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Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: The Bears ran into US San Francisco buzz saw before
Speaker 1: cobbling together a competitive second half, losing thirty eight thirteen
Speaker 1: in Santa Clara, California. Week fourteen did not go down
Speaker 1: like the Bears at hoped, and the result is a
Speaker 1: seventh straight loss and a winless road record this season.
Speaker 1: With Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom There, I'm Jeff Joniat,
Speaker 1: Episode one eighteen of the Bears, Etcetera podcast brought to
Speaker 1: you by Geico. Coming up, we'll hear from new head coach,
Speaker 1: the interim boss, Thomas Brown one on one interview about
Speaker 1: all sorts of things, but Tom overall, I did like
Speaker 1: the fight in the second half. I did like the
Speaker 1: way Caleb Williams completed balls at high percent of protecting
Speaker 1: the football once again, no interceptions, Roma Dunze flashing again
Speaker 1: with his ability to get in the end zone twice,
Speaker 1: first time since two thousand and one when David Terrell
Speaker 1: did it in that famous game against the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers of the Mike Brown picked six game. But so
Speaker 1: many other things. And we've heard now from Thomas Brown
Speaker 1: on several occasions since the game and after watching tape,
Speaker 1: and he'll get into it a little bit, but there
Speaker 1: was a lot left on the bone, and execution was
Speaker 1: the big word, the lack of execution despite a good week.
Speaker 1: They say it was good preparation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, listen, you can't deny the fact that
Speaker 4: there's some frustration that was left behind in San Francisco.
Speaker 4: And that's the whole definition of a team sport when
Speaker 4: you don't win the game, and there's sometimes frustration when
Speaker 4: you do win the game. But there's a lot of
Speaker 4: correctible mistakes in that film. And I think Thomas Brown
Speaker 4: is a guy that's pretty diligent about his work ethic
Speaker 4: and work effort that he expects from the players, and
Speaker 4: he's going to challenge these guys this week when they
Speaker 4: get together in preparation for the Minnesota Vikings. But when
Speaker 4: you talk about that continuous development relationship between Caleb and Romadoonze,
Speaker 4: it's undeniable that they got something special that's brewing here
Speaker 4: that hopefully will carry a decade long opportunity to succeed.
Speaker 4: And then you have some landmark or benchmark accomplishments and
Speaker 4: guys like Keenan Allen that you brought up to coach,
Speaker 4: and I'm glad that you did because there's not a
Speaker 4: lot of guys in the league that have been able
Speaker 4: to accomplish what Keenan Allen has, and I think he's
Speaker 4: a good example of continuous hard work when you look
Speaker 4: at what he was able to do in this football game,
Speaker 4: in those accomplishments that show the dedication to a career.
Speaker 4: I think it's a good influence for these other guys
Speaker 4: to see what you can do if you really dedicate
Speaker 4: yourself to a team sport that has the success of
Speaker 4: everybody in mind. And I think that is important because
Speaker 4: there's a lot of young guys in this team that
Speaker 4: need these types of examples to see to you know,
Speaker 4: have the best yet to come.
Speaker 1: Tom, did you guys have issues in your career at
Speaker 1: any point starting fast And did you go through stretches
Speaker 1: like this team. This is a uniquely long stretch of
Speaker 1: not able to start fast. And what do you do
Speaker 1: about it? What's the fix? Isn't a mental thing? I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you look at it?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's just a continuous operation of making
Speaker 4: sure that you're developing a system that you're super confident in.
Speaker 5: But you know, the thing.
Speaker 4: About it is is football is kind of the unique
Speaker 4: challenge of it is is when you go into an
Speaker 4: environment that it's loud and you don't have the organization
Speaker 4: that you do at home, sometimes that's in the obstacle
Speaker 4: to overcome. And when you have a young quarterback who's
Speaker 4: in charge of all those elements, sometimes it takes a
Speaker 4: while for him to get an understanding of how these
Speaker 4: environments need to be worked. But you know, I'm not
Speaker 4: going to sit here and say Caleb has ever let
Speaker 4: me down, because he hasn't. And I love what, you
Speaker 4: know where he's going with his career. And I do
Speaker 4: think when you know time takes, time takes a hold
Speaker 4: of this system and they get an opportunity to all
Speaker 4: be fighting in the same direction. I think starters will
Speaker 4: be faster, and you know that's why I'm so excited
Speaker 4: to see this game, Jeff. You know, it's the first
Speaker 4: time in Caleb's career that he's going to have the
Speaker 4: same opponent twice in one year. We didn't do that
Speaker 4: in our college careers, and he hasn't either. So now
Speaker 4: you have a little bit of an example of a
Speaker 4: tape to watch of what you've already done against this
Speaker 4: football team. I have big expectations for Caleb and the
Speaker 4: entire Bear team.
Speaker 1: Do coaches hold back a little bit when they know
Speaker 1: they got a second game coming.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they necessarily hold back or they
Speaker 4: only feed as much as they have.
Speaker 1: To, like show you a little something and then hey,
Speaker 1: oh I got something for you to the next one.
Speaker 4: Right exactly, and coaches both ways. But if something's working successfully,
Speaker 4: you can do it multiple times in one game. And
Speaker 4: so you have a game plan or you have a
Speaker 4: play sheet that might have a couple hundred plays on it,
Speaker 4: but if during the course of that game you only
Speaker 4: have to use fifty or sixty of them, then that's.
Speaker 5: All you got to use.
Speaker 4: Knowing good and well that you've been able to insert
Speaker 4: this information during the course of OTA's in training camp
Speaker 4: knowing that you are exactly looking at this team and
Speaker 4: this style of defense when you were inserting it. So hey,
Speaker 4: you may be holding a more than a handful of
Speaker 4: plays that you want to use on the road, because
Speaker 4: sometimes it's a test to see how is your quarterback developing,
Speaker 4: who are the weapons that he likes to take advantage of,
Speaker 4: and now how can you use him in these types
Speaker 4: of environments.
