WEBVTT - Preview of Bears vs. Vikings MNF showdown | Bears Weekly 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome in to Bears Weekly, powered by IGS Energy by 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.920 Chicago Bears Network production. Bears Weekly is brought to you 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:12.719 by Advocate Healthcare, I've let to Go Physical Therapy, C 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.640 D Jellaghan, Connie's Pizza, IGS. 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.000 Energy, and Mener Liked. Here are your. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.919 Hosts, Jeff Chiliac aka the Mayor of Bearsville and his 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.440 sidekick Tom the Surfmaster Thayer. 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:28.680 We are back at it again. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:30.440 Good to be with you tonight, and thanks for joining 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:32.720 us on Bears Weekly, unpacking the loss of the forty 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.400 nine ers and previewing them any match with the Vikings 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.960 with Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom Baher. I'm Jeff, 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:40.600 Joniack a good friend, and former Bears quarterback Jim Miller 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.960 will be along in just a while as well from 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.280 Sirius XMNFL Radio and in the ESPN studio spinning the 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.400 Dallas tonight, Justin Pottinger. Thanks to our producers Dan Brilly 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.000 and Jordan Treda from the Bears and the executive producer 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.880 of the Bears Radio Network is Eric Ostrowski. Coming up 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.360 our interview with Bears head coach Thomas Brown from our 0:00:57.360 --> 0:00:59.960 Bears at C podcast this morning and part of my 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.280 I sit down with starting right guard Matt Pryor that 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.400 airedon Bears Game Day Live prior to the forty nine 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.840 Ers game. Good evening one and all Tom Theayre, how 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.840 you feeling and a lot to unpack tonight. 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:12.720 Yeah, there's a lot to unpack. 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:12.920 You know. 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.360 The thing about it is nowadays, in the modern world 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.039 of football, you get right to work as soon as 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.880 you get on an airplane. Before back in the day, 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.880 we used to have to wait twenty four hours for 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.200 the video to get ready and then you got a 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:26.800 chance to look at it the next day. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:28.520 That's not the case anymore. 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.600 By the time you get on the bus, you have 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.120 your video on your tablet, you go right to the 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.720 plane a three ride, a three hour plane ride home, 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.520 and then you start making corrections. It's not something that 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.440 you can sit there and dwell on what just happened. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.280 You got to sit there and watch the tape constructively 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.960 and see how you can make corrections, adjustments and improvements. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.440 And I think that's the way you go about business 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:55.040 from the end of the football game until the start 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.720 of your next football game. And whether you're an evaluator 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.520 like you and I are, or or if you are 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.200 a coach or a player, you have a different way 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.040 about going to watch the tape, and you know, everybody 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:09.440 has to do it according to their improvements. 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:12.160 Just think what Jim Miller has to do. Fara Bears 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:13.840 quarterback joining us tonight, Big Jim. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.840 How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great. 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.119 How you guys doing well? 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.919 You have to watch all sixteen games every week? 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.840 Yes, that's true, you got to go through the tape. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.880 I don't spend a lot of time on Jacksonville, Tennessee, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:27.840 trust me, I know. 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:30.560 But then let me ask you this though, with the 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.480 all twenty two that's available, do you, honestly, in terms 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:38.919 of preparation, because you're doing a daily talk show specifically 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.919 to the National Football League, are you watching as much 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:45.800 tape as anybody or do you even have time for that? 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.880 Yeah? No, I think you can, like if you know, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.280 like the big matchups like tonight, obviously they'll be the 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.680 big Monday night matchup. And but tomorrow I'll watch the 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.600 coaches tape of it. So I watched tomorrow. It goes 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.960 a lot faster than say a three hour broadcast. The 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:03.920 tape runs a lot quicker because you don't have any 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.680 of the commercials and it just goes play to play, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.160 So yeah, you can watch it and then do a 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.120 pretty in depth breakdown of a game, say of a 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.040 Monday night matchup. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.480 All right, so what are your thoughts on what transpired yesterday? 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.120 Obviously another slow start. They tried to crawl back in 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.320 it late in the second you know, and not late 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.360 but early start in the second half, and just just 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:28.400 didn't have it yesterday. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.079 Yeah, I think, you know, I think Thomas Brown was 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.280 putting a tough spot. I think he was elevated to 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.920 call plays and to continue the development of Caleb Williams, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.000 and then of course you have this this change with 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:42.680 Matt Eberflus and now more is thrust on his plate, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.920 which you know, whether we like it or not, I 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.240 don't know how fair that is to Thomas Brown, but 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.840 that's what the situation is, and they're trying to make 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.040 the best of it. So I think that's why they 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.920 did start slow. I think his attention to the offense, 0:03:57.440 --> 0:03:59.280 you know, had to take a back burner because now 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:03.400 he's delegated to the whole team, where his one job 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.640 was to get the offense up and running and get 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.360 the quarterback. So there's Hey, there's a lot they're having 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.560 to manage right now. And I think it went to 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:12.120 kind of how we. 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.200 Went Jim, what do you think about the quarterback situation specifically? 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.560 Because here you are a guy coming in with a 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.560 lot of attention paid to you since the end of 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.720 your college season, and then you start that journey towards 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.320 the draft. Then you go through the draft process and 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:37.080 onto the OTAs and hard knocks and everything else that's involved, 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.360 and now you have, you know, the second voice in 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.760 your ear through the start of a rookie season. 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:45.160 What do you think the. 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.080 Trials are for a guy like Caleb up into this 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:49.760 point and throughout the season. 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.880 Yeah, I don't think it's been ideal for him. And 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.040 he's had his part in it too, because he was 0:04:56.080 --> 0:05:00.119 a part of choosing the offensive coordinator and hopefully, in 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.159 my opinion, hopefully that's not on his plate for the 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.160 next head coach, because Caleb Williams shouldn't be choosing the 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.120 next head coach of the Chicago Bears. And so whoever 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.359 is chosen as the Bears, that's who's going to have 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.640 to work with Caleb to get him up and running 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.320 to the to where it needs to be. At the 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.760 National Football League to win games, and it's not ideal. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.760 I think you can see now the frustrations with Caleb. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.920 I think you've seen his demeanor at least the fourth 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.440 quarter of the game against the forty nine ers, where 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.520 it's kind of wearing on him. I mean, let's face it, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.760 he's the most sacked quarterback in the league. He's a 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:38.520 little shell shocked right now, and they have to finish 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.880 strong and he's got to continue to push through. And 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.320 that's where Thomas Brown, hopefully his focus is on for 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:46.279 his young quarterback. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.200 Well, Thomas Bronce certainly embracing the moment. This is something 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.040 that he ultimately wants to be. He wants to be 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:56.040 a head coach in the National Football League, and he's 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.159 taking it head on, and he's taking it head on 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.640 in terms of what went right went wrong yesterday. So 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:05.120 we'll hear some of that, but I appreciate his honesty 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.160 and his thought process throughout the course of all the 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.120 interviews he did today and after the game last night. 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.560 But he feels there's no loss of confidence and there's 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.320 plenty of optimism and they're going to battle forward. All 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.560 the things you need to have in your room to 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.120 continue to make some progress here and focusing on, you know, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.880 just another another week of prep. They thought they had 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.640 a really good week of prep. Players said it, They 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.520 said it after the game, they said it before the game, 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.240 coaches said it, but it just didn't translate to the 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:36.040 grass completely. 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.839 On Sunday, Tommy, yeah, you know, and listen, I was 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.440 expecting a high excitement performance as well, and I thought 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.200 that the conditions were perfect for the Bears, obviously the 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.159 outside outdoor playing conditions, the fact that there are some 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.800 injuries for the San Francisco forty nine ers that I 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:55.960 thought would affect their performance. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.200 But now you know again, you. 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.000 Know, we talked about it at the beginning of the show. 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.760 So you have that opportunity to make the corrections, to 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.159 watch the tape on the way home, to take that 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.400 time in order to figure out how you're going to 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.360 make corrections and adjustment on the way home, and then 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:14.160 you get into the meetings today. But it's almost like 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.320 you have to leave that behind you now because you 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.680 got to start talking about what the Minnesota Vikings do. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.520 What you can take the good portion of the game, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.040 what can you take and add it to the Minnesota 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.840 Vikings how can you look at the last game film 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:31.280 that when you played the Vikings, put a lot of 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.320 study time into that and what you did well and 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.840 how to continue that process. What did you do in 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:39.280 the second half on the offensive side of the ball 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:41.920 that you really like that you can add from the 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:44.120 beginning of this game all the way to the end. 