Speaker 1: Right justin middle of the field forty five to fifteen.
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Speaker 1: I am Jeff joni yack litz.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to answer any questions like that.
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Speaker 1: What's Sunday stroll for?
Speaker 2: Justin field?
Speaker 1: Ye Bears et cetera with the voices of the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears Jeff Joniac streak stopping, nail nibbling win by the
Speaker 1: Bears on the road in prime time. It was far
Speaker 1: from a masterpiece, but deeply compelling, as the Bears upset
Speaker 1: the Vikings twelve to ten without scoring a touchdown, Cairo
Speaker 1: Santos bouncing back from an early misfire to boot four
Speaker 1: field goals, including the game winner with ten seconds to
Speaker 1: go in Minnesota with Super Bowl winning Bear guard Tom Thayer.
Speaker 1: I'm Jeff joniak and this is Bears et cetera, Episode
Speaker 1: number thirty seven, Bears three and one primetime this season,
Speaker 1: four and eight overall, and now have reached the week
Speaker 1: thirteen by five games to go big time, all of
Speaker 1: them outdoors and the elements, including three at Soldier Field,
Speaker 1: including Week fourteen and noon start with the Detroit Lions,
Speaker 1: and whoever you want to slice it. After an own
Speaker 1: four start, the Bears are four and four. They found
Speaker 1: a way to get five hundred in the last eight
Speaker 1: games and five games to go, and you never know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess now.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're still playing with attitude, they're still playing
Speaker 3: with hustle, they're still playing with fight till the end
Speaker 3: of the game, and they're making significant improvement in certain
Speaker 3: areas that gives you really a positive thinking about the future.
Speaker 3: So I'm happy what I've seen, and I'm kind of
Speaker 3: glad the season's unfolding where and when it is, because
Speaker 3: they played a difficult game in Detroit. They played a
Speaker 3: difficult game, and talking about the atmosphere in Minnesota, now
Speaker 3: they have a couple of games on the at home
Speaker 3: in the cold, and you're going to learn a lot
Speaker 3: about guys in that role as well. And then you
Speaker 3: close out the season against the Green Bay Packers from
Speaker 3: a team that you played the first week of the season,
Speaker 3: and so I think you're gonna learn a lot about
Speaker 3: your football team.
Speaker 1: No question, and no matter how it unfolded big time.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields lost two fumbles in the fourth quarter, but
Speaker 1: resiliently fought back to put that out of his mind
Speaker 1: make the biggest play summer, saying the biggest play in
Speaker 1: his career a thirty six yard strike to DJ Moore,
Speaker 1: who took advantage of the coverage that the longest play
Speaker 1: of the game on that dagger route and set up
Speaker 1: Santos for the thirty yard field goal for the win. So,
Speaker 1: after going twelve for twelve to start the day and
Speaker 1: moving the football again but not abble to put in
Speaker 1: the end zone, it's still managing to get the win.
Speaker 1: I granted you should when you take the ballaway four times,
Speaker 1: but I got to give Justin credit there. He stepped
Speaker 1: up and zipped that throw, And in fact, there were
Speaker 1: two throws on that drive, the sixteen yarder, and he
Speaker 1: was a little bit Hoho Dini all day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the end result and that throw to Dj Moore,
Speaker 3: it leaves a really good feeling.
Speaker 2: About what Justin's capable.
Speaker 3: But unfortunately, as a player, as a coach, as a broadcaster,
Speaker 3: and as an evaluator, you don't only get a chance
Speaker 3: to watch one play.
Speaker 2: You have to watch the whole game.
Speaker 3: So there there are different plays within that game that
Speaker 3: I'm sure Justin would like to have back, or you know,
Speaker 3: running backs would like to make a different decision. Offensive
Speaker 3: linemen would like to understand their blocking responsibility according to
Speaker 3: the play. But that's the great thing about football. You
Speaker 3: go back and you study your past performance and you
Speaker 3: see how you can be better your next performance.
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Speaker 1: According to ESPN's stats info for Courtney Cronin our good
Speaker 1: friend from ESPN one thousand does a great job writing
Speaker 1: about the Bears, does so in a fair way. Fields
Speaker 1: blitzed on fifty two percent of his dropbacks, and again
Speaker 1: it was a horizontal, horizontal plan thirteen screens that led
Speaker 1: to his lowest air yards per attempt and air yards
Speaker 1: per completion of his career, just two point four and
Speaker 1: one point nine in the completion, only three or five
Speaker 1: passes ten plus air yards in the game. So you
Speaker 1: could see the chart, you could see where Djmore ran
Speaker 1: his routes. There's one particular one just standing out there
Speaker 1: thirty six yards away middle of the field on that
Speaker 1: throw that set up the field goal. But let's take
Speaker 1: this in two parts, because you watch the tape very
Speaker 1: very closely, and you do so with a very keen insight.
Speaker 1: So how did the entire pass protection plan work against
Speaker 1: a fifty two percent blitz rate? That's one part? And
Speaker 1: part b what did you think of a perimeter plan
Speaker 1: to fight that blitz?
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me make one thing my feeling about that.
Speaker 3: So if you have a perimeter plan of attack against
Speaker 3: the blitzing football team, I wish they could count in
Speaker 3: lateral air yards. That is significant, how quickly the ball
Speaker 3: has to get out of your hand, how the placement
Speaker 3: has to be perfect, and you have to have good
Speaker 3: exterior blocks in order to get anything out of them.
Speaker 3: So I think it would be you'd have a difference
Speaker 3: of opinion if you could have a staff that counted lateral.
Speaker 2: Yards as well as downfield yards.
Speaker 3: To me, when you talk about the blitzing of Brian Floores,
Speaker 3: the defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings, I.
Speaker 2: Think unless they got just got.
Speaker 3: Beat by a better defensive effort than the blocking effort.
