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Speaker 1: A seventh consecutive win at Soldier Field includes a second
Speaker 1: home come from behind victory. Down six in the first half,
Speaker 1: the Bears lay the hammer down to the second half
Speaker 1: and send Matthew Stafford in the Rams back to La
Speaker 1: twenty four to eighteen losers. With Super Bowl Bears winning
Speaker 1: guard Tom Thayer, I'm Jeff Jonyack. Welcome too, Episode ninety
Speaker 1: eight of the Bears Etcetera Podcast, and we are brought
Speaker 1: to you by Geico. That streak the longest since the
Speaker 1: five six era, Tom under Lovey when they won ten
Speaker 1: straight home games. And you know it feels good, because
Speaker 1: it doesn't look good when you're chasing five hundred every
Speaker 1: other week, because every time you lose, you're chasing two
Speaker 1: weeks down the road, and that calendar shrinks, especially in October,
Speaker 1: and that's these one and three teams or these own
Speaker 1: four teams, that's what they're facing.
Speaker 2: And the Bears don't have to face that right now,
Speaker 2: they're five hundred.
Speaker 4: It is about your improvement as a football team. And
Speaker 4: if you know, yeah, you don't want to be one
Speaker 4: and three. But what's your main focus is is making
Speaker 4: sure Caleb is getting better, making sure your offensive line
Speaker 4: is more productive, making sure that your defense is still
Speaker 4: playing according to plan, because eventually that one in three
Speaker 4: is gonna be now be seven games deep, and then
Speaker 4: so on and so forth, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: the division is going to be hitting you like a
Speaker 4: pie in the face.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, that division is. Has it been more impressive
Speaker 1: than you thought?
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, oh yeah, of course, of course, of course.
Speaker 4: You know, I think everybody thought the Green Bay Packers
Speaker 4: were gonna be good at the start of the season.
Speaker 4: We didn't know what to think with the Minnesota Vikings
Speaker 4: after the injury to JJ McCarthy, and they brought brought
Speaker 4: in Sam Darnold, who was a high first round pick
Speaker 4: in this league that's been around a couple of teams
Speaker 4: and the Detroit Lions right now, they're on everybody's radar,
Speaker 4: the respect radar, and so it's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 4: be able to watch on TV a couple times before
Speaker 4: we do play them. But I think they're interested in
Speaker 4: watching the Bears as well because they're a unique team
Speaker 4: to watch right now that has some bona fide veteran
Speaker 4: stars on this team.
Speaker 1: Right you don't really know if you're you know, looking
Speaker 1: at the Bears what's coming because there's so much development
Speaker 1: yet to come. They know about the defense, They certainly
Speaker 1: know about the defense and takeaway defense and the solid
Speaker 1: play across the board, but the offense is the wild
Speaker 1: card and when it gets cranked up, and you know,
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Speaker 4: Wide performance in the running game four point seven yards average. Now,
Speaker 4: if you can go and back that up by another
Speaker 4: game at four or you know that you know what
Speaker 4: did we talk about?
Speaker 5: What was the number that we are searching for?
Speaker 2: Four yards and carry?
Speaker 5: Okay, so four.
Speaker 4: Point seven, that's that's a big advantage that you give
Speaker 4: your team.
Speaker 5: I like the construction of the pocket.
Speaker 4: I like the discipline of Caleb inside the pocket to
Speaker 4: make some big throws. So I guess I'm narrow minded
Speaker 4: looking at it from the offensive point of view. But
Speaker 4: defense has never disappointed me, so I wasn't searching for
Speaker 4: answers there. My biggest take on the defense is you're
Speaker 4: rotating eight defensive linemen and they are eight defensive linemen
Speaker 4: that are being pductive. That's not really something that happens
Speaker 4: a lot in the NFL. You know, you probably got
Speaker 4: your top five and then you hope three more play well.
Speaker 4: But right now you're getting production out of every single
Speaker 4: guy that you're putting in that the game.
Speaker 5: And then when you put him.
Speaker 4: In the game, you're talking about putting a fresh stable
Speaker 4: of guys in the game. That really helps the linebackers.
Speaker 4: In the defensive backs.
Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear from Matt Aberfluse in the Status
Speaker 1: at hallis our weekly conversation with him. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to the run game, because DeAndre Swift is the central
Speaker 1: finger in that.
Speaker 2: I mean, there were reports.
Speaker 1: Nationally that the Bears were gonna look at Roshawn Johnson
Speaker 1: as the lead back for this game. He played twenty
Speaker 1: two snaps. I mean, you ride the hot hand, and
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift has a belief in himself and he was
Speaker 1: asking a lot of questions throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: week of everybody trying to find some more answers, and
Speaker 1: he found them. Sixteen for ninety three. The touchdown run
Speaker 1: up thirty six was a beauty, terrific blocking on that play,
Speaker 1: the longest run since Valas Jones and twenty two. Again
Speaker 1: it's the vikings in a forty two yard play and
Speaker 1: the first Bear since Jeremy Langford in twenty fifteen for
Speaker 1: seventy seventy. We can keep on going because there's all
Speaker 1: sorts of numbers about this particular performance, because he also
Speaker 1: had seven catches for over seventy yards, So one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty five total yards from scrimmage is a monster day.
Speaker 1: And then you had the hammer hitting the nail in
Speaker 1: a roachhin So love it.
Speaker 4: Listen, you know, we've been introduced in the NFL in
Speaker 4: the last four or five years of having a stable
Speaker 4: of running backs because you can't forget about Khalil Herbert.
Speaker 4: But you got DeAndre Swift who looks like he's getting
Speaker 4: a better understanding of what this offense is all about
Speaker 4: and how the blocking is going to unfold in front
Speaker 4: of them. You have Roshan Johnson that not only is
Speaker 4: he carrying the ball effectively and physically, but he's making
Speaker 4: some catches and he's able to convert him in the
Speaker 4: first downs. So for me, as well as DeAndre Swift did,
Speaker 4: I'm glad we have a couple more there just waiting
Speaker 4: in the wings to have their fresh presentation of their opportunity.
Speaker 4: So I think it's exciting when you talk about depth
Speaker 4: in the running back position as much as on the
Speaker 4: defensive line.
Speaker 1: So they sparred a little bit. They sparred a little
Speaker 1: bit with the Rams in the first half, getting their
Speaker 1: sea legs under them a little bit, and then things
Speaker 1: open up and to me, the drive of the year
Speaker 1: so far, and we've talked about it. We broke it
Speaker 1: down Sunday night on Bears Game Night Live. You did,
Speaker 1: and I brought it up with coach after the game
Speaker 1: on ESPN one thousand. It's just the six play run,
Speaker 1: six play pass, twelve plays overall to a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: things were in rhythm. And after that point they had
Speaker 1: four straight scoring drives. So to me, if they can
Speaker 1: build off of that and start faster that way in
Speaker 1: the future, this is going to be a completely different
Speaker 1: football team because Caleb Williams has thrown very few passes
Speaker 1: with the lead, which means the defense hasn't played many
Speaker 1: games with the lead, and what they can do when
Speaker 1: they do have the lead. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: you're looking for here, is to try to get something.
Speaker 1: We got four one score games they've been in, they've
Speaker 1: split them, and now you got to win the majority
Speaker 1: of those because that's the league.
Speaker 2: You got to win your one score games.
