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Speaker 2: Tom.
Speaker 1: How you feel?
Speaker 2: I feel good?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Disappointed in the game?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: You and I we talked all week about clean complete
Speaker 2: for Caleb, and we had a good k but unfortunately
Speaker 2: we didn't have a clean game at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the game. And the Bears are a team that has
Speaker 2: the existence where it's not necessarily playing a perfect game,
Speaker 2: but they can't give the opponents opportunities. And that's the
Speaker 2: most frustrating thing about probably six games that you look
Speaker 2: at this year, maybe five that if you take out,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe one to three plays every game, they
Speaker 2: could have been completely different and we could be talking
Speaker 2: about a completely different record and a completely different team.
Speaker 2: So I still that kind of fuels my frustration. But
Speaker 2: then again, I'm still all on board with Caleb and
Speaker 2: I'm excited to see what he's been able to accomplish
Speaker 2: under some difficult circumstances, and I hope his best has
Speaker 2: yet to.
Speaker 1: Come, you know. And I think that's part of the
Speaker 1: frustration is that I think at one point, just a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, we had talked about the Bears,
Speaker 1: how many touchdowns they've scored, how much they've allowed, how
Speaker 1: many field goals, and it came down to like a
Speaker 1: twelve field goal difference in the season. And so that's
Speaker 1: just it. For a time, for the most important time
Speaker 1: of the season, it was a play or two or
Speaker 1: three that spelled the difference in a win or a loss,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately leaning more towards the loss side of it.
Speaker 1: So that's the frustration thing.
Speaker 2: You have to some way keep that message of positive
Speaker 2: inside the locker room. And I know we'll get to
Speaker 2: that when we talk about the message that Thomas Brown
Speaker 2: delivers to the players. And you have to have that
Speaker 2: guy that's waiting for his opportunity to come in and play.
Speaker 2: And we've seen guys like that. You know, you're Dominique
Speaker 2: Robinson and you're Elijah Hicks, and these guys that have
Speaker 2: come in and been able to play because of injuries.
Speaker 2: You know, they got to be excited about their opportunity.
Speaker 1: All right, let's dig into the game before we hear
Speaker 1: the status at house with head coach Thomas Brown. Let's
Speaker 1: talk CATB because I felt I keep using the word poised.
Speaker 1: They felt it was poised. He reflected at the podium
Speaker 1: today on some misses. We'll get to that as well.
Speaker 1: But over handled the blitz of the Detroit Lions did.
Speaker 1: Has suffered two sacks, but again no interceptions. I think
Speaker 1: they blitzed him on thirty nine percent of his dropbacks,
Speaker 1: early downs thirty percent, so that's early in the game
Speaker 1: and so forth. Those are the things that slow down
Speaker 1: that production. I believe in the first half of games,
Speaker 1: which has been a rash obviously.
Speaker 2: Right, But you know, the thing you have to take
Speaker 2: away from it is Caleb is seeing the blitzes. He's
Speaker 2: understanding what has to happen after the ball is snapped.
Speaker 2: And that's the part of the quarterback progression throughout a
Speaker 2: rookie season that you want to see him increase the
Speaker 2: most because you don't want to have him develop a
Speaker 2: reputation that if you blitz them then it really creates
Speaker 2: problems for him. There's times where if you blitz him,
Speaker 2: he creates problems for you. So in terms of what
Speaker 2: are the encouraging signs of growth, and you look at
Speaker 2: that aspect of Caleb's game, I'm liking what I'm seeing.
Speaker 2: Do I want to see him throw forty times a game?
Speaker 2: Not yet, but I'm not shying away from it if
Speaker 2: he has to.
Speaker 1: Right, And the plays he's making are, you know, really impressive,
Speaker 1: and he's got an undeniable connection. It's been growing all
Speaker 1: season long at roma doonesay and of recent weeks Keenan Allen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, listen, man, you know, probably the only reason
Speaker 2: that we leave DJ more out of that is because
Speaker 2: he's been consistent since he's been here. He's one of
Speaker 2: the ultimate NFL tough guys, and we've seen it do
Speaker 2: it a little bit more from not the necessarily the
Speaker 2: running back position or running the ball with wide receiver
Speaker 2: sweeps and stuff. But when you look at what Keenan
Speaker 2: has been able to do in the last four or
Speaker 2: five weeks and what Rome has been increasing during his
Speaker 2: whole rookie season, it's encouraging to see that relationship develop
Speaker 2: between a young quarterback and a young receiver, but also
Speaker 2: the maturity that the other receivers are putting on display
Speaker 2: that should be an example to all the other guys.
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Speaker 1: head coach Thomas Brown is weekly visit here on Bears
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Speaker 1: here on Bears et cetera to recap what happened yesterday
Speaker 1: and look ahead to Seattle. You know how much time,
Speaker 1: First of all, do you give thought to what you're
Speaker 1: going to say every day to the team, and that
Speaker 1: could be obviously before the game, night, before the game,
Speaker 1: and then after the game, win or lose. It strikes
Speaker 1: me as you're a guy that you're just whatever comes
Speaker 1: to mind you don't like dwell, Oh yeah, am I
Speaker 1: accurate on that in the little time I've gotten to
Speaker 1: know you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, says a balance of both.
Speaker 4: I think when it comes to team meetings and messaging
Speaker 4: kind of leading up to the game, I've tried to
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, have somewhat of a script of
Speaker 4: what I want to say and why I want to
Speaker 4: say that. I think it's important I always have a
Speaker 4: will thought out missus to kind of say in front
Speaker 4: of the group, not just wasting time and wasting words.
Speaker 4: Postgame is definitely all about reaction. To me, depends on
Speaker 4: how the game goes. As you know, I'm a straight shooter,
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna tell them like it is. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: talk about what we did well, we didn't do a
Speaker 4: good job of and also how much is it's gonna
Speaker 4: be a collaborative effort, so it's never isolated the players
Speaker 4: and his player's fault. So only because we get paid
Speaker 4: as coaches to coach these guys up. It's our job,
Speaker 4: regardless of circumstance, to demand a better effort, better response,
Speaker 4: and better execution.