Speaker 3: I think the Bears did a really nice job. I
Speaker 3: think if you could take out the mental airs that
Speaker 3: showed up a couple times in pass protection, I still
Speaker 3: think the Bears did a really nice job. Is an
Speaker 3: offensive line or running backs ever going to have a
Speaker 3: perfect performance and that many pass blocking responsibilities? Know however,
Speaker 3: they one way more than they lost, and it's evident
Speaker 3: in what they were able to accomplish at the end
Speaker 3: of the day. So whether you want to talk about
Speaker 3: a rookie like Darnell Right or if you want to
Speaker 3: talk about Roshawn Johnson, both of these guys are improving
Speaker 3: at a super high rate. Did they make a couple
Speaker 3: of mistakes in the game, Yeah, but listen and in
Speaker 3: my ninth year as an offensive line veteran, I made mistakes.
Speaker 3: So again it's about you know, your next performance being
Speaker 3: evaluated from your past performance.
Speaker 1: First time Bears won a game without scoring a touchdown
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety three, you still were trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if you were in that game six nothing went
Speaker 1: over Atlanta? Were you in Miami already?
Speaker 3: I was in Miami, so yeah I was. You know,
Speaker 3: I'm always a Bears fan, but at that point I.
Speaker 1: Was, I mean, there is a ton these days, and
Speaker 1: I think it's hard. I'm not listen. It is what
Speaker 1: it is. We love this game, and the more interest
Speaker 1: in this game worldwide, the better for all of us
Speaker 1: who have dedicated our entire life professionally to this sport.
Speaker 1: And you know no more than anybody else in this
Speaker 1: world lifetime, since you were a youth football player now
Speaker 1: an analyst. The statistical analysis out there, with everything from
Speaker 1: next Gen Stats to Pro Football Focus to other things
Speaker 1: that are popping up, is just insane. And so it
Speaker 1: does create some narratives though, and it's unescapable. But the
Speaker 1: Next Gen Stats is an NFL fact and funded stat service.
Speaker 1: I don't know who's doing it. I don't know what,
Speaker 1: but we should ask them. We should submit this fair question.
Speaker 1: Do the lateral yards? Because it and what? Because it
Speaker 1: is something that I never gave thought to that you
Speaker 1: just brought to my attention. And because you're a C student,
Speaker 1: you're more of an idea man than a than a
Speaker 1: than a scholar. Big time, you're onto something.
Speaker 3: Well, no, listen to man at the podium, and the
Speaker 3: question was asked about the game plan going into it,
Speaker 3: and they talked about the lateral passing game and how
Speaker 3: much it benefits the Bears offense against this type of attack. Listen,
Speaker 3: I think it's a reasonable stat that you should keep
Speaker 3: because when you're talking about Justin standing on the left,
Speaker 3: hash In throwing a pass laterally in an instant's notice
Speaker 3: to the right sideline, that's thirty five yards of Kerry
Speaker 3: and then DJ Moore gets a catch, gets a block
Speaker 3: by e Q Saint Brown, and then turns it into
Speaker 3: a twelve yard game. I think there is some significant
Speaker 3: backing and I think it's complementary to the offense. It's
Speaker 3: complementary to the speed at of the play and the
Speaker 3: decision and the precision accuracy of a pass that difficult
Speaker 3: for quarterbacks. I just think they deserve more credit than
Speaker 3: what the ball only traveled two yards, you know, per
Speaker 3: a temp that's not the case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, a lot of folks looked at this and
Speaker 1: if you love offense and you want to see an
Speaker 1: aerial show that adn't think much of the game. It's
Speaker 1: a It's a low scoring, no touchdown game for the
Speaker 1: Bears a week down a win. There was still drama
Speaker 1: to it. It was still important. It was a road
Speaker 1: win in the NFC North for the first time for
Speaker 1: Matt Eberfluss in his administration, and for Justin Fields to
Speaker 1: beat a Viking team that at the moment is still
Speaker 1: in the playoff on is a summer seventh seed, the
Speaker 1: final seed in the NFC for the wild card. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of you got to you gotta look
Speaker 1: at it that way. He can't just look at everything
Speaker 1: through a straw. You gotta look at the bigger picture.
Speaker 3: Just one point about that, because you have to also
Speaker 3: look at the other side of the ball. Because I
Speaker 3: think the Bears did a really nice job of being
Speaker 3: deceptive at the line of scrimmage themselves, and then they
Speaker 3: created some unescapable pockets for dobs that resulted in interceptions. So,
Speaker 3: you know, you talk about the elusiveness of a guy
Speaker 3: like Justin and his athleticism and how he uses it,
Speaker 3: and then and you look at what the Bears have
Speaker 3: been able to do with a good group of defensive
Speaker 3: linemen that are creating unescapable pockets. Now, if you have
Speaker 3: to throw the ball as much as three quarters of
Speaker 3: a second early, it results in the tip ball off
Speaker 3: the fingertips of a receiver that results in the interception.
Speaker 3: So you got off to look at it from both
Speaker 3: sides of the game plan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll dig deeper into that after we get a
Speaker 1: look at the status at hattis from Bears head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Eberfluss. Take a chance download the Bette Rivers app today.
Speaker 1: Here's my conversation with the Bears head coach. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us once again. Congratulations sound the win.
Speaker 1: Played really hard again. All the analysts around lead keep
Speaker 1: talking about how hard the Bears play and eventually, you know,
Speaker 1: keep pounding that rock, it's going to break, and it
Speaker 1: certainly did. Hanging in there and I know you finished.
Speaker 1: That was the big theme, and everybody on the team
Speaker 1: in that locker room going to get a painted ball
Speaker 1: with finish on it. No greater word than finish. Giving
Speaker 1: out hard.
Speaker 5: It's been right, yeah, and you know, obviously great to
Speaker 5: get the division win, and you know, it's always you know,
Speaker 5: fun coaching off a win. And certainly there's a lot
Speaker 5: of things we can learn from that tape as well.
Speaker 5: But the situational football was good. You know, we won
Speaker 5: the third down battle and you know, obviously the fourth
Speaker 5: downs also and that's a big part of it. And
Speaker 5: then we won a two minute you know at the
Speaker 5: end of the game, you know, so the conpmentary football,
Speaker 5: and again we had adversity in there. You know, we
Speaker 5: had a couple of fumbles at the end, you know,
Speaker 5: and we had to do a good job of stopping
Speaker 5: them on defense you know, the ford and make them punt,
Speaker 5: you know, and in that situation to create that two minute,
Speaker 5: and the guys did a great job of that. What
Speaker 5: a great play by TJ, you know on that third
Speaker 5: down play to force that fourth and ten. Great play
Speaker 5: and then uh, they punt and then we get two
Speaker 5: minutes with no timeouts. You know, I thought we utilize
Speaker 5: our timeouts to just to maximize our.
