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Speaker 1: out a game of the NFL requires a lot. If
Speaker 1: we're being honest, it takes good fortune, of course, strategy, execution,
Speaker 1: and belief. With Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom there,
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Speaker 1: with you, Tom. Learning how to win is hard.
Speaker 3: It's hard, Yeah, Winning Learning how to win is hard.
Speaker 3: Winning is hard. The NFL is hard. If that wasn't
Speaker 3: the case, and everybody else would be applying for this job,
Speaker 3: and that's just not the case. And you have changes
Speaker 3: on your football team throughout the course of the season
Speaker 3: that you have to be able to adjust to. But
Speaker 3: as miserable as I am after the end result of
Speaker 3: that game, there's a lot of positive things that I
Speaker 3: am really looking forward to putting in motion next week
Speaker 3: against the Minnesota Viking. So I'm not sitting here today
Speaker 3: as miserable as I have.
Speaker 4: Been in a lot of Green Bay Bear games.
Speaker 1: But they did block the kick and three guys jumping
Speaker 1: in the air and leaning on the long snapper, and
Speaker 1: now we can talk about what Flus can't. We'll listen
Speaker 1: to Flues here in a few moments. They're sending the
Speaker 1: tape in to get reviewed. But it is what it is.
Speaker 1: I heard Teddy Bruski, which I brought up with Coach.
Speaker 1: You'll hear that. Many others have come out and said,
Speaker 1: why is this not a penalty? I mean, it's a penalty.
Speaker 4: Tom, I know, I know it is.
Speaker 3: I mean it's evident on film. I don't understand why
Speaker 3: the officials decide not to make calls that have ramifications
Speaker 3: in the outcome of the game at the most important
Speaker 3: times in the game.
Speaker 4: And it's just kind of silly.
Speaker 3: But you know what's even sillier to me is sending
Speaker 3: in the tape because that just leads the frustration because
Speaker 3: they're gonna go and they're gonna look at the tape
Speaker 3: and then you're gonna get a nicely handwritten, typed email
Speaker 3: letter or whatever saying, oh, yeah, this should have been called,
Speaker 3: and nothing is going to change in the results. It's
Speaker 3: not like you're going to bring everybody back on the field,
Speaker 3: re line them up in the field goal position with
Speaker 3: a five yard game, or whatever the case is. And
Speaker 3: it just reminds me of a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 3: when they called Javon Dexter Senior for launching I just
Speaker 3: you know you again. I think you might have used
Speaker 3: the word consistency. Yeah, And that's what they're looking for
Speaker 3: out of the officials.
Speaker 1: Because the first snap in the first second of the
Speaker 1: game is equally as important to making it right as
Speaker 1: the last snap in the end of the game. So
Speaker 1: this idea, you don't make those calls at end of games,
Speaker 1: whether it be pass interference or that particular No, that's
Speaker 1: not how it works. It's not it shouldn't work that way. Nonetheless,
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Speaker 1: Let's break down that snap though from your perspective, because
Speaker 1: you've been on that unit in your career, the idea
Speaker 1: of getting as lower as you possibly can because the
Speaker 1: defenders are doing that to try and create that pile
Speaker 1: where they can lean off of and put their hands
Speaker 1: up in the air. What's the technique there?
Speaker 3: The technique and you know, Dicky used to make fun
Speaker 3: of me all the time for it because on extra
Speaker 3: point and field goal protection, as you interlock legs, you
Speaker 3: almost have to get in a stance a three point
Speaker 3: stance that you're as low as a frog, and because
Speaker 3: you have to be able to uncoil into force because
Speaker 3: you're always going to have multiple people, especially on the inside,
Speaker 3: attacking you. So that means that you've got to be powerful, strong,
Speaker 3: low win the leverage game. If you are up high
Speaker 3: in your stance and you lose leverage at impact, there's
Speaker 3: a good chance that the ball can be blocked. So
Speaker 3: you may look silly in your stance, but it's all
Speaker 3: about making sure that you instantly win leverage.
Speaker 1: So take me to this though, Why did he make
Speaker 1: fun of you? Did he think you look funny on tape?
Speaker 3: Yes, because when we used to look at the extra
Speaker 3: point field goals in tape, because we always started with
Speaker 3: special teams, and that carried over to offense and defense.
Speaker 3: And he used to say, look at yourself here, you
Speaker 3: look like a frog, and I go, I know, but
Speaker 3: I've never given up a field goal block or an
Speaker 3: extra point block.
Speaker 4: So that's what you're going to get out of me.
Speaker 1: In that situation, I would say, thank you, coach, I
Speaker 1: do look like a frog? Is how I do it?
Speaker 3: Well, my whole the whole thing that I got was
Speaker 3: Jay Hilgenberg, the snapper back then. So when you when
Speaker 3: the ball is snap, you interlock legs with the person
Speaker 3: next to you, and Jay used to just emphasize and reemphasize,
Speaker 3: don't touch my leg, don't if you're going to interlock,
Speaker 3: interlock behind me, don't watch me because if he did
Speaker 3: get pushed at all when you used to be able
Speaker 3: to attack the head of the center, that means that
Speaker 3: he would go back over end. And just because you
Speaker 3: have no regripping on your with your feet, and so
Speaker 3: it was just I was more worried about touching him
Speaker 3: than I was and how I looked in the stance.
Speaker 1: Well, that being said, you know, I have so much
Speaker 1: faith in Cairo Santos. He's been so good over the
Speaker 1: course of his time with the bar since twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: and he's been inbooting a lot of fifty yarders. So
Speaker 1: all the analysis and now is coming out about how
Speaker 1: he kicks the ball allegedly and the low trajectory, you
Speaker 1: know whatever. Now that that's convenient for that moment to
Speaker 1: describe all that. But I think he's an outstanding kicker
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of faith in him. Tom.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that after seven snaps, the starting offensive
Speaker 1: line had to get somebody else out there, and it
Speaker 1: was unfortunate Bates got a concussion or inconcussion protocol. So
Speaker 1: in comes Jake Kerrn and he comes in at left guard.
Speaker 1: I know he played almost seven hundred snaps at right
Speaker 1: tackle in his career, but I don't know how much
Speaker 1: guard he's played. And I thought the offensive line did
Speaker 1: a really good job yesterday, and I think with the
Speaker 1: benefit of Caleb getting rid of the ball quicker as well,
Speaker 1: help that unit. You break it down, you've broken it down.
Speaker 1: What did you see? You know?
