Speaker 6: of sacks. But when you take a lot of sacks,
Speaker 6: you also take a lot of hits that aren't countered
Speaker 6: as sacks. So I think Caleb really showed a lot
Speaker 6: of resiliency to his teammates that, look, you may not
Speaker 6: be one hundred percent week in and week out, but
Speaker 6: if you can play, come and contribute to every way possible.
Speaker 6: And you know he ran when it was necessary. But
Speaker 6: I think life behind the line of scrimmage is what
Speaker 6: you really want to see out of a quarterback. You
Speaker 6: don't want the threat of getting hurt because you're running
Speaker 6: more than you're throwing the ball. And you know he
Speaker 6: was successful when he threw the ball, and I expect that.
Speaker 6: You know his air is pointed up. And the thing
Speaker 6: about it is is the records and the good things
Speaker 6: you talk about him doing. Our expectations are even greater
Speaker 6: for the future than just saying, oh, he's a good quarterback. No,
Speaker 6: he's a really good quarterback that has a chance to
Speaker 6: be a great quarterback.
Speaker 4: Jim was, I don't know, the number seems high so
Speaker 4: and I know the Bears threw the ball more than
Speaker 4: they ran it this year, different than a year ago
Speaker 4: or the year before. But five hundred and sixty two
Speaker 4: pass attempts most in a single season in Bears history.
Speaker 5: I didn't. I didn't think that that would happen this year.
Speaker 4: I thought, you know, but hey, when you got a
Speaker 4: quarterback who's drafted number one overall, I think you get
Speaker 4: used to it, right, you're gonna throw the football.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I don't think that was the game plan.
Speaker 7: I really don't. I think they found themselves behind in
Speaker 7: some games and then try to get in track meets.
Speaker 7: But there's a lot to like. Like like you said,
Speaker 7: Jeff about Caleb Won is toughness. Yeah, he takes We
Speaker 7: know the sack totals can't happen, but even with those
Speaker 7: high sack totals, he didn't throw a lot of interceptions.
Speaker 7: He does take care of the football, you know. I
Speaker 7: think he saw a lot of positives for him that
Speaker 7: he has really can work on and develop from. And
Speaker 7: like you said, to line up all seventeen games, I
Speaker 7: think that says a lot about him, right. There is dedication,
Speaker 7: his commitment, his preparation to get himself healthy every week
Speaker 7: to line up, and he wants to go compete and
Speaker 7: so but it's going to be you know important. They
Speaker 7: need a quarterback developer and a great play caller to
Speaker 7: really bring this young man along very good player.
Speaker 4: And fourth quarter throwing yards and Tom you've been big
Speaker 4: on this too. He's really he's done some great stuff
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter. He finished fifth in the NFL
Speaker 4: with eleven hundred yards throwing the ball in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: with ten touchdowns and just two interceptions ninety five quarterback rating.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow was number one with thirteen hundred yards and
Speaker 4: twelve touchdowns. But I mean that's that was you know,
Speaker 4: obviously you're in you know, you're scrambling, You're still going
Speaker 4: to try to get something done.
Speaker 5: But I still think it's impressive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. It is no doubt about it. So
Speaker 3: is Joe Burrows season.
Speaker 6: But when you look at the numbers of both those guys,
Speaker 6: the reason, like Jim said, is because they were in
Speaker 6: a catchup mode and they had to throw it more
Speaker 6: than they would have liked to have run it. And
Speaker 6: you and both teams are in the same situation right now.
Speaker 6: And but you know, I think it's all about what
Speaker 6: can you do to this offense to make sure that
Speaker 6: they get off the faster starts.
Speaker 3: Ye, so then they're a little bit more in control.
Speaker 6: Of what the quarterback has to do out of necessity
Speaker 6: in the second half, and you would like to have
Speaker 6: a couple of running backs that are getting the majority
Speaker 6: of the carries in the second half because you have
Speaker 6: a lead and you're you know, you're trying to move
Speaker 6: the ball and move the clock at the same He.