Speaker 4: Time in there.
Speaker 5: And again we're very comfortable working at two minutes, you know,
Speaker 5: because we do a lot in practice with no timeouts.
Speaker 5: And the guys did a good job of operating, and
Speaker 5: then obviously the big strike to DJ to put us
Speaker 5: in position, and then we did a good job of
Speaker 5: you know, milking it down with a couple of nils
Speaker 5: there and the Vikings, you know, use their timeouts, and
Speaker 5: then you know, once we scored the field goal, they
Speaker 5: had five seconds to go, and we had another situational
Speaker 5: defense that we had to put out there, and the
Speaker 5: guys did a nice job operating.
Speaker 1: So there's always reactions over reactions and maybe overstatements and
Speaker 1: things when something like this happened. So some are writing
Speaker 1: and saying, that's the biggest throw in Justin Field's career,
Speaker 1: the thirty six yard strike the DJ Moore after coming
Speaker 1: back from two fumbles. I don't know if you frame
Speaker 1: stuff like that way. I know you're looking very much
Speaker 1: through a straw at the season instead a big picture.
Speaker 1: But could that be from your experience?
Speaker 4: Well, I just know this, that's so great resolve.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know by him, you know, when you have
Speaker 5: two fumbles at the end of the game like that,
Speaker 5: to be able to reset your focus and reset your
Speaker 5: mind to the task at hand and then go operate.
Speaker 5: You know, didn't take a sack, you know, found the
Speaker 5: open receivers scrambled when you know he should have scrambled,
Speaker 5: and then hit the open DJ for the big strike
Speaker 5: to put us in the winning position. And that to
Speaker 5: me is growth and that's what that's how I look
Speaker 5: at it.
Speaker 1: You're a defensive guy, do you have respect for the
Speaker 1: pressure packages that Brian Flores puts together. Do you think
Speaker 1: it's right up there among the best in the league
Speaker 1: and their creativity and constant pressure because he was justin
Speaker 1: was pulling Houdini X last night.
Speaker 4: For sure, yeah he did.
Speaker 5: And he did a really good job of evading most
Speaker 5: of those for the most part. And again they got
Speaker 5: us in a in a couple at the end. But
Speaker 5: for sure, you know, the pressure and again that's that's
Speaker 5: something that you know, was made famous by Buddy Ryan
Speaker 5: here at the Bears, you know, when we won the
Speaker 5: Super Bowl here and uh, you know a lot of
Speaker 5: those same elements.
Speaker 1: Are there is some Bear defense in there, yeah, a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah there is, but there's there's you know, multiple fronts
Speaker 5: in there. But the coverages are different, you know, and
Speaker 5: I think that we, you know, we can take advantage
Speaker 5: of some of those pockets that are.
Speaker 1: Open there, which leads me to that my next question.
Speaker 1: Because so much attention to the perimeter to try and
Speaker 1: mute that rush, and that is a great idea, but
Speaker 1: over the course of the game, how much patience is
Speaker 1: required by you, even as the head coach, not just
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator here too, Now to have that patience
Speaker 1: to write it out and knowing your defense was really
Speaker 1: shutting them down over the course of the entire game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean you could certainly feel that was the
Speaker 5: type of game it was going to be. You know,
Speaker 5: we anticipated it could be like that, you know, so
Speaker 5: we were set. Our mindset was, you know, obviously an attack,
Speaker 5: you know, because their offense did a really good job
Speaker 5: in the first two series. Right we go fourteen plays,
Speaker 5: ten plays, we come out of half and go another
Speaker 5: ten and we finished the game with another ten play drive.
Speaker 5: So you know, our idea is attack to attack, and
Speaker 5: one of those ways to attack is on the perimeter
Speaker 5: and to spit the ball when they give you those
Speaker 5: pressure looks, to get it on the edge, and we
Speaker 5: had some very successful play He's doing that, and you know,
Speaker 5: certainly and they're going to get some of their plays.
Speaker 5: You know, they reacted to some of them, either from
Speaker 5: inside out or doing a good job in the perimeter
Speaker 5: to stop those plays, and that's certainly all part of it.
Speaker 5: But that's certainly one of the answers you do for
Speaker 5: the pressure.
Speaker 1: DJ Moore, we heard what you said about him, and
Speaker 1: I can't stop talking about him. When he gets the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands. You really are counting out a
Speaker 1: positive play. And even if it's covered, he's gonna wrestle
Speaker 1: it out. He's gonna suddenly break away from attack. He
Speaker 1: just refuses to quit. He freezes to go down. And
Speaker 1: right now with Justin, Justin hasn't played the whole season,
Speaker 1: but they're the number one duo and quarterback rating with
Speaker 1: receiver quarterback in the NFL. What is that saying about
Speaker 1: just that relationship right now? And it's his go to
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, Comet's getting a lot of targets.
Speaker 2: You got.
Speaker 1: The running game is still solid. He can beat you
Speaker 1: with you with his legs as well, but that has
Speaker 1: proved to be very vague.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I certainly felt that from the on set. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, when DJ came here, there was an immediate
Speaker 5: chemistry with those guys, and you know, you can certainly
Speaker 5: feel that now, you know, and.
Speaker 4: Then you know, we get you know, put the ball in.
Speaker 5: The hands of the players, right you know, so DJ
Speaker 5: is one of our better players, and you know, at
Speaker 5: the end of the game, we put it in his
Speaker 5: hands and that's an important part of that. And really
Speaker 5: throughout the whole course of the game, you saw the
Speaker 5: targets and the amount of yards and now he has
Speaker 5: a thousand thousand yards for the season, you know, seventy
Speaker 5: catches and.
Speaker 4: And certainly that's a that's a bright spot and we
Speaker 4: have to keep that going.