Speaker 3: I think the offensive line capitalized on an efficiency in
Speaker 3: the way they called the plays. They didn't make sure
Speaker 3: they didn't give these guys unrealistic amount of protection time
Speaker 3: that Caleb was trying to identify a receiver. They said, okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna give immedia get the ball out of Caleb's
Speaker 3: hands immediately. So the pass protection can be more aggressive
Speaker 3: and it can be less time consuming. Then if Caleb,
Speaker 3: if you see an ejection opportunity within that pocket or
Speaker 3: the design of the protection, you take off but sensibly
Speaker 3: get down instead of taking any abuse at the end
Speaker 3: of your scrambles. And then the design of the specificness
Speaker 3: of the speed of the play, then the way DeAndre
Speaker 3: Swift was hitting the play to those outside edge plays.
Speaker 3: Everything helped the offensive line play a faster game themselves.
Speaker 3: And when you don't have these lingering, unexpected lengths of
Speaker 3: time that you have to hold a protection, it benefits
Speaker 3: their style play, especially when you have a tackle play
Speaker 3: and guard. And one of the things I know we'll
Speaker 3: hear it in the Fluce interview with you, the more
Speaker 3: makeable third downs, And I think that was a key
Speaker 3: point of emphasis when you're going to call the plays,
Speaker 3: make sure that you have success on first and second down,
Speaker 3: so you're in third in reality, and now you can
Speaker 3: bring multiple guys at the line of scrimmage. They can
Speaker 3: be picked up Rochean DeAndre Swift are good reliable blockers
Speaker 3: in the backfield. So the combination of the offensive line,
Speaker 3: the changes they and the new play calling with the
Speaker 3: immediacy of the play calling, I think it benefited everybody.
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Speaker 1: status at hallis from Bears head coach Matt Eberflus. All right,
Speaker 1: thanks Matt once again. You know, as Tom and I
Speaker 1: were discussing and with you in post game and more,
Speaker 1: we dwelled down and watch tape, but so many positives.
Speaker 1: What looked best in your mind? What will look best
Speaker 1: to Maddie?
Speaker 4: Obviously?
Speaker 5: The obvious is the is the offense, you know, and
Speaker 5: and you know they took major strides in one week.
Speaker 5: And my hats off to Thomas Brown and the offensive
Speaker 5: staff and the players. You know, they took ownership, took
Speaker 5: accountability of where they were and had found solutions to
Speaker 5: get better. And one of those solutions is getting the
Speaker 5: ball to our skill you know, in space, creating space
Speaker 5: for those skill players in the offensive play call in
Speaker 5: the scheme. And you could clearly see that during the
Speaker 5: course of that game. And we just have to do
Speaker 5: that in more creative ways as we get going, you know,
Speaker 5: here on to Minnesota.
Speaker 6: But you look at you know, the ability to you.
Speaker 5: Know, DJ Moore seven for seven on his targets and
Speaker 5: receptions you know, sixty two yards.
Speaker 6: Same thing.
Speaker 5: You know, Rome got, you know, six receptions sixty five yards.
Speaker 5: Keenan had four for forty one, Cole three for forty two,
Speaker 5: you know, so you know, and then we got you know,
Speaker 5: got a screen pass, a couple of passes off the
Speaker 5: swift too. So I think it's really good. And again
Speaker 5: the offensive staff did a really nice job there.
Speaker 1: How did it help the offensive line and the quickening
Speaker 1: of the process because he got rid of the ball
Speaker 1: according to multiple stats that services you guys probably have
Speaker 1: your own, but his his quickest time of release getting
Speaker 1: rid of the football this season.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's really good, you know, the rhythm and
Speaker 5: the timing of it, even even though I said it
Speaker 5: in the presser earlier, is that getting the play call
Speaker 5: in and getting operation there, and the energy and how
Speaker 5: we're snapping to the to the line of scrimmage, and
Speaker 5: the the ball faking and the carrying out the ball
Speaker 5: fakes and all the little details there.
Speaker 6: You know, we were.
Speaker 5: Improved, and it's something that we emphasize, you know, going
Speaker 5: back to square one, but also being able to get
Speaker 5: our guys.
Speaker 1: In space and the last drive. You get sacked on
Speaker 1: the first two. A lot of quarterbacks they're kind of turtle,
Speaker 1: it's over, like this is not looking good. What does
Speaker 1: he do? He showed what he is what he's going
Speaker 1: to be, some terrific acrobat, you know, Huideni type stuff,
Speaker 1: getting rid of getting avoiding a sack, getting rid of
Speaker 1: the ball, the room play, I mean the Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: played a lot of good stuff there, right that you
Speaker 1: can really focus on moving forward to close out games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know it's you know, it's I
Speaker 5: think it was forty two yards, I believe, you know,
Speaker 5: to get us into that position, and you know, the
Speaker 5: you know, the first two sacks, you know, you know
Speaker 5: obviously you know we don't you don't want to take those,
Speaker 5: and you know we can clean those things up in
Speaker 5: terms of protection and you know, getting getting the ball out,
Speaker 5: but the plate at Rome and on the scramble drow there,
Speaker 5: you know, scrambling to his right horrific. And then Rome
Speaker 5: really being friendly to him, you know in that you
Speaker 5: know soft zone area there, it was really good. And
Speaker 5: then you know the the fadeball, you know, the back
Speaker 5: shoulder fade there versus man coverage was excellent to Rome.
Speaker 6: What a throw, what a catch?
Speaker 5: You know, that's great to see those two do that,
Speaker 5: you know, those two guys that were drafted together. And
Speaker 5: then uh, you know the one, the very last one
Speaker 5: was a max you know, it was a max pressure
Speaker 5: and we checked it to protection and did a great
Speaker 5: job of adjusting the protection to that and then delivering
Speaker 5: the ball on time out on that option out route
Speaker 5: to uh Kenyan.
Speaker 1: And these aren't small things. These are big things. Those
Speaker 1: those two plays alone are big things, right, Yeah, they's things.
Speaker 5: It's big growth, and it's it's it's it's really being
Speaker 5: on the same page right and being in tune with
Speaker 5: what's going on on the football field.
Speaker 6: And I really believe it.
Speaker 5: It slowed down for him and you can see that,
Speaker 5: and you could see him operate.
Speaker 1: And another thing too, you know about say situational football,
Speaker 1: which you're always working on, always preaching about, always working on,
Speaker 1: especially third down. So third down yards going into the
Speaker 1: game near the bottom of the league, they're just like
Speaker 1: three point three yards per play, Like yesterday you doubled
Speaker 1: that seven point six yards per play on third down.
Speaker 1: A really big jump on third down.
Speaker 6: What do you.
Speaker 1: Signify as or as Yeah, we've had.
Speaker 5: A big emphasis on the third downs and and kind
Speaker 5: of the inverse of what you're talking about. We we
Speaker 5: talked about let's get ourselves into six or less, you know,
Speaker 5: and you know, we were a lot of of shorter
Speaker 5: distances there, which is good. That means you're running the
Speaker 5: ball well, you're you're passing games efficient on first and
Speaker 5: second down, and then you're getting yourself into situations that
Speaker 5: aren't as longer.
Speaker 6: And we did that and so and again we.