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Speaker 1: Such a disparity in yards and I know it's just yards,
Speaker 1: but it does lead to points, and it did for
Speaker 1: San Francisco going up twenty four. The three nineteen to
Speaker 1: four in the first half, I mean, these are these
Speaker 1: are remarkable numbers, right, and the inability to convert on
Speaker 1: third down or keep drives alive. They didn't turn the
Speaker 1: ball over but once on the fumble by Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: This sport is something, man, it really boggles my mind sometimes.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: You know, if I go back and I look at
Speaker 4: the first half, let me take away the four big
Speaker 4: plays by George Kittle. And if you take those four
Speaker 4: big plays away and then you change the down and distance,
Speaker 4: you change the frustration of those guys trying to get
Speaker 4: first downs. It changes the numbers that you're talking about
Speaker 4: of the first half. And so I know the other
Speaker 4: receivers they were able to hit a couple of big
Speaker 4: plays and stuff, but to me, it's the frustration of
Speaker 4: the big plays that were offered to the tight end position.
Speaker 4: And I think the Bears have the quality of athletes
Speaker 4: that they can limit the success of tight ends in
Speaker 4: this league. And so to me that was be a
Speaker 4: point of emphasis by Eric Washington and his staff going
Speaker 4: into this week because they have a good tight end
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, DJ Hockinson, Evan Ingram, and Kiddle all with one
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards against the Bears, most against any team
Speaker 1: in the league with the tight end position. So it
Speaker 1: will be a big match up. And you know this
Speaker 1: quarterback this scheme, Yeah, outside zone, but they also like
Speaker 1: work in the middle of the field, and that's what
Speaker 1: brock Perty did. They had really not screened that much
Speaker 1: this year, but their screens were deadly and so always
Speaker 1: new wrinkles that you're gonna have to face a defense,
Speaker 1: not with a new coordinator, that's an adjustment to I'd
Speaker 1: imagine even though he's been in the system for the
Speaker 1: greater part of this season. But so many things to
Speaker 1: work on, and that's the beauty of this You can
Speaker 1: work on them and they can be fixed as quickly
Speaker 1: as they created problems.
Speaker 4: You know, you look at you look at George Kittle
Speaker 4: for the whole game, six receptions, one hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: one yards for twenty five yard average. You take those
Speaker 4: plays out of the first half, you have a chance
Speaker 4: to be have some competitive scoring opportunities by the Bears offense,
Speaker 4: and then you maybe have a chance to be a
Speaker 4: little bit more aggressive at and from the line of
Speaker 4: scrimmage because when the Bears did blitz, they were able
Speaker 4: to get brock Perty off a spot, they were able
Speaker 4: to challenge his accuracy. And I think it's the same
Speaker 4: type of attack that you can have for a guy
Speaker 4: like Darnold in Minnesota this week. But you have to
Speaker 4: make sure that the coverage responsibilities against a tight end
Speaker 4: like Hockinson, you don't let it get away from you
Speaker 4: and add extra yards to it because you know you
Speaker 4: have a couple of good wide receivers in Jefferson and Addison.
Speaker 4: So I think it's just given Eric Washington the equal
Speaker 4: opportunity to go on the road and succeed with his defense.
Speaker 4: And I'm almost glad like that they did play in
Speaker 4: San Francisco because I like to see Eric Washington take
Speaker 4: the show on the road two weeks in a row
Speaker 4: in a hostile environment and see how this defense set
Speaker 4: of talent can work their skills.
Speaker 1: Well, I think Thomas Browning the kid, and I'd like
Speaker 1: to see a little bit more physicality on defense and
Speaker 1: a little more violence than we showed. And now as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, now I had three news conferences essentially
Speaker 1: since the game. He used words on Sunday after the
Speaker 1: game like challenge us to be the best, encourage, but
Speaker 1: demand to stay unified. Yep, that right there, demand to
Speaker 1: stay unified. That says something significant, and that's a lot
Speaker 1: to dive into a little bit. Got to go to
Speaker 1: work this week, gotta go to work next week. Got
Speaker 1: to go to work and do your best in your
Speaker 1: four games. So stay unified. Let's see what we get
Speaker 1: out of it. But you know that message has to
Speaker 1: come from the players.
Speaker 4: That's not something that a coach is going to tell
Speaker 4: you in a meeting and then it's going to fit
Speaker 4: into the locker room. This is something that's going to
Speaker 4: fit in the locker room. And you're going to have
Speaker 4: these veterans that have a lot of experience in the
Speaker 4: NFL that are going to have to have that conversation
Speaker 4: with some of the veterans in the room and some
Speaker 4: the young guys, and they're going to have to all
Speaker 4: kind of, you know, surround each other and as they say,
Speaker 4: circle the wagons. And I think they have a leadership
Speaker 4: inside that locker room that have the ability to voice
Speaker 4: the need for exactly what Thomas Brown is saying.
Speaker 5: And I think it can be done, and I think
Speaker 5: it will be done.
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Speaker 1: all right. So I took a different approach with Coach.
Speaker 1: I did an interview with him for ESPN one thousand
Speaker 1: earlier in the day that was more about the game
Speaker 1: ex's and o's. I really, you know, it just kind
Speaker 1: of evolved this conversation and it all stemmed from what
Speaker 1: you spent on the on the team plane, watching tape,
Speaker 1: breaking things down more than once, and it just became
Speaker 1: a conversation. So let's get the status at Hallis with
Speaker 1: head coach Thomas Brown. All right, thanks again Thomas for
Speaker 1: joining us here in Bears, etc. Tom will be along
Speaker 1: in just a minute. I know you've already talked a
Speaker 1: lot about this game and the benefit of traveling that
Speaker 1: kind of distance. You do get a lot of work
Speaker 1: done on the plane, don't you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely just having a change from a prep standpoint, hited there,
Speaker 3: but also on the way back. It gives me enough
Speaker 3: time to be able to grade both sides of the
Speaker 3: ball and also take a pick at special teams as well.
Speaker 3: I try to always, you know, watch all phases multiple times.