Speaker 4: Well, you brought up the boxing, so I'm gonna bring
Speaker 4: up a boxing analogy, and Mike Tyson said, everybody's got
Speaker 4: a plan until they get punched in the face. And
Speaker 4: I think the Bears did a great job at the
Speaker 4: beginning of the game when they held the rams the
Speaker 4: field goals. Then all of a sudden they took those
Speaker 4: punches of field goals. Now what did the Bears do
Speaker 4: to respond? They got themselves and finally got into the touchdown,
Speaker 4: got into the end zone. You know, whether it's the
Speaker 4: great play by Caleb or the big run that included Kramer.
Speaker 4: You know at the full back, that's the punch in
Speaker 4: the face. That's the punch in the face.
Speaker 5: That's what I was.
Speaker 4: That's what was my point is that you know, even
Speaker 4: though the Rams scored first with the veteran quarterback, the
Speaker 4: Bears punched back. And so I like to see that
Speaker 4: the Bears had the proper amount of fight in them
Speaker 4: that was needed at some of the most important and
Speaker 4: points in the season.
Speaker 1: So is that an overhand right and then uh brisker
Speaker 1: on on the on the blitz sack that messed up
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford? Is that the uppercut? And then Tory Taylor
Speaker 1: and his big, big right leg.
Speaker 2: What's he is? He is the a combination.
Speaker 4: Boom boom kind of the rope of dope where all
Speaker 4: of a sudden that you know, you got your backed
Speaker 4: up a little bit and you need a big you know,
Speaker 4: a strategy to get you out of that corner, and
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, here he is with three different
Speaker 4: styles of punts that are extremely effectively done each and there,
Speaker 4: you know, each in their own flight pattern, and it
Speaker 4: was just awesome to see the way it happened.
Speaker 1: Jab jab jab, knockout Bears get the win. Let's discuss
Speaker 1: it now with the head coach, Matt Ebraflus and our
Speaker 1: status at hollis all right, Matt, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for joining us once again, and congrats terrific win over
Speaker 1: the l A rams. A lot of connective tissue in
Speaker 1: this one, all three phases with I'm referring to so offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams.
Speaker 2: It was very knitted, would you agree, Yes.
Speaker 6: You know it was.
Speaker 7: I told the guys after the game how proud it
Speaker 7: was of them in terms of, you know, playing copmentary.
Speaker 6: Football, and they did that.
Speaker 7: You know, right at the end of the half you
Speaker 7: saw the missfield goal by them, and then we drove
Speaker 7: down and got a field goal ourselves, and then really
Speaker 7: the end of the game, you know, it was really good.
Speaker 7: You know, we had a couple of three announcer had
Speaker 7: a take away at the end. But the four minute
Speaker 7: job by the offense was excellent too, being able to
Speaker 7: expire that time from you know, four fifteen or so
Speaker 7: all the way down to wet They got the ball
Speaker 7: with one O three with no timeouts for that last drive.
Speaker 7: So that was a great copmentary football there. Pus the
Speaker 7: putt and pins of the two putt and pins in there,
Speaker 7: the sixty six yarder and then the one from the
Speaker 7: forty three, you know, down to the eight, both at
Speaker 7: the eight yard line. So Tory did an awesome job
Speaker 7: of that as well.
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna talk more about him in a minute,
Speaker 1: but you got one past the media today. It caught
Speaker 1: my attention because I've heard this before on the Doug
Speaker 1: Kramer power run for the touchdown for a Roshawn Johnson.
Speaker 1: You call it God's pla and nobody followed up on it.
Speaker 1: So explain it because it is a thing for coaches.
Speaker 1: God God's play is power football. Where did you hear
Speaker 1: it in your coaching life. I know you've got history
Speaker 1: with all this stuff, but God's play.
Speaker 2: Explain it?
Speaker 6: Well, it's it's really just the power play.
Speaker 7: You know, you get to have a kickout and you
Speaker 7: got a polar in that same direction, and uh, it's
Speaker 7: it's a good play. It's been around forever and you
Speaker 7: know it's one of the first plays you put in
Speaker 7: and it's it's it's been effective for a long time,
Speaker 7: you know, So it's been part of football and it
Speaker 7: will be a part of football forever. And uh, it's
Speaker 7: it's a really good play.
Speaker 1: Do you recall when that first was referred to as
Speaker 1: God's played?
Speaker 2: I really don't just passed down from coaches from general.
Speaker 7: I know my my coach, my former coach that I
Speaker 7: worked for for a lot of years, Gary Pinkell, was
Speaker 7: at the game as my guest with his two sons yesterday,
Speaker 7: so it was great to see him afterward.
Speaker 6: And I know he loves that play.
Speaker 7: And I know the guy he worked for, Don James,
Speaker 7: uh of that play too, So it was good for
Speaker 7: him to be able to see that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the film University of Washington coach Don James correct
Speaker 1: awesome coach power.
Speaker 2: Every coach loves power.
Speaker 6: Yeah that power, yep, every coach. It's a good play.
Speaker 1: It's a good play, steady offensive performance, high percentage of completions.
Speaker 1: I think Caleb was fifteen to fifteen with less than
Speaker 1: fifteen plus air yards according to the Next Gen Stats
Speaker 1: and NFL analysis. That's that's some really good precision right there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he did a really good.
Speaker 7: And his quarterback rating was really good too, at a
Speaker 7: one to six, and that's his highest of the year.
Speaker 7: That just tells you that he's playing clean, efficient football
Speaker 7: and he did a really good job protecting the ball yesterday.
Speaker 6: I know we had the one strip sack, but Matt
Speaker 6: and we're covering that yeah prior, yeah, yeah, at that time.
Speaker 6: But for the most part, it was really good, clean football.
Speaker 1: And the deep shots will come, right, they're getting closer
Speaker 1: and closer.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, they are, they are.
Speaker 7: And we had a couple of chances yesterday, you know,
Speaker 7: to be able to do that, and they covered him
Speaker 7: pretty good, and he did a really good job of
Speaker 7: getting the ball to the short part of the.
Speaker 1: Field defense, taking the ball away twice nearly a third
Speaker 1: the blitzes. That's where I want to get into the
Speaker 1: chess match. And as offensive coordinators have a particular instinct
Speaker 1: or timing for a play, so to defensive minded coaches
Speaker 1: and defensive play callers. Do you have a set number
Speaker 1: in your mind game or do you just get a
Speaker 1: feel for one, or do you have them predetermined over
Speaker 1: the course of the week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think you're go into the game and you know,
Speaker 7: just like an offensive coach, you have your sequence that
Speaker 7: you want to operate with, you know, in terms of
Speaker 7: the first fifteen, and then you kind of feel the
Speaker 7: game out, you know.
Speaker 6: Then you have to you have to feel the game out.
Speaker 7: You have to have those particular ones that you want
Speaker 7: to use at certain times.
Speaker 6: And I think that's that's a gut feeling.
Speaker 7: But you certainly know when that time is, you know,
Speaker 7: and it's important that you recognize that as a play call.
Speaker 1: Can you lull a team to sleep without them and
Speaker 1: then boom? I mean, I'm not suggesting the brisker blitzack
Speaker 1: was one of those moments, but maybe it was. And
Speaker 1: and then you just know when to pull the trigger.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think it's instincts. You know, I've been calling
Speaker 7: defenses a long time, so I think it's just instincts
Speaker 7: with you know when and you know what to call
Speaker 7: and when to call it.
Speaker 1: And that's a fastball gets everybody going, uh blitz Blitzer aside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the man had a great game.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the post game show last
Speaker 1: night with You with Tom and I on the broadcast.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: But talking to him after the game, he said he
Speaker 1: really felt he had a really strong week of practice,
Speaker 1: he felt free. I don't know what that means, but
Speaker 1: you can explain it better than I can can ask him.