Speaker 1: All right, There's so many little things. Unfortunately we're not
Speaker 1: gonna have time to get them all. But I just
Speaker 1: felt this game just there's a lot more to the
Speaker 1: story than just the twelve ten finish. And that's what
Speaker 1: made it compelling for me. Let's start with Roshawn Johnson. So,
Speaker 1: ro Sean got I think fifty two snaps in the
Speaker 1: game by ground and by air. I've got some good balls.
Speaker 1: But you know, the pass pro there was one snap
Speaker 1: I can't remember which one now, he basically took down
Speaker 1: two Vikings on the on the blitz. Now, nothing was perfect, obviously,
Speaker 1: but what he did yesterday, how valuable was it? Just
Speaker 1: that whatever little amount it was in terms of total yards,
Speaker 1: the past protection, the catches to help justin out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he did a really good job. You know.
Speaker 5: Again, he's you know, has a couple of things he's
Speaker 5: got to clean up, just like the rest of us.
Speaker 5: But uh, you know, overall, you could you could feel
Speaker 5: his energy. You could feel him in protection. You could
Speaker 5: feel him, you know, you know, reading the runs the
Speaker 5: right way, you know, and the toss play stretching him
Speaker 5: out to the numbers and then cutting him up and
Speaker 5: running him the correct way.
Speaker 4: You know. So that's certainly a big bright spot for him,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 5: And then you know, finding himself, you know, in the
Speaker 5: scramble drill, finding himself open in.
Speaker 4: A couple unique situations. And Klil did too.
Speaker 5: You know, Clil had that one nice one on the
Speaker 5: side on our sideline as well. But those guys got
Speaker 5: to continue to do that. I think Justin's growing that
Speaker 5: way in terms of, you know, keeping his eyes on
Speaker 5: the field. I think he had three h three really
Speaker 5: big chunks in those scramble situations, and he could hit
Speaker 5: Mooney on the side on the other one, you know,
Speaker 5: So that was just a little bit high on that one.
Speaker 5: But that was another big opportunity for us.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with the rookie theme. Terrell Smith comes
Speaker 1: in legion tackles. All eight were solos, and I would
Speaker 1: have loved to see if he had been able to
Speaker 1: stay healthy in training camp and not have the mono,
Speaker 1: because you don't know where he'd be right now. I
Speaker 1: mean maybe you do. I mean, but is that arrow
Speaker 1: definitely pointing up Cressman.
Speaker 5: Yeah, him and Tyreek Uh. You know, Ryan Poles in
Speaker 5: his group did an awesome job of you know, evaluating
Speaker 5: those guys, you know, with the evaluations of the coaching
Speaker 5: staff and all of us on the same page to
Speaker 5: be able to get those big corners that are are
Speaker 5: good tacklers, but they can play against bigger body guys.
Speaker 5: And that's that's important in this league because you know
Speaker 5: when you play that you know the go ball or
Speaker 5: the or the slant ball, that the length matters.
Speaker 4: You know it does.
Speaker 5: And even in tackling, tackling, you know in the perimeter,
Speaker 5: length matters because you're able to wrap up, you're able
Speaker 5: to be strong, and you're to be long, you know,
Speaker 5: when you're setting the edge out there in the run game.
Speaker 4: So you know that that's a big part of who
Speaker 4: we are.
Speaker 5: We like long defensive backs and those guys fit right
Speaker 5: under our mode.
Speaker 1: Javon Dexter hits the quarterback gets a flag for it.
Speaker 1: What else is he supposed to do at his length
Speaker 1: and size? Can he turned down? So he doesn't the only.
Speaker 5: Thing that they said there is just you just got
Speaker 5: to brace, you gotta you can't, you know, your body
Speaker 5: weight can't go on the quarterback, and he has to
Speaker 5: do and we coach the guys to do that, to
Speaker 5: make sure that they brace, you know, on the ground
Speaker 5: and don't put their weight on the quarterback.
Speaker 4: And this is the way the rules are, and it's
Speaker 4: for a good reason.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: We want to be able to keep the quarterbacks in
Speaker 4: the game. They're a big part of our game, you know,
Speaker 4: and so we got to do it, right.
Speaker 1: Is he rising every day?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he is.
Speaker 5: His pressure rates up, He's doing a really good job
Speaker 5: of keeping his pads down, his takeoff, his get off
Speaker 5: is really good, and his approach, you know, to the
Speaker 5: quarterback is getting better and better. So we just got
Speaker 5: to keep building upon that. And Pickens is doing it
Speaker 5: good job too, you know, those all those young tackles
Speaker 5: are in there doing the next job. And our two
Speaker 5: vets are doing a solid job in there as well.
Speaker 1: Montes sweat again, he's eating up grass so quickly when
Speaker 1: he breaks free of his block, and he's ragged on quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy something else and everybody, it's really
Speaker 1: helping you across the board.
Speaker 5: There, Tes is a beast in there now. He's certainly
Speaker 5: one of the better pass rushers in the league for sure,
Speaker 5: and you know, his pressure rate would show that, sacks
Speaker 5: would show that, and you know, we're just going to
Speaker 5: keep getting more and more production at him. We're going
Speaker 5: to set him up the best we can for one
Speaker 5: on ones and he will take advantage of those.
Speaker 1: I just can't get over, you know, we I think
Speaker 1: we talked about this last week, but I can't get
Speaker 1: it out of my head. It just impresses me because
Speaker 1: you don't think much about that forty time, but it
Speaker 1: does factor with this guy.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's explosive to the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Yeah, What's what's really cool about him is that the
Speaker 5: effort in which he plays. I think he was at
Speaker 5: seventy one percent yesterday.
Speaker 1: Thirty nine out of the fifty five.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 5: I mean he's been in the majority of our third
Speaker 5: downs the entire season. I think it's fifty one out
Speaker 5: of fifty six. I believe that is. So we're excited
Speaker 5: about where he is and the production that he's bringing.
Speaker 5: And what's more impressive is that how he plays the run.
Speaker 5: You know, as all the pressures that he gives and
Speaker 5: creates for everybody else.
Speaker 4: He also plays the.