Speaker 1: As a player yourself and in the highly competitive SEC
Speaker 1: NFL player as well, What did you like hearing from
Speaker 1: coaches and any coaches over the course of your history,
Speaker 1: even back to high school strike a chord with you, like,
Speaker 1: you know what, if I ever i'm gonna coach, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 4: I'm kind of a weird dude, so you know, my
Speaker 4: thought process is a little bit different when I when
Speaker 4: I played one that had zero desire to be a
Speaker 4: football coach ever, never thought about it one time. It's
Speaker 4: pretty adamant about not being a coach. Oh yeah, my
Speaker 4: father will always tell me it. Talk to me about,
Speaker 4: you know, that being a possible path for me when
Speaker 4: I got done playing. But I was a huge introvert
Speaker 4: when I was probably I was probably twenty three years
Speaker 4: old in my life, never shy, but I just keep
Speaker 4: to myself. Made a few words that is obviously changed
Speaker 4: a whole lot because what the heck happened? Because now
Speaker 4: I probably talked too much. Two things happened and you
Speaker 4: get married, so you had to communicate with your wife.
Speaker 4: You have children, so got to communicate with them. And
Speaker 4: I seen this profession. If you want to have an
Speaker 4: opportunity to be the best teacher leader and also elevate,
Speaker 4: you better open your mouth and know have something to
Speaker 4: say and when you do that, so those things help change,
Speaker 4: you know, my introverted nature and the kind of making
Speaker 4: me who I am right now. And I'm still growing
Speaker 4: and continue to be a better version of myself every
Speaker 4: single day. But to me, when it comes to coaches
Speaker 4: at Mexigan, I was always about inspiration over motivation. There
Speaker 4: were there were external factors that could obviously impact my emotions,
Speaker 4: but my job every day was always internal regardless of
Speaker 4: what you said or how you said it, that really.
Speaker 3: Mattered to me.
Speaker 4: I wasn't looking for some some pregame pep talk to
Speaker 4: get me going. I was always motivated by the player
Speaker 4: that I wanted to be and what I want to represent.
Speaker 4: So I think oftentimes people confuse motivation and inspiration would
Speaker 4: be in the same which is different because motivation is
Speaker 4: the exterior force. Inspirations internal force which I've always leaned
Speaker 4: more on my internal forces than I am on anthy outside.
Speaker 1: And I would imagine players in general, they've got to
Speaker 1: motivate themselves.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't be here if you did
Speaker 4: have some level of motivation and also inspiration from an
Speaker 4: internal standpoint, and ultimately, to me, you get to play
Speaker 4: a child's game with grown man responsibilities and grown man money.
Speaker 3: You should be motivated enough just by that.
Speaker 4: But I do also take great pride in what I
Speaker 4: say in front of the group, how I say it again.
Speaker 4: To me, it's more about trying to find ways to
Speaker 4: inspire them and so to motivate them, because motivation, in
Speaker 4: my mind sometimes.
Speaker 3: Is more short term and more emotional.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to struggle cord on something you have in
Speaker 4: deep insidy to bring the best out of you.
Speaker 3: The more my thought process.
Speaker 1: So, how do you inspire a team with a nine
Speaker 1: game losing streak?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you continue to be consistent. I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't believe in delivering the same messages, but I
Speaker 4: think it's important to be consistent as far as your approach,
Speaker 4: and I think when it comes to leadership, I told
Speaker 4: those guys before the game.
Speaker 3: The night before the.
Speaker 4: Game, I think it's always easy to be a leader
Speaker 4: when things are in great standings. Everybody wants to be
Speaker 4: a leader when stuff is great, when everybody's telling you
Speaker 4: how great you are, and everybody's winning and there's there's
Speaker 4: no pressure. The difficult about leadership is being able to
Speaker 4: take on responsibility regardless of the situation and still stand
Speaker 4: tall and still have integrity about yourself. So that's one
Speaker 4: thing I prought myself in I think these players can
Speaker 4: attest to. I have been the same from day one,
Speaker 4: from the moment I got opportunity and green Bay to
Speaker 4: step in front the team for the first time and
Speaker 4: deliver the offensive.
Speaker 3: You keys the victory to this point.
Speaker 4: But to me, it's all about just trying to figure
Speaker 4: out how the ways to continue the man more always
Speaker 4: looking tronly first, because to me, I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: I share with the guys the night before for the game.
Speaker 4: You know, losing versus being a losers two different things.
Speaker 4: So losing is more about the event that happened till you.
Speaker 4: Being a loser is more of you taking on the
Speaker 4: characteristic of being a consistent loser. And so losers have
Speaker 4: a habit of always blame other people, never taking accountability,
Speaker 4: never looking in with the first losers have terrible workers,
Speaker 4: they can still complain about the result that from the
Speaker 4: work they don't put in. And so to me, it's
Speaker 4: about suppering the two of those thought processes and being
Speaker 4: able to keep those guys locked in and keep them
Speaker 4: engaged and put for better effort.
Speaker 1: Are you seen by body language and looking in the
Speaker 1: man's eyes that that's on the upswing still despite the skin?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think so.
Speaker 4: I think if you look at you know, from when
Speaker 4: things took over, obviously it was a dramatic for a
Speaker 4: lot of people because they were obviously different. You have
Speaker 4: different tides of people you've been around. And so we
Speaker 4: got two coaches we got fired in the season, and
Speaker 4: I think guys felt differently about it, I think, and
Speaker 4: also changed his thought processes about what the expectation was
Speaker 4: going to be for the rest of the season when
Speaker 4: you end up firing two coaches in season, So I
Speaker 4: think it affects people differently. But I think if you
Speaker 4: look at the progression, even though we haven't got a result,
Speaker 4: we want it from the San fran game. Up until yesterday,
Speaker 4: we have been training to write direction in some ways,
Speaker 4: but also still putting things to clean up.
Speaker 1: You know, I particularly look at young players in this
Speaker 1: because veterans, you know, they've been through a lot. Sometimes
Speaker 1: they can just complementalize. Sometimes they isolate whatever they need
Speaker 1: to do to get ready to be a pro. And
Speaker 1: so I was talking to Romadoonesay after the game, for example,
Speaker 1: on Marquee Sports after the game, and yeah, he was
Speaker 1: upset about the fumbles, but you know, still has to
Speaker 1: come back and make the play, and he made several
Speaker 1: plays and the trust in Keen or excuse me, the
Speaker 1: trust in Caleb to him. But afterwards, you know, he
Speaker 1: had a pretty good positive attitude right owned it. But
Speaker 1: I said, you know, it's not always going to be
Speaker 1: this way. You're not going to be going through this
Speaker 1: league in this kind of situation, you know, So hopefully
Speaker 1: the young guys can see.