Speaker 1: So did you sense that from brisk this past week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's he's really working harder at his footwork, you know,
Speaker 7: and he's doing the basics. And that's that's what you
Speaker 7: do as a as a player. You know, you do
Speaker 7: the ordinary extraordinary. You know, you don't do extraordinary things,
Speaker 7: you just do the ordinary extraordinary.
Speaker 6: So that's a.
Speaker 7: Footwork, that's your base, that's your your pad level when
Speaker 7: you enter the tackle, you know, wrapping through the tackle,
Speaker 7: running your feet. You know, he did all those things
Speaker 7: yesterday and we haven't sent him that much this year
Speaker 7: so you know, so far. But he's always been an
Speaker 7: outstanding blitzer, you know, as Is Kyler is also a
Speaker 7: good blitzer with both of our backers are good pressure players,
Speaker 7: so we have options to be able to send different
Speaker 7: guys from different ways. And I think that, you know,
Speaker 7: Brisker just really has been paying attention to the basics.
Speaker 1: It really felt if Jermon Dexter took another big step
Speaker 1: this year and nets headed in next direction right now,
Speaker 1: pressureing the quarterback backside plays had another sack yesterday. I
Speaker 1: think he's tied with a couple of other guys in
Speaker 1: the league for interior defensive linemen in sacks, But that
Speaker 1: would just elevate the entire defense. Is he on that
Speaker 1: path and is the defense on that path with him?
Speaker 1: And sweat and everything else that's going on.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that goes all the way back to
Speaker 7: the spring. You know, he went back, you know, in
Speaker 7: the summertime, came back in tremendous shape. And I'm telling you,
Speaker 7: in terms of working during training camp, I don't think
Speaker 7: anybody worked harder than he did. I mean, he was
Speaker 7: running and getting himself in game shape, and that's why
Speaker 7: he's got.
Speaker 6: A fast start.
Speaker 7: And I've always told the guys that if you're never
Speaker 7: gonna be quite in game shape until you start playing games,
Speaker 7: I said, but you got to be real close, and
Speaker 7: if you are, then you're going to be playing at
Speaker 7: a high level right away, so it doesn't take you time.
Speaker 7: That's why you got a fast start. And then Billings
Speaker 7: is really doing a good job too. He had a
Speaker 7: really nice couple of nice pressures in there too. He's
Speaker 7: really dead in the pocket with how physical he is
Speaker 7: and how strong he is, and that that affects the
Speaker 7: quarterback too.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 1: And Darryl Taylor taking him advantage of his opportunities at
Speaker 1: late pressure there marrying the pressure with the interception to
Speaker 1: close the deal with brisk Uh. Just he doesn't get
Speaker 1: many reps. He gets pass rush reps, but they're counting.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was really pleased with DT this week, you know,
Speaker 7: in terms he was. He was ill, like I said
Speaker 7: at the presser yesterday a couple of days ago, and
Speaker 7: he's the coaches. Travis did a nice job of getting
Speaker 7: them ready and Booker, you know, Booker really did a
Speaker 7: good job on his hustle plays down the field on
Speaker 7: a couple of those screens, and the guys were getting
Speaker 7: out of the getting out of the stack. You know,
Speaker 7: out of the stack means you're rushing the quarterback and
Speaker 7: then the ball strown and you immediately with instantaneous reaction,
Speaker 7: work your angle to the football with speed and uh.
Speaker 7: Those guys do a great job with that, and they
Speaker 7: hustled on those plays.
Speaker 2: With this group up front.
Speaker 1: The more they see this success, see a pop on tape,
Speaker 1: see that the coaching you're teaching, the technique that's being taught,
Speaker 1: the fundamentals and then it plays out. Does this just
Speaker 1: kind of feed the beast a little bit for these guys,
Speaker 1: meaning that they can really make big strides in a
Speaker 1: short period of time playing together in the rush?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I really, I really believe that that that that's
Speaker 7: that's the case. I really want to you know, it's
Speaker 7: about the players. So you know, you know, you can
Speaker 7: show them and you drill them and you do the
Speaker 7: and hold them to a standard, but it's only good
Speaker 7: when they hold themselves to that same standard, you know,
Speaker 7: So when it's player led, and that's what you're starting
Speaker 7: to see with us being in our system for a
Speaker 7: couple of years now, it's starting to be player led.
Speaker 7: Like we you know, we talk about it, we show
Speaker 7: it and bring it to a man's attention in terms
Speaker 7: of the details of it, but it's it's led.
Speaker 2: By them, which leads me to this.
Speaker 1: Then I wasn't going to ask you about this, but
Speaker 1: all that talk about the communication, the players, leadership, all
Speaker 1: of that, if you're saying it's players led, this is
Speaker 1: exactly what you want to see.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it is correct, It's exactly because you know, the
Speaker 7: accountability piece is led by the players, you know, so
Speaker 7: you know, obviously we hold, we hold coaches and players
Speaker 7: and everybody accountable. But when it's led from the inside out,
Speaker 7: meaning that the partnership of the coach and the players
Speaker 7: are leading the accountability piece, that's when it becomes special.
Speaker 1: Which you've always preached, You've always preached, let's tuck DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2: Wonderful game.
Speaker 1: Just felt like maybe everything was off his back, you know,
Speaker 1: it just played played fast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he was.
Speaker 7: He really worked hard last couple of weeks to be
Speaker 7: able to get to this point.
Speaker 6: And I'm excited for him to be able to have
Speaker 6: a day like that, to be able to have it
Speaker 6: pay off for him.
Speaker 7: You know, he's been working with you know, Chad and
Speaker 7: Jennifer and working with Shane and Simo and everybody on
Speaker 7: the offensive staff, and and he got some great feedback,
Speaker 7: and he really took the feedback, you know, to heart
Speaker 7: and put it in the drill work, put it into
Speaker 7: the team periods, and it paid off in game day.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 1: The blonde Bomber is weaponized. I mean when you talk
Speaker 1: about inside the twenty, yeah yeah, yeah, but three inside
Speaker 1: the ten, the English on the ball balls are making
Speaker 1: right hand turns dead right in front.
Speaker 2: I mean, wow, what a day for him. How important
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean you saw the impact of it, you know,
Speaker 7: Tory Taylor, of course, Tory Taylor. You know, I don't
Speaker 7: know if anybody gets that big of an applause in
Speaker 7: the stadium as a punter, the.
Speaker 2: People wearing his number nineteen Jersey already.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's great. I love it.
Speaker 7: And you know, he's he's proved to be a great
Speaker 7: draft pick. You know, Ryan Poles drafted him. You know,
Speaker 7: saw the vision for it, you know, playing really good defense,
Speaker 7: being able to punt and pin guys down there, and uh,
Speaker 7: you know it's it's holding true.
Speaker 2: In the sixty six yard or I don't want to
Speaker 2: keep labor. But it was into the wind.
Speaker 1: He says, usually to a year advantage. He's not even
Speaker 1: bothered by it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was good. And it took a side turn
Speaker 6: there right at the eight, So it was a heck
Speaker 6: of a put.
Speaker 2: All right. Let's talk Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Uh, they got a different quarterback, so a different team. Now,
Speaker 1: Thy Dalton from your perspective, what you've.
Speaker 7: See, yeah, I mean, just a veteran presence in there.
Speaker 7: You know, he understands coverages, he understands the game, and
Speaker 7: you can really feel him in there, you know, in
Speaker 7: terms of operating the offense. And it looks it looks different,
Speaker 7: you know, it looks like it's you know, uh, you
Speaker 7: know the Canalis offense. You know that I'm used to seeing.