Speaker 5: Run really well, so he's an all round defensive end
Speaker 5: and we're certainly excited.
Speaker 1: To have him number one rushing defense in the NFL
Speaker 1: through thirteen weeks. I guess with the bye week, you'll
Speaker 1: find out in week fourteen. But that is not an
Speaker 1: insignificant jump from ware you worse season ago. What do
Speaker 1: you attributed to?
Speaker 5: Yeah, the guys are really doing a good job, you know,
Speaker 5: just playing together, you know, and when run defense is
Speaker 5: all about being where you're supposed to be, you know,
Speaker 5: and playing with good technique and good pad level, and
Speaker 5: guys understand where they fit in the run scheme. And again,
Speaker 5: we have to do a better job. Yesterday it was good,
Speaker 5: but it was up to our standard in terms of
Speaker 5: the run average. But we got to continue to improve
Speaker 5: on that. And uh, you know, and the coaches have
Speaker 5: done a really good job of coaching.
Speaker 4: That technique and getting the guys in the right position.
Speaker 5: So it's really all of us, you know, the coaches
Speaker 5: and the players together, you know, making an emphasis of it,
Speaker 5: you know, and I think you know the players that
Speaker 5: we acquired, you know, again pointing.
Speaker 4: Back to the to the scouting staff is that. You know,
Speaker 4: Billings is a big part of that. You know, Walker
Speaker 4: is a big part of that.
Speaker 1: You know, Uh, j Clean and Germaine, all those.
Speaker 5: Guys, you know, the inside backers, they're all part of it,
Speaker 5: you know. So it's personnel, it's scheme, it's you know,
Speaker 5: and it's guys coaching and you know and playing it.
Speaker 1: You got a feeding frenzy right now in the takeaway department.
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson another big game. Three pass breakups, so he
Speaker 1: had a direct hand in his own interception and another
Speaker 1: one and then Robby could have had another pick six.
Speaker 1: I just remember when Lovey and those guys, they they
Speaker 1: had a plan and those guys couldn't wait to start
Speaker 1: blocking for him. So get to the numbers, run the
Speaker 1: sideline right.
Speaker 4: Yep, exactly.
Speaker 5: We you know, we had a good setup for him
Speaker 5: right there, and we'll continue to improve on that and
Speaker 5: we'll show him the tape and we'll.
Speaker 4: Continue to practice it.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: And the big thing for Jalen is that man, you know,
Speaker 5: he's he's you know, really sticky. You know, he's got
Speaker 5: great feet and he's able to stay with receivers in
Speaker 5: the intermediate and the deep pass and uh, he's always
Speaker 5: in position, you know, and we're just gonna have to
Speaker 5: work continue to work with him and coach hok and
Speaker 5: and put him in position to.
Speaker 4: Make those plays.
Speaker 5: And he will because he's going to be in position
Speaker 5: to make him and we're excited about his opportunity coming up.
Speaker 1: They get over exuberant. They got the ball and now
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not a player.
Speaker 4: So well.
Speaker 5: He also he also had like you said, he had
Speaker 5: a deflection that know, TJ got the interception from too,
Speaker 5: so he's playing.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk Cairo Santos. He said he he felt
Speaker 1: so much confidence from you that the fifty five yard
Speaker 1: he said he could have kicked sixty. He claims he
Speaker 1: told you sixty at the end of the game too,
Speaker 1: if you needed because of the initial myths that you
Speaker 1: did not waiver. How important is that head coach player
Speaker 1: relationship that you always talk about position coach high Tower
Speaker 1: all that, because it seems to really resonate with Cairo.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the whole relationship, you know, side of it.
Speaker 5: And we have relationships with every one of our players,
Speaker 5: and I think that's a really key component to having
Speaker 5: a good football team that can have resolve that can
Speaker 5: go through adversity, that can respond in a positive way.
Speaker 4: And it all starts there, you know.
Speaker 5: So it's my belief in him and his belief in
Speaker 5: me and our relationship that we have together. So it
Speaker 5: was pretty easy because we have that solid foundation.
Speaker 1: All right, You split your last eight, you go into
Speaker 1: the bye a week pretty darn dog gone healthy for
Speaker 1: a late season. You have five outdoor games in the elements,
Speaker 1: three at home. What's your vision here for the final
Speaker 1: five and getting through it all?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, certainly please with the health of our
Speaker 5: football team. You know, the performing staff has done a
Speaker 5: really good job. The strength staff has done a good
Speaker 5: job of keeping those guys you know, where they need
Speaker 5: to be. And you know, our practices have been good,
Speaker 5: They've been energized. You know, we're excited about these last five.
Speaker 4: Games and and and that they are outside.
Speaker 5: You know, this is Chicago Bear football to us, and
Speaker 5: we're excited about the opportunity. I talked to the players
Speaker 5: yesterday about I want them to think about the opportunity
Speaker 5: and the plays that are gonna make, you know, come
Speaker 5: going forward into these last five games and rest recovery
Speaker 5: is a big part of this by week to get
Speaker 5: their mind, their body, and their spirit in the right
Speaker 5: spot when they come back in on Monday.
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time as always, have a great
Speaker 1: bye week, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: So he heads into the bye week feeling very optimistic
Speaker 1: Tom about the health of his football team number one,
Speaker 1: and just their their determination and how hard they're they're
Speaker 1: playing on game day, Opposing coaches are seeing it, analysts
Speaker 1: are seeing it. The Bears are playing hard. Whatever the
Speaker 1: results are. Sometimes they're not in your favor, but they
Speaker 1: are playing hard and they're and they're in games. And
Speaker 1: so they managed to find a way to win a
Speaker 1: road game in Minnesota, and not a simple task. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go back to the defense. I want to go
Speaker 1: back to what you were talking about about the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. The Montese sweat factor is significant. Let's be on.
Speaker 1: It's making everybody else better on that defensive line and
Speaker 1: for that matter of the whole defense. The balls coming
Speaker 1: out quicker, Like you said, I thought it was kind
Speaker 1: of strange watching the pastor or not in the pocket there.