Speaker 5: Obviously you stated the yards that we got. We converted
Speaker 5: on a lot of.
Speaker 1: Those seven of nine and third or six or less
Speaker 1: on third down. Yeah, so that was that was big.
Speaker 1: And then the ability by that offensive line on these
Speaker 1: crack sweeps, cracked toss sweep, I mean, Braxton look fantastic.
Speaker 1: It turns into a touchdown. Is that one of your
Speaker 1: go to plays?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's one of the first things we put in.
Speaker 5: You know, it's you know, probably day two or three
Speaker 5: install I think. But again, you we go direct first
Speaker 5: and then we go outside after that. So it's important
Speaker 5: that you know, you get those seal blocks on the
Speaker 5: outside and those are all done by receiver tight end
Speaker 5: type guys. You know, Cole and Keenan and Rome and DJ.
Speaker 5: Those are all guys that we put in those positions
Speaker 5: and they did a really good job of doing that.
Speaker 5: And then you have guys from the inside coming outside
Speaker 5: to kick out and that's where you saw Braxton out
Speaker 5: there doing that and a couple other guys on the perimeter.
Speaker 5: And it's also evident on the perimeter screens as well,
Speaker 5: and you saw that too.
Speaker 1: DJ play almost like Deebo with the ball in his hands, thick,
Speaker 1: his explode, all the things that make him a great receiver,
Speaker 1: especially on some of those sideline routes when they think
Speaker 1: you got them and you don't. That plays well when
Speaker 1: the balls in his hands, no matter how you get
Speaker 1: it to him, isn't it.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, he's a really good yard off to catch guy.
Speaker 5: He's got great contact balance and the sooner you can
Speaker 5: get the ball in his hands is better. But he
Speaker 5: also is he runs deep routes too, and he's exciting
Speaker 5: that way. So we're exciting about just keep on developing
Speaker 5: that chemistry between the receivers and the quarterbacks.
Speaker 6: I know that you're starting to see.
Speaker 5: Some of that as we go, and those guys spend
Speaker 5: extra time together last week, pre practice, post practice, in
Speaker 5: the meetings.
Speaker 6: And I think it's going to pay some givings.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I said the same exact thing last night on Bears
Speaker 1: Game Night Live. It's gonna happen. Like to me, it's
Speaker 1: the last frontier. Yet they're almost there on these deep shots. Yes,
Speaker 1: like you said, a few have hit. But when those hit,
Speaker 1: what's that going to do for the office in general
Speaker 1: and defenses and how they defend the Bears, because that
Speaker 1: would change a lot of things about pressures and all that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it really will. So stretch it out. We
Speaker 6: got to keep working.
Speaker 5: That, stretching all the parts of the field in our
Speaker 5: passing game, you know, finding that open space if it's deep,
Speaker 5: you know, or short. We need to keep doing that
Speaker 5: and be creative and we do.
Speaker 6: It all right.
Speaker 1: Defense, What are your thoughts.
Speaker 5: Yeah, defensively, you know, we wanted to stop the run.
Speaker 5: I thought we did a better job of that. You know,
Speaker 5: we weren't perfect in that regard, but I thought we
Speaker 5: did a better job in terms of stopping the runner.
Speaker 5: I know that he had some scrambles in there, and uh,
Speaker 5: you know, really, to me, the biggest thing is is
Speaker 5: is a pass rush. You know, we really got to
Speaker 5: get that going. I know it's been you know, a
Speaker 5: couple of weeks since we've got it going in the
Speaker 5: right direction. But we got to really do a good
Speaker 5: job of squeezing the pocket and you know, and condensing
Speaker 5: that so there's nowhere to run or you know, get
Speaker 5: out of the pocket and then throw deep. And that's
Speaker 5: what happened on a couple of those deep passes. So
Speaker 5: we just got to be you know, more coordinated with
Speaker 5: our pass rush.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: When Montes I was asked last night, also, is he
Speaker 1: playing hurt? And I would say, yeah, everybody is right now,
Speaker 1: little little banged up, right you.
Speaker 6: Everybody's banged up.
Speaker 5: That's the time of the year, and you know we're
Speaker 5: working in here. But uh, you know, we'll get the
Speaker 5: guys healthy ready to go for this week versus Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I like what you had to say earlier on Monday
Speaker 1: at hallis Hall when you were discussing your weekly news
Speaker 1: conference and you you look the guys in the eye
Speaker 1: and they looked you in the eye at the meat
Speaker 1: team meeting on Monday morning, and you just felt a
Speaker 1: positive vibe from that. Can you go deeper into that
Speaker 1: to what you were forering to maybe expand your thought
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, when you're going through adversity, you
Speaker 5: know your your mental toughness is tested and your resolve
Speaker 5: is tested, and you have to look each other and
Speaker 5: I look yourself in the mirror and say, hey, I'm
Speaker 5: going to get this done and be determined and we're
Speaker 5: going to do it together. And that to me is
Speaker 5: the starting point. And these guys have came to work
Speaker 5: every single week. I know we've had a couple of
Speaker 5: disappointing losses, last plays of the game type of thing,
Speaker 5: and again we just got to keep keep diving in
Speaker 5: to how we can get better and how we can
Speaker 5: improve as a football team and keep playing together the
Speaker 5: right way and then, uh, you know, we'd like to
Speaker 5: result the end.
Speaker 1: There's all sorts of components to get a win obviously,
Speaker 1: or things that have to happen to get a win.
Speaker 1: But the biggest is belief. That's to me is belief
Speaker 1: belief that you're gonna like go march down the field
Speaker 1: like Caleb did, found a way. So do you feel
Speaker 1: the belief is there on this team that they and
Speaker 1: but still learning how to finish and learning how to win.
Speaker 1: Is that that's the great unknown, right?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, And there's some great examples of that. You know,
Speaker 5: just in the first half, how we how we intercepted
Speaker 5: the pass and they drove it the length of the
Speaker 5: field and then they was you know, being able to
Speaker 5: dis exhaust that whole first, you know with a touchdown
Speaker 5: and take the wind out of that and take all
Speaker 5: the time out. And then in the fourth quarter, you know,
Speaker 5: we do a really good job, you know of stopping them.
Speaker 5: You know, we dig it out of there. We decided
Speaker 5: to take a delay and then punt and pin. You know,
Speaker 5: they had that explosive pass they score with him. I
Speaker 5: think it was a minute eighteen, right, and then we
Speaker 5: stopped a two point conversion. You know, Tremain did a
Speaker 5: nice job of making the adjustment he needed to at
Speaker 5: the line of scrimmage at that particular play and made
Speaker 5: a nice stop and then you know the offense, you know,
Speaker 5: does their thing, you know, with obviously the adversity to start,
Speaker 5: but also you know, converting on the third, you know, third, nineteen,
Speaker 5: fourth and three and then getting some position to win
Speaker 5: the game. So there's evidence right there that we can
Speaker 5: get this thing done, and we just got to keep
Speaker 5: finishing the right way with detail.
