WEBVTT - Matt Eberflus breaks down Bears' thrilling Week 1 victory | Bears, etc. Podcast 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:06.000 Cut open that DJ Moore ensode touchdown, touchdown Paars. 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.039 I am Jeff joniha whitz is. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.640 On Donnie go up. 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:14.880 What was like playing for coach Bogdom. I don't want 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.079 to answer any questions like that pressure coming is a 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:17.680 big trouble. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:20.760 Dotie go motes Sweat. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.400 Now. Bears, et cetera, brought to you by Geico, with 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.320 the voices of the Bears Jeff Joniac and Tom Thayer. 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.879 Surviving the uncertainty of a season opener is on the 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.200 to do list of every NFL team, and the Bears 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.120 did just that in comeback fashion, turning a seventeen point 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.000 deficit into a twenty four to seventeen win over the 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.879 Tennessee Titans at Soldier Field on Sunday with Super Bowl 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.640 winning Bears guard Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff Jonahac, and welcome 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:50.959 to episode ninety two of the Bears et cetera podcast 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.440 that is brought to you by Geico. Total team win, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:57.840 Big Tom, and I gotta say highlighted by that suffocating 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:02.400 second half defense with the game changing special teams plays 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.080 and an offense that scuffled, but they finished and they 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.759 didn't turned the ball. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:08.080 You know you got to be really be impressive with 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:09.840 what you saw out of the defense, because a lot 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:11.559 of us were thinking, are they going to be able 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.960 to pick up where they left off last year? And 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:17.080 they did that and more. They had some new pieces 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.440 in place that really helped the rotation of the defensive line. 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.960 The defensive backs played as well as we thought they could, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.640 and the linebackers were as impressive as they left off. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.960 So there's a lot of super encouraging things there. And 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.800 then Coach High Tower, the special teams coordinator, had his 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:37.680 guys ready to play. They made super impactful plays. They 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.240 created field position that I think as the season winds on, 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.039 they'll be able to capitalize on it. And then when 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.160 you take a look at the offense, there's some really 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:49.960 correctable issues that can be done immediately, but it is 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:51.920 going to take reps, it's going to take time, and 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.880 it's going to take some practice efforts. So many there's 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.920 a lot of encouraging things out there, and there's a 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.320 lot of correctable things out there coming up a moment. 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.360 We'll hear from head coach Matty Refluce like we will 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.040 each and every Monday right here from hallis Hall. The 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.920 seventeen point comeback, by the way, ties for the fourth 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.040 largest in Bear's history and ties for the second largest 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.639 at home two thousand and one against the forty nine ers. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.120 So that's the courtesy of Doug Colletti, the Doug Colleti 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.120 math Tom. We always have a little Doug Colletti math 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.359 are for eight and famous statistician and director of research 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:25.560 tastes like middle time, celebrate responsibly Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.600 Ninety six calories and three point two carbs per twelve ounces. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.200 And by the way, congratulations on the great job you 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.800 did at halftime. That was a great ceremony. You nailed it. 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.799 Nice speech about Steve McMichael. The presentation of the Hall 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.720 of Fame rings that all the Hall of Famers get 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.960 in the home stadiums during the year that they are 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.359 inducted into the Hall of Fame. The enshrinement of course 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.440 back in August, and that'll happen again in October for 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.639 Devin Hester. But it had to be a great moment 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.880 for you because of your relationship and what that brother 0:02:58.960 --> 0:02:59.679 of yours means to you. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:00.639 See McMichael. 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.520 Yeah, you know it was awesome. 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.800 I got a really nice appreciation message last night in 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.519 the middle of the night from his wife, Misty, and 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:12.639 I appreciate that because she knows how much Steve means 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.040 to me as a football player, as a person in 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.839 my life and my and our after life together. He's 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.240 like a brother to me, and so I would do 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.600 anything for Steve. And listen, speaking in front of that 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.040 many people is not putting in my comfort zone. However, 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.200 when I have given the opportunity to speak on behalf 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.000 of Steve McMichael, I would do it anywhere, anytime. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.000 Well, you did a great job. All of it was great, 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.600 and so was the second half the Bears defense. 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.040 Let's dig in a little deeper. 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.080 You mentioned picking up where they left off, and they 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.800 have and the three takeaways also picking up where they 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:50.200 left off last year. They have really put together a 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.600 stretch and it has led to, you know, dating back 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.960 to last year, eight wins in the last fourteen games. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:58.040 So eight and six was a whole lot better than 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.640 starting zero four last year. And so they're off to 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:02.680 a good start. They got a Rody in Houston to 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.040 deal with and a whole bunch of offensive weapons, but 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:11.240 digging in. Matt Eberflus is doing a great job calling 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:17.920 the plays, pressure when necessary, deploying Brisker, deploying Gordon on 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.640 a blitz Brisker at ten tackles. You saw what TJ. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.320 Edwards did, limiting everything after the catch and everything after 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:27.560 the run, and then just getting a variety of players 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:29.800 having a say in the outcome of that game. We 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:31.719 can go up and down the line of scrimmage and 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.919 some underrated aspects including DeMarcus Walker who hit the quarterback 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:35.760 four times. 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:36.719 Yeah. 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.760 Well, you know, thank goodness for the fans support because 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.279 the building has backend ownership of the Chicago Bears, and 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.680 with that supportive of a crowd, with that type of. 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.120 Defense, you can win a lot of games with that. 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.400 And every single member of the defensive line had an 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.800 impact in this game, whether it's on special teams or 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.520 in regular defense. We wanted to see the maturation process 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.880 of Jervon Dexter, and I think the second or third 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:02.919 play of the game he made a play, had a 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.839 couple of other big plays in the game. So it's 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.400 super impressive that they've been able to put together an 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:12.320 efficient and effective rotation on the defensive line because there's 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.280 nothing as demoralizing to an offensive line with a solid 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.960 rotation of fresh defensive linemen that can play in your 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.440 home city as well as they did, but go on 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.200 the road and play equally as well. 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:25.840 All right, we got a lot more to discuss, but 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.679 let's pick it up right here with the head coach, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.560 Matt Eberflus today and had us haul. All right, Matt, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.960 welcome back to our podcast, The Bears, a set of 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.760 a podcast. We're already up to ninety two episodes of this, 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.360 so this one celebrates a nice win Week one against 0:05:39.400 --> 0:05:40.080 Tennessee Titans. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:40.800 Congratulations. 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:42.599 First of all, thank you, thanks for having me on. 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.279 Oh as always, we'll be here every week of the season, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:48.800 finding a way to win, obviously despite adversity, and which 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.679 you mentioned even before the game, you got to overcome 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:54.159 adversity as a bigger win in my book, because you 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.719 guys finished and it's a good platform to work from. 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:57.800 Is this how you look at this? 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.680 Yeah, no doubt. You know, we always look at performance. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.680 You know, you know right now after the game, you 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.640 can't control the score. The score is what it is, 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:08.360 and we look at performance, and that's about partnering up 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.599 with your position, coach, and what you did well, you know, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:13.640 keep doing those sypes of things, and then really about 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.480 what you can improve on. There's every performance you can 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.520 you can get better, and it's our time now for reinvestment, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.080 going into this week and growing and improving on our 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.080 fundamentals and improving as a football team. 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.160 You mentioned after the game the look in the eye 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.480 of the players at halftime. Was there something said by 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:35.200 players that also peaud your curiosity in terms of any 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.159 individual if you care to say, like what happened in 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:38.920 there at halftime? 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:41.039 No, it wasn't really an individual. I would just say 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.039 that it was just the whole collective group, you know, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:44.800 in terms of looking at each other and say, hey, 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:46.719 we can get this done. We believe in each other, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.800 we know how hard we've worked during training camp and 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:54.120 since April, and just that belief that we're able to 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:54.560 get it done. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.240 And I was listening to some analysts just looking at 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.200 the league overall former players saying hey, there's alway an 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:03.279 overreaction or week one win or lose. Right, there's so 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:07.120 much to work out. Players are playing the most snaps 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:10.840 they've played the entire offseason. It's a process all of this. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.920 You got to figure out who you are as a player, 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.120 first of all. With your team, because every team's new 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.360 every year and just where everything fits. Is this a 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.040 proper way to look at the lens of a Week 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:22.880 one in the NFL? 