Speaker 4: The Yeah, I think every player is different. Are you
Speaker 4: talking about the young guys in particular? That's probably one
Speaker 4: of the best ones of highlight because he's been shouldn't
Speaker 4: be consistent throughout the entire year. Obviously, the two funnels
Speaker 4: are inexcusable. Two turnovers are excusable. But again, what I
Speaker 4: do love about Rome is Rome is consistent. Rome taxes
Speaker 4: accountability and also Rome doesn't flinch, So when things don't
Speaker 4: go right, even from a practice standpoint of you see
Speaker 4: him a mess of wrap up. He rally ever, makes
Speaker 4: the same mistake twice and he was able to kind
Speaker 4: of rebound and move on past. That was the true
Speaker 4: test of a future leader for years to come for
Speaker 4: this organization. But also what matters the most is when
Speaker 4: the biggest moments hit the stage. This guy has made
Speaker 4: a ton of them throughout this year. They've probably been
Speaker 4: celebrated more if the result of the game was different.
Speaker 4: Some of these kind of critical two two minute drive calls,
Speaker 4: two minute plays, fourth down calls, and is winning one
Speaker 4: on one, separating and making a critical moment at a
Speaker 4: critical time.
Speaker 1: The best thing about Caleb yesterday was you complete the sentence.
Speaker 3: It was consistent.
Speaker 4: I think continue to find ways, just one I just
Speaker 4: said in the press conference a minute ago that shoot
Speaker 4: or shoot. He keeps shooting, so I'm gonna continue to
Speaker 4: give him opportunities to shoot. I think I always try
Speaker 4: to find ways that got him in the right direction
Speaker 4: to keep him level headed again, He's a highly competitive
Speaker 4: at times, probably gets too emotional and not in a
Speaker 4: bad way, but to me, I would always prefer to
Speaker 4: have that versus just hasn't, doesn't don't really care about
Speaker 4: the effect, but I always trying to find ways to
Speaker 4: manage emotions right, never getting too high and never getting
Speaker 4: too low. I think it's important to be critical and
Speaker 4: self reflective, but also be able to give you yourself
Speaker 4: the right amount of grace so you can move on
Speaker 4: past what has happened and get ready for a game
Speaker 4: in three days.
Speaker 1: Okay, offensive line, I mean, I don't even know what
Speaker 1: the coaching staff. It gets like you're doing what you can,
Speaker 1: but things keep on cropping up. And I feel for Braxton.
Speaker 1: Obviously his season is over with the ankle, but then
Speaker 1: you know, just the st we talk about defense and
Speaker 1: sudden change change for an offensive lineman, you know there's
Speaker 1: no notification, Bam, you're in and you got to go
Speaker 1: and deal with the best in the business on the
Speaker 1: edges every week. What's the best advice from an offensive
Speaker 1: mind like yourself for these guys right now because they're
Speaker 1: not playing next to each other very much.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, to me, it's important of reps and
Speaker 4: also mental reps. There's no way in the world that
Speaker 4: anybody has an opportunity to get every single look of
Speaker 4: what might happen and transpired throughout the game. It's virtually
Speaker 4: impossible the amount of time that we have a particular
Speaker 4: visuon just now stepping into a major role that you
Speaker 4: haven't been in before. Obviously, O line is a developmental position,
Speaker 4: is also a spot of continuity, and we haven't had that,
Speaker 4: which is tough for a number of different reasons. But
Speaker 4: to me, my advice would be to be where your
Speaker 4: feet are right. So don't worry about the game, because
Speaker 4: game isn't here today. Today's about beating. To be locked
Speaker 4: in for the team meeting twelve forty five, be locked
Speaker 4: in for the offensive defensive meetings, to be locked in,
Speaker 4: engaged for the walkthrough, and all those reps are kind
Speaker 4: of end up leading tools you beat at your best
Speaker 4: on game day, so when that time comes, you can
Speaker 4: be at ease, be at peace, and just cut it
Speaker 4: loose and keep swinging them all. Right.
Speaker 1: Let's look at Seattle. The Bears defense is going to
Speaker 1: deal with a GENO Smith, the veteran. But you know,
Speaker 1: I look this up. He has thrown thirteen interceptions under pressure.
Speaker 1: That's the most in the NFL. So is that going
Speaker 1: to be the key?
Speaker 4: I think most quarterbacks are the same. I think if
Speaker 4: you affect them to affect the way they throw the football.
Speaker 4: I think if you can get to them early in
Speaker 4: games and hit them, most guys, I don't care what
Speaker 4: they say, we'll get rattled to some degree. But Geno
Speaker 4: is a veteran, really good football player. They do a
Speaker 4: really good job of mixing up different looks from off
Speaker 4: of the standpoint, using motion, using tempo. I have a
Speaker 4: ton of talent of guys on the outside, so understanding
Speaker 4: how to win matchup is going to be a big
Speaker 4: part of it. I think the Russian coverage always plays together,
Speaker 4: so those things are kind of tied together hand in hand.
Speaker 4: So I think being able to understand how to pick
Speaker 4: and choose our spots to bring pressure to affect the quarterback,
Speaker 4: but also we're not bringing pressure, but get home.
Speaker 1: Before they got backs, they got back tight ends. But
Speaker 1: they got a guy that seems almost on hoverable at
Speaker 1: times in DK Metcalf.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: I know Jackson Smith and Jigmas tearing it up top
Speaker 1: five in the NFL and a lot of categories, but
Speaker 1: with a guy so big, so fast, so different, what's
Speaker 1: the challenge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the side speed combination is the biggest
Speaker 4: challenge obviously if you just had one of those things.
Speaker 4: Obviously guys that can't run fast as one, but a
Speaker 4: guy that can be physical to top of routes, who
Speaker 4: can also box you out and play grass basketball on
Speaker 4: top of being having world class speak and can be difficult.
Speaker 4: I think, uh, the understanding of our God to accept
Speaker 4: the challenge no matter who's going to be a lot over.
Speaker 3: The top of them.
Speaker 4: But also we mix up things from a cover standpoint,
Speaker 4: so we have a good use of signal high coverages
Speaker 4: with playing zone behind it, playing man behind it, but
Speaker 4: also putting the umbrell over top of him players themselves well.