Speaker 1: They weren't deep drops, they were short drops, and the
Speaker 1: pocket it was really shrinking. The vice scripts were there
Speaker 1: and it was like he was oblivious to it. And
Speaker 1: he's like, I don't know how he even escaped a
Speaker 1: ten sac day because that could have happened to him.
Speaker 1: What was your vantage point? What's your view of how
Speaker 1: he dealt with the Bear's pass rush, and what did
Speaker 1: you think of the job Travis Smith did for the
Speaker 1: simple things of even just putting a cockway on the
Speaker 1: same side with Sweat and let those guys work their magic.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Walker having three hits on the quarterback Givon Dexter
Speaker 1: again adding to his pressures that guy is on the move,
Speaker 1: he is coming. I just liked the creativity that Sweat
Speaker 1: now has multiplied for this defensive staff to come up
Speaker 1: with plans.
Speaker 3: First of all, I would rather talk about defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: Matty Eberflus because he's got a lot on his plate.
Speaker 3: And if you look at the different the variation of
Speaker 3: defensive fronts, the way they use, the variety of players
Speaker 3: when you filter and Kyler Gordon and Jakwan Brisker, you
Speaker 3: look at TJ. Edwards and Jack Sanborn and Tremaine Edmunds,
Speaker 3: how they can line up at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: And now they have to be accounted for as pass rushers,
Speaker 3: not linebackers. But then they can drop instantly and get
Speaker 3: into a coverage responsibility that maybe the quarterback is not
Speaker 3: aware of where they're going to be. And now you
Speaker 3: talk about Travis Smith and the defensive line and the
Speaker 3: way he used a variety of lineups, and you talked
Speaker 3: about the short drop of Joshua Dobbs, but it was
Speaker 3: crunch time, so they said, Okay, we're not going to
Speaker 3: let Joshua Dobbs get out of this pocket. We're going
Speaker 3: to have a good outside, contained rush that's going to
Speaker 3: be included in pressure. And then the different alignments they
Speaker 3: were able to use on the interior, whether you want
Speaker 3: to use strength of Andrew Billings, if you want to
Speaker 3: use the length of Jervon Dexter, if you want to
Speaker 3: use the get off of Zach Pickens, or however you
Speaker 3: want to use that type of assist the talent.
Speaker 2: I think the Bears did a really nice job of.
Speaker 3: Being able to use multiple players in different unexpected areas.
Speaker 2: And then you make the offense think, and I think.
Speaker 3: That slows down the overall process of the offensive line.
Speaker 3: And a newly brought in quarterback like Dobbs, even though
Speaker 3: he's got a minimum amount of experience with the Vikings.
Speaker 1: Like I touched on with coach Flus, it is a
Speaker 1: magnificent jump from being the worst to the best run
Speaker 1: defense in a calendar a year here from a season ago.
Speaker 1: And that's where they're at right now. He wasn't thrilled
Speaker 1: with the run defense overall yesterday, a little bit too
Speaker 1: much there at times with Alexander Madison, but still the
Speaker 1: end result is their number one rush defense in the
Speaker 1: NFL if you're just in the yards, but I am.
Speaker 1: I mean especially against the run. And the team that
Speaker 1: ran the ball more yesterday successfully won the game. Nineteen
Speaker 1: and three. Now last twenty two games, the team that
Speaker 1: ran ballmore won the game. And you know what, it's
Speaker 1: funny because I think you're looking ahead to Detroit and
Speaker 1: you're thinking the same thing. Whoever runs the ball better,
Speaker 1: Mike win that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I agree, and I but I think you know one
Speaker 3: thing I always you know me, Jeff, You're the real
Speaker 3: weather man.
Speaker 2: You're the meteorologist.
Speaker 3: I'm just a weather predictor of in terms of football,
Speaker 3: And when I think of Detroit playing, even though they're
Speaker 3: from Michigan playing outside rarely because they play in the Dome,
Speaker 3: then they play.
Speaker 2: In Minnesota in the conference and all that.
Speaker 3: So I think there's a lot that is challenging to
Speaker 3: a team that doesn't.
Speaker 2: Play outside regularly.
Speaker 3: And when you talk about the physical nature of a
Speaker 3: sustained running game, you gotta be able to be comfortable
Speaker 3: playing in those cold temperatures. And so we'll see how
Speaker 3: it all factors out, because the Bears haven't played in
Speaker 3: really any cold weather yet this season.
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Speaker 1: have Matt Eberflus, the head coach. We just heard from
Speaker 1: him much more time ago. All Right, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of little pockets of stuff after watching the tape
Speaker 1: of this game, gravon dexter. I want to get into
Speaker 1: it again. I know they're taught a certain way to
Speaker 1: hit the quarterback, but man, he's six six. He gets
Speaker 1: there in a big hurr and he hits the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He gets the flag for it is there, and we
Speaker 1: touched on it with Fluce. You just can't lay your
Speaker 1: weight on him. But it is what it is. It's
Speaker 1: the rule. But I like the way he did it
Speaker 1: anyway I take the fut I want him to be
Speaker 1: aggressive and nasty up there. I do that defensive tackle position,
Speaker 1: push in the pocket at his size and length and
Speaker 1: his strength, and another year in the weight room before
Speaker 1: he gets in the year two. I'm very excited about him.
Speaker 3: Me too, you know, in my past experience playing against
Speaker 3: guys like that, so I practice against Steve McMichael all
Speaker 3: the time. But then you got Dan Hampton at the
Speaker 3: other defensive tackle position. You're talking about six ' to
Speaker 3: two against six ' six. So it's kind of similar
Speaker 3: to the interior talent with the Bears are featuring right now.
Speaker 3: So when you get a guy like Javon Dexter, he
Speaker 3: makes you play a different type of game than a
Speaker 3: shorter defensive lineman does because you have to get to
Speaker 3: him quick and you got to try to get your
Speaker 3: hands to him. If you look at one of his
Speaker 3: pass rushers that he makes contact with the offensive lineman
Speaker 3: because he's using his length. Now he immediately puts the
Speaker 3: offensive lineman in a retreat position because he's using his
Speaker 3: strength more than the offensive lineman being able to use
Speaker 3: his striking ability. So you just think about the differences
Speaker 3: and the talents that they have inside. And the more
Speaker 3: Snapster Von Dexter gets, the more he becomes familiar with
Speaker 3: using his structure, and I think that's probably his biggest asset,
Speaker 3: along with his athleticism, his intelligence and the way he's developing.