Speaker 3: I have a kind of a more accurate picture when
Speaker 3: I end up meeting with the coordinators.
Speaker 2: But definitely get a ton of work down.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you about that because I learned to
Speaker 1: watch tape from Tom there, Super Bowl Bear so over
Speaker 1: of course from my career. I don't know assignments or
Speaker 1: anything like that, but it's just that that ability to
Speaker 1: watch things over and over again. It slowed the game
Speaker 1: down for me to call the game. When you first
Speaker 1: started playing football and you ran the ball at Georgia.
Speaker 1: Did you before you go into the NFL, did you
Speaker 1: know how to watch tape?
Speaker 3: Absolutely not. I think come out of high school. You know,
Speaker 3: you don't really watch much tape in high school. It's
Speaker 3: no mean everybody's in the same media room and head
Speaker 3: coach might have a couple of clips to show from
Speaker 3: the other opponent. But other think, like anything else, it's
Speaker 3: the skill you have to develop when it comes to
Speaker 3: understanding what you're looking at. But also you know understand
Speaker 3: how to break down the actual film. So watching the
Speaker 3: game is one thing, building cut ups and preparations is
Speaker 3: something different. So we try to do a really good
Speaker 3: job as I learned throughout talk about the years at Georgia.
Speaker 2: Of what am I looking at?
Speaker 3: I think when I was a freshman, I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just watching taping and tape it running. I have no
Speaker 3: idea what I'm looking at. I'm not, you know, necessarily
Speaker 3: reading coverage and looking at linebacker the means I'm looking
Speaker 3: just for big plays. As time goes on, you understand
Speaker 3: to look at you know, formation alignements. From a defensive standpoint,
Speaker 3: Are there any pressure tails indicated? When it comes to
Speaker 3: how linebacker's feet are also how guys kind of play
Speaker 3: and defend certain blocks. You kind of anticipate certain reads.
Speaker 3: But I think, like anything else, reperticos.
Speaker 2: To the mother of vernon.
Speaker 3: So the more you hear it, the more you hear it,
Speaker 3: the more you see it, the more you do it,
Speaker 3: the better you become anything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the crazy thing about it's the subtle stuff.
Speaker 1: It's the placement, it's the footwork, it's how somebody's lined up.
Speaker 1: The uniqueness of the greatest players that in a split
Speaker 1: second can do something that one tenth of one percent
Speaker 1: of the entire world is capable of doing because of
Speaker 1: their strength or athleticism or their instincts. Right, And that's
Speaker 1: the beauty of watching tape because if you really slow
Speaker 1: it down and watch it over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: it almost paints a different picture every time, don't you agree.
Speaker 2: It's like watching poetry emotion at time.
Speaker 3: And I think you know that's why I oftentimes get
Speaker 3: irritated when people speak about athletes or football players in general
Speaker 3: of not being intelligent. You have to be highly intellectual
Speaker 3: to be able to understand and diagnose some processing and
Speaker 3: a split second and make a full speed decision with
Speaker 3: the game on the line. So I think it's all about,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of what you commit yourself to. And
Speaker 3: as you mentioned before, the greats become the greats because
Speaker 3: of their habits and what they repeat on a regular basis,
Speaker 3: but also what they can kind of do a really
Speaker 3: good job of with Tennessees. That's what I try to
Speaker 3: do a really good job with the offense of how
Speaker 3: we marry formations, emotions and even just talk what cretib
Speaker 3: about his his mechanics and demeanor in the pocket proof
Speaker 3: o wise, they're gonna keep everything off of your hand placement.
Speaker 3: Do you grab the tae before the ball comes any
Speaker 3: manner and they can pick up on them for the
Speaker 3: ball snap, So try to be as uniform as possible.
Speaker 2: They can't get a key on when the ball's gonna
Speaker 2: be snapped.
Speaker 1: You know, it's almost And I play baseball, so I
Speaker 1: always used to hitch before I threw, and sometimes if
Speaker 1: a fast runner he got me, you know, but almost
Speaker 1: almost every quarterback taps before they throw.
Speaker 5: Though.
Speaker 1: To me, that's an indicator, right, but it is part
Speaker 1: of the ritual that you grew up with, or you
Speaker 1: you can't. I mean it's just you, right. Do you
Speaker 1: find that interesting that a lot of quarterbacks tap it first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it just goes back to habits.
Speaker 3: I think whether you create good habits and bad habits
Speaker 3: is to define who you are. And so, as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: a lot of qbs do kind of pat the ball
Speaker 3: before the ball comes out. I remember being in LA
Speaker 3: listening to idb's coaches talk about pattern match and reading
Speaker 3: ke ball out break. Oo's got to make their breaks
Speaker 3: off of a QB pats balls about to come out,
Speaker 3: so they go trigger and drop when the ball, which
Speaker 3: to me, if you're aware that from a quarterback standpoint,
Speaker 3: you can play off of that and you can dumb
Speaker 3: me tap, make a defensive drive for double moves and
Speaker 3: throw the ball behind them. So, but it's definitely all
Speaker 3: about kind of playing the game within the game, and
Speaker 3: also how much can you disguise and minimize the tendencies
Speaker 3: you kind of expose to the other opponent.
Speaker 1: So, with that being said, when you watched it, and
Speaker 1: watch it, watch it again, and watch it again, and
Speaker 1: you'll watch it again with the team, what are some
Speaker 1: things that you feel are correctible from the tape from
Speaker 1: yesterday's game?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the execution first and foremost as far as our assignments,
Speaker 3: our details, and how we execute the players if they
Speaker 3: plays become just lines on the sheet until you bring
Speaker 3: to life something. The more clear that we can give
Speaker 3: our guys a better understanding, the better they can execute.
Speaker 3: Opposite game played a really good football team. This is
Speaker 3: this is the NFL. That there's no d League of
Speaker 3: the NFL, So it's the best of the best that
Speaker 3: are here, and so.
Speaker 2: We can and weak out.
Speaker 3: You going to face really good opponents with really good players,
Speaker 3: and so have to be ready for that challenge and
Speaker 3: be up to it.