Speaker 1: I know you can't talk about it in detail. I
Speaker 1: know you sent it into the league, but the rule
Speaker 1: is the rule. And I heard Teddy Bruski on the
Speaker 1: ESPN saying, hey, officials, you just can't pick and choose
Speaker 1: when to apply the rule. And so long snapper got
Speaker 1: buried in there, that's me saying it. You're not saying that.
Speaker 1: But it was enough to warrant to send the tape in.
Speaker 1: So in terms of consistency, we all seek that right
Speaker 1: in making calls. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4: It's the end of the game, right, it.
Speaker 5: Doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. We we got to do
Speaker 5: a good job with that. And again we will turn
Speaker 5: it in and see what they say. But again, that's
Speaker 5: that's what we saw.
Speaker 1: The vikings eight and I call them maybe the surprise
Speaker 1: team in the league just based on the quarterback situation
Speaker 1: and sam Donold's resurrected his career in a big way.
Speaker 1: That's one. They have a lot of weaponry. Obviously we
Speaker 1: know them. Well, what are your thoughts quickly on the Vikings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean obviously playing well, playing winning football. You know,
Speaker 5: they had some close games. Their their defense creates a
Speaker 5: lot of problems, you know, in terms of their front
Speaker 5: and their coverages, their their pressure package, and they have
Speaker 5: the ability to change it up and mix that thing.
Speaker 5: You know, those things up. Coach Flors does a really
Speaker 5: good job there, you know, and their offense has got,
Speaker 5: like you said, a lot of weapons. You know, they
Speaker 5: got you know, outside weapons, inside weapons. They do a
Speaker 5: really good job of mixing it up. And you know
Speaker 5: the offense is a similar offense and we've faced a
Speaker 5: couple of times this year. But again they got some
Speaker 5: good wrinkles. But it'll be a big challenge for a
Speaker 5: football team.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be show game, right, Yes, absolutely, defense, because
Speaker 1: you don't know what's coming. That's gonna be interesting. Good
Speaker 1: luck this week in the prep you got it, thinks Tom.
Speaker 1: I ended on the Minnesota thing. We can pick up
Speaker 1: the baton there. But he also, you know, like you
Speaker 1: just said, prior to that, playing that interview, a lot
Speaker 1: of great things offensively with Thomas Brown. You could tell
Speaker 1: Coach was he lit up when he started talking about
Speaker 1: Thomas Brown. So a lot of praise for what Thomas did.
Speaker 1: Thomas has no nonsense. We keep hearing that. I don't
Speaker 1: know him very well. I've had a couple of conversations
Speaker 1: with him, but I just know that there's a different
Speaker 1: style to his process and his approach than what we've had.
Speaker 1: So I think it's an excellent decision and a time
Speaker 1: to move forward with it and let's see what else
Speaker 1: he's got up his sleeve.
Speaker 3: Well, I was super encouraged because hearing him at the
Speaker 3: podium last week, he kind of get a different presence,
Speaker 3: a different voice, and a different way he goes about
Speaker 3: answering questions. But then I wanted to see if that
Speaker 3: transfer to the football field, and it really did, And
Speaker 3: I was super encouraged by that. And I was surprised
Speaker 3: because I like the enthusiasm of a guy that holds
Speaker 3: everybody accountable for what's expected of them, whether you're a
Speaker 3: quarterback or a tackle, a tight end, or a wide receiver.
Speaker 3: And I think that's encouraging because when you talk about
Speaker 3: each of these guys being able to look look at
Speaker 3: each other in the eyes in the locker room because
Speaker 3: they're living up to the expectations the new offensive play
Speaker 3: caller coordinator is that is requiring from them. So I'm
Speaker 3: excited to see it in the Minnesota game. But I
Speaker 3: was super encouraged watching the transfer from podium to field.
Speaker 1: Blue crushing blue shield of Illinois right here at home,
Speaker 1: driving access toward healthier communities through it all. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about that Minnesota thing quick. We have still more
Speaker 1: to talk about about the game, but you know, I
Speaker 1: ended with the shell game and off Mikey, Hey, what
Speaker 1: did you say a shell game? You know, looks like
Speaker 1: they're bringing eight, they're bringing they're bringing four. It looks
Speaker 1: like they're bringing five there they're actually still bringing forward.
Speaker 1: So you got to dig through that. And I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear your analysis over the course of the
Speaker 1: week on how to prepare for that, and that'll be
Speaker 1: in our Thursday podcast. I want, because you're an expert
Speaker 1: at this, how to prepare for a defense that you
Speaker 1: just have no idea when they're coming or how many
Speaker 1: they're bringing. But you know they're going to because the
Speaker 1: highest blitz rate team in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, you just have to understand your
Speaker 3: responsibility very specifically according to the protection called is number one,
Speaker 3: number two.
Speaker 4: You have to look at landmarks.
Speaker 3: Okay, you got defensive linemen that are in a stance
Speaker 3: up against the line of scrimmage. You're always responsible for
Speaker 3: all of those guys. Now look at that second level.
Speaker 3: Is there a linebacker within the heels of a defensive lineman,
Speaker 3: you're also responsible for him. If there's linebackers that are
Speaker 3: coming back from a distance, then that's a lot of
Speaker 3: time responsibility of.
Speaker 4: The uncovered lineman and the running back.
Speaker 3: So this is not something that these guys are going
Speaker 3: to say, oh my god, take a time out after
Speaker 3: play one because we're not prepared for this. No, just
Speaker 3: understand what you're hearing in the huddle and transfer that
Speaker 3: to the line of scrimmage. And then, Caleb, you got
Speaker 3: to be inconsistent with your snap count because the best
Speaker 3: thing you can do is you get those tells from
Speaker 3: the second level blitzers and they go, oh God, this
Speaker 3: guy's coming, and I know what I can tell and
Speaker 3: so all these things that are the responsibility of each
Speaker 3: and every blocker every play, It's it is doable.
Speaker 1: Seventeen total catches for DJ, Rome and Keenan. They had
Speaker 1: more third down conversions than they did the previous three
Speaker 1: weeks combined, eight to six. I look at that as
Speaker 1: positive and an arrow in the right direction. How they
Speaker 1: were deployed, you know how I like that word, and
Speaker 1: especially like DJ just get the ball in his hands. Somehow.
Speaker 1: Keenan made some great, terrific catches. Rome is uh, He's
Speaker 1: a guy that's always open because he's tall, he's crafty,
Speaker 1: he's been the body moves around, he's excellent on those
Speaker 1: back shoulders, throws outstanding, and he you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know that we've talked about Rome enough.
Speaker 4: You took the thought right out of my head.