Speaker 7: And again I haven't watched a bunch of tape on
Speaker 7: him yet. I've watched you know, the last game or so.
Speaker 7: And but again, they're gonna be disciplined and they're gonna
Speaker 7: be uh, they're gonna know what to do with that
Speaker 7: quarterback in charge.
Speaker 1: Man, they're trying to keep it together defensively. Two of
Speaker 1: three to four unit at Garo Ivero. Very familiar with him,
Speaker 1: obviously a former RAM, he's been there before with Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2: So anything stick out with that real quick.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they've played really good defense under him and he's
Speaker 7: he's done a really good up with those guys fundamentally sound.
Speaker 7: And again they create some issues because of their front
Speaker 7: structure and they do a really good job with their
Speaker 7: with their coverage contours. You know, they can really change
Speaker 7: and move. You know, it's interesting to see how they
Speaker 7: play us. So it's gonna be a big challenge for us.
Speaker 1: All Right, Good looking, your prep this week, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you. Did you get a kick out of God's play?
Speaker 1: And did you ever hear it referred to as that?
Speaker 4: No? Listen, I've I've learned some phrases this year by
Speaker 4: coach everra Flus and a couple I've had to stop
Speaker 4: them and ask them about so uh No, necessarily, I.
Speaker 1: I've heard about it. I've heard it, but this is
Speaker 1: I've heard about it. It's this old school coaching mindset.
Speaker 1: Every coach has it in their playbook, and it's simply power.
Speaker 1: It's power, which you guys knew very well back in
Speaker 1: your day. And a little power never hurts Tom.
Speaker 4: No, I listen, Ma'm the staple of Joey, a Catholic's offense.
Speaker 4: I've ran at high school as fifty seven power, and
Speaker 4: I think, no matter what you call it or how
Speaker 4: you say it, it all means the same thing.
Speaker 2: What else struck you about?
Speaker 1: Matt seems very you know, he's very even keeled, So
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get crazy high about a win, yep.
Speaker 1: And he's not gonna get in the dumps about a loss.
Speaker 1: And so you could tell right when he took the
Speaker 1: microphone after the game. You know there's still some things
Speaker 1: to work on like this, like that we.
Speaker 2: Go back to work.
Speaker 4: I think Matt always looks at the big picture and
Speaker 4: he doesn't take an unrealistic approach to a loss or
Speaker 4: to a win. He just kind of looks at the
Speaker 4: big pitcher and understands what you have to work on.
Speaker 4: And I think that's an you know that's endlessly thought
Speaker 4: of by football coaches that you're never gonna play a
Speaker 4: perfect game. There's always something you have to work on
Speaker 4: from one game to the next. But you got to
Speaker 4: make sure that you're improving as a team to build
Speaker 4: that confidence, to just give a positive reinforcement in the
Speaker 4: locker room.
Speaker 5: What you're doing is and can work.
Speaker 1: Blue crushing blue shield of Illinois right here at home,
Speaker 1: driving access toward healthier communities through it all. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: got to peak your curiosity here and exactly what you
Speaker 1: liked about the defense and things to work on defensively
Speaker 1: because you mentioned the rotation the pressures. Sweat gets his
Speaker 1: second sack, now the fourth most in the NFC since
Speaker 1: last season with fourteen and a half. Bears pressured on
Speaker 1: twenty one percent of the dropbacks of Matthew Stafford, Darryl Taylor,
Speaker 1: now has two sacks, three quarterback hits in a force
Speaker 1: famble through four games, and as Matt indicated, you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't know if he was going to play. I mean,
Speaker 1: they didn't know if he was really going to play.
Speaker 1: I mean they had to make plans for him not
Speaker 1: playing because he was sick all week. But I love
Speaker 1: the fact that he thought enough of this football team
Speaker 1: to get out there on Sunday and fight through whatever
Speaker 1: sickness he had and play and was instrumental in the
Speaker 1: last play of the game defensively when he pressured Stafford,
Speaker 1: resulting in the interception by Brisker.
Speaker 4: Hey, listen, man, Adrenaline has cured a lot of game
Speaker 4: day ills, whether or maybe it's a little bit of
Speaker 4: a cold during the week. Did you have a flu
Speaker 4: a couple days ago? But as you start sneaking towards
Speaker 4: the stadium and you see the fan, the building in there,
Speaker 4: you're adrenaline kicks in. Then you're also mad, I want
Speaker 4: to be out there with my teammates. I gotta be
Speaker 4: out there with my teammates because I expected out of
Speaker 4: myself and they expected from me as well.
Speaker 1: Three content straight holding opponents to twenty one points or
Speaker 1: less the longest active.
Speaker 2: Streak in the NFL.
Speaker 1: For this Bears, defense and taking the ball away is
Speaker 1: still a big thing and it's going to continue to be.
Speaker 2: They have the bodies to do it.
Speaker 1: Let's listen in to Jalen Johnson about where this team
Speaker 1: is at right now.
Speaker 8: I mean, for us, that's what we want, just for
Speaker 8: us to put the game on our own shoulders, to
Speaker 8: go out there and win the game four So we
Speaker 8: just look forward to it. I mean, even in the
Speaker 8: previous weeks, I was finding a way to try to
Speaker 8: win the game if it was pig six. I know,
Speaker 8: Kyler hate to say, he had an opportunity to go
Speaker 8: change the game. So just different little things like that.
Speaker 8: We always trying to find ways to impact the game
Speaker 8: and to go win the game, not just whom we're up,
Speaker 8: but someone we're down, somebody. I mean, for us, we
Speaker 8: can defend and score score points, so we're always trying
Speaker 8: to find ways to win the game best we can.
Speaker 9: Does it feel different when you're up, though, Well.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean mentality is a lot different situations different.
Speaker 8: I mean there are two minute drill versus the four
Speaker 8: minute drills a little different. So the players that they
Speaker 8: call it they have to go score, so they got
Speaker 8: to put the ball in the air versus them being
Speaker 8: up and they can just run the ball and situationally
Speaker 8: fine play. So it definitely changes the game schematically for
Speaker 8: us to be able to go out there and try
Speaker 8: to make certain plays.
Speaker 9: You imagine that's the same for your own quarterback too.
Speaker 9: Is playing with the leads a little different than happened
Speaker 9: to chase points?
Speaker 8: I mean, like I said, the style of players different.
Speaker 8: When you're down, you have to put the ball in
Speaker 8: the here. You got to try to get chunk plays,
Speaker 8: explosive plays to score quickly and then get the ball back.
Speaker 8: So I mean, just for them, it's the same thing
Speaker 8: being able to have that leave, being able to run
Speaker 8: the ball a little more, be a little more aggressive
Speaker 8: in a run game, try to get that going when
Speaker 8: you're up.
Speaker 10: So, I mean, it definitely changes everything.
Speaker 9: Go surprised to you about how good you guys have
Speaker 9: been first four.
Speaker 8: Weeks, Nah, honestly, we haven't been good A no, quite Honestly,
Speaker 8: I feel like we definitely haven't taken away the explosive
Speaker 8: players that we want to.
Speaker 10: We definitely let some of those go.
Speaker 8: We definitely got hitting some of our runs, just not
Speaker 8: being disciplined, not being we're supposed to be consistently. I mean,
Speaker 8: things like that are going to happen, but for us
Speaker 8: in our standard, we definitely haven't. I don't think even
Speaker 8: scratched the service for what we know we can do
Speaker 8: because we're shooting ourselves on the foot. It's not like
Speaker 8: guys are just making the offense, is just making one
Speaker 8: on one touches or anything like that. It's just simply
Speaker 8: us missing the gap and trying to do too much,
Speaker 8: or guy's not fitting and cracking and placing fast enough.