Speaker 2: I think also when it comes.
Speaker 3: To separating, you know, motivation and confidence from actually execution,
Speaker 3: I think our guys would definitely motivated.
Speaker 2: They were definitely confident. We had a really good week
Speaker 2: of preparation.
Speaker 3: But the game, that execution is what matters the most
Speaker 3: when it comes to winning and losing football games.
Speaker 1: And with that becomes the psyche of a player or
Speaker 1: a team. Do you do you feel that you have
Speaker 1: a pretty firm grasp on the overall psyche of the team,
Speaker 1: especially one that now has unfortunately lost seven games in
Speaker 1: a row, because that could go many different ways. But
Speaker 1: you've been there the whole season, and it's not just
Speaker 1: now that you're in charge. You have had a good
Speaker 1: sense of it, but the hopes of a winning season
Speaker 1: for example, our dash, but now it's about just putting
Speaker 1: your best foot forward for the final four. Do you
Speaker 1: have a good sense of that from these guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I feel like I do. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've seen any time you drop seven in a row.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say the psychic is going to be
Speaker 3: in a great spot.
Speaker 2: That would be unrealistic and not a true statement. But
Speaker 2: I think as far as our guys.
Speaker 3: Belief in themselves and ability better fix things and get better,
Speaker 3: that's not lost. I think there's definitely still a good
Speaker 3: continuity in a locker room as far as they're belief
Speaker 3: in each other, which is one of the big points
Speaker 3: of infaties that I want to make last week, as
Speaker 3: far as staying connected unifying as a football team. So
Speaker 3: we had an opportunity to concede and move forward and ultimately,
Speaker 3: like we're all paid uh to do our jobs and
Speaker 3: so regardless of feelings, those don't really matter.
Speaker 2: I think feelings come and go.
Speaker 3: As a as a grown man, you have to do
Speaker 3: stuff sometimes that you don't feel like doing. Our responsibility
Speaker 3: is to attack every single day and be at at best.
Speaker 1: And this converges with the Monday night game national attention.
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna be looking at us, They're gonna be
Speaker 1: poking at us. They're gonna be looking at you know
Speaker 1: what's next and everything. How do you plan on telling
Speaker 1: these guys, Hey, listen, man, this is us on Monday Night.
Speaker 1: I mean, we we gotta we gotta stay together, which
Speaker 1: I don't doubt you wont uh, But we gotta, we gotta,
Speaker 1: we gotta really play some really good football against this
Speaker 1: Minnesota Viking outfit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think my message continue to say the same. As
Speaker 3: far as the outside, no's. I think it becomes harder
Speaker 3: for our players at times because it's a social media generation.
Speaker 3: Everybody looks at their phone and watch every TV show.
Speaker 3: I don't look at anything on purpose of football season.
Speaker 3: I don't really care about the outside world or what
Speaker 3: their thoughts are. Even if it's positive, then it don't
Speaker 3: help me do my job any better. And so I'll
Speaker 3: keep the same mess As far as yes, a primetime game, yes,
Speaker 3: Monday night football.
Speaker 2: Yes, the whole world is watching.
Speaker 3: But the most important thing is how to prepare and
Speaker 3: being able to play at our best when it metters
Speaker 3: the most.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean i'd imagine that's super difficult. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is differ because that phone man, that thing lights up.
Speaker 1: It was light en up during the broadcast. For me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't.
Speaker 3: Look turn notifications off. And I do have a little
Speaker 3: small Instagram deal. I scroll past certain things. I don't
Speaker 3: even look at it. Even if it's positive, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I'm just keep scrolling and look at something different. So
Speaker 3: I think you know, diet is definitely know what you
Speaker 3: put into your body, but also died is also what
Speaker 3: you allow to go.
Speaker 2: Into your years and also in your eyes. So that's
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: Care who you are, what you think that will still
Speaker 3: have an effective use from a subconscious standpoint. So I
Speaker 3: choose always ignored and block it out, particularly do football season.
Speaker 1: I need to take that advice from you as well.
Speaker 2: Buddy.
Speaker 1: It's hard, Yeah, hard, it is hard. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: some I want to talk about Jandre Swift because when
Speaker 1: Homer goes down, No Roa Sean, he's the man, right.
Speaker 1: You got Darien ton Evans there, but he's he's been
Speaker 1: around for three years but hasn't been here much this season,
Speaker 1: And I was looking at the workload, okay, because it
Speaker 1: was going to be him in the second half, and
Speaker 1: clearly that long drive was a part of it. But
Speaker 1: is he capable of a good heavy workload. I went
Speaker 1: back and looked last season against Minnesota, went twenty eight
Speaker 1: for one to seventy five, twenty one for seventy three
Speaker 1: against Carolina this year. So he's capable of handling a
Speaker 1: big load if necessary.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: I think he's in the right mindset and the right
Speaker 3: framework as far as how competes and prepares every single day.
Speaker 3: But the issue sometimes will come to that position is
Speaker 3: how bald it can be. It's a very baling position.
Speaker 3: So I think playing running back every single snap you
Speaker 3: have to getting hit by multiple people you've been asked
Speaker 3: to hit people for because very few stamps that are
Speaker 3: kind of end up being non contact downs for running back.
Speaker 3: I think he's taken on the task he wants to
Speaker 3: be in the entire time, and sometimes you got a
Speaker 3: saving from himself, you know, so he doesn't wear himself down,
Speaker 3: But you want to have that mentality brought to the
Speaker 3: other way, and.
Speaker 1: Then what did you think. You know, as a as
Speaker 1: a great player watching great players, you never get sick
Speaker 1: of watching greatness. And Kean Allen, is that the fastest
Speaker 1: to nine hundred and fifty catches in one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty games. Has it turned out? Now? Eleven thousand yards?
Speaker 1: Six to active There's only fourteen players that have a
Speaker 1: thousand catches in the NFL, So just to I know,
Speaker 1: it's in a losing effort, but that's significant. It's kind
Speaker 1: of cool. He's part of the Bears, although he's been
Speaker 1: you know, the La Chargers guy, but to have that
Speaker 1: happen in this game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you said before, kind of gets overshut of
Speaker 3: the times because of our record and losing football games.