Speaker 3: And I was thinking about that in regards to Bear's
Speaker 3: Game Day Live in some of the topics, but I
Speaker 3: went in a different direction, but I was thinking of
Speaker 3: that same thing.
Speaker 1: He's quietly putting something together here and he's definitely got
Speaker 1: chemistry with that quarterback, no question about it. Matt talked
Speaker 1: about the pass rush obviously in great that they need more.
Speaker 1: I mean that's the answer there. What are you seeing
Speaker 1: from that group, because just a few weeks ago you
Speaker 1: were quite encouraged by the rotation. Now obviously buildings is
Speaker 1: out of that mix. Now Montes dealing with some things.
Speaker 1: But what, in your opinion, has slowed them down a
Speaker 1: little bit? Is it the offenses they're playing, how they're
Speaker 1: being blocked, I mean, how they're I don't know, you
Speaker 1: tell me.
Speaker 3: So they don't have a super conce for an inside
Speaker 3: pass rusher. You don't have an Aaron Donald, you don't
Speaker 3: have a JJ Watt. You don't have a guy that
Speaker 3: you have to dedicate two interior offensive linemen, two each
Speaker 3: and every time he lines up on the inside, and
Speaker 3: then that opens one on one opportunities for the outside
Speaker 3: rushers that you have. And you know, when you look
Speaker 3: at the Bears, when you look at Jacob Green, you
Speaker 3: look at Darryl Taylor, you look at DeMarcus Walker, you
Speaker 3: look at Montese Sweat, you look at Daniel Hardy, they
Speaker 3: have a selection of outside rushers that can get to
Speaker 3: the passer.
Speaker 4: But the constant search.
Speaker 3: For a reason that you have a dominance from the
Speaker 3: outside pass rushers because you have interior concern So when
Speaker 3: you look at the development of Javani, you look at
Speaker 3: the development of Zach Pickens, you think a coward, and
Speaker 3: you think of these other guys, you need to have
Speaker 3: some interior concern because now what I'm doing is, Okay,
Speaker 3: I don't have to double team this three technique or
Speaker 3: this noseguard. So what's going to happen is I'm going
Speaker 3: to go immediately, immediately double teaming the.
Speaker 4: Best outside pass rusher they have. And a lot of times.
Speaker 3: You can make that call when you get to the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage or you know, because of their analytical
Speaker 3: breakdown where montege lines up the most on third and
Speaker 3: whatever length they're talking about. So to me, it's always
Speaker 3: going to be about searching for that interior dominator and
Speaker 3: that's going to open up exterior opportunities.
Speaker 4: But I still wish that Daniel.
Speaker 3: Hardy and Darryl Taylor and guys would get fresh reps
Speaker 3: and continue using them in the rotation to make sure
Speaker 3: that everybody's rushing from the outside is winning. Because Jacob Martin,
Speaker 3: he was instance away from getting a sack in the
Speaker 3: game or at least becoming disruptive to the quarterback. So
Speaker 3: I like what I see out of him. He's only
Speaker 3: been around now for a couple of weeks, but I
Speaker 3: still think you need to include him in the rotation.
Speaker 1: They did get three pressures from Von dextra three for
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Speaker 1: let's get some perspective from the players of the podium
Speaker 1: on Monday. It was Braxton Jones, always very delightful at
Speaker 1: the podium, very respectful and uh heuh some good insight
Speaker 1: self reflection as well. But it started with that that
Speaker 1: big play, the big block he threw on the toss
Speaker 1: to DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 7: To me, it is, yeah, I mean that type of
Speaker 7: feeling of just uh, you know, springing with with one
Speaker 7: of those blocks, springing him free to allow him to
Speaker 7: just make a play on the dB there and then
Speaker 7: going to the end zone. It feel feels great for me.
Speaker 7: But it's just, you know, as an old lineman, you know,
Speaker 7: that's kind of what we live for, is seeing our
Speaker 7: skill guys succeed in space and that's kind of you know,
Speaker 7: how I find my excitement obviously, and other things too
Speaker 7: as well. But yeah, it's it's amazing to see and
Speaker 7: that is my touchdown.
Speaker 4: You live, you live for the to let the skill
Speaker 4: guys do what they do. But it's got to be
Speaker 4: pretty satisfying too in itself.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, one hundred percent. I mean it is super satisfying.
Speaker 7: Obviously it's a dB, but it's still a you know,
Speaker 7: a shot to you know, make DeAndre in open space
Speaker 7: and give them time to you know, get a touchdown there.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I mean, you just it's execution of a
Speaker 7: play and then when it comes to life is the
Speaker 7: most exciting thing for me. Obviously, I feel, you know,
Speaker 7: pretty good in the open space and making space blocks
Speaker 7: like that. I feel like that's one of my strengths.
Speaker 7: So being able to do that is something I you know,
Speaker 7: I think I can do. So when it does happen,
Speaker 7: I'm not surprised or anything like that. But it is
Speaker 7: fun when you know a big block is block like
Speaker 7: that has made and then into a touchdown is even better.
Speaker 7: And you've seen Swift do it and uh you know
Speaker 7: that Commander's game as well too, So just bring and
Speaker 7: spring the guys free just brings great you know, gratitude
Speaker 7: towards me.
Speaker 8: I think we as an offense as you mentioned, to
Speaker 8: be in the gaming lines that you waighing thirty nineteen
Speaker 8: and you guys get out of it and get in
Speaker 8: a fiel Go runch. What do you guys take from that?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's I really give that. You know,
Speaker 7: obviously in those last those last few plays, kudos to
Speaker 7: you know, holding up in some type of protection for
Speaker 7: the whole line obviously. And then I mean hats off
Speaker 7: to one A. He you know, did his thing in there,
Speaker 7: got out of the pocket and made an unbelievable throw.
Speaker 7: Great job by Rome, you know, finding the pocket there
Speaker 7: and making a catch and just keeping us alive obviously.
Speaker 7: You know in those situations, you know that they're going
Speaker 7: to be coming in terms of past rush and that's
Speaker 7: how they just want to get home. So it's a
Speaker 7: great job of him, you know, being mobile in the
Speaker 7: pocket and just getting out there and making a play.
Speaker 7: And I think that's just what he's good at. And
Speaker 7: you know, I'm just excited to see more of that.
Speaker 7: And even on that fourth down as well, another great
Speaker 7: play by those two. Great connection and to keep the
Speaker 7: drive alive and give us a shot.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So the screen game was more effective yesterday, especially when
Speaker 1: it involved DJ.
Speaker 6: Why was that?
Speaker 1: What? I think? What do you think works?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: I just think the details of the screen game, being
Speaker 7: able to obviously get you know, some of your old
Speaker 7: linemen and playmakers out in space, and then obviously when
Speaker 7: you put the ball in DJ's hands, something cool is
Speaker 7: going to happen. Something's gonna happen. So just being on
Speaker 7: the details, I think this week and having a little
Speaker 7: bit more juice I feel like led to better success
Speaker 7: in all types of you know, the run game, pass game,
Speaker 7: all of it being a big correlation to us just
Speaker 7: having more juice and being better in practice.