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.600 Jim, did you when you played quarterback and it could 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:53.560 be college or your coordinator? Was he at times on 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.640 the sideline or at times in the booth, and which 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:56.400 did you prefer? 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.360 I had both in college. He was in the booth 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.640 at Morris Watts. He coached over fifty years at the 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.280 college level, so he was well versed in it. And 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.440 he went both pro and came back to college, and 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.800 then in the pros it was both ways. I've had both. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.120 The coordinator on the sideline, which was nice, and had 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.000 him up in the booth. But either way you can 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.240 talk to him. Just because he's up in the booth, 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:23.800 you still have the phone where you can just get 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:25.559 on the phone with him and talk to him and 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.600 talk through things and talk through the pictures if you 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.000 need to. And a lot of times it's just by 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:35.520 choice where maybe OC wants to get the bird's eye 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.720 view or the bigger picture, rather than being up close 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.280 and personal down on the sideline where you can't get 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:42.960 that overhead view that you need. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.559 Did you ever consider going into coaching and being an 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:49.360 offensive coordinator or quarterback coach? 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.480 Yeah, I have decided. I've been asked to do that, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.720 but you know, it's got to be the right situation obviously. 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.120 But yeah, I have been asked for, you know, to 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.480 join staffs, but it's you know, coaching is kind of 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.360 a nomadic life, you know, it really is. These coaches 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.080 move around and it's really shortened even more. But it 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:10.679 would have to be the right opportunity. 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.640 Jim, what kind of coordinator would you be? 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.680 Multiple? I think you got to be able to do everything. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:21.960 You got to have every club in your bag and 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:26.240 make them defend everything. So whether that's you know, your 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.000 base offense to if you need to go five wides, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.880 so you better have everything, but you better be able 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:37.240 to run the football too. It'd be similar to mcveigh's system, 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.840 is what it'd be, but it'd be multiple where you 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:40.560 can do everything. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.079 And my last question about this time, I'm intrigued. I 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.960 don't know, you know, after loss is like this. You know, 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.240 things just pop in your head. Had nothing to do 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:51.760 with the game that I'm asking these questions, but in 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.560 terms of of that, you know, the kind of system 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.440 and whatnot. I know, I talked to Tommy earlier today 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:03.880 on Our Bears et cetera podcast about Kurt Warner some 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.720 of the things he's saying about getting rid of the 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:10.200 football quickly, you know, try and trying to make big 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.439 plays and whatnot. There's all these ex quarterbacks and quarterback 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.480 gurus that they call themselves gurus and teachers, and they 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.760 have quarterback camps and whatever. So everybody's got opinion on 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:26.640 quarterback play. What is your strongest statement about quarterback play 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.560 today in the NFL? For young players that you think 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.320 needs to be tweaked. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:39.800 Or worked on, a decision making. Okay, ultimately the most 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:44.160 important job you have as a quarterback is your decision making, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.600 because the game can be won or lost by your 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.480 poor decisions. And I think we've seen that, you know, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.160 for young quarterbacks. You know, even for for Caleb Williams. 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.000 You know, a bad decision by not calling the time out, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:01.360 you know, so obviously you know it stems from there. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.200 I think you better be tough, both mentally and physically, 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.760 because that's how you gain respect in the locker room. 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.120 Your quarterback needs to be one of the toughest guys 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:12.920 on your team, if not the toughest mentally and physically. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.720 To take the beating from the press, to take the 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:19.080 beating from your teammates, to take the beating from your 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.800 fans and turn those jeers into cheers is what you 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.000 gotta do. Yeah, you better be a hard worker, you 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.800 better be preparation. But all the stuff in terms of 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.080 the intangibles, loving football, all those things need to be 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.640 a part of it. And then of course the tangibles. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.400 And I think we know Caleb Williams has all the tangibles. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.120 What is that arm, speed, athletic, You know, he's got 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:47.040 all those things that there are mouldible traits to be successful. 