Speaker 3: But greatness is greatness, and as you mentioned, he's been
Speaker 3: one of the best for a very long time. And
Speaker 3: continue to prove it. So to be consistent. I set
Speaker 3: it back in training camp. I think the guy is unguarded,
Speaker 3: but when he wants to be able to kind of
Speaker 3: have some one on win opportunity. So continue to continue
Speaker 3: to prove itself every single day and we'll continue to
Speaker 3: find way to get him involved.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like with the dune'sake. Still learning obviously,
Speaker 1: but a good connection with with Caleb, you got Cole Commett,
Speaker 1: you got dj you got keenan other players as well.
Speaker 1: That that that these guys all are capable of being uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: There's no question.
Speaker 3: I think that's that's the benefit of having the guys
Speaker 3: that we have, and we have we have displayed at times.
Speaker 3: Then I say showcase itself yesterday, but I would say
Speaker 3: that the previous games before the three in a row
Speaker 3: gets three the best in the league. Those guys consistently
Speaker 3: made players and continue to find ways to get him open.
Speaker 3: And obviously callob has found him as far as with
Speaker 3: accurate ball players Bean rhythm and timing, that's definitely important.
Speaker 3: And you obviously mentioned Rome Rome as a is the
Speaker 3: youngest of all that bunch, but I mean that dude
Speaker 3: is because to me, I was already special in the
Speaker 3: team to be special in the future because he's super
Speaker 3: detailed and lusive. Rock Runner has really strong, aggressive hands.
Speaker 3: So love all those guys kind of get involved in
Speaker 3: the game.
Speaker 1: All right, not looked. We got a long week. So
Speaker 1: last question, what's it going to be like getting in
Speaker 1: the ring again? Going to to toe Brian Flores.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's one of the best in the league,
Speaker 3: if not the best. I think he actually did reach
Speaker 3: out to me after the first time we played him,
Speaker 3: which I think was was great of him, and I
Speaker 3: do appreciate that reaching out to me, and I exchanged
Speaker 3: a couple of texts with him.
Speaker 2: But it's gonna be hard, and it was the first time.
Speaker 3: I think, once you I kind of show your hand
Speaker 3: and expose yourself. He does a great job.
Speaker 2: But adapting to justin and give you some new looks.
Speaker 3: Their defense probably has the most disguised too in the
Speaker 3: vidiing in the league. So we'll be about trying to
Speaker 3: prepare our guys the right way, particularly you know Caleb
Speaker 3: from a quarterback stand put up understanding different looks, how
Speaker 3: to diagnose things fast, but also the ball distribution and
Speaker 3: put the ball in and you know, not losing a
Speaker 3: game because of the stuff that they do. As far
Speaker 3: as how they impact the coverage units.
Speaker 1: Do you might have follow up on that with him.
Speaker 1: How rare is that? And had you guys a previous relationship.
Speaker 3: I know I met him one time briefly just at
Speaker 3: the combine, just kind of just walking in past and
Speaker 3: I just told him how much respect I had for him,
Speaker 3: introduced myself to him, and kind of just kept kept moving.
Speaker 3: So not much dialogue before that, but I think it
Speaker 3: was really cool and also.
Speaker 2: Hummet of him himself. Again, he is regard.
Speaker 3: As one of the best, not the best, in the
Speaker 3: league at his role, and so I think it's also
Speaker 3: a good testament to the display we had from off
Speaker 3: of the standpoint, did you garner respect of one of
Speaker 3: the best in the league, and it'll be another tough
Speaker 3: test for us on Monday night football.
Speaker 1: That was pretty cool. That's a pretty cool story. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much, appreciate the time. I knew you'd get
Speaker 1: a kick out of the tape watching thing, but I
Speaker 1: got a bigger kick out of Brian Flores. The text
Speaker 1: from Brian Flores.
Speaker 5: I agree. That really surprised me.
Speaker 4: And you know, I don't know Brian Flores at all,
Speaker 4: but I admire the fact that he reaches out to
Speaker 4: another coach that has an opportunity of a lifetime and
Speaker 4: he's wishing the best forum So it's just the same
Speaker 4: thing that we wish for Thomas Brown. We wish the
Speaker 4: best for him because everything I hear from him speaking publicly,
Speaker 4: whether a private interview with you or from a podium.
Speaker 4: I like what I hear, and I want to see
Speaker 4: if the players are gutsy enough to accept the challenge
Speaker 4: that he's laying out there for him.
Speaker 5: Can you circle the wagons?
Speaker 4: Can that leadership the leadership guys with experience inside that
Speaker 4: locker room, you know, kind of send that message. And
Speaker 4: I'm not saying the word leadership council or the captains
Speaker 4: because you know, I think guys like Caleb and Rome's
Speaker 4: it's probably a better time for them to listen than
Speaker 4: to talk and let some of the experience. The Keenans,
Speaker 4: the DJs, the Montes, TJ's, Tremaine Kevin Byern Deandres. So
Speaker 4: if those types of guys lead that type of conversation
Speaker 4: in the locker room, because they have a lot more
Speaker 4: experiences in an NFL season that they can either you know,
Speaker 4: talk about their experience or bring on some of the
Speaker 4: memories of what they feel made the best team they've
Speaker 4: ever played on.
Speaker 1: Caleb hasn't really discussed it too much. I know he's
Speaker 1: been asked a few times, but he always takes a
Speaker 1: positive tone on this whole experience. And it's been interesting.
Speaker 1: I had to say the least the Bears have had
Speaker 1: quite the right here to deal with all sorts of things,
Speaker 1: you name it. It's happened in his first year and he's
Speaker 1: getting sacked quite a bit. You know, it's over fifty,
Speaker 1: so you know it's a lot. It's team record for
Speaker 1: a quarterback, the amount of sex. You wonder what his
Speaker 1: mind like, what's going through him in your opinion, what
Speaker 1: do you think is going through his mind right now?