Speaker 1: Does it help having condensed formations too for the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman to kind of get out there a little bit quicker.
Speaker 7: I see it in that situation of kind of going
Speaker 7: to the boundaries and give us an opportunity to get
Speaker 7: out there. There's less space too, But I'm I mean,
Speaker 7: I you know, in terms of condensed formations, you still
Speaker 7: got to execute at the end of the day and
Speaker 7: try and get your job done. I think it's just
Speaker 7: kudos to all of them players, you know, trying to
Speaker 7: get their job done and being better in particular situations,
Speaker 7: and that's all that.
Speaker 1: Is always do you feel like Thomas provided up smart
Speaker 1: for you guys over.
Speaker 2: Help last week?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean just early in the week he came
Speaker 7: in told us, you know, we got to be on
Speaker 7: our details. It starts with us, it starts with the energy.
Speaker 7: It starts with you know, Wednesday practice, Thursday practice and
Speaker 7: into Friday and then continuing that through Saturday and letting
Speaker 7: it loose on Sunday. And that's kind of what he
Speaker 7: started with. And for me myself, that's what I did.
Speaker 7: I just you know, coming back off injury, just trying
Speaker 7: to be able to give the juice where I could,
Speaker 7: being on my details, being as good as I could.
Speaker 7: And I think every player all Elevin took took that
Speaker 7: serious and with you know that being with how he started,
Speaker 7: Thomas gave that to us and was just like, let's
Speaker 7: just be on you know, great attitude and great effort,
Speaker 7: like we can control, we can control and go out
Speaker 7: and execute what he calls. And I think that's just
Speaker 7: where we did with better juice and energy and it
Speaker 7: led to a better outcome.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 1: So let's break down his play because he also got
Speaker 1: banged up in that game and he stuck it out
Speaker 1: and played the rest of the day. He did not
Speaker 1: leave the lineup, which is something that has been happening
Speaker 1: routinely unfortunately on the offensive line. So I give him
Speaker 1: a lot of credit for gutting it out whatever was
Speaker 1: ailing him. Obviously, he missed a game because of an injury,
Speaker 1: so he gutted things out and through some big blocks.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: That's the one thing about Braxton is I almost think
Speaker 3: that Braxton could play guard because he's got the athleticism
Speaker 3: to pull to trap to wham to those outside polling
Speaker 3: plays that they have from the tackle position, and he's
Speaker 3: also has the ability, the bend ability to meet pad
Speaker 3: to pad on a defense back. And that's not an
Speaker 3: easy job because no matter what you're facing as an
Speaker 3: offensive lineman that's running forward, that defensive back that's in
Speaker 3: the back pedal is still a better athlete than you.
Speaker 3: And that's no insult to Brax and Jones. That's just
Speaker 3: a comment about every single offensive lineman and defensive back
Speaker 3: in the history of the NFL. But you got to
Speaker 3: be super encouraged the way he led with the physical
Speaker 3: approach to that defensive back, and I think that's why
Speaker 3: the play ended up as successfully as it was.
Speaker 1: All Right, and then Kevin Byarn on the back end
Speaker 1: really playing a lot in the box obviously with no
Speaker 1: Jakwan Brisker, so Elijah Hicks also in that. But they're
Speaker 1: they're swapping those spots. But Bayern had a big hit
Speaker 1: in this game, and some other big plays as well.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you lose by one point, you
Speaker 2: lose by twenty points. Every loss feels the same, especially
Speaker 2: when you know you have some some some good positive
Speaker 2: moments within there. But just losing sucks regardless. Never feels good.
Speaker 2: Cut on a Monday, uh, watching the field making corrections
Speaker 2: after a loss. So yeah, we just had to continue
Speaker 2: to you know, try to keep coming back to work.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I know how to do is
Speaker 2: keep working and uh trying to find a way because
Speaker 2: I think that obviously watching out of offense and Kadler
Speaker 2: making some strides, you know, we get to stay and
Speaker 2: turned around. We continue and just keep keep getting better.
Speaker 8: Moment Fay was the fourth down stop that you guys
Speaker 8: had TJMS up with the tackle. But what was that
Speaker 8: sequence like for you guys to be able to get
Speaker 8: off the field in a huge moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean our red zone defense has been really
Speaker 2: good this year. You know, we let them down there
Speaker 2: a few too many times. This past weekend. I think
Speaker 2: we let them that five times. They scored three. So
Speaker 2: we got to be better there for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean we all know, man, this group, this team
Speaker 2: is resilient. We're gonna fight. We're gonna defend every single
Speaker 2: blade of grass. As long as we continue to make
Speaker 2: them snap the ball, we're gonna keep defending. So we
Speaker 2: made some big plays down in the red zone. It
Speaker 2: really kind of kept us in the game a little bit. So, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know that was a big play. You know, within
Speaker 2: the game, sounds pretty defeated after yesterday's lost.
Speaker 1: His answer some questions, And do you get a sense
Speaker 1: that there are guys in the locker room that have
Speaker 1: that sense after the fourth straight loss?
Speaker 2: No, I mean I think that. You know, when you
Speaker 2: know you're asking guys questions right after you know, another
Speaker 2: loss division opponent, you know you're you're gonna feel defeated.
Speaker 2: You know what, We were defeated, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: we lost, So yeah, it's definitely emotions tied into it.
Speaker 2: We're all trying to find answers and trying to find
Speaker 2: a way to get a win. And when you battle,
Speaker 2: it will be battled on Sunday and you don't come
Speaker 2: out with the victory. It's tough, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But uh, I was just talking toys in the locker room.
Speaker 2: He's not defeated. I think it's more motivated to try
Speaker 2: to figure out ways to uh make impact plays. Same here,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I think we're all trying
Speaker 2: to do more and you know, really do more and
Speaker 2: say less.
Speaker 8: Honestly, Kevin, you mentioned kill a couple of minutes ago.
Speaker 8: What are these fourth quarter moments that he rises up
Speaker 8: and beats being to the team as.
Speaker 2: A home Yeah, I mean I think he's just you know,
Speaker 2: when you get into these adverse moments as a quarterback,
Speaker 2: he's pretty much shown who he is and he's a gamer,
Speaker 2: he's a baller, and that was that was very good
Speaker 2: to see him those big moments, obviously going down thirty
Speaker 2: nineteen where you know, most people probably thought the game
Speaker 2: was over at that point, and throw some strikes out
Speaker 2: there to get us and range to kick that field goal.
Speaker 2: It was big time for him and I was just
Speaker 2: happy to see that. And I told him that didn't
Speaker 2: get how much I was proud of him of a
Speaker 2: you know, showing up big in that moment.