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.040 And he definitely has the intangibles as well. We're gonna 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:52.440 come back after a break. That's Jim Miller thomp there, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.560 I'm Jeff Joniyak, and we'll hear from head coach Thomas 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.000 Brown after this break on ESPN one thousand and the 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.480 Bears Radio Network. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.360 Speaks Bears Weekly with the Voice of the Bears for 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:08.880 twenty four years. Jeff Joney, chef on the Bears Radio Network. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.200 This this Sega the Bears Weekly is brought to you 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.880 by IGS Energy, Jeff, Jonny K, Tom There, and Jim Miller. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.079 Earlier today, I sat down with Thomas Brown, the Bears 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.240 head coach for our Bears. Instead of a podcast, took 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.679 kind of a different route discussion on all kinds of 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:27.480 things about the game and about him. 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.080 Let's listening. I know you've already talked a lot. 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.679 About this game and the benefit of traveling that kind 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.360 of distance. You do get a lot of work done 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:36.160 on the plane, don't you. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.240 Absolutely just haven't a challenge from a prep standpoint headed there, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.640 but also on the way back. It gives me enough 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.200 time to be able to grade both sides of the 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.520 ball and also take a pick at special teams as well. 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:51.120 I try to always, you know, watch all phases multiple times. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:52.880 I have a kind of a more accurate picture when 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.160 I end up meeting with the coordinators. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:55.760 But definitely get a ton of work there. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.320 Let me ask you about that because I learned to 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:01.880 watch tape from Tom There Super Bowl Bear so over 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.959 of course from my career, I don't know assignments or 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:05.600 anything like that. 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.600 But it's just that that ability. 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.240 To watch things over and over again, it slowed the 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.880 game down for me to call the game. When you 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.880 first started playing football and you ran the ball at Georgia, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.840 did you before you go into the NFL, did you 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.040 know how to watch tape? 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:21.680 Absolutely not. 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.360 I think come out of high school, you know you 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.480 don't really watch much tape in high school. It's no mean, 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.760 everybody's in the same media room and the head coach 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:29.800 might have a couple of clips to show from the 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.240 other opponent. But I don't think like anything else, it's 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:33.840 as skill you have to develop when it comes to 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.960 understanding what you're looking at. But also you know understand 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.640 how to break down the actual film. So watching the 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.319 game is one thing, building cut ups and preparations is 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.040 something different. So we tried to do a really good job. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.480 As I learned throughout talk about the years at Georgia, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.480 of what am I looking at? I think when I 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.240 was a freshman, I'm just I'm just watching taping and 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:52.920 tape running. 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.400 I have no idea what I'm looking at. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.960 I'm not, you know, necessarily reading coverage and looking at 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.600 linebackert the minion. I'm looking just for big plays as 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.640 time I was the only you understand to look at. 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.160 You know, formational alignments from a defensive standpoint, are there 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:09.800 any pressure tails indicative when it comes to how limbacker's 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.840 feet are, also how guys going to play and the fence, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.240 certain blocks you can of anticipate certain reads. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.760 But I think, like anything else, reperti is the mother 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:18.200 of learning. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:20.240 So the more you hear it, the more you hear it, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:21.640 the more you see it, the more you do it, 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:23.360 the better become anything. 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.880 Yeah, you know the crazy thing about it, it's the 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.040 subtle stuff. It's the hand placement, it's the footwork, it's 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.160 how somebody's lined up. The uniqueness of the greatest players 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.600 that in a split second can do something that one 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:39.080 tenth of one percent of the entire world is capable 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.760 of doing because of their strength or athleticism or their instincts. Right, 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.560 And that's the beauty of watching tape because if you 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.320 really slow it down and watch it over and over 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.120 and over again, it almost paints a different picture every time, 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:52.200 don't you agree. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:54.360 It's like watching poetry emotion of time. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.480 And I think you know that's why I oftentimes get 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.600 irritated when people speak about athletes football player in general 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.440 not being intelligent. You have to be highly intellectual to 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.200 be able to understand and diagnose some processing and a 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.800 split second and make a full speed decision with the. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:09.440 Game in the line. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.080 So I think it's it's all about, you know, kind 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.280 of what you commit yourself to, and as you mentioned before, 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.720 the greats becoming the greats because of their habits and 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:18.480 with the repeat on a regular basis, but also what 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.000 they can kind of do a really good job of 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:20.920 with Tennessees. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.000 That's what I try to. 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.680 Do a really good job with the offense of how 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.920 we marry formations and motions and even just talk citible 0:15:26.960 --> 0:15:29.680 about his mechanics and demeanor in the pocket proof that 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.000 wise they're gonna keep everything off of your hand placement 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.520 that you grab a tael before the ball comes any 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.120 manner and they can pick up on them for the 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.360 balla so try to be as uniform as possible. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.720 They can't get a key on when the ball's gonna 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.359 be snapped. 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.400 You know, it's almost And I play baseball, so I 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.000 always used to hitch before I threw, and sometimes if 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.119 a fast runner. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.960 He got me, you know, but exactly almost almost every 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:52.520 quarterback taps before they throw. 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.360 Though, to me, that's an indicator, right, but it is 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.680 part of the ritual that you grew up with or 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.520 your you can't, I mean, it's just you, right. Do 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.520 you find that interesting that a lot of quarterbacks tap 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:05.200 it first. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.080 Yeah, I think it just goes back to habits. 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.280 I think whether you create good habits and bad habits, 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.800 it is still define who you are. And so, as 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.520 you mentioned, a lot of qbs do kind of pat 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.240 the ball before the ball comes out. 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.840 I remember being in LA listening. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.320 To idb's coaches talk about pattern match and reading key 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.080 e ball out break wileos got to make their breaks 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.120 off of a kep pats balls about to come out, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.400 so they we go trigger and drive on the ball, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.440 which to me, if you're aware that from a quarterback standpoint, 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:32.600 you can play off of that and you can dumb 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.920 me tap, make a defensive drive for double moves and 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.400 throw the ball behind them. So, but it's definitely all 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.120 about kind of playing the game within the game, and 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.640 also how much can you disguise and minimize the tennessees 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.160 you kind of exposed to the other opponent. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.720 So with that being said, when you watched it and 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.640 watch it, watch it again, and watch it again, and 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.440 you'll watch it again with the team. What are some 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.520 things that you feel are correctible from the tape from 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:57.600 yesterday's game. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.239 Yeah, the execution first and foremore as far as our assignments, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.239 our details, and how we execute the players if they 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:07.840 plays become just wines on the sheet until you bring 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:08.960 to life something. 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:09.920 The more clear that we can. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:13.080 Give our guys a better understanding, the better they can execute. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.600 Opposite getting played a really good football team. This is 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.280 just the NFL that there's no d League of the NFL, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:19.840 So it's the best of the best that are here, 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:20.520 and so. 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:21.240 We can and we out. 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.520 You going to face really good opponents with really good players, 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.680 and so have to be ready for that challenge to. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.080 Be up to it. I think also when it comes. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:33.160 To separating, you know, motivation and confidence from actually execution, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.240 I think our guys were definitely motivated, they were definitely confident. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:37.640 We had a really good week of preparation. 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.960 But the game, the execution is what matters the most 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:42.760 when it comes from winning and losing football. 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:46.520 Games, and with that becomes the psyche of a player 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:47.000 or a team. 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:50.399 Do you do you feel that you have a. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.080 Pretty firm grasp on the overall psyche of the team, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.240 especially one that now has unfortunately lost seven games in 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.359 a row, because that could go many different ways. But 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.679 you've been there the whole season, and it's not just 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.800 now that you're in charge. You have had a good 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:06.719 sense of it, but the hopes of a winning season 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.840 for example, our dash, but now it's about just putting 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:11.560 your best foot forward for the final four. 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.600 Do you have a good sense of that from these guys? 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:15.040 Yeah, I mean I feel like I do. I mean, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.320 I've seen time you drop seven in a row. I'm 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:18.520 not gonna say the cycle is going to be in 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.280 a great spot. That would be unrealistic and not a 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.280 true statement. But I think as far as our guys 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.080