Speaker 1: Because it can be a really long season and there's
Speaker 1: still a month of games left, And how do you
Speaker 1: make managed to keep learning things that will help you
Speaker 1: in your career for the next ten to fifteen and
Speaker 1: still stay positive and stay in tune with development. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a to me, there's a lot there to go.
Speaker 5: Through, you know, and I say it often.
Speaker 4: I've never been disappointed by anything Caleb has said or
Speaker 4: done on the football field, because you can see what
Speaker 4: he does on the football field that he's taken accountability
Speaker 4: of his study requirements. He knows the game plan, he
Speaker 4: knows how to communicate, he knows how to verbalize if
Speaker 4: he has the luxury of playing at home, and he
Speaker 4: knows how to hand signal if he's on the road.
Speaker 4: So everything that I've seen Caleb do I have a
Speaker 4: lot of respect for. I also think that he's the
Speaker 4: type of guy that puts the accountability out himself, that
Speaker 4: he's going to be a big reason why this thing
Speaker 4: gets turned around ultimately, and he's going to be a
Speaker 4: success story. We've seen guys in the NFL, the Troy
Speaker 4: Aikman's and stuff that have difficulty during their rookie year
Speaker 4: that all of a sudden they become a multiple, multiple
Speaker 4: time Super Bowl champion in a future Hall of Famer.
Speaker 4: And I know there's a long way to go between
Speaker 4: year one and a Hall of Fame career for Caleb,
Speaker 4: but I do see the personality within him that he
Speaker 4: wants to take the responsibility and put that responsibility on
Speaker 4: his shoulders for being a big reason why this thing
Speaker 4: is going to get turned around.
Speaker 1: I'd love to dip into the minds of guys like
Speaker 1: Troy Aikman and Peyton Manning knowing how they endured their
Speaker 1: rookie seasons, the lack of wins for Peyton Manning leading
Speaker 1: the NFL in interceptions and Caleb's not even throwing interceptions.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of that, But yeah, everybody, I mean,
Speaker 1: look at little bit Sam Sam Darnold's doing. He's got
Speaker 1: twenty eight touchdown passes. I mean, I came out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: That's the thing about it is because of the there's
Speaker 4: like a separation, a dividing line in the era of quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: When you think of guys like Brett Favroan Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: who sat multiple years behind the starter to waiting to
Speaker 4: get their opportunity to play. Caleb wasn't offered that luxury.
Speaker 4: But then you look at the Peyton Mannings and the
Speaker 4: Troy Aikman's and the other guys that came in, and
Speaker 4: they were immediate starters in the difficulty of their rookie year.
Speaker 4: But Peyton always says, in order to get experience, you
Speaker 4: got to play. And I think that's exactly what Caleb
Speaker 4: is going through this year. And I think the experience
Speaker 4: that he's gaining throughout this year, and we talk about
Speaker 4: the development of the relationships between Rome or Cole or
Speaker 4: all of these guys on and his team that are
Speaker 4: going to be around here for a long time, that
Speaker 4: I do think Caleb is the right man for the job.
Speaker 4: And like I said, I've never seen anything yet that
Speaker 4: has disappointed me.
Speaker 1: And he's got to understand it's not gonna be this
Speaker 1: way like this all the time. I mean, there may
Speaker 1: be some times, it may be some tough years down
Speaker 1: the road, but it's not only on him.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is about putting the effort on display, the
Speaker 4: commitment on display that the other players can gravitate towards.
Speaker 5: And I do think that's you know, but you.
Speaker 1: Know, we always hear you know that the at this point,
Speaker 1: the only important thing is the development of the quarterback. No,
Speaker 1: it is the development of a team right as well,
Speaker 1: And obviously that needs to happen, but.
Speaker 5: It all goes hand in hand though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not going to develop the team and not
Speaker 4: develop the quarterback. You're going to develop the quarterback and
Speaker 4: not the team. The attitude and the work ethic of
Speaker 4: the quarterback can be reflected in the performance of the
Speaker 4: other guys. You know, could he save a misprotection, yes,
Speaker 4: could he save a misread by a receiver, yes, Though,
Speaker 4: the little things that he can do because of his
Speaker 4: commitment to the knowledge needed to play that position, I
Speaker 4: think Caleb can do every everything that's asked of him.
Speaker 1: I got that question you know, did you ever talk
Speaker 1: to dem Orn about his career. I didn't get to
Speaker 1: go to a Super Bowl and win one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I have, But you know, my first
Speaker 4: opportunity to play with Dan Marino was in a college
Speaker 4: All Star game. So my senior year in college, we
Speaker 4: played Pitt at Pitt they were number one in the
Speaker 4: country and we went there to we we beat them.
Speaker 4: I don't know how we did it, but we did.
Speaker 4: Then I was his teammate at the Hula Bowl, and
Speaker 4: I got to watch this incredibly talented, mature quarterback that
Speaker 4: was at a status already above a lot of us
Speaker 4: young punk college kids that we didn't know South Bend
Speaker 4: from South Wilmington. You know, It's just that kind of way,
Speaker 4: and then you kind of understand what a great pro
Speaker 4: that he's gonna be. And even though he didn't get
Speaker 4: picked till later in the first round, he went in
Speaker 4: there and he was immediately successful, and he had a
Speaker 4: great relationship with coach Shula. And I don't think that
Speaker 4: Dan Marino, when you're a Hall of Famer, it's not
Speaker 4: your greatness isn't necessarily judged exclusively on a Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: It's go ask to go to a Hall of Fame
Speaker 4: banquet and take twenty five offensive players and ask them,
Speaker 4: would you be willing to play for Dan Marino?
Speaker 5: Every one of them it's a consensus yes.
Speaker 4: So you know that's the thing about it too, what
Speaker 4: type of league wide respect you? Again, even though that
Speaker 4: you haven't had the opportunity to win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: And all kind of names are popping into mind, friend,
Speaker 1: Tarkentin hall of Fame player, right, no super Bowl win?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's just interesting this whole quarterback thing that it's
Speaker 1: it's blown up in such a way that's it's for Massias.