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.960 Yeah, I think it is. And obviously coming out with 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.440 a victory is good, yes, because you want to start 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.200 fast and you want to do that and you're really 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:33.920 just evaluate and you're winning formula you know, for success, 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.880 and that changes a little bit every single week, but 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.000 it's all rooted in fundamentals and then where can you 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.360 improve And I think that's for offense, for defense, for kicking. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:44.920 You know, there's a lot of improvement that we can 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.280 have from week one to week two, and we're excited 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:48.640 about getting going on this week. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.400 All right, into the nitty gritty of the game. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:52.640 I'm looking at this and I don't know how you 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:54.720 feel about key series. For me, it is in ninth 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.440 possession offensively at your eleven you get two first downs 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.120 on a six play drive to the Tennessee forty three, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.640 but your punt and pin the Titans at the eighteen 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.480 yard lines and I got a long field to work 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.320 with and sixty something seconds left in the game. That 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.800 was an important offensive series and very. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.000 You know, it started with DJ you know, DJ, They 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.680 threw it out to him and he obviously made a 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.720 nice move and had that explosive to get it off. 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:21.400 I believe it was the ten yard line, I believe, 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.680 and really good to be able to flip the field there. Obviously, 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.320 you know we have a punter that can do that 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:29.120 and you know, make him go the long hard way, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.680 and offense did a really nice job there. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:35.440 Special teams was truly special. It was we can go 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:39.360 down the list, but I'm fine to this player just 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.600 getting to know him a little bit. Daniel Hardy. He 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.560 played twenty four special teams snap. He got a snap 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.959 on defense as well, got to tackle. But the black 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.920 punt maybe you could say is the turning point in 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:49.240 the game. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.800 Yeah, And I'm very happy for him because of the 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:53.880 kind of guy he is and the work ethic he has. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.560 He's our he's our kind of guy in terms of 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:01.320 that he bleeds the hits principal and so excited for 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:02.720 him to be able to go out there and perform 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.400 the way he did in terms of his effort, his 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.360 intensity and production. And it was good to see. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.240 Let's coach your point on how you block a punt. 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.960 Well, his getof was outstanding, you know, and he's really 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.640 strong at the point. You know, he was able to 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.079 turn the shoulders of the protector and then be able 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.439 to bend in there to the to the block point. 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.120 And he did a really good job reaching out and 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.160 putting his hand on the football, you know. And then 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.160 Jo did a wonderful job with scooping and scoring. He 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.480 worked on that obviously. You see the practices. We work 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.120 on that fundamental skill every single day and doing it 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.800 with full speed, you know, and then bursting for three 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.920 hard steps and the guys did that and that's not 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.280 a surprise when it happens in the game. You've already 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.840 done it game speed, and it was a really good recovery. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:43.079 Yeah. 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:44.959 I spoke to him after the game and he mentioned 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.680 that very fact. We do this every single day, but 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.960 that ball does bounce funny sometimes, so you know, I 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.880 can't minimize the skill and the concentration. And just scooped that. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.640 He didn't even know he had a touchdown. He's like, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.080 this is too easy. He just scooped it, scored and 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.440 that's it. He's looking around making sure. And conversely, on 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:07.080 Tyreek's pick six, he said he blacked out, meaning he 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.839 didn't hear anything. He just it's just like everything went quiet, Yeah, 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.880 which is weird because everything was not quiet. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.640 Well, I think that's when you get into the flow 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.760 of the game and he's was hyper focused on that 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.800 particular play and he was just in the zone there. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.960 And Tybrek's got great hands and he's a really good 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.800 corner for us, and we're excited about the rest of 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:26.360 the year for him. 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:29.120 By the way, on Owen's Tom made a great you know, 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.320 a great call. There's a gold medal play, you know, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.920 in honor of his missus, Simon bile So, gold medal 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:39.240 play by a gold medal player. DeAndre Carter got experience, 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.760 there's a lot of trust there. His day overall, very impressive, 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.840 sixty seven yard count kickoff, returning twelve point an punts. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.080 Yeah, and again that goes to all the guys that 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.040 are blocking for him too. You know, there's a lot 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.800 of good guys out there in terms of the effort, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:57.319 second effort technique, you know, sealing off blocks, double team blocks, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.560 working to the second level, you know, and freeing them, 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.000 freeing them up. But you know, DC is a really 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.320 good player though. I mean, he's got he's got quickness, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:10.400 he's got you know, burst, cut ability, burst, he's got 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.600 all those, and he was able to take those part 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.280 returns and and that one particular kick return to make 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:15.839 something happen. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:16.120 Yeah. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.480 Now, a series of threes, three field goals, Cairo Sandos 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:22.840 third place in Bear's history. Now with fourteen career fifty pluses, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:26.000 three inside the twenties for Tory Taylor, and a three 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:27.679 tackle day for Jalen Jones. 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.360 That's pretty good. Yeah, all three of those guys played well. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.520 And of course we know who Cairo is because he's 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.400 done it for us for a long time. And then 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.200 you know Tory coming in new on the scene. We've 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.360 all watched him in practice and he performed well too. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.280 Ferocious second half defensively. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.360 I'm not minimizing what they did in the first half either, 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.880 but they just really were on it. 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:47.800 I look at TJ. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.080 Edwards, nothing after the catch, nothing after contact, just drilling 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:55.920 guys down to the ground. He appeared to be very 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.360 swift to the ball on every single one of those tackles. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:03.120 Fifteen over I think ten solos. What'd you think of 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:04.720 that second half defensive performance? 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:05.360 They were fiery. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.080 Yeah, to go to the first half, you know, we 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.040 really we had three three and outs, you know in 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.880 the first half, which is which is good. You know, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.520 we had a couple of drives there, the one big 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.439 drive we gave up because of that third and fifteen. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:16.719 You know, we just got to do a better job 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.719 of matching up those routes. Ridley did a really nice 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.280 job of kind of tucking behind one of our defenders 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.520 there so we could have gotten out of there. And 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:26.240 then we also had another drive where we had a 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:28.800 penalty on a four point play. It was a third 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:30.280 and five or whatever it was, and we ended up 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.920 jumping off side. So some of those were solf inflicted 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:34.480 and we got to clean those things up. And then 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:36.079 moving on to the second half. I love the way 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.960 the guys responded, you know, coming out in the second half, 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.880 the way they tackled, the way they kept leverage, the 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.560 way they hustled. And again it's never good enough, but 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:46.920 it was it was. It was pretty good yesterday in 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:48.400 terms of taking the ball away when. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:49.040 We needed to, yep. 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.160 And some of the hidden pressures, like people are not 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.200 talking about as much, but DeMarcus Walker, including the last 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.640 play that Jaylen intercepted, he had four hits on the 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.720 quarterback ten ten overall, and we got to talk about 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:01.560 Darryl Taylor too. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.960 Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. We had fourteen hits on 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:04.480 the quarterback. 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.280 He missed four, but official stats said ten. Yeah, coach, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:09.839 you say fourteen, I'm going with you. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.080 There you go. But yeah, it was it was good. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.920 You know those guys you know, applied some pressure there. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.200 And we're always working for e goos one with those 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.200 with the four man rush and rush and cover was 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.240 applied yesterday. We just got to keep working on it. 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:22.640 All right. 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.280 Can you talk about how a guy can come in 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.439 here in this scheme, uh and just play a lot 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.920 of snaps and get eight tackles and two sacks and 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.160 play some good football. On Taylor, he said he just 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.600 loves the fit. He just go forward, go get the quarterback. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.520 And maybe he didn't have to do that in that 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.160 manner at Seattle, I'm not quite sure. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.320 Yeah, he does a really good job with his energy, 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:48.000 his effort, his attention to detail, his focus. Uh. He 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.480 fits right in with us because of the way he plays. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.280 He loves football and he he's uh just one hundred 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.120 miles an hour all the time, which is great. We 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.920 always can work with that. We'll get that guy in 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.000 the right direction as we did this week and going forward, 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.240 he's gonna have a big year for us. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.160 Hard to win a game without an offensive touchdown, but 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.559 it's a team game, all three phases, and uh, it 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.440 was a team game. 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:10.160 Uh. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.000 With that being said, Uh, we are close in your 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.320 opinion on some big plays in the passing game. 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.520 Yeah, we were. We were. I mean know, we had 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.600 Keenan opened on that on that double move, very good. 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.800 Our sideline there, I thought that was really good. We 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.960 had DC on a mes zero pressure. I thought we 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.000 could have really dumped it in there, you know, uh, 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:29.800 you know, just dropped it right in there. So there 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.200 was a couple of plays that we had missed opportunities on. 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.120 But again, that all always comes down to the rhythm 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.720 of timing, you know, continuity with the receivers and and 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.880 us just having more time on task. And we're gonna 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:41.120 do that. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.840 Yeah, and all things that you we were going to 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.840 expect from a young quarterback, especially one being a rookie 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.480 quarterback to face with the speed of the game when 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:51.480 a regular season hit. 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.320 Yeah, and again he's gonna keep getting better, you know. 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:58.520 The things he did well was protect the football, and 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.520 that was good. He was good in the pocket, his 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:05.280 operation was good. His disposition in terms of his demeanor, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.280 his body language, everything through all that adversity was great. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.440 He responded well, came out there in that two point play, 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.360 had a really good execution on that was a really 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.640 good play call by Shane. You know. So there's a 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.200 lot of positives that take There was a lot of 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.440 rhythm and timing throws that were right on point. So 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.280 there's a lot of positives that take away from it, 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.760 and there's also things that hey, we can get better at. Yeah, 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.720 you know, it's week one and we're going to go 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.120 to week two and just keep on reinvesting in growing 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.400 and improving every single week. 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.640 And I looked at those thirteen third down opportunity there 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.680 was a lot of third and threes, third and four third, 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.680 you know, shorts, there were some big ones two third 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.080 in the country mile. But I go back, and I 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.440 know you and I have talked about this, I believe, 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.840 but one hundred and ninety nine passing attempts at USC 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.920 on third and fourth down his final two years, zero interceptions. 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.280 So again, zero interceptions, Like you said, protecting the football 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.400 and third down, cause that can get a little wacky, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:57.320 and third down that that's huge right there. How is 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.320 his Monday morning demeanor after this? 0:15:59.400 --> 0:15:59.840 It was good. 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:00.520 It was good. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.680 Same as he had last yesterday on the podium. It 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:05.600 was good. We had a nice meeting with him today 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:08.680 this morning and it was good. He was good. We 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.000 just talked about what we could do better and what 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.320 we learned and moving on to the next week. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.120 All right, The next week is a primetime matchup, certainly 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.600 not going to be too big for a Caleb Lims. 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.280 He's been in the prime time his whole life. Forget 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.880 about just the USC and Oklahoma days. Really good football team, 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.520 you know, we met them in Canton. Obviously there's no 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.880 scouting going on, but you get a little familiarity with 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.760 the roster at a minimum, all the way back to 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.520 that point in August. Is that helpful in anyway? Because 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:38.640 this is a really good football team, a lot of talent. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.720 It's a playoff team, you know, and they did a 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.960 nice job in the first game of the year. Very 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.720 explosive offense, got a real similar defense the way the 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.800 way we operate in terms of the structure, so it'll 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:53.680 be very familiar to him. To Caleb because it's it's 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.040 very similar. But they got you know, good addressers, good 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.240 inside pressure players. They got a nice secondary so and 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.160 then their complement on offenses, they got a nice skill set. 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.720 You know, their skill sets are really good. Acquired a 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.920 couple of good players and it's going to be a 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:09.320 big challenge for a whole football team. 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.360 Run stuffing always important. Joe mixonhead himself a big day. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.040 We know what he can do, so I'm sure that's 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.880 going to be job one during that right to rush 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.120 the passer, no doubt. All right, mat congratulations talking next week, 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:21.960 Jeria Prepp, yep, all right, he corrected me. As you heard, 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:25.400 Tommy fourteen hits on the quarterback. The final stats said ten. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.919 He's gonna take every one of those quarterback hits, especially 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:30.080 when you're talking about a second year quarterback like Will 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.240 Levis where pressure really did affect him in twenty twenty 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.679