Speaker 3: But he's starting to learn how to use his tools.
Speaker 1: We've talked about edge rusher's. We over time have talked
Speaker 1: about how they run the hoop and the guys that
Speaker 1: can you know, bend so low like Dwight Freeney or
Speaker 1: Von Miller or how Khalil Mack does the power moves
Speaker 1: and you respect that the ankle flexion to make that turn.
Speaker 1: Not everybody can do it. They just can't. There's a
Speaker 1: small percentage of humans that can do that. But Montese
Speaker 1: Wett is built differently. He's long like Dexter, but am
Speaker 1: I at my mind to be so crazy, over the
Speaker 1: top in love with the idea that if you don't
Speaker 1: sustain a block on that dude within two steps, he
Speaker 1: is going to be on your quarterback like a lion
Speaker 1: on the on the serengetti, and he is going to
Speaker 1: hurt your quarterback. He's rag dolling these guys. He did
Speaker 1: last week, he did it this week. I'm really those
Speaker 1: two steps. Once he's free, he's on you right well,
Speaker 1: who's running away from that?
Speaker 3: That's part of that hoop drill though, that you talk
Speaker 3: about that they use at the combine, They use it
Speaker 3: in training camp. That's what they want you to do,
Speaker 3: is they want you to get low and come around
Speaker 3: the corner and then get off of that in a
Speaker 3: straight line. And that's where Montese sweat. He wins the
Speaker 3: play is he's able to display that bend ability come
Speaker 3: around a corner and then when he's got the opportunity
Speaker 3: to run a straight line.
Speaker 1: Oh you're god.
Speaker 3: No, there's really no offensive tackles that can catch him
Speaker 3: in a retreat position. And there's you know, there's a
Speaker 3: couple of quarterbacks that can run away from him, but
Speaker 3: he much pretty much can go toe to toe with.
Speaker 2: Any of them.
Speaker 1: It's really impressive. That's been one of the highlights here
Speaker 1: since his arrival for me watching him back to the rookies,
Speaker 1: Terrell Smith, feisty little bugger man. I like the way
Speaker 1: he played eight solo tackles and it's not too big
Speaker 1: for him. I know you. Brad Biggs and his ten
Speaker 1: Things for the Chicago Tribune does a great job. Wrote
Speaker 1: on a quote from John Holk back when this was
Speaker 1: during training camp, and unfortunately missed some time in training camp.
Speaker 1: But what's the first word that pops in your head
Speaker 1: about this rookie from the University of Minnesota, And as
Speaker 1: he paused for a long while, he said, reliable. And
Speaker 1: that's a lot to say for a rookie you haven't
Speaker 1: even seen playing in an NFL game yet, just from practices,
Speaker 1: and he's proven to be that when he's gotten on
Speaker 1: the field. What are your thought on how he played yesterday?
Speaker 3: You know, So the foundation of evaluation Ryan Poles and
Speaker 3: his staff, one of the most difficult positions, do identify
Speaker 3: that they truly have NFL cal talent.
Speaker 2: So that's where it begins.
Speaker 3: But as soon as he came into the OTAs and
Speaker 3: got into training camp, they identified him of it not
Speaker 3: being too big for him to having the ability to
Speaker 3: cover NFL caliber receivers. And I was really excited what
Speaker 3: I saw yesterday because you know, you've been on this
Speaker 3: kid since he's been around here, and you really don't
Speaker 3: know what he's capable of doing until you put him
Speaker 3: in the best of circumstances. And when you talk about
Speaker 3: indoor football and that stadium against a really good receiver,
Speaker 3: that's when you really get to judge what this guy
Speaker 3: can be and what you hope him to be. And
Speaker 3: Terrell Smith did a great job. He's not afraid to tackle.
Speaker 3: He's a physical football player, and I think the Bears
Speaker 3: and Ryan Poles and his staff should be really excited
Speaker 3: about the evaluation process and how he's proving them right.
Speaker 1: Right and with the excellence that we've seen. Again, he's
Speaker 1: had his ups and downs, obviously, but Tyreek Stevenson as well,
Speaker 1: by the way, flues at the podium saying that he
Speaker 1: thinks they'll be back before the end of the season,
Speaker 1: but they got to see how he comes out of it.
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Speaker 1: we didn't talk about. Yes, he was Houdini, but he
Speaker 1: had twelve runs for fifty nine yards and along of
Speaker 1: fourteen now with four hundred rushing yards, leading the Bears
Speaker 1: in this running back by committee approach. Here this season
Speaker 1: at the running back position, playing just short of the
Speaker 1: full schedule, missing four games, so the runs were still there.
Speaker 1: He still took advantage of some not as many design runs. Again,
Speaker 1: would you like to see a combination of what you've
Speaker 1: seen the last two weeks carry into the next five weeks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I would also I think Justin probably left
Speaker 3: about forty to fifty yards on the field. There was
Speaker 3: a couple of times that he tried to extend the
Speaker 3: pocket so long that he ended up throwing the ball
Speaker 3: out of bounds or not having an opportunity to escape.
Speaker 3: If he would recognize and see immediate positive running yards
Speaker 3: ahead of him where he could get out of bounds
Speaker 3: or get down safely. I think you could take any
Speaker 3: fifty nine yard performance and turn it into a triple
Speaker 3: digit performance easily if he wanted to. However, in the
Speaker 3: development of the quarterback position, I like his patients. I
Speaker 3: like his willingness to understand where the line of scrimmage
Speaker 3: is in trying to find a receiver for a bigger play.
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos Tom nine excuse me, ten of his last
Speaker 1: eleven from fifty plus dating the last season, six for
Speaker 1: six this season, and here's this quote after the game,
Speaker 1: missing wide right from forty eight on his first kick
Speaker 1: of the day, No problem, go out there and hit
Speaker 1: the fifty five yard er, matching his career high. Quote.
Speaker 1: I love this coach for allowing me to do that.