Speaker 4: Actually wound up throwing the most passes in the fourth
Speaker 4: quarter hundred and eighty of any quarterback. So yeah, all
Speaker 4: that all that makes sense. Ah, that makes sense. Third
Speaker 4: rookie since twenty twelve with one thousand plus completions. Andrew
Speaker 4: Luck did it in twenty twelve, Carson Wentz in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 5: This is what you do at the end of a season.
Speaker 5: You look at all this stuff.
Speaker 4: Right, the sixteen turnovers fewest in a single season since
Speaker 4: at least nineteen forty one for the Bears, and protecting
Speaker 4: the football is always going to be a top order
Speaker 4: of business. You can't get Willie, you can't. You can't
Speaker 4: can't be Jameis Winston just throwing the ball up right.
Speaker 3: You can't get reckless with it.
Speaker 6: And that's the thing about Caleb is, you know, he
Speaker 6: bought a lot of time behind the line of Scrimma's
Speaker 6: trying to find that open receiver. And then if he
Speaker 6: found it necessary to throw it out of the bounds
Speaker 6: delive another play.
Speaker 3: He did it.
Speaker 6: He didn't try to put it into harm's way where
Speaker 6: you gave the opponents another possession or two possessions per game.
Speaker 6: And so, you know, safety with the football I think
Speaker 6: has preached any quarterback.
Speaker 3: And I think Jim will tell us that as much
Speaker 3: as much as anybody.
Speaker 7: I just think for him, you know, you want to
Speaker 7: be on an offense and agree that can dictate. You
Speaker 7: know where you can dictate things? You know you can dictate.
Speaker 7: You know the four minute dro where you run out
Speaker 7: the clock, you can dictate. You know the line of
Speaker 7: scrimmage on first and second down, running the ball, you
Speaker 7: can dictate on third downs. Do you know your protections
Speaker 7: where you can audible or pick it up or throw hot?
Speaker 7: Can you dictate and really dominate you know, clock management,
Speaker 7: time of possession things at the end of the the game.
Speaker 7: I think we saw Jaden Daniels do that this year.
Speaker 7: You know, I think we saw this game in the
Speaker 7: win over the Packers from Caleb Williams. So there's a
Speaker 7: lot of things. These are great records for Caleb, but man,
Speaker 7: there's a lot of things to get better at. They
Speaker 7: need to have an offense where they can dictate things
Speaker 7: rather than you know, just kind of you know, be
Speaker 7: in games, but not you know, ahead, like what the
Speaker 7: Lions did last night. Look at the Lions. They dictated
Speaker 7: that game to Minnesota is what happened in Minnesota. Had
Speaker 7: to settle for field goals early. That's what you want
Speaker 7: to be able to do. And hopefully the Bears will
Speaker 7: get there. Offensively, they need to get the right guy
Speaker 7: to do it with the quarterback who's very talented and
Speaker 7: could be great for years to come.
Speaker 4: Two Bears with over one hundred targets, receiving DJ at
Speaker 4: one hundred and thirty, which is in line with what
Speaker 4: his the last four years he's averaging like one hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty five or over the course of his career.
Speaker 5: Keenan Allen got one hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 4: Rome got ninety nine, so they were just one target
Speaker 4: shy of three players with one hundred targets, Cole with
Speaker 4: fifty three, DeAndre Swift with fifty and then.
Speaker 5: The leader of course was DJ with eighty.
Speaker 4: Nine catches for his season, So pretty impressive that he
Speaker 4: got up to that number one, you know, and it
Speaker 4: was a different kind of year obviously for DJ, a
Speaker 4: lot of behind the line of scrimmage, bubble screens, getting
Speaker 4: the ball in his hands and having to make plays
Speaker 4: with his feet after making the catch, and he did
Speaker 4: a great job of that over the course of his
Speaker 4: over the course of his season.
Speaker 6: That's the one thing I want to see out of
Speaker 6: Caleb is I want to see his vertical development and
Speaker 6: again and listen, I'm just so impressed with his horizontal
Speaker 6: passing game, how efficient it is, how quickly he puts
Speaker 6: the ball into the hands of his playmakers and gives
Speaker 6: him time to create. But when you have guys like
Speaker 6: DJ and Rome and Cole and whomever else is going
Speaker 6: to be here, you have guys that have the ability
Speaker 6: to speed, the catch, ability to stretch the field vertically.