Speaker 10: Things like that.
Speaker 8: So those are all things we can fix so we can
Speaker 8: be really even better.
Speaker 9: What was the point of about Siscen this morning and
Speaker 9: some of those plays over the middle of the field
Speaker 9: that they were able to head.
Speaker 10: Yes, really, I think just getting in our drops.
Speaker 8: I mean it's crazy because we do it so well
Speaker 8: in practicing, we kind of get to the game and
Speaker 8: kind of start seeing a little bit too much, so
Speaker 8: we're just getting in the gaps we know coming against
Speaker 8: that team that liked on the wall between the numbers,
Speaker 8: between the hashes. So definitely not being what we're supposed
Speaker 8: to be. I feel like as far as our drops
Speaker 8: not getting good enough, debth getting really just closing those
Speaker 8: windows if it's us on the outside or whatever the
Speaker 8: case may be. So just finding ways to take away
Speaker 8: what we know teams are going to try to hit
Speaker 8: us with.
Speaker 9: And have that said, what what do you now that
Speaker 9: it's been four games, what do you like about this
Speaker 9: defense that you know is better than it was last year?
Speaker 8: We're all together, I think for us last year, so
Speaker 8: trying to find that identity as a whole. I mean,
Speaker 8: again it was Tremaine TJ first year, so we didn't
Speaker 8: get tested halfway do the season, so I mean things
Speaker 8: are definitely different, like we're more of a unit or
Speaker 8: I guess energy and all. Everything is just coming together again.
Speaker 8: We had all the last year to build together the
Speaker 8: second half and then coming in off season and things
Speaker 8: like that, so we've definitely been able to bond together.
Speaker 10: Add in DT with a good.
Speaker 8: Addition as well, being able to bring him in just
Speaker 8: continue to build. So, I mean, everybody that we have
Speaker 8: on our side of the ball definitely jailing together, knows
Speaker 8: what we're trying to do defensively.
Speaker 9: The leadership group kind of took the ownership last week
Speaker 9: of saying We're not gonna let this thing.
Speaker 10: Slide, right.
Speaker 9: No, how would you describe what went in the last
Speaker 9: week in terms of that part of the equation.
Speaker 8: I think from a captain, from a leadership standpoint, I
Speaker 8: think just being pissed off that we're not being who
Speaker 8: we know we can be. And I mean every team,
Speaker 8: any team can beat any team.
Speaker 10: In this league.
Speaker 8: But I think for us, I was in a game
Speaker 8: that we could have even should have let go. I
Speaker 8: think that was definitely a winnable game for us to
Speaker 8: go out there, But I mean then to day it
Speaker 8: didn't happen for various reasons. So us really just looking
Speaker 8: everybody in the eye and just having that open communication
Speaker 8: and not letting it just be swept on the road. Okay,
Speaker 8: it's all good. We're just gonna work to next week.
Speaker 8: But the end of the day, we gotta go out
Speaker 8: here and have a certain standard. So I mean, whether
Speaker 8: it's coaches, players, whoever, it may be, just holding each
Speaker 8: other to that standard and firing out the finding out
Speaker 8: the best ways to win game.
Speaker 9: And what you know, what you know about Andy Dalton,
Speaker 9: what do you guys have to be all to work for?
Speaker 8: Coming up the red rifle that's a good guy. I mean,
Speaker 8: really just savvy. He's been around for a long time since.
Speaker 8: I mean that name came when he was at the Bengals,
Speaker 8: so I mean that was some time ago. So I
Speaker 8: mean he's seen a lot of coverages, seen a lot
Speaker 8: of blitzes. So I mean kind of like Stafford in
Speaker 8: a way where he's going to be able to pick
Speaker 8: up some things.
Speaker 10: So we got to do a good job disguising.
Speaker 8: We got to get hits and pressure make them kind
Speaker 8: of uncomfortable in that in the pocket. But also, I mean,
Speaker 8: like a lot of the quarterbacks, they get pressure in
Speaker 8: the face, they kind of tend to throw some some
Speaker 8: bad some bad throws, make some bad decisions. So for
Speaker 8: us in the second day, we got to do where're
Speaker 8: supposed to be and then the front gotta get aforts.
Speaker 1: There was another guy, Hey, we could do better, And
Speaker 1: I love that mindset. They're not they're not banking on
Speaker 1: anything right now.
Speaker 2: They just got to go back to work.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: Jalen's kind of that alpha male that I've been searching
Speaker 4: for for a long time on this team. And he's
Speaker 4: not only doing by just talking a lot inside the
Speaker 4: locker room or at the podium. He's doing it by
Speaker 4: his performance, and he's going out there and he's playing
Speaker 4: a physical style of tackling football for a cornerback, but
Speaker 4: he's also doing the main responsible of a cornerback, and
Speaker 4: he's got great coverage skills. And then I think the
Speaker 4: way he carries himself in front of his teammates is
Speaker 4: an example of if you work hard, good things are
Speaker 4: gonna happen. But if you work hard, good team things
Speaker 4: can happen. And that's what I like about Jalen. And
Speaker 4: I think that he's maturing along the rate that we
Speaker 4: hoped he would, because he really set a good example
Speaker 4: for himself from the moment he got here. But now
Speaker 4: he's starting to morph into that legitimate corner which I
Speaker 4: like I say is the second most difficult in football,
Speaker 4: most difficult position in football.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 1: The other thing too, he's he speaks his mind too,
Speaker 1: so you know you're getting the raw truth from his
Speaker 1: perspective for sure.
Speaker 5: That's the alpha kind of what I like out of him.
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Speaker 1: let's loop back over to the offense. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Tevin Jenkins eleven snaps and then a
Speaker 1: rib injury moving forward. Don't know, it's day to day,
Speaker 1: so I don't know what the severity of that is.
Speaker 1: You've had these injuries. They're not simple to play with,
Speaker 1: can't breathe, You're always in pain. It's your core. Your
Speaker 1: body's constantly moving. Everything's related to the core. So if
Speaker 1: your ribs are hurt, you know, what do you think?
Speaker 4: You know? It depends if it's a rib or rib cartilage.
Speaker 4: There's two different types of injuries there, and how painful
Speaker 4: it is, and what type of shot are you willing
Speaker 4: to take if you if they're guaranteed that there's a
Speaker 4: one very specific spot that they can probably numb it
Speaker 4: through most of the length of a game. But I
Speaker 4: would rather have a healthy body in there, a healthy
Speaker 4: guy that isn't in those circumstances where he's playing with
Speaker 4: concern and pain. So if it does, then you know,
Speaker 4: Nate Davis, your time is back up. Bring it, Bring
Speaker 4: it here. Start with an impressive performance in practice and
Speaker 4: then bring it to the game field, and they're fortunate
Speaker 4: to have a guy like Matt Pryor who can go
Speaker 4: right or left, right or left hand added stance in
Speaker 4: play equally as well.
Speaker 1: Yep, he did a nice job. And you can't minimize
Speaker 1: his size. That's a weird play on words, because you
Speaker 1: can't minimize the six foot six foot seven dude, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Also some really good play by Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: Tom the downfield game's gonna come. It's going to come.
Speaker 1: I have no question in my mind about it. He
Speaker 1: is an accurate quarterback in the big picture. No further
Speaker 1: explanation than that throw on the dime on a posted
Speaker 1: stamp to DJ Moore over the middle linebackerund him exploited
Speaker 1: the matchup, found his guy Boom, touchdown bears and the
Speaker 1: other deep stuff that's gonna come.