Speaker 1: The belief in him and he felt empowered, and that's
Speaker 1: a significant thing for a kicker, and they got to
Speaker 1: feel like they have the trust of their coach to
Speaker 1: go out there and do it.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: But the one thing that I'm a little apprehensive about
Speaker 3: as the remainder of the season, He's never going to
Speaker 3: have perfect kicking conditions because of the temperature, and it
Speaker 3: affects every kicker in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying this is exclusive to Cairo.
Speaker 3: I just think that when you get into the wind
Speaker 3: of the winter and you get into the temperatures, you
Speaker 3: get the hard footballs and everything, it changes what your
Speaker 3: distance comfort is. So I'm really interested to see how
Speaker 3: Cairo closes out this season with the type of kicks.
Speaker 2: Hopefully he'll be able to make tom.
Speaker 1: I know it's not been an easy ride, and there's
Speaker 1: no linear way to finish a season. You never know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. You look what happened with the
Speaker 1: Lions last year. They started so poorly and they finished
Speaker 1: winning six of their final eight games. It's been a
Speaker 1: bounce that they've taken into the next year with a
Speaker 1: coach that has has everybody's attention up there. But you know,
Speaker 1: twelve ten then it doesn't sound great, then look great
Speaker 1: at all times, but you still squeeze out a win,
Speaker 1: and when you clear through the clouds, do you feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better about especially because of how hard
Speaker 1: and how opportunistic the defense has been. These eight takeaways
Speaker 1: in the last two games, I mean that's significant. The
Speaker 1: negative part of it is, out of those eight takeaways,
Speaker 1: you've only gotten thirteen points. Your three turnovers offensively has
Speaker 1: led to fourteen points for the opposition. So if they
Speaker 1: can just find a way to start taking advantage more
Speaker 1: of their opportunities, would you feel a little more optimistic
Speaker 1: about what's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, take advantage of the turnovers.
Speaker 3: Have the Bears defense be more stingy in the red zone.
Speaker 3: But I don't care what the score was as long
Speaker 3: as they beat a divisional opponent on the road, because
Speaker 3: they should have beaten Detroit, a divisional opponent on the road.
Speaker 3: And Jeff, how do you win the division? You got
Speaker 3: to win division road games. And if you can prove
Speaker 3: to yourself if you can close out the season and
Speaker 3: go in there and perform at the opponent stadiums and
Speaker 3: win these games, you're going to go into the offseason
Speaker 3: thinking that you should be the division favorite going into
Speaker 3: next year. So, you know, whatever the score is, you
Speaker 3: look at all the storylines around the NFL how Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: hasn't won the numbers battles, but they're you know, they
Speaker 3: have a winning record and some of the other teams
Speaker 3: around the league. So I'm more encouraged about the win
Speaker 3: and where the Bears are going than discouraged.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like we said, if.
Speaker 3: You're a player watching a tape, or if you're a
Speaker 3: coaching staff trying to make better decisions red zone and
Speaker 3: scoring opportunity for your offense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no style points necessary. You don't apologize for wins.
Speaker 1: None of that matters for sure. Visy Heart Seltzer, the
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Speaker 1: Tom Thayer Jeff Jonik here on the Bears et cetera podcast.
Speaker 1: We certainly appreciate you guys joining us over the course
Speaker 1: of this season so far. We're not going to abandon
Speaker 1: you during the bye. We could be back on Thursday
Speaker 1: with more, all right, Tom, former Bears, Devin Hester, Julius Peppers,
Speaker 1: Jared Allen, you know, not here that long more of
Speaker 1: a Minnesota Viking, Kansas City chief. But twenty five modern
Speaker 1: era make it twenty four modern era semi finalists for
Speaker 1: the Pro Football of Fame class At twenty four. We
Speaker 1: certainly expected Devin to be in there and Peppers, but
Speaker 1: the interesting it's an interesting list, and you know it's
Speaker 1: not going to be a simple task again for Devon
Speaker 1: uh To to get in there, even though everybody believes
Speaker 1: he should and will at some point. But some of
Speaker 1: the others on that list, Dwight Freeney, Antonio Gates, James Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rodney Harrison, a Chicago guy, Tory Holt, Andre Johnson, Robert Mathis,
Speaker 1: Pep Steve Smith Senior, Fred Taylor, hinz Ward, Reggie, Wayne Patrick, Willis,
Speaker 1: Darren Woodson, the former Cowboy. I mean, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a pretty significant list.
Speaker 3: I don't consider Julius Peppers or Jared Allen or guys
Speaker 3: at Fern here and had a cup of coffee, and
Speaker 3: they're not going to wear the bear's hat when they
Speaker 3: go into the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: How about Mary and Catholic ser Rodney Harrison.
Speaker 2: I'm not so sure he deserves it. I will.
Speaker 3: I like him, I like the way he plays, the
Speaker 3: way he played, but in that class on that list,
Speaker 3: I looked at it today. I admire a lot of
Speaker 3: those guys. But I'm pulling for Denver, all right, Denver.
Speaker 2: I'm pulling for.
Speaker 3: Devin because he's he's got a special, you know, craft
Speaker 3: that he perfected, and I think he deserves it.
Speaker 1: It's deserving in every way, shape and form. To just
Speaker 1: use a cliche, but I certainly hope it happens. It's
Speaker 1: going to happen eventually, I hope. I certainly hope it
Speaker 1: happens for him. After spending time with them in Orlando
Speaker 1: and week two three against Tampa, that was a wonderful
Speaker 1: experience and I got to feel his passion for this
Speaker 1: and his desire to get there. And it'll be an
Speaker 1: amazing feeling if he does.
Speaker 3: For you, and I is the fact that we interviewed
Speaker 3: Dan Fouts a couple of weeks ago, who is a
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame voter, and he has his attention as
Speaker 3: a player who.
Speaker 2: Deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. And I
Speaker 2: think that's important as well.
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Speaker 3: Well, you get me a couch this past year, So Baby,
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Speaker 2: Truck and haul on over to your house.
Speaker 1: That's what brothers do, right, That's what brothers do. All right, Tom,
Speaker 1: We're celebrating a win into the bye week. You can't
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