Speaker 6: So going forward, I want to see numbers, you know,
Speaker 6: I want to see that four thousand yard number that
Speaker 6: it seems like we talk about every year with a
Speaker 6: Bear quarterback, because I do think that is easily obtainable.
Speaker 6: If they give him the vertical opportunities.
Speaker 5: It's going to happen. For sure, It's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: Fifth Bears rookie to win in Green Bay the first
Speaker 4: and twenty five years. Joins a group of quarterbacks since
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven, also with at least twenty touchdowns and
Speaker 4: six or less interceptions. Among those on that list, Dan
Speaker 4: Marino back in eighty three, Prescott in sixteen, and c J.
Speaker 4: Stroud last season with Houston R. We're gonna take a break.
Speaker 4: We'll hear from Caleb when we come back. This is
Speaker 4: Bears Weekly and the SPN one thousand of the Bears
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Speaker 2: Bears brought you back.
Speaker 4: People to get it. Jeff Joni accom there, Jim Miller.
Speaker 4: We'll hear from Cayleb Williams.
Speaker 5: In just a moment.
Speaker 4: I got to make a correction because I had some
Speaker 4: wrong stats and the last segment about so DJ got
Speaker 4: to one hundred and forty and ninety eight catches one
Speaker 4: twenty one for Keenan and seventy catches and Rome did
Speaker 4: get a one hundred and one targets to fifty four,
Speaker 4: call it fifty five to forty seven. So I want
Speaker 4: to get that out there because I was looking at
Speaker 4: the wrong thing from last week, not this week. So yeah,
Speaker 4: so that was the distribution, all right, without further ado.
Speaker 4: Caleb at the podium today. It was you know, about
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes or so, ten twelve minutes. But we're gonna
Speaker 4: chop that down a little bit and get the essence
Speaker 4: of what he had to say today about his twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five season coming up and how he looked back
Speaker 4: at twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: For obviously you learned a little bit more about that.
Speaker 12: That everybody has to have the same common goal and
Speaker 12: it has to be uh, you know, time, it has
Speaker 12: to be right. So I think those have been the
Speaker 12: you know, the the two most important things that that
Speaker 12: I've learned talked from the.
Speaker 10: Last week, and they get less sight about wanting to
Speaker 10: be challenged by whoever the next coach is.
Speaker 7: And Thomas was up here a little bit earlier saying
Speaker 7: that sometimes it can be difficult for certain coaches to
Speaker 7: challenge quarterbacks the way they need to be challenged. What
Speaker 7: would you express to whoever it is coming in here
Speaker 7: about how you would like to be challenged and what
Speaker 7: they need to do to bringacistatic.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I would just say, I mean, just challenge me,
Speaker 12: you know, whether it's you know, pulling me aside, whether
Speaker 12: it's you know and saying whatever, or you know, I
Speaker 12: haven't talked consistently or maybe not or uh maybe having
Speaker 12: you know, a list of things that you know, we
Speaker 12: want to accomplish, you know, myself first and then you know,
Speaker 12: because that that helps helps team and then you know,
Speaker 12: from there, you know, help find ways to you know
Speaker 12: that other goals and things like that. So however however
Speaker 12: may work out, you know, just a challenge and uh,
Speaker 12: you know, just to find ways to help better myself,
Speaker 12: but also you know better, you know better.
Speaker 2: The team, and so you know, really excited about that.
Speaker 12: But yeah, I would say, you know, any way, anyway,
Speaker 12: any shape form.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't have a I don't have an
Speaker 2: issue with being challenged.
Speaker 12: I don't have an issue with you know, speaking truth
Speaker 12: between the coach and I or you know, whoever it
Speaker 12: may be. And so uh yeah, just whichever way that
Speaker 12: that happens, whichever way it shapes is the way it goes.
Speaker 9: You talked about how just like things that you want
Speaker 9: to work on the off season and just for next year,
Speaker 9: whether it's on the field or off the field.
Speaker 2: You mentioned like.
Speaker 9: Maybe eliminating distractions, having fewer people around you. What did
Speaker 9: you learn about being the face of a franchise that
Speaker 9: goes beyond. Just like being a football player in between the.