Speaker 1: And lastly, Mike McDonald, you guys go way back to
Speaker 1: You enlightened me this morning, way back to University Georgia,
Speaker 1: so I looked it up. So you were in strength
Speaker 1: and conditioning at that time and he was an intern.
Speaker 4: It was it was my first my first job, so
Speaker 4: humble beginnings for both of us. But I mean Mike
Speaker 4: has been a real dude from the beginning. Obviously kind
Speaker 4: of just follow him throughout the years. We kind of
Speaker 4: staying contact here and there from time to time, but
Speaker 4: a bright coach. Congrats to him again on getting his
Speaker 4: first head job opportunity and in a tough division, but
Speaker 4: a winnable division, and getting his team going in the
Speaker 4: right direction.
Speaker 3: So looking forward to battle with him.
Speaker 4: We'll obviously probably say some helos before the game starts,
Speaker 4: but once the game starts, we'll obviously go do some
Speaker 4: battle on the grass with out players and let's see
Speaker 4: what happens.
Speaker 1: In NFL coaching terms, two young guys. He's the youngest
Speaker 1: head coach in the NFL. You're right behind him. A
Speaker 1: couple of years thirty.
Speaker 4: Eight, he dethroned Don McVeigh the youngest for seven years
Speaker 4: in a row, which is impressive. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: this really good football coach, really good person as well.
Speaker 4: So other than Thursday, I wasn't the.
Speaker 1: Best, all right, and try to have a nice holiday.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you too as well, all.
Speaker 1: Right, appreciate your time. Kind of an interesting story in
Speaker 1: a background how he got into coaching and his personality
Speaker 1: and whatnot. But I do really do appreciate his frankness
Speaker 1: though he does not sugarcoat a thing.
Speaker 2: He too. That's the one thing I've always liked abottom
Speaker 2: of the most, and I get I like him more
Speaker 2: every time I hear him talk. And because it's not
Speaker 2: going in there with a bunch of pre prepared questions,
Speaker 2: he's kind of talking from his heart, talking from his experiences,
Speaker 2: telling us that he was an introverted guy at twenty
Speaker 2: three years old and kind of came out of his shell,
Speaker 2: and the fact that he was a strength and conditioning
Speaker 2: coach early in his career, because I think it's almost
Speaker 2: you need to work every level of the NFL in
Speaker 2: order to become a head coach. So I still enjoy
Speaker 2: what I hear out of Thomas, And the only thing
Speaker 2: I would I would like you to ask him and
Speaker 2: for the audience, now that he's called a couple of
Speaker 2: games from the field as opposed to calling a couple
Speaker 2: of games from the booth, the pros and cons of each,
Speaker 2: and I would like to hear his explanation because I
Speaker 2: think it would be fascinating because it's something that we've
Speaker 2: all wondered about, and so you know, maybe you could
Speaker 2: just present that question to Thomas without giving not without
Speaker 2: telling him that before hand, and see what his immediate
Speaker 2: answer is.
Speaker 1: Hey, when you in your era, did those guys handle
Speaker 1: the sidelines that they go upstairs?
Speaker 2: Personal preference? Yeah, there was nothing that they had to go,
Speaker 2: you know, upstairs and call down the sidelines. The communication
Speaker 2: involved in that has changed so much before when they
Speaker 2: would take still pictures and then slide them down a
Speaker 2: clothes line from the press box to the sideline, that
Speaker 2: was your video. Evidence that these guys now can go
Speaker 2: right to their tablet and look at real time exactly
Speaker 2: what your opponent is doing, the corrections that you need
Speaker 2: to make, the adjustments that maybe an offensive line coach
Speaker 2: is trying to look at all five guys instead of
Speaker 2: just one person. So it's all about personal preference and
Speaker 2: experience that you have in terms of you know, how
Speaker 2: you want to call the game.
Speaker 1: And this is just popping into my head. It matters
Speaker 1: not right now, but as an offensive lineman. You know,
Speaker 1: obviously you're you're dealing with Dick Stanfill every day and
Speaker 1: every snap I come to the side, Lions. You guys
Speaker 1: sit together on the bench, and but did you ever
Speaker 1: have the occasion to talk to the offensive coordinators? Did
Speaker 1: the coordinators come over to talk to you guys?
Speaker 3: Ever?
Speaker 2: Now, rarely to never. The only thing I would do
Speaker 2: is get yelled at by Dick giff. I made mistake
Speaker 2: coming off the field on my way to get yelled
Speaker 2: at by Dick Stanba. It was kind of a double
Speaker 2: edged sword from sideline to the bench.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Another guy who's been very frank and honest and open
Speaker 1: with everything that's gone on and with a very delightful
Speaker 1: delivery to do so, only too happy to speak speak
Speaker 1: with the media is the quarterback Caleb Williams. Let's listen
Speaker 1: into his press conference at Hallis Hall Monday after the
Speaker 1: loss of the Lions.
Speaker 6: You know, we got to find a way to secure
Speaker 6: the ball, whether it's between myself or room. But I
Speaker 6: will say that I could have gave him a better
Speaker 6: you know, I could have gave him a better slot
Speaker 6: for the ball and where it needs to be. I
Speaker 6: think it was a little bit too too much on
Speaker 6: his hip, and uh, you know, from there it gets
Speaker 6: pretty ugly.
Speaker 7: So when drafted a reputation about being able to catch
Speaker 7: the contestant.
Speaker 5: Balls balls, he's obviously proven that. Why do you think
Speaker 5: he's so good at how much conference? When you just
Speaker 5: throw it up like you yeah, no, I have all
Speaker 5: belief in him.
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, even after we that one mistake
Speaker 6: between him and I and then him catching that pass
Speaker 6: and then you know, fumbling again, you know, walked over
Speaker 6: to him, wrapped him up, told him I'll come, you know,
Speaker 6: right back to him, and we did just that. So,
Speaker 6: you know, having belief in him. I mean I've seen
Speaker 6: him do it. I didn't watch it on uh YouTube
Speaker 6: or anything. I've actually seen Rome do that in games
Speaker 6: versus us when I was in college. So watching him
Speaker 6: live too, watching him in his YouTube you know, videos
Speaker 6: and things like that too, you know, seeing him here,
Speaker 6: you know, with us through camp and games and things
Speaker 6: like that. He has a reputation for for a reason,
Speaker 6: and he's pretty pretty consistent. So you know, anytime we
Speaker 6: get a chance to have a one on one with Rome,
Speaker 6: you know, I have full, you know belief that at
Speaker 6: the least it's going to be a at the at
Speaker 6: the at the most, it's going to be in completion.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 6: I have all belief and faith in him every single
Speaker 6: time that that ball goes up in there.