Speaker 1: It's an obvious you know, these losses, especially to in
Speaker 1: a span of a few weeks, on the last play
Speaker 1: of the game, they do more than sting. They they
Speaker 1: cause you a lot of pain and it can really
Speaker 1: ruin a season when you when you get right down
Speaker 1: to it. But he says, that's not happening. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of football left to be played, and we take
Speaker 1: it as growth, a growth lesson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, I love Kevin Byarn's maturity. I like his
Speaker 3: voice of reason inside the locker room. We've you know,
Speaker 3: had a great experience to sit and do one of
Speaker 3: our Thursday night radio shows with him a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago. And you have a chance to sit there
Speaker 3: and have conversation with a guy that gives you well
Speaker 3: thought out answers. One thing about Kevin Byer though, I
Speaker 3: think when you miss a player like Jakwan Brisker and
Speaker 3: how you use the word deployable.
Speaker 4: And you have you have number six Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 3: Yes, you have Kyler Gordon and now you have Kevin Byrd.
Speaker 3: You have two guys that are equally as deployable. And
Speaker 3: one thing about Kevin Bayerd, He's willing to get physical
Speaker 3: and you saw that on a couple of hits in
Speaker 3: the game. And so I like the creativity of the
Speaker 3: Bears defensive backfield coach when Kay, if we don't have
Speaker 3: Brisker and his way that we can deploy him, let's
Speaker 3: do the same thing with Kevin Byard, and let's do
Speaker 3: the same thing with Kyler Gordon. So you still have
Speaker 3: back end creativity on this defense.
Speaker 1: Time for our Geico brings you a more football stat
Speaker 1: of the day, Tom. I looked it up and wanted
Speaker 1: to see how backs have done against the Bears defense
Speaker 1: in the pass catching mode. Because Josh Jacobs is a
Speaker 1: good pass catcher. He did a little bit of damage
Speaker 1: against the Bears, but not what I anticipated. The Bears
Speaker 1: did a good job overall. But I didn't realize this,
Speaker 1: but last season, the Bears allowed an NFL high one
Speaker 1: thousand and three yards in catches and receptions to the
Speaker 1: running backs. That was by far the most in the NFL.
Speaker 1: They caught one hundred and seven of one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty nine and seven touchdowns. This year, they've only allowed
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety three yards, So that's a Obviously,
Speaker 1: seasons still got seven weeks to go, but that's a big,
Speaker 1: big difference. No touchdowns and just forty three of fifty one.
Speaker 1: Is there any reason in your mind for this?
Speaker 3: Yes, So we talk about youa Kwon Brisker, We talk
Speaker 3: about Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 4: We talk about when Montes Sweat came aboard.
Speaker 3: Now you have to leave backs in the backfield because
Speaker 3: of the deployable assets they have from the defensive backfield
Speaker 3: that are blitzers and rushers, and you have a help
Speaker 3: that you have to have concentrate on Montese sweat. So
Speaker 3: now you got a chipper instead of just a free release.
Speaker 3: So when I remember talking about that last year and
Speaker 3: how it was plaguing the Bears defensively, is how many
Speaker 3: passes the running backs were catching. And then when you
Speaker 3: have a shift in maneuverable defensive pieces, now the running
Speaker 3: back has to stay in. He's got a little bit
Speaker 3: longer before he can release into that type of route.
Speaker 3: So you're just not getting them out of the offensive
Speaker 3: backfield very much because they have responsibilities from linebacker to
Speaker 3: defensive backs to Montes.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring it up is what's coming. So
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, we know he's an excellent receiver. He could
Speaker 1: play wide receiver. He's like a Matt Forte in my opinion.
Speaker 1: So I agree, that's one. Then you got to deal
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey. That's two. Then you gotta go deal
Speaker 1: excuse me, Detroit, you got to deal with both of
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, as pass catchers. And you know so
Speaker 1: I'm just bracing for that because I clearly they're they're
Speaker 1: doing it better, and that's a great illustration by you.
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Speaker 1: we take a look at the Vikings. The devin Hester
Speaker 1: experience yesterday, it was exhilarating for me. I know it
Speaker 1: had to be the same way for you with Steve
Speaker 1: McMichael going up there and we were I think both
Speaker 1: up there for Jimbo Covert he was given his Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame ring. I just and I made this point
Speaker 1: on the air because a lot of people have texted
Speaker 1: me from inside the building and friends otherwise that were
Speaker 1: at the game, and they're like, man, that was a
Speaker 1: cool moment. I go. Not not from your perspective, from
Speaker 1: my perspective. It blew my mind because I'm staring up
Speaker 1: at a full house and the crowd was reacting to
Speaker 1: things I said about Devon, and it was just it
Speaker 1: was really something. I understand how you guys would roll
Speaker 1: through that tun or tunnel then and be greeted by
Speaker 1: a full house in your own building, and how that
Speaker 1: must have jacked you guys up, Like there's no way
Speaker 1: I was so hyper for the third quarter then calling
Speaker 1: the game. It just to me because I've always said,
Speaker 1: whether it be an entertainer on stage, a comedian or
Speaker 1: a musician or any athlete that gets to play in
Speaker 1: front of a full house, there can't be anything like it.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, it left me with a little bit of
Speaker 3: anxiety because I was more worried about you not getting
Speaker 3: back to the booth before they kicked off on the
Speaker 3: second half, and I didn't want to have to do
Speaker 3: anything to do with play by play when you showed
Speaker 3: back up and then I was able to relax.
Speaker 4: But I always had admired Devin.
Speaker 3: Hester the post fair player, because you like to see
Speaker 3: what some of these guys grow into and develop into.
Speaker 3: Like Roosevelt Colvin when we had him on the podcast,
Speaker 3: What an incredible guy after the success he's out on
Speaker 3: the football field. And I feel the same for Devin Hester.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad that the fans got to be rewarded
Speaker 3: with him getting his Hall of Fame ring, standing up
Speaker 3: there in his Hall of Fame jacket with his teammates
Speaker 3: in a fan base that is so appreciative of accomplishments
Speaker 3: of the Bears.
Speaker 1: Yep, it sure is. And I wish and I know
Speaker 1: they didn't because they were in the locker room. I
Speaker 1: wish the players would see what happens when you do
Speaker 1: great things in Chicago. The fans are going to love
Speaker 1: you forever, and they don't get that opportunity to see
Speaker 1: it live. Like I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, Yeah.
Speaker 4: No, I agree one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: It's just like, you know, someone was asking me about
Speaker 3: excitement of seeing Tom Brady, and you know, listen, Tom
Speaker 3: Brady was at the game. But I was sitting with
Speaker 3: Charles Tillman on the sideline during our TV show and
Speaker 3: Charles said, hey, give me a second. I want to
Speaker 3: go out and say hi to Tom Brady. So, whether
Speaker 3: it's ten years after the fact or whatever the case is,
Speaker 3: you are excited about seeing that person. And so the
Speaker 3: fans there getting a chance, a lot of them may
Speaker 3: be seeing Devin Hester in person for the first time.