Speaker 4: And it's only I mean, yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: great guys that had great careers that didn't.
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Speaker 1: the defense really struggled, But what do you think about
Speaker 1: the performance of TJ. Edwards? Because I did think he
Speaker 1: played with a mean streak and some violence and had
Speaker 1: really really challenging assignments with the type of defense they
Speaker 1: were playing and what was being run by Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 1: But he wound up with a good line of ten
Speaker 1: tackles and blitzes and cover. I mean it was a
Speaker 1: lot there. One sack had a near interception. I thought
Speaker 1: he his pressure around Blitzes was good.
Speaker 5: What he's acality, That's TJ.
Speaker 4: That's the thing I think about him every time I
Speaker 4: you know, hey, someone asked me outside the building about TJ.
Speaker 5: Edwards. The first thing I say.
Speaker 4: His presence of delivering physicality to the lineup is undeniable.
Speaker 4: And he's the type of guy whether it's meeting or
Speaker 4: running back in the hole, taking on an offensive lineman
Speaker 4: that's a lead blocker, or having a chance to support
Speaker 4: and as protection. He never goes backwards.
Speaker 5: TJ.
Speaker 4: Edwards makes a hit and he goes forward and he's
Speaker 4: bringing a body with him. So for the reflection of
Speaker 4: the linebacker history in the NFL and in the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 4: he fits in right with the rest of them.
Speaker 5: And so TJ.
Speaker 4: Edwards is as a really good example for young guys
Speaker 4: to follow.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a cleanups and communication on the back end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, that's the thing about a competitive offense.
Speaker 4: They have the they could they that's where the challenge lies.
Speaker 4: They can try to get you out of position and
Speaker 4: not a position for defense is a half a step
Speaker 4: off balance, a step forward when you should be going backwards,
Speaker 4: or backwards when you should be going forwards. And it's
Speaker 4: even Thomas Brown, you know, you talk about the very
Speaker 4: little things. And I just wish the quote I could
Speaker 4: remember it because I think it might have been about
Speaker 4: the linebacker position when you make an instant decision for
Speaker 4: a sudden movement, or there was some reference to that,
Speaker 4: and I really liked it, and I wanted to remember
Speaker 4: the quote, So I'll go back and I'll listen to
Speaker 4: it so I know exactly what he said.
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Speaker 1: you had three things that you want this team to
Speaker 1: focus on of the final four weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: I know it's a one game at a time thing,
Speaker 1: but can you and I know I'm getting you off
Speaker 1: guard here, but what are three things that are must
Speaker 1: have that can equate to victory and at least representing
Speaker 1: yourself in a competitive fashion.
Speaker 5: Running game, assignment, assuredness.
Speaker 4: I don't want I don't want two offensive players going
Speaker 4: after one defensive players. I don't want you passing up
Speaker 4: opposite color jerseys on your way to the whole. And
Speaker 4: it im that's from the commitment, to the running back,
Speaker 4: to the blocking up and down the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: I want that assuredness that everybody understands exactly what their
Speaker 4: assignment is every single play and they file follow it
Speaker 4: to the nth degree.
Speaker 5: That would be.
Speaker 4: Just one thing that I would need most going forward
Speaker 4: throughout the remainder of the season. And then you know,
Speaker 4: Caleb to be provided with protection for the proper length
Speaker 4: of time according to the routes, because there is a
Speaker 4: couple times that you know cole Comet was open way
Speaker 4: down field, and you know you need the security that
Speaker 4: the protection is going to hold up long enough securely
Speaker 4: that you can stand there, set your feet and deliver
Speaker 4: the ball accurately, and then everybody be pushing in the
Speaker 4: same direction. And I think that starts in practice, and
Speaker 4: I think Thomas Brown will be super diligent about that.
Speaker 4: Where you get a chance to watch the first film
Speaker 4: you were a head coach, and he talked about it
Speaker 4: being able to watch it multiple times on a trip
Speaker 4: of that length. So we can talk offense, defense and
Speaker 4: special teams. But then when you start that preparation for
Speaker 4: this week's game against Minnesota, everybody's got to be efforted
Speaker 4: in the exact same direction every single play, every single assignment,
Speaker 4: So they can, you know, be in lockstep with each
Speaker 4: other on offense.
Speaker 1: And I'll throw a third on there, just overall discipline
Speaker 1: on defense, discipline in your coverage, discipline in your pass rush,
Speaker 1: discipline in your assignments, discipline in your communication.
Speaker 5: That's a must. That's a must.
Speaker 4: And then if you have that responsibility of showing demonstrating
Speaker 4: that physicality in a one on one man, you got.
Speaker 5: To bring it. You got to do it for the
Speaker 5: rest of your teammates and the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: I pointed this out on the team flight on the
Speaker 1: way home. Kurt Warner had a text. Not a text,
Speaker 1: make it seem like we're texting each other. No, I
Speaker 1: don't have his number. You might, but I don't. This
Speaker 1: was on X Advice to quarterbacks. Most O lines don't
Speaker 1: have ability to pass block that long. Know the play
Speaker 1: protection assignment and get it out efficiently. Most times, more
Speaker 1: important to get quickly on the radar defense, So you
Speaker 1: are lined up and on time. What's he trying to
Speaker 1: say here?
Speaker 4: You know, first of all, understand the route concept when
Speaker 4: you break the huddle, Understand where the possible vulnerabilities is
Speaker 4: in your protection, Understand if you have any type of
Speaker 4: responsibility awareness, and then when that route is open, get
Speaker 4: the ball out of your hand as quickly as possible.
Speaker 5: And that's one thing.