Speaker 1: Excited you were the night that you guys were both drafted.
Speaker 5: You find out a couple of picks after you like
Speaker 5: how vital has having him here been for your growth
Speaker 5: as a quarterback. Yeah, it's been great to be able
Speaker 5: to have.
Speaker 6: A young guy with me like Rome, spectacular person, spectacular player.
Speaker 6: Like I said, I've seen it for now two years,
Speaker 6: and so being able to have him here and grow
Speaker 6: with him, just you know, our relationship over the years
Speaker 6: is going to be you know, vital I think for
Speaker 6: the for the team, and so been able to to
Speaker 6: to be able to continue that, continue to grow that it's.
Speaker 5: Gonna be really fun.
Speaker 6: I really really vital, like I said, And so you know,
Speaker 6: I think he's gonna gonna get better, especially with the
Speaker 6: guys that he's had here this year with him. You know,
Speaker 6: Rome with DJ and and and Keenan, two guys has
Speaker 6: been doing it for a while. You know, I think
Speaker 6: it's I think it's helping him him being able to
Speaker 6: watch those guys and how they do and how they work.
Speaker 7: Do you have two or three Do you have two
Speaker 7: or three things, two or three points of emphasis that
Speaker 7: you would really like to do well at good position
Speaker 7: the next two games and season, A couple of things
Speaker 7: you would really like to nail down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, uh, these uh, these fumbles that I've
Speaker 6: had for two to three weeks now, you know, you know,
Speaker 6: I think turnovers are you know, the the They're obviously
Speaker 6: a part of the game, but trying to eliminate those
Speaker 6: only helps our you know, chances of winning. So I
Speaker 6: say that's one being able to just keep being efficient
Speaker 6: the most that I can. And that doesn't just mean
Speaker 6: when I throw the football. That's with all of the alerts,
Speaker 6: the time, the play clock, making sure you know, cadence
Speaker 6: and things like that, helping off into lineing out you know,
Speaker 6: whatever the case may be, alerts, all of that. So,
Speaker 6: you know, i'd say, that's so I gave you around
Speaker 6: four or five things right there the once.
Speaker 7: You just mentioned, you know, the cadence, the alerts, the
Speaker 7: things you're doing at the line of scrimmage. Can you
Speaker 7: help me understand how much I don't know easier is
Speaker 7: the right word, but like how much more comfortable you.
Speaker 5: Are with all of that? Yeah, I would say, probably.
Speaker 7: It comes to you now compared to a couple of
Speaker 7: months ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I would say, I'm I'm a lot a
Speaker 6: lot more comfortable with that, getting up there, being fashioned,
Speaker 6: with the cadence and things like that, you know, getting
Speaker 6: up there, sending them you know, the motions of when
Speaker 6: they need to be snapped or when they you know,
Speaker 6: sending a motion and using my cadence with the motion
Speaker 6: to to be able to undress, uh, to be able
Speaker 6: to uh, you know, figure out what they're in or
Speaker 6: figure out, you know, what they're about to do, or
Speaker 6: have an idea at least.
Speaker 5: And so I think through this year and through this time, I.
Speaker 6: Think I've I've gotten more comfortable and actually a lot
Speaker 6: more comfortable.
Speaker 5: I feel like with those things.
Speaker 2: Kyle Brex and Jones after the year and Tevin's hurt
Speaker 2: and you know that kind of newity has been an
Speaker 2: issue with the office.
Speaker 6: I'm just curious, this is such a thing as a
Speaker 6: quarterback kind of being connected or at rhythm with in
Speaker 6: sync with its offensive line.
Speaker 2: And has that been an issue or do you think
Speaker 2: it's If so, is that something that really needs to improve,
Speaker 2: you know, next year is looking ahead?
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't.
Speaker 6: I will say that you do build a connection and
Speaker 6: and you figure out what's your linemen block like, and
Speaker 6: so you you kind of figure out, you know, where
Speaker 6: you can be in the pocket.
Speaker 5: You figure out all.
Speaker 6: Those different things of of of what they're good at
Speaker 6: and and maybe what they're not so good at and
Speaker 6: so being able to maneuver in the pocket and things
Speaker 6: like that. You you you do get a sense of
Speaker 6: you know, you play so many snaps and downs together
Speaker 6: that you kind of figure it out, you know, through
Speaker 6: time and through field, and so you know, when there's
Speaker 6: guys that go down, you know, like Braxton and Sevin,
Speaker 6: I wouldn't say I think I mean, I'll be honest
Speaker 6: with you. I think the guys that you know, they
Speaker 6: came in, you know, I think they did a solid
Speaker 6: job when they came in, and you know, throughout this
Speaker 6: whole season, I think the guys are done.
Speaker 5: A solid job when you know, our guys have gone down.
Speaker 6: So I wouldn't say that, you know, it's it's been
Speaker 6: a you know, a complete deficit because obviously it's a
Speaker 6: part of the football game. It's a part of football
Speaker 6: is guys going down and uh the next man has
Speaker 6: step up and you know, do the job just as
Speaker 6: well or better.
Speaker 5: And that's the you know, that's the goal of you know,
Speaker 5: when that happens.
Speaker 6: But being able to have those guys step in, being
Speaker 6: able to you know, have things like that and you
Speaker 6: know them do you know them do a good job
Speaker 6: and all of that. I think, I think that's what
Speaker 6: they did yesterday. But it sucks having our guys go down, because, yes,
Speaker 6: you do kind of get a feel for how you're
Speaker 6: alignment block and how they block together. And so having
Speaker 6: those two guys go down, you don't have as many
Speaker 6: reps with, you know, a couple of other guys. It
Speaker 6: does in a way you kind of you don't lose
Speaker 6: the connection, but it's it's, you know, a little different.
Speaker 6: You obviously made a ton of good throws in this game,
Speaker 6: and I would zero it in at the beginnings of
Speaker 6: games just about every week, and it was a micro but.