Speaker 2: The throw over the middle to Colecombette.
Speaker 1: I also feel very strongly about twenty two yard strike,
Speaker 1: good red rush coming at him. Boom nailed it. Ripped
Speaker 1: the middle of the field like Matthew Stafford did yesterday.
Speaker 1: Veteran quarterbacks in the pocket, they worked that middle of
Speaker 1: the field very well, so those are two middle field
Speaker 1: throws that I'm very excited about moving forward, how about you.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't have any concern for Kayleb because
Speaker 4: I know the process of learning how to play quarterback
Speaker 4: in the NFL is a difficult process and it takes
Speaker 4: a little time. I like those throws to DJ and
Speaker 4: to Cole. They're just so impressive because when you look
Speaker 4: at the tape of it and you look at from
Speaker 4: the end zone shot, it's incredible that what a small
Speaker 4: window of opportunity he threw it to DJ, and then
Speaker 4: how close it was to the fingertips of the linebacker
Speaker 4: when he threw it over the top to Cole Commet.
Speaker 4: But you know, I also like the checkdown routes to
Speaker 4: Rochean and t Andre Swift because we really haven't seen
Speaker 4: those for a while, and now you kind of understand
Speaker 4: how effective they can be. We talked about the one
Speaker 4: to Rochean where he made the catch and he was
Speaker 4: able to convert it to the first down, and then
Speaker 4: DeAndre Swift caught one and was able to get out
Speaker 4: of bounds and stop the clock.
Speaker 5: So there's there's a.
Speaker 4: Wide variety of throws and decisions that a quarterback has
Speaker 4: to make in the time frame that he's got to
Speaker 4: make them, and I'm excited what I think everybody's gonna
Speaker 4: see out of Caleb. And then his escapability is impressive
Speaker 4: because if someone thinks they got to share sack on him,
Speaker 4: if someone has his foot, he's able to get it out,
Speaker 4: spin out of it somehow, get himself some freedom and
Speaker 4: be able to make a throw.
Speaker 1: And a couple of RPOs just to give him something
Speaker 1: to think about. A couple of RPOs, but you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen to fifteen fifteen plus air yards according to next
Speaker 1: Gen Stats.
Speaker 2: He was perfect yesterday, less than fifteen.
Speaker 4: Again, that's the exciting thing about going to the Bears
Speaker 4: game weekend and week out. There's some development in his
Speaker 4: game that's exciting to see what's coming next. And when
Speaker 4: you see the DJ throw, you see the coal throw,
Speaker 4: love him when you see his He's got a demeanor
Speaker 4: on screens that there is no panic and screen development
Speaker 4: for an offensive line quarterback. It's so hard to get
Speaker 4: that perfect, but he knows how to attract attention, how
Speaker 4: to throw the ball efficiently to whomever his receiver is
Speaker 4: and then get yards out of it. So it's it's
Speaker 4: just fun watching him develop in a big development in
Speaker 4: a short amount of time.
Speaker 1: He's fun watching our guy Cole Kmet as well. He
Speaker 1: was at the podium monday at Halisau.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I thought a lot of good violence on
Speaker 3: tape up front, So I thought that was really good
Speaker 3: to see. Obviously, things that we just need to get
Speaker 3: cleaned up pre snap wise, if you know, we want
Speaker 3: to stay efficient, stay stay ahead of the chains in
Speaker 3: that regard. But a lot of good things I thought
Speaker 3: with violence on tape upfront, and you know that showed
Speaker 3: with some of the explosives in the run game and
Speaker 3: then being able to get that that first first down
Speaker 3: in that four minute scenario before we punted it back.
Speaker 3: You know, those are big, Those are tough scenarios. You're
Speaker 3: you're really not getting favorable looks in the wrung game
Speaker 3: and you kind of have to make it, make it work.
Speaker 3: And I thought we did a good job there. And
Speaker 3: then when you look situational, I thought, really starting at
Speaker 3: the at the end of the half where they missed
Speaker 3: that field goal and then we respond with getting three
Speaker 3: points there to go before that, that's huge, and then
Speaker 3: you know, really from there, just playing playing really good
Speaker 3: football from there and out, So all of that stuff
Speaker 3: was really good.
Speaker 1: After the game, Tokon Briskers said that he knew you
Speaker 1: guys were going to have a good day on the
Speaker 1: ground because of.
Speaker 8: How physical you were in practice, and did you have
Speaker 8: a sense of, you know, that it would be better
Speaker 8: improved last time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought it was just good details, you know,
Speaker 3: not even just in practice, but in the walk through
Speaker 3: in terms of how we were de telling up our
Speaker 3: walk through, making it a little more game like in
Speaker 3: that regard and not easy to do necessarily in a
Speaker 3: walk through, but you know, getting our fits correct so
Speaker 3: the bass could see, you know, where the ball should
Speaker 3: be hitting, and you know, all those are good mental
Speaker 3: reps to have, and I think that's kind of what
Speaker 3: played into the success on Sunday.
Speaker 9: Or what do you make of the false start issues?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's just a h I think we
Speaker 3: got to get fixed, uh as a offense in totality,
Speaker 3: you know, between obviously communicating up front, being dialed into
Speaker 3: the certain play calls that we have with with certain cadences,
Speaker 3: and just everyone being on the same page there. So yeah, look,
Speaker 3: we're still there's still growing pains that you know that
Speaker 3: wasn't perfect the other day and those are things we
Speaker 3: got to get fixed up. But uh, definitely an all
Speaker 3: eleven thing there for sure.
Speaker 9: And touchdown the switch, we see you kind of celebrating with, Yeah,
Speaker 9: what was that like seeing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was great. You see a guy with the
Speaker 3: breakaway speed like that and he make I made the
Speaker 3: cut block and he was able to just kind of
Speaker 3: jump over him a little bit as he's falling down
Speaker 3: and and then I just saw the ceased part and
Speaker 3: him take off. You know, you knew he was gone.
Speaker 3: So uh, yeah, DeAndre has got good home run speed there.
Speaker 3: So that was that was good to see.
Speaker 9: Was most notable to you about to play before a
Speaker 9: little shot.
Speaker 3: That Yeah, I mean just a true uh NFL throw
Speaker 3: throw and catch right there. You know, they step up
Speaker 3: just enough for him to get the ball over and
Speaker 3: you know that's considered apen in this league and a
Speaker 3: play that you got to make and he made it,
Speaker 3: and it's uh, it's a really it's really cool to
Speaker 3: see that that that type of throw. The throat of
Speaker 3: DJ was was really awesome, and I mean just all
Speaker 3: day he was he was super efficient, did a really
Speaker 3: good job of taking care of the football and you
Speaker 3: know When you do that and you got our defense
Speaker 3: playing the way they're playing, our teams playing the way
Speaker 3: they're playing it, it plays in well to our to
Speaker 3: our team, and you're gonna win a lot of football
Speaker 3: games if we keep doing that.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you about his recognition of NFL open.
Speaker 10: Yeah, it's great.