Speaker 12: Lines, playing quarterback in the NFL is fun as can be.
Speaker 12: It's it's the adrenaline, the time, effort, and energy that you.
Speaker 2: Put into it.
Speaker 12: And you know, to to have the chance to be
Speaker 12: able to go out there and execute and win games
Speaker 12: with guys that you know, you know is doing the
Speaker 12: same thing, working out, working hard, showing up and and
Speaker 12: things like that consistently throughout the year. And and you know,
Speaker 12: to have that collective goal and and and to be
Speaker 12: able to go out there and you know, try and
Speaker 12: win the game. Like I said, have the opportunity to
Speaker 12: win the game is one of the best feelings that
Speaker 12: you can have. And so, you know, i'd say I'd say,
Speaker 12: I'd say being able to have those moments, being able
Speaker 12: to understand, understand what it takes to be in this position,
Speaker 12: Understand that you know, it's a tough job. Understand that
Speaker 12: you know there's a lot at stake, you know, being
Speaker 12: in this in this position of of you know, being
Speaker 12: a football player and trying to you know, help turn
Speaker 12: things around.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 12: So I think there's been a lot of learning lessons.
Speaker 12: I think, you know, I think they were needed for myself,
Speaker 12: but also for uh, you know, this team and can't
Speaker 12: wait for you know what's.
Speaker 9: Now though about the magnitude of what's expected from you
Speaker 9: in this position that you didn't know coming in.
Speaker 12: I mean I knew, I knew that it was, you know,
Speaker 12: a big task at hand. I knew that, you know
Speaker 12: what what you know were some of the things that
Speaker 12: I couldn't do from college, some of the things that
Speaker 12: I could do, a bunch of things that I needed
Speaker 12: to learn on and off the field, and you know,
Speaker 12: I'd say there was there was more lessons this year
Speaker 12: and I would say that I've had And one of
Speaker 12: the things was, you know, all of the all of
Speaker 12: the you know, different things throughout the week that is
Speaker 12: needed to you know, take for you know, me to
Speaker 12: be able to go out there and play well, for
Speaker 12: the team to play well. You know, want something I
Speaker 12: learned early on and finding ways to you know, be
Speaker 12: better at those things throughout the year and you know,
Speaker 12: the years come.
Speaker 10: Thomas also said it's unrealistic to expect a quarterback, UH
Speaker 10: in your position to come in and have all the answers.
Speaker 10: Was there more to learn here than you anticipated?
Speaker 2: No? I I so though, how I mean, how well.
Speaker 10: Were you guided through that given you were being coached
Speaker 10: by guys that were fired mid season.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't say, uh, what was the
Speaker 12: first part of that that one?
Speaker 10: Was there more to learn here at the NFL level
Speaker 10: than you anticipated?
Speaker 12: No, I wouldn't say there was more to learn. I
Speaker 12: knew that there was gonna be a lot that I
Speaker 12: had to learn on a fast amount of time, Uh
Speaker 12: to be able to go out there and uh play
Speaker 12: and and and and try and play well, play efficient,
Speaker 12: play efficient football, and try and win games. So I
Speaker 12: knew there was gonna be you know, a tremendous amount
Speaker 12: and you know there's still a tremendous amount.
Speaker 2: And I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 12: And there's many things that you know, throughout this reason
Speaker 12: that I didn't know or didn't do well, and you know,
Speaker 12: to be able to have the time now and you know,
Speaker 12: most of those things is things that I didn't know.
Speaker 2: And so to be able to have the time.
Speaker 12: Now to go back and you know, look at myself,
Speaker 12: look at other qbs the way they've done it. And
Speaker 12: then also just you know, sit down and you know,
Speaker 12: get in the books and learn you know some of
Speaker 12: the things that you know, I didn't know throughout the year,
Speaker 12: some of the things that I really want to know
Speaker 12: by next year to be able to help the team.
Speaker 5: All right, that's a portion of it.
Speaker 4: Uh for time purposes, we got to cut that a
Speaker 4: little short. But uh yeah, a lot there because there
Speaker 4: is a lot on the table for a quarterback.
Speaker 5: So the learning is never going to stop.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: So at the beginning of that interview, they use.
Speaker 3: The word challenge.