Speaker 5: That first throw, yeah, it was frustrating. Can Yeah, it
Speaker 5: was really frustrating.
Speaker 6: I ken it ran a great route, ran up, pushed
Speaker 6: not didn't push off, but ran up, pushed up on
Speaker 6: his route, snapped off and the ball was just a
Speaker 6: little too much juice, a little too far behind him
Speaker 6: so he couldn't react, and you know, frustrating.
Speaker 5: Definitely frustrating.
Speaker 1: But anything stick out about what he said.
Speaker 2: No, he's just a mature guy that says it in
Speaker 2: a real honest and open way and he likes you know,
Speaker 2: you get the developing relationship between he and Rome, and
Speaker 2: I think that we talk about that a little bit
Speaker 2: more because they are too incoming rookies from the night
Speaker 2: that we are introduced to their experience on draft night
Speaker 2: to where they stand today. And I think when you
Speaker 2: have the opportunity to be a young quarterback and listen
Speaker 2: to the experiences of guys like Keenan and Rome are
Speaker 2: Keenan and DJ, You're super fortunate to have that. But
Speaker 2: it's also you know, living through The only reason I'm
Speaker 2: using the word struggles of the offensive line is because
Speaker 2: of the amount of injuries they've had. And I think,
Speaker 2: you know, that's a whole part of the experience of
Speaker 2: Caleb's rookie year that'll probably never forget because the continuity
Speaker 2: and that consistency that we always talk about, he hasn't
Speaker 2: been blessed with that. So again, Caleb has never disappointed
Speaker 2: me at the podium. And he's a kind of a
Speaker 2: guy that I really pay attention to and I listened to.
Speaker 2: He's not, you know, the cliche speaking guy that I
Speaker 2: let one word come in and one word leave. I
Speaker 2: actually listen to what he has to say.
Speaker 1: Right, He is not a cliche guy. No, no, not.
Speaker 2: About him, and I didn't know what to expect. You know,
Speaker 2: when I used to hear him talk in the preseason,
Speaker 2: before the season ever got underway, and he would go
Speaker 2: up to the podium and speaks as intelligently as he was.
Speaker 2: I used to say to myself and I probably said
Speaker 2: it to you, man, this honeymoon's almost over. I think
Speaker 2: we'll hear a different speaking quarterback when the regular season
Speaker 2: gets here. And I've never been more wrong about anything.
Speaker 2: This dude has come up and he's lived at the
Speaker 2: podium like a veteran, got.
Speaker 1: A nine game losing streak, and he remains positive, you know,
Speaker 1: even with the Santa had on at the podium today.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, yeah, what's happened has happened. You
Speaker 1: got to get ready for the next game, and you
Speaker 1: know you got to, you know, the the lingering aspect
Speaker 1: of everything, the mountain of what I keep calling it's
Speaker 1: heavy to lose so many games in a row. Somebody's
Speaker 1: got to be a glimmer of light and somebody's got
Speaker 1: to take that lead and say, hey, guys, we got
Speaker 1: to get regroup. We've gotta go out there and play
Speaker 1: another game. On Thursday. I mean, we've got two games left,
Speaker 1: let's go. That's it.
Speaker 2: Well, he's got self he's got self confidence, and that's
Speaker 2: the key ingredient here about a quarterback. About Caleb is
Speaker 2: he is so self confident that he's not looking at
Speaker 2: as a nine game losing streak. He's looking at how
Speaker 2: can I get better? How can I finish this thing
Speaker 2: out on a high note. How can I go in
Speaker 2: there and deliver a message to my teammates even though
Speaker 2: I'm a young guy of positivity. And that's what I
Speaker 2: like most about him. He's he's a super self confident
Speaker 2: guy that doesn't hide behind a low pulled hat or
Speaker 2: sunglasses on or just you know, saying than at the podium.
Speaker 2: He's he's delivering that group of press that sits out
Speaker 2: in front of him, and he treats him with respect.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: For example, as you heard break down on the first
Speaker 1: throw of the game to Keenan Allen. You know he
Speaker 1: owned it, you admit it. Frustrating, frustrating, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to figure out what went wrong there. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks they you know, dismissed that out of hand.
Speaker 1: Give you a structure of the play and go on
Speaker 1: to the next question. But he gives you some some
Speaker 1: depth to it, you know, and how he viewed it
Speaker 1: and what he needs to do to get better. It
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Speaker 1: Let's dig into Seattle because we're not going to preview
Speaker 1: the game in another podcast this week. We'll bring the
Speaker 1: other one out on Friday to recap the game against
Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks, a team, as I said, fighting for
Speaker 1: a playoff spot. They they controlled their destiny before losing
Speaker 1: by three to Minnesota on Sunday. A sixty yard field
Speaker 1: goal didn't make it. They also were intercepted late by
Speaker 1: Gino Smith was intercepted, so that extinguished the comeback bid.
Speaker 1: And so now they need some help. But that'll really
Speaker 1: focus their attention because it's now must win situation for them.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's throw the wrinkle in of a holiday.
Speaker 1: You look at it differently than most guys. Listen. I
Speaker 1: know that, but you know it's a factor I would
Speaker 1: think in some level, having to pack up come all
Speaker 1: the way from the Pacific Northwest to Chicago, day after Christmas.
Speaker 1: Even though it's business, it's football. I get it, But
Speaker 1: is there a natural.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the.
Speaker 1: Word sneaks into the conversation here that could impact your
Speaker 1: preparation in a negative way if you're Seattle, excuse.
Speaker 2: Me, you know, not really, you know, because Jeff, once
Speaker 2: you get on the buses to go to the plane, Ben,
Speaker 2: it's just you guys, And I know it's Christmas Day
Speaker 2: and you're getting ready to play the day after Christmas.
Speaker 2: But you're talking about a football team that's still fighting
Speaker 2: for their playoff lives and they need to come to
Speaker 2: Chicago and they need to have a winning, a good
Speaker 2: showing and win the game in order to keep on
Speaker 2: the path of a rookie head coach that they envision
Speaker 2: for themselves. And so you got the emotions and the
Speaker 2: impact of a rookie coach. You have a quarterback that
Speaker 2: may have been left out for retirement a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago that he's reinserted himself in the starting quarterback
Speaker 2: role and he's got a new contract and means it
Speaker 2: a lot to the success of this football team. He's
Speaker 2: got a group of receivers that can go toe to
Speaker 2: toe with anybody. He's got a running back that just
Speaker 2: got back in the mix after having an injury situation
Speaker 2: in Walker. He's got a good defense. Seattle's got that
Speaker 2: reputation of you playing them at home. How that environment's
Speaker 2: going to be. But they're flying to Chicago, and once
Speaker 2: you get on that plane, man, it's you against everybody else.