Speaker 4: When I was watching the game the other day in
Speaker 4: San Francisco, the Bears ran a boot leg to the right,
Speaker 4: and I almost wish I would run more bootlegs because
Speaker 4: I think it's a way to get Caleb to the
Speaker 4: exterior of the offense and have an open opportunity. So
Speaker 4: they ran a play a bootleg to the right. DJ
Speaker 4: Moore came emotion to me. It looked like you could
Speaker 4: easily shovel past at the d Moore, put the ball
Speaker 4: in his hands and let him be the playmaker that
Speaker 4: he is. But they swung it all the way out
Speaker 4: to the right hand side and he ended up throwing
Speaker 4: it to DJ Moore. But you gave the opportunity for
Speaker 4: the defenders to get in pursuit of DJ Moore. So
Speaker 4: when he made the catch, he was already avoiding defenders.
Speaker 4: When you have that type of play, get into the
Speaker 4: hands of the playmaker as quick as possible. Don't look
Speaker 4: for an unrealistic destination route when you have one right
Speaker 4: in front of you with an athlete like DJ and
Speaker 4: so getting the ball out of your hands as efficiently
Speaker 4: and as quickly as possible to give that playmaker a
Speaker 4: chance to get on the offensive. Just that one little
Speaker 4: bootleg example is something that you're talking about.
Speaker 1: And I don't mean to insinuate he's talking about Caleb.
Speaker 1: He's just talking about it is.
Speaker 4: But that's that's a truism from you know, from playing
Speaker 4: from every quarterback I played with.
Speaker 5: That's exactly. It's a good coaching point.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's look at the vikings. Well, let's look
Speaker 1: at the injuries. So we don't have any info yet,
Speaker 1: but Travis Homer left with an apparent concussion. Tavon Dexter
Speaker 1: was having real problem running the ankle. Yeah, the ankle,
Speaker 1: and I'm missing one. Oh. DeAndre Carter had the ankle,
Speaker 1: so obviously Dexter. That's big because I still like to
Speaker 1: see him finish this year strong, playing as much as possible,
Speaker 1: just getting all those valuable reps for obe his third
Speaker 1: year next season and an important one. Third year is
Speaker 1: always the important one.
Speaker 4: But I want him to be healthy on his feet.
Speaker 4: I don't want him to be playing on one leg
Speaker 4: because that's too difficult for interior defensive tackle to try
Speaker 4: to balance, shed blocks, get in pursuit all these things.
Speaker 4: If you do have issue, a leg issue, that really
Speaker 4: inhibits your abilities. And I want to see Dexter play
Speaker 4: at to the best of his ability, and so I
Speaker 4: would be maybe he got one extra day to recover.
Speaker 4: Hopefully it wasn't that bad and he can.
Speaker 1: I respect the fact he came back out there though.
Speaker 5: He got me to try.
Speaker 4: But you know, there's a little difference in playing on
Speaker 4: natural grass than sports turf. I think, you know, you
Speaker 4: really need to be healthy in your shoes on sports turf.
Speaker 1: So the Vikings rolled through Atlanta, we already know about it.
Speaker 1: I mean, Jefferson and Addison five touchdowns, two sixty five
Speaker 1: just a crazy, crazy performance Atlanta. I mean, they blitzed
Speaker 1: a lot. They sacked Arnold three times in the first half,
Speaker 1: but then they kind of took over. It's the first
Speaker 1: duo in the sixty four year history of the franchise
Speaker 1: to get one hundred yards and two touchdowns each facing
Speaker 1: you know, for each guy. So they faced a lot
Speaker 1: of single high coverage and they took advantage of it.
Speaker 1: So you got to give them credit. All this being said,
Speaker 1: the Vikings gave up almost five hundred yards of offense.
Speaker 1: They just kept him out of the end zone. Otherwise
Speaker 1: it could be a whole different story here. So what
Speaker 1: are the Bears walking into, I guess is my big question.
Speaker 4: You know, I think Flores is going to look at
Speaker 4: the lasting impression that Caleb probably put on him when
Speaker 4: they played here in Chicago, because I think Caleb had
Speaker 4: a good rhythm going with this offense in the latter
Speaker 4: part of the game. And like I said, first time
Speaker 4: you get to play an opponent twice in one year,
Speaker 4: I'm excited to see the challenges that this defense sees
Speaker 4: for themselves. When you look at Cole and you look
Speaker 4: at Caleb, and you look at or DeAndre Swift, and
Speaker 4: you look at Keenan and look at dj there's a
Speaker 4: lot of weapons that they got to be concerned about
Speaker 4: as well. So to me, it's more about what does
Speaker 4: Caleb feel comfortable with in his attack, what protects suit
Speaker 4: the Bears offensive protectors the best, and how to attack
Speaker 4: him relentlessly.
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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold, by the way, last four games, eleven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: no interceptions. You know, there's some people talking about him
Speaker 1: as an MVP candidate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, hey, he's having a great year, and
Speaker 4: I mean he should just be happy with what he's
Speaker 4: been able to accomplish, because I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people kind of felt that his career was probably on
Speaker 4: the downslide. But it's his arrow has never been pointed
Speaker 4: more up than the day he was drafted.
Speaker 1: And time to finish things up with our Geico gives
Speaker 1: you more football stat of the Week. It's nothing of
Speaker 1: a big deal in terms of a unique stat, but
Speaker 1: I'm embracing it because Thomas Brown's embracing it. Bears did
Speaker 1: not have a single penalty pre snap two penalties for
Speaker 1: the entire game.
Speaker 4: And that's a loud environment like out in Santa Clara
Speaker 4: for the San Francisco forty nine ers, the environment will
Speaker 4: be as hostile as it's spent at any time this season.
Speaker 4: But again, that line of scrimmage discipline for the offense
Speaker 4: plays an important role in first and second down.
Speaker 1: All right, Tom, We're gonna wrap up here. Coming up
Speaker 1: later in the week, we'll try to secure Joe Buck
Speaker 1: who'll be calling the game on Monday night with Troy Aikman.
Speaker 1: See if we can get that done on Thursday.
Speaker 5: And I won't get a word in edgewise between.
Speaker 1: The two of you, guys, don't worry. We'll give you
Speaker 1: plenty of runway Buddy special thanks to our head coach
Speaker 1: interimed coach Thomas Brown. For Tom There, I'm Jeff Jonihak.
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