Speaker 6: I don't I don't like the word challenge because it's
Speaker 6: not a coach's job to challenge your quarterback. It's a
Speaker 6: coach's job to develop a quarterback. The challenge comes from
Speaker 6: the opponent or the down in distance, and just so
Speaker 6: what you want to do for a coach to challenge you,
Speaker 6: that's that's not what a coach does. You know, whether
Speaker 6: it's Dick Stanfeld, my offensive line coach, he teaches you
Speaker 6: fundamentals and techniques, and then the challenge comes when you
Speaker 6: line up against your opponent. And that's what it is.
Speaker 6: So I want to see the guy that's going to
Speaker 6: take everything that Caleb learned from this year, everything that he.
Speaker 3: Brought with it from college and high school.
Speaker 6: And continue that development to his traits and his talents
Speaker 6: and what he needs to do to best fit the
Speaker 6: formula of his next offense.
Speaker 4: Jim, take us through quarterback from your one to year two,
Speaker 4: because you did it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and it's not difficult. What time's asking. I mean,
Speaker 7: you've got what he did at USC, Now you've got
Speaker 7: this year what he did for the Bears. What did
Speaker 7: he do well? What did he what he did he
Speaker 7: not do well at? You know what? What parts of
Speaker 7: the game did he manage well? What parts of the
Speaker 7: game did he not manage well? From coming out backed
Speaker 7: up to in an offense? I can go on and
Speaker 7: on and on. It's on tape, and whoever they hire
Speaker 7: to bring him along from year one to year two,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna be able to look at the tape and say, oh,
Speaker 7: he's struggling against this coverage. Maybe it's I don't know,
Speaker 7: man free, I don't know whatever coverage he struggles with.
Speaker 7: But all right now, this offseason, I'm gonna write down
Speaker 7: a note that I watched Caleb all year and I
Speaker 7: think he struggles with man free coverage. Let's write down
Speaker 7: this and we're gonna have a little class session about
Speaker 7: man free coverage and go through things that can get
Speaker 7: him better. So all the areas he's weak you want
Speaker 7: to strengthen, and then with the new offense, you're gonna
Speaker 7: continue to bring him along. But he's already got a
Speaker 7: lot of good stuff on tape. Retain all that, and
Speaker 7: now you're gonna try and weed out the bad while
Speaker 7: incorporating a new offensive system.
Speaker 5: All right, Jim, we got to take another break.
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Speaker 5: This winner. All right, fellas, we're in less than.
Speaker 4: Two minutes to go, so you got to run the
Speaker 4: two minute offense here when he quick answers real quick. Though,
Speaker 4: eighteen different Bears hit the quarterback this year, thirteen forced
Speaker 4: to fumble, seventeen at least a half a sack.
Speaker 5: Who's your defensive player of the year? Top there?
Speaker 4: TJ Edwards, Jim same, I'm going same, Okay, clean, sweet,
Speaker 4: but Kevin byarn edgited him by one solo tackle to
Speaker 4: lead the team in tackles. Special Teams Player of the
Speaker 4: Year Tory Taylor has a lot of records, thirty four
Speaker 4: punts inside of the twenty Bears rookie record, a lot
Speaker 4: of good stuff on Special Team's time.
Speaker 5: Who he got Josh Blackwell, Jim, I'll.
Speaker 7: Go with Taylor. Buddy's right about Blackwell?
Speaker 4: All right, I'm gonna go with Taylor with a one
Speaker 4: eight to Agbang Bamiga and Daniel Hardy. They shared the
Speaker 4: set Special Team's tacklee with eleven. Offensive Player of the
Speaker 4: Year for the Bears Tommy.
Speaker 6: One A, Caleb one beat Coleman Shelton, Caleb Nice.
Speaker 4: I'm going Caleb as well. I'm gonna give a one
Speaker 4: a to DJ Moore as well in that bunch.
Speaker 5: All right, great stuff. We look forward to what's next.
Speaker 4: Ryan Poles to speak on Tuesday to give us some
Speaker 4: clarity on where they're headed in terms of the next
Speaker 4: head coach of the Chicago Bears. Appreciate you, guys, Jim,
Speaker 4: We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Sounds good, guys.
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