Speaker 2: And I don't think that. I think that's kind of
Speaker 2: the camaraderie of a football team when you know that
Speaker 2: you got everybody else in America at home, you know,
Speaker 2: by eating a big family feast and stuff, but you're
Speaker 2: going to work, and you know that's part that's actually
Speaker 2: kind kind of the cool process of being on a
Speaker 2: football team where you're uniquely doing things that very few
Speaker 2: people are.
Speaker 1: All Right, So they're eight and seven a shot at
Speaker 1: the NFC West title. A Rams would need to lose
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals and then week eighteen it would be
Speaker 1: La Seattle for the division. I know we're talking about
Speaker 1: their potential playoffs, but it is just gonna set the
Speaker 1: edge for the game. And so the Bear's gonna have
Speaker 1: to meet that emotion right out of the gate. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the crowd is going to be like.
Speaker 1: The day after Christmas at Soldier Field. Hopefully it's a
Speaker 1: big crowd, but it is a Thursday night game and
Speaker 1: we shall see. But the number one thing is for me,
Speaker 1: the defense is something that the Bears were going to
Speaker 1: lean on this season, and for a time they could,
Speaker 1: but right now they're having some struggles, certainly on first down.
Speaker 1: We mentioned the Detroit game. The thirty plays produced some
Speaker 1: really significant yardage three hundred plus yards and Jared Goff
Speaker 1: was thriving on play action as a result. Right now,
Speaker 1: the Bears have given up the most yards on first
Speaker 1: down in the NFL. And so this Gino Smith and company,
Speaker 1: they're among the leaders in first down production. Is this
Speaker 1: a place to start on Thursday night for the Bears?
Speaker 1: Defense better on first down? Because we always talk about
Speaker 1: third down and situational football, how about first down?
Speaker 2: Okay, put yourself on the coaching staff of the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 2: So they're looking at the film of the Chicago Bears
Speaker 2: against the Detroit Lions, and what did Detroit Lions do
Speaker 2: well on first down? Everything that you just mentioned, so
Speaker 2: you know what Seattle is going to do on first down.
Speaker 2: They're going to have a similar style, a similar game
Speaker 2: plan that Detroit did, and they have the good running
Speaker 2: game that they can give you a play action fake.
Speaker 2: They have a good quarterback that it's got some similarities
Speaker 2: to him that Jared Goff does. They got some big
Speaker 2: time receivers and tight ends that if they see somebody
Speaker 2: susceptible to being faked out by a play action fake,
Speaker 2: that they have a receiver that they can go to.
Speaker 2: So until you cure that, that's what you're going to
Speaker 2: face week in and week out. And so I think
Speaker 2: the Bears if they can put Geno Smith in an
Speaker 2: uncomfortable position after he gets through as a play action fake,
Speaker 2: and then you can kind of challenge his fundamental throwing position.
Speaker 2: But maybe that's when you get the interception, that's when
Speaker 2: you make the play. So again you're going to have
Speaker 2: to put up with what was just done against you
Speaker 2: well and get it stopped.
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Speaker 1: this winter. Gino is throwing thirteen interceptions of his fifteen
Speaker 1: under pressure. That's the most in the NFL interceptions under pressure,
Speaker 1: And I know that's been a topic for you in
Speaker 1: recent weeks. To what end me to, you know, create
Speaker 1: the pressure that can you know, affect the quarterback. That's
Speaker 1: what this league is all about. You have to protect
Speaker 1: your quarterback and affect the opposing quarterback. And I think
Speaker 1: offense is doing some things, especially to the edges, that
Speaker 1: take away that ability to consistently affect from the outside
Speaker 1: and on the inside. You know, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Jervon Dexter situation will be for this game, but there
Speaker 1: are some guys you know, doing some good work insight.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't talk about Byron Coward ever. And
Speaker 1: of course Chris Williams, he's getting like twenty snaps on
Speaker 1: average a game, but yeah, I think he's got the
Speaker 1: fifth most defensive snaps. Now on this team, they're they're
Speaker 1: creating some, but can they create enough to cause Geno
Speaker 1: to give it up?
Speaker 2: Well, you know you got Pickens and Ford as well
Speaker 2: on the inside of that defensive line to Marcus Walker
Speaker 2: has that versatility. So I think it's about keeping a
Speaker 2: fresh defensive line in there so they can play as
Speaker 2: an aggressively and as quickly as they possibly can to
Speaker 2: win those battles up front. But Kyler, Gordon, TJ Edwards,
Speaker 2: Tremaine Edmonds. You got to start, you know, as you
Speaker 2: use that word deploy, you got to start bringing those guys.
Speaker 2: You got to start challenging the protection of the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Then bring a blitzer. See if you can make Geno
Speaker 2: Smith try to escape pressure. You know, challenge, like I said,
Speaker 2: is fundamental throwing position. So you may not do it conventionally.
Speaker 2: You may not line up there with four defensive linemen
Speaker 2: and rush again's five defensive linemen. You got those guys
Speaker 2: that are super creative in TJ and Kyler, and you
Speaker 2: can use Tremaine as well. So you're coming right down
Speaker 2: to the last part of the season. You got to
Speaker 2: do something that's unexpected. And if you get a favorable
Speaker 2: Bears crowd in there and they're as loud as you
Speaker 2: hope they will be, then you going to be able
Speaker 2: to get off the ball a little bit quicker than
Speaker 2: their offensive line.
Speaker 1: Who scares you more DK Metcalf because of what he
Speaker 1: is or Jackson Smith Injigba because of what he is,
Speaker 1: and that is one of the top ten receivers in
Speaker 1: many categories in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: You know Metcalf does because you know, I was kind
Speaker 2: of thinking about his numbers over the length of his career.