Speaker 3: I think it's a cool response that they gave him,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of respect that Devin was witnessed too.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk Vikings. They've only given up thirty
Speaker 1: three points in the last three games, after giving up
Speaker 1: thirty one at Detroit and thirty at the Rams. Anything
Speaker 1: you can connect dots on aside from who they're playing.
Speaker 1: They did play Tennessee yesterday. They put plenty of pressure
Speaker 1: on on Will Levis sacked them five times, pressured him
Speaker 1: seven times on top of that. So they were this
Speaker 1: van Ginkel who he was with my he was drafted
Speaker 1: by that coach in Miami and so certainly knows how
Speaker 1: to use him. He's up to eight sacks now, doing
Speaker 1: a lot of great. They're going to set a team
Speaker 1: record for sex and a season the way they're going, So, well,
Speaker 1: what are you bracing for?
Speaker 3: You know, I'm I'm going to put the onus on Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to come in there with a conservative
Speaker 3: game plan where I have nine blockers and I'm sending
Speaker 3: out two receivers and trying to overprotect. I'm going to
Speaker 3: make them overcover. I'm going to take guys that I
Speaker 3: think are a little bit beyond their age responsibilities of
Speaker 3: football and say, okay, can you cover Keenan, Can you
Speaker 3: cover Rome?
Speaker 4: Can you cover Cole? Can you cover you know who?
Speaker 3: Every one of these guys, DJ, And So I'm going
Speaker 3: to go out there because it's a home game and
Speaker 3: I'm in command of the cadence, and I can use
Speaker 3: a little bit of deception at the line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: and try to get you guys out of position and
Speaker 3: take advantage of it. So, if anybody is out there
Speaker 3: watching the replays of the big plays, you take the
Speaker 3: two screens to DJ Moore. You look at the ball
Speaker 3: fake by Caleb to DeAndre Swift, and go look at
Speaker 3: the personnel out of position from the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 3: The first one there was four guys out of position.
Speaker 3: The second one there's two guys chasing the wrong way
Speaker 3: in an instant of hesitation by both linebackers. Jeff, you
Speaker 3: got to be able to use those things. You got
Speaker 3: to make sure that those guys are thinking after the
Speaker 3: ball is snapped, create that hesitation and then get the
Speaker 3: easy completion. I'm not looking for fifty yard completions. I'm
Speaker 3: looking for a third and four. That's my goal in
Speaker 3: this game.
Speaker 1: People are throwing on them despite that. I mean, they
Speaker 1: have given up the fifth most receiving yards in the
Speaker 1: NFL this season, so there are going to be plays
Speaker 1: there to be made. I agree plays there.
Speaker 4: To be made.
Speaker 1: So yeah, eighteen forty four yards with a very high
Speaker 1: completion percentage and eleven touchdowns given up in the passing game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, how about Sam Darnold. I know this is
Speaker 1: a great story, and I know you're happy for him
Speaker 1: because it hasn't worked out. Don't want to be happy
Speaker 1: about him on Sunday, as you like to say. I'm
Speaker 1: a Bears fan. But what's his what's his secret right now?
Speaker 3: O'connald? Yeah, well, I do think that. I think what
Speaker 3: I do. I think the coaches asked him to ignore
Speaker 3: his past. Come in here as an NFL caliber quarterback,
Speaker 3: learn our system, and we will give you the encouragement
Speaker 3: and the corrections that you need. In order to play
Speaker 3: the position, and then there was no pressure on him
Speaker 3: when he got here because they drafted JJ McCarthy. All
Speaker 3: the quarterback pressure was on McCarthy, and so Sam Donald
Speaker 3: had the luxury of going back. I'm probably going to
Speaker 3: be in a backup position. I have the luxury of
Speaker 3: time to learn this system, and then if I need
Speaker 3: to go in the game, I'll go in the game.
Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, JJ McCarthy gets hurt.
Speaker 3: It's Sam Donald's game, and he never panicked. And so I,
Speaker 3: like I said, I'm happy for him as a human
Speaker 3: because if you ever go back and listen to some
Speaker 3: of the criticism that he's faced, either walking in and
Speaker 3: out of the locker room or through tunnels, it's kind
Speaker 3: of discouraging to see the way some people have treated him.
Speaker 3: I'm not for him on Sunday, but in terms of
Speaker 3: the human being on forums.
Speaker 1: Reminds me a little bit of Geno Smith. You know
Speaker 1: how he got his career turned around here in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years by Seattle. It reminds me way
Speaker 1: back the way back when Jim Plunkett became the quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Raiders. He goes and win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Never count out a quarterback. That's what I'm learning.
Speaker 3: Drafted by New England, the Heisman Trophy gets booted out
Speaker 3: of there gets you know put You know Jim Pluckett.
Speaker 4: Both of his mom and dad were blind.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you've brought that up before, too. Incredible, It
Speaker 1: is incredible. Hey, Bears.
Speaker 3: We used to have We used to have a offensive tackle,
Speaker 3: Caesar Rene, who was a great kid out of Oklahoma.
Speaker 3: Both of his mom and dad were deaf, and so
Speaker 3: he used a lot of sign language and just kind
Speaker 3: of lived life on a different tone than the rest
Speaker 3: of us.
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Speaker 1: for the thoughts before we wrap things up. Gonna have
Speaker 1: to protect the football and protect the quarterback on Sunday.
Speaker 3: That's show up with your don't show up with your tail.
Speaker 3: Between your legs. You come out there and you say, listen,
Speaker 3: this is our house. We belong in this football field.
Speaker 3: We're improving at this stage of the season. And go
Speaker 3: out there and have the same intentions in the game
Speaker 3: plan that you put together for these guys that you
Speaker 3: have and you've always envisioned that you had that responsibility,
Speaker 3: and go out there and perform.
Speaker 1: Here's a crazy step to wrap us up. Courtesy Doug Colletti,
Speaker 1: our statistician and director of research. Second team since nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty nine to lose four straight games with one total
Speaker 1: turnover in those games. The Bears have just one turnover
Speaker 1: in those four games. The last team to do it
Speaker 1: prior to the Bears since nineteen thirty nine in the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Kansas City Chiefs. So that's some
Speaker 1: rare stuff when you're turnover free. In fact, the Bears
Speaker 1: have the longest streak of turnover free games by a
Speaker 1: Bears team since nineteen seventy nine. Three in a row.
Speaker 1: Needs a job, Yes he does.
Speaker 3: He's gotta get a job. He's got way too much
Speaker 3: time to look at numbers.
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Speaker 1: Matt Eberflus for Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniyak. Thanks for listening. Everyone,
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