Speaker 3: I think it's great. And I think he's he's gotten
Speaker 3: better and better that as really since they started training camp,
Speaker 3: and you know, him recognized. I think he's seeing things
Speaker 3: quicker now. He's always done a good job like diagnosing
Speaker 3: the defense, but I think, you know, at first, it
Speaker 3: maybe took him a few extra seconds to really see
Speaker 3: what was happening. I think he's seeing it a little
Speaker 3: bit quicker now recognizing that stuff. You know, he does
Speaker 3: a has a good understanding and he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 3: You know, like the throat of DJ. They got a
Speaker 3: safety and he looks to the left to kind of
Speaker 3: keep the safe safety tucked over left for a little bit,
Speaker 3: knowing that DJ's went on onong with a linebacker and
Speaker 3: you know, he knows that matchup you're going to take
Speaker 3: that all day. So he did a really good job
Speaker 3: there with that, And yeah, I think he's I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna what I've been impressed with, you know, all
Speaker 3: the great stuff that he's done obviously in college and
Speaker 3: all the crazy plays I'm sure he made throughout throughout
Speaker 3: his college career. He's doing a good job, but just
Speaker 3: kind of taking them with the defense was given him
Speaker 3: the other day, and you know, to do that in
Speaker 3: your fourth game is really really impressive.
Speaker 9: What do you think you're a punter?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's awesome, man, he's uh, he's fun to w
Speaker 3: I haven't tell him. Guys like, it's fun to watch
Speaker 3: that practice. So it was cool to you know, we
Speaker 3: don't want to be in a ton of punting scenarios,
Speaker 3: but when you got somebody like that, where again where
Speaker 3: we know at the kind of in that four minute scenario,
Speaker 3: we get one first down where you know we're we're
Speaker 3: in a good spot there and we can we're able
Speaker 3: to get them to knock down some of those timeouts
Speaker 3: and Tory takes care of the rest. It's very hard
Speaker 3: for an offense to go, you know, ninety two to
Speaker 3: ninety whatever however many yards that was at the end
Speaker 3: of the game like that with no timeouts and allows
Speaker 3: the defense to really play really aggressive in those time scenarios.
Speaker 3: So yeah, he's a he's a hell of a punter man,
Speaker 3: hell of a punter.
Speaker 9: Cool with Andy Dalton coming up this Sunday, what was
Speaker 9: your signature memory of your time with Andy?
Speaker 3: I love Andy and and he's I think he's a
Speaker 3: great quarterback. I know he's always believed in himself, as
Speaker 3: you know, one of the top top thirty two guys
Speaker 3: in this league that he that he should be a
Speaker 3: start in this league.
Speaker 9: And I mean he's showing that right now in Carolina.
Speaker 3: So obviously a very veteran quarterback, a guy that knows
Speaker 3: what he's doing, can get the ball off quickly as
Speaker 3: a has a good knowledge of defenses, and so he's
Speaker 3: seen a lot in his day, and it'll be a
Speaker 3: good challenge for us. You know, this is now their
Speaker 3: team that's kind of up and rising since he's taken over,
Speaker 3: and it'll be a good challenge for our defense. But
Speaker 3: you know, watching them from a far so far, definitely
Speaker 3: happy for Andy And and what he's been able to
Speaker 3: do for the past couple of weeks.
Speaker 4: You got to stay he liked the word violence, Yes,
Speaker 4: he definitely. He used that a couple of times. And
Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of different descriptions when you're
Speaker 4: full back and h back at tight end. You know, whatever,
Speaker 4: you know, Cole is asked to be, he is, and
Speaker 4: so I thought yesterday was probably one of his best
Speaker 4: interior blocking games that I've seen.
Speaker 1: You're proud of that cup block. You're proud of that
Speaker 1: cup block on the Deandra Schoe.
Speaker 4: He made a couple that say they ran the same
Speaker 4: play twice, and he ran those and he ran that
Speaker 4: block super efficiently both times, the catch towards the sideline
Speaker 4: than the catch towards the middle of the field. I
Speaker 4: still want Cole to be a regularly targeted option for
Speaker 4: in this offense. But I was happy for Cole and
Speaker 4: the type of game he played.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: So that thigh high that's what you're looking for right
Speaker 1: at his size, that's not easy to bend there down there, right, No,
Speaker 1: But you know.
Speaker 4: These guys, they don't wear knee pads anymore. They got
Speaker 4: these little thigh pads in there, and they're more concerned
Speaker 4: about deflecting that body and that drops their head and
Speaker 4: then they lose sight of their responsibility. And it's I'm
Speaker 4: not saying go there and try to hurt anybody. I'm saying,
Speaker 4: try to focus their attention off of their responsibility.
Speaker 5: And that's exactly what Cole was able to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Hoyte, that's the first thing he did. He
Speaker 1: dropped his head. Yeah, one hundred percent. Nicely done. We
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Speaker 1: All Right, both Jalen Johnson and Cole Comet mentioned their
Speaker 1: former teammate Andy Dalton. You said, hey, don't don't go
Speaker 1: to sleep on Andy Dalton. And they've got sixty points
Speaker 1: in the last two games. Now they've split those games,
Speaker 1: but they now are not the same Panther team that
Speaker 1: started the season with with that young quarterback brace young.
Speaker 4: No, you know, all of a sudden, you add the
Speaker 4: element of development to the quarterback position, and that means
Speaker 4: you adds uncertainty by the receivers. Then you add experience
Speaker 4: to the quarterback position. Now you're adding receiver assets. And
Speaker 4: you look at what they have in the different options
Speaker 4: they have in the game.
Speaker 5: What he threw I think forty two.
Speaker 4: Times this past game, so they're letting him throw it.
Speaker 4: It's not something that they're hiding behind Andy Dalton and
Speaker 4: let the running game take over even though they had
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty five yards rushing. It's about we're
Speaker 4: gonna let Dalton be the quarterback that we brought him
Speaker 4: here to be, and he knows the system as well
Speaker 4: or maybe better than a young quarterback because he's more
Speaker 4: familiar with disguised coverages than a young guy.
Speaker 1: Is five touchdowns in his first two games. Bryce Young
Speaker 1: had thrown a combined five touchdowns in his last thirteen starts.
Speaker 1: But you mentioned the running game, and so that's got
Speaker 1: my attention right out of the gate. Chewba Hubbard has
Speaker 1: it back to back one hundred yard games. He also
Speaker 1: caught the ball yesterday, first time in his career consecutive
Speaker 1: one hundreds. And then the change up is Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: He ran for almost six of carry limited and then
Speaker 1: the second straight week with Andy Dalton. Deontay Johnson, the
Speaker 1: veteran whose name has come up in some trade talks.
Speaker 1: I heard that, you know, especially with Rashid Rice now
Speaker 1: going down in Kansas City. But he had a good game,
Speaker 1: seven for eighty three. So those are the things to
Speaker 1: look look at right there. And then defensively, it looks
Speaker 1: like Shaq Thompson's got an Achilles. Yeah, so that's that
Speaker 1: stinks for him, of course, But a young team just
Speaker 1: got a lot.
Speaker 5: Young lost their best defensive.
Speaker 2: Lineman, Derek Brown. Yeah, so that's two big losses there.
Speaker 1: They got a rookie linebacker Trevin Wallace, who came in
Speaker 1: and so wound up being the green dot guy making
Speaker 1: the checks and everything for the defense. So that's something
Speaker 1: to look at. Panthers rush defense early on in the
Speaker 1: game really good. They allowed only eight rushing yards in
Speaker 1: the first quarter and eleven for the first half. So
Speaker 1: don't get discouraged if they happen to have a plucky
Speaker 1: game when they're you know, stop on the run, stick
Speaker 1: to the run game. And I forgot about Xavier Legget
Speaker 1: because he's the speed guy at four three nine. He
Speaker 1: also had a good day. So two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: yards to Leggett and Deontay Johnson both had touchdowns.
Speaker 2: So these are these are the early.
Speaker 4: Guys to watch six three, two twenty seven. Another big receiver,
Speaker 4: a draft choice this past year. So when you look
Speaker 4: at Leggott and at developing a relationship, that's what I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. You put Leggott in there with Bryce Young.