Speaker 2: He's got career numbers, and I think because he's done
Speaker 2: it so successfully with a lot of different quarterbacks and
Speaker 2: a little different a lot of different styles of play,
Speaker 2: different head coaches and stuff. I And look at his size, man,
Speaker 2: I mean, this dude is legit, you know what, six four,
Speaker 2: six four and a half two hundred and thirty pounds,
Speaker 2: just completely ripped and chiseled like like you.
Speaker 1: As a player back in the day.
Speaker 3: Look.
Speaker 1: No, he looked exactly like Tom Thayer. He looks like
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: If I look like DK Metcalf, I'd never wear a shirt.
Speaker 2: But I'm just saying, if you're talking about the two
Speaker 2: good receivers, they have to me, Metcalf is the type
Speaker 2: of guy that he's a target that had kind of
Speaker 2: stands out on his own because of how big he
Speaker 2: is and how well he gets off the line of
Speaker 2: scrimmage and how quickly he can get open and stay
Speaker 2: open well.
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Speaker 1: at Mike McDonald's defense. Youngest coach in the NFL at
Speaker 1: thirty eight. As you heard the story with Coach Brown.
Speaker 1: They go back to their days at Georgia. It's in
Speaker 1: your mind. You think of Baltimore and that constant pressure.
Speaker 1: Now I haven't watched enough tape to see exactly what
Speaker 1: they're doing. I just know they've got some names. They
Speaker 1: got a good nose tackleing Duren Read. They've got, obviously
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams he's healthy again. They've got Demontrey Jones, he
Speaker 1: can do some damage. They got Witherspoon on the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense. They got Rieke Woolin, who a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago as a rookie was outstanding. He's
Speaker 1: been somebody that's still mixing it up. He takes chances
Speaker 1: back there on the back end. What's your overall look
Speaker 1: at this defense. I think there's a bunch of different
Speaker 1: guys they're gonna have to keep an eye on in
Speaker 1: this matchup to try and.
Speaker 2: Stop Well again, I got to take the look from
Speaker 2: the Seattle Seahawks defensive coaches and scouts and what am
Speaker 2: I looking at on tape? What do I think are
Speaker 2: the deficiencies of the vulnerabilities of the Bears offensive protection
Speaker 2: and the blocking up front? And then that's where I
Speaker 2: start my game plan, because when you talk about Leonard Williams,
Speaker 2: this dude is a mountain of a man. He's a
Speaker 2: big guy, he's a good athlete, he runs well. You know,
Speaker 2: he's kind of built a new home in Seattle after
Speaker 2: being in New York, and it's you know, this defense
Speaker 2: has always kind of had a reputation because when they
Speaker 2: play at home, it's so loud there that they kind
Speaker 2: of display a different sense of quickness than you see
Speaker 2: when they're on the road. And I do think they're
Speaker 2: a blockable group. And so the creativeness of Caleb the
Speaker 2: way Thomas Brown see his play calling against what this
Speaker 2: defense is going to be offered. It's going to be
Speaker 2: about the offensive line and how the offensive line can
Speaker 2: be you know, increase of production within the running game.
Speaker 2: Last week they had fifty nine yards rushing. You probably
Speaker 2: got to almost triple that against Seattle. And then the
Speaker 2: protection and see if there's a vulnerable defensive back of
Speaker 2: safety that you think if we get the right matchup,
Speaker 2: this is a guy that we can go to multiple times.
Speaker 2: And that's what I would like to find, is that
Speaker 2: one receiver and even include Cole Comet there if we
Speaker 2: can go to them multiple times for Caleb.
Speaker 1: Three four defense, a couple of old Bears on this roster,
Speaker 1: Travis Gibson and Roy Robertson Harris whom the Bears faced
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville in London. Yushena Nuosu is an outstanding linebacker
Speaker 1: and an edge guy. He'll come in and cast some
Speaker 1: grief as well. And I mentioned Devin Witherspoon from the
Speaker 1: University of Illinois and Julian Love Jillian Love still living
Speaker 1: in this Chicago area, Notre Dame guy that's on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. So interesting selection of names
Speaker 1: here to look at for this team at three four defense,
Speaker 1: Tommy three four defense coming to town.
Speaker 2: But you know, you get a new head coach, the
Speaker 2: first thing he wants to do is try to bring
Speaker 2: in as much of his own personnel as possible and
Speaker 2: see who are the guys that are keepers once he
Speaker 2: gets there. And you know, one thing I think about
Speaker 2: a three to four defense is play action and running
Speaker 2: game because when you have two linebackers that are playing
Speaker 2: off the ball, that means two offensive linemen should have
Speaker 2: running starts at a guy that's smaller than them, and
Speaker 2: that's movable. And again I'm just talking about four to
Speaker 2: five yards of carry, and I think that's what three
Speaker 2: four defenses allow you today. And then play action passing
Speaker 2: because when you talk about three four, you know you're
Speaker 2: talking there's a linebacker that you're going to be responsible for,
Speaker 2: and there's three down linemen and so now there's sometimes
Speaker 2: when you have five guys blocking three, five guys blocking four.
Speaker 2: So that should be a winnable battle for your offensive line.
Speaker 2: And give Taylor, give Caleb that extra three quarters of
Speaker 2: a second that could really help his production and his identification.
Speaker 1: Seattle's the most penalized team in the NFL on defense,
Speaker 1: most yards, most penalized. Does this create opportunities for Caleb
Speaker 1: with the fifty to fifty ball? You know, why not?
Speaker 1: They're throwing a lot of flags.
Speaker 2: I you know, I was, I was begging for that
Speaker 2: last week. I think if you have a guy that
Speaker 2: can be an accurate downfield as Caleb can, then you
Speaker 2: have to find a primary target with one on one
Speaker 2: coverage responsibility and then put the ball into a catchuble
Speaker 2: area for the receiver and then challenge that defensive back
Speaker 2: what he wants to do. When you see the touchdown
Speaker 2: catch by Keenan last week or the big fourth down
Speaker 2: catch by Romadonsa, they have these guys on staff, they
Speaker 2: have them aboard and then throw DJ Moore in there. Somebody,
Speaker 2: Jeff is gonna have to be man dea man single coverage.
Speaker 1: No question about it. I like your enthusiasm and your
Speaker 1: excitement level. Hey, you're ready to go right now. This
Speaker 1: is a Monday, and I can't wait till Thursday.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if it's just how I feel
Speaker 2: about the development of Caleb or just to see the
Speaker 2: return on the opportunity these guys have.
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