Speaker 4: There's confusions on both ends of the football. When you
Speaker 4: put Leggott in there with Andy Dalton, now all of
Speaker 4: a sudden, you become a big target, you know, like
Speaker 4: a tight end sized target. So that's you know, Andy
Speaker 4: Dalton is really the biggest concern of what this team
Speaker 4: can do. But now it's what the Bears defense has
Speaker 4: to do.
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Speaker 1: a couple of things about the Bear. We didn't even
Speaker 1: talk about Tory Taylor enough. But you know, hey, like
Speaker 1: you said, there's jerseys with the number nineteen on it now,
Speaker 1: and that's pretty cool for a punter. His reputation precedes
Speaker 1: him obviously, and this is guy's he's only going to
Speaker 1: get better. He's only going to get better as he
Speaker 1: gets used to Soldier Field. For example, when those swirling
Speaker 1: wins and I thought it was hilarious. I read a
Speaker 1: quote and I didn't get to talk to him after
Speaker 1: the game, But the sixty six yard are into a
Speaker 1: pretty stiff win nineteen mile per hour. He goes, eh,
Speaker 1: I use it to my advantage. How do you use
Speaker 1: the wind coming at you as an advantage? I thought
Speaker 1: that was brilliant. But what's he do to the football
Speaker 1: or what does he do to create the English into
Speaker 1: the wind.
Speaker 2: For sixty six yards? Explain this to him.
Speaker 4: I think that he's got a unique ability to kick
Speaker 4: a spiral off his foot, and he knows when he's
Speaker 4: going to kick a spiral, and then he knows the
Speaker 4: predominant win direction inside that stadium. And he went to
Speaker 4: the stadium the night before the game. Oh really, he
Speaker 4: sat in a stadium to kind of let the wind
Speaker 4: hit them, to understand how it all feels. And I
Speaker 4: think when you know the predominant wind direction, no matter
Speaker 4: what sport or what you're doing out in the wind,
Speaker 4: you got to know that in order to be efficient
Speaker 4: about what you're trying to do. And so I think
Speaker 4: he gets there early, feels the wind, kind of talks
Speaker 4: to Cairo a lot about it. I see Cairo go
Speaker 4: out there every single time out and pick grass and
Speaker 4: throw it up into the air. And those specialists are
Speaker 4: weird guys, man, because that's what they do for a living.
Speaker 5: They're living off their foot.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't call it weird. I would call it a
Speaker 2: pro moment.
Speaker 5: They're weird.
Speaker 2: That's a prefer weeks. That's a veteran move.
Speaker 6: What he did.
Speaker 5: I didn't know this.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that he showed up at the stadium
Speaker 2: the night before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a real it's listen.
Speaker 4: I say that out of respect because I say that
Speaker 4: out of respect because they're so talented with their foot.
Speaker 4: That's how they're making a living. But there's so many
Speaker 4: elements that they study and investigate beforehand that they got
Speaker 4: to they got to know what's going on.
Speaker 2: Heck, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Could just head over to the stadium the night before
Speaker 1: as well. Uh, you know, make a little pot roast
Speaker 1: in the in the slow cooker and you and Tory
Speaker 1: could sit there and chop it up, love to talk
Speaker 1: football too.
Speaker 4: You know, he's got to make arrangements to have the
Speaker 4: right people open him up and allow him to get
Speaker 4: in the stadium. And you go and you sit there
Speaker 4: and study it. And I think it's kind of cool
Speaker 4: because there's so many different weather elements and how they
Speaker 4: affect Soldier Field and what was it we went through
Speaker 4: through wet. We went through three weather zones yesterday. You know,
Speaker 4: a little bit of mist and sprinkle in the morning,
Speaker 4: chill and a little bit of wind, a little chill,
Speaker 4: a little sun.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: No, it was humid at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I mean we were sweating in the booth, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: And I'm not a sweater like you. Hey, this is
Speaker 1: funny though, now that you're talking about, because you get
Speaker 1: you got to the stadium quite quite early on Sunday,
Speaker 1: even earlier than normal. And this is one thing. Would
Speaker 1: can you imagine if we had the luxury, especially at
Speaker 1: a home game, to just show up the night before,
Speaker 1: have our own little suite, right, and you can get
Speaker 1: a good night's rest, wake up, get a little workout in,
Speaker 1: run some steps once, run some stairs, you know, take
Speaker 1: a shower, get ready to call a football game. That
Speaker 1: would be my dream. That would be awesome.
Speaker 4: I dream would to have a motor home in the
Speaker 4: parking lot and live in the motor home, just sit
Speaker 4: there and relax and then walk into the stadium.
Speaker 1: But no, hey, I got I got something for you.
Speaker 1: I know somebody could hook you up. Jim Harbaugh, your
Speaker 1: old teammate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, but you just up the annie when you
Speaker 4: said having a sweet inside there where. That would just
Speaker 4: be awesome to walk in there the night before, just relaxed.
Speaker 2: And you'd never whine again about anything.
Speaker 5: It would make me want to get there on Friday night.
Speaker 4: Then Friday, sit there, watch high school football on my tab.
Speaker 1: We're as weird as you say, A special teams people are, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: big home game coming up against the Carolina Panthers. It
Speaker 1: certainly has implications as it did a year ago with
Speaker 1: the draft order, because remember this trade, this big trade
Speaker 1: that general manager Ryan Poles pulled off a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago to get DJ Moore and all that's come
Speaker 1: with it includes a second round pick that the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers own, So wherever that pick does land, it has
Speaker 1: a chance to be another good high pick for the Bears.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot to this, you know, knock them
Speaker 1: down another peg, get a win, get to three and two,
Speaker 1: and head to London a week from tonight. We're taping
Speaker 1: this on Monday, a week from Monday night, we are
Speaker 1: hitting the road for London and won't be back at
Speaker 1: Soldier Field until November tenth against New England. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's right, but it's the facts. There's a bye week
Speaker 1: of course after London. Have you put your head around?
Speaker 1: Have you wrapped around? Like I know you don't love
Speaker 1: the European travel and the European Games, but just getting
Speaker 1: yourself ready to get to head over you got to
Speaker 1: think of a lot of different things. And you're not
Speaker 1: even playing right now. There's a lot that we have
Speaker 1: to plan and organize to get ready to go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'm still going to bring a carry
Speaker 4: on piece of luggage. I'm not going to overpack Number one.
Speaker 4: Number two is you know, in preparation for the opponent.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to look ahead and start talking
Speaker 4: about that game. But when you go there, it's it's
Speaker 4: a huge travel and if you come away with the win,
Speaker 4: then you come back and you get an opportunity to
Speaker 4: refresh your mind and refresh the minds of some of
Speaker 4: these young guys, the Austin Booker and Caleb and Roma
Speaker 4: Dunza and Tory Taylor, Corona Amagaji and stuff. These young
Speaker 4: kids that have been so active since the conclusion of
Speaker 4: their senior year that they finally get four or five
Speaker 4: days to relax and then you got to ramp it
Speaker 4: back up. But you know, when you talk about the
Speaker 4: importance of the Carolina game in so many different ways,
Speaker 4: then you talk about your opponent in London, you know
Speaker 4: you come of that bye week flying high. If you're
Speaker 4: looking at two and zero in the next couple weeks.
Speaker 1: A lot to look forward to. It's going to be
Speaker 1: a fun year. I just have that kind of feeling.
Speaker 1: It's going to be dramatic every way you can type
Speaker 1: of shape it. All right, Tom, that's going to wrap
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