WEBVTT - Key matchups to watch in Bears vs. Lions | Bears Weekly 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.040 Welcome in Tough Bears Weekly powered by IGS Energy, a 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.080 Chicago Bears network production. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:09.400 Bears Weekly is brought to you by. 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:16.440 Advocate Healthcare, Athletico Physical Therapy, CD Gullaghy, Connie's Pizza, IGS Energy, 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:17.800 and Meller Liked. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:19.119 Here are your. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.960 Hosts, Jeff Chilliac aka the Mayor of Bearsville and his 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:25.520 sidekick Tom the Surfmaster Thayer. 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.400 Well, thanks for spending part of your evening with us 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.920 talking Bears football and this officially the holiday season. Well 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:37.040 with thanks Jimmy Year on Thursday and your Bears meaning 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.720 the NFC leading Detroit Lions with Super Bowl winning Bears 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.040 guard top there Jeff Joniac on an early week edition 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:46.919 of Bears Weekly because of our Thursday matchup. Coming up 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:50.640 a conversation I had with Bears defensive back Kyler Gordon, 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:54.880 a little feature look at his situation and his interests 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.000 outside of football. Also joining us tonight. We'll let you 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.200 know when he joins us. Bears quarterback Jim Miller from 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.080 Serious XM will join us as well. The former Bears 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.720 quarterback in the ESPN studio Tonight's been to the dials, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.240 Sean Greeney and thanks to our producers Dan Brilly and 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:10.520 Jordan Treadap from the Bears, and the executive producer of 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.480 the Bears Radio Network is Eric Ostrowsky, Tom Good Evening. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:15.520 Big Jeff. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:17.959 I'm glad that we don't do these shows until Thursday 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.800 night during a regular work week, cause you need this 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.880 kind of a loss like that to stew a little bit, 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.040 get to understand it. Let the week start for the 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:32.120 next opponent, and then you know, do the show right then, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:35.920 more than the night after a loss like that. It's 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.440 still sitting in my cross. So it's it's hard not. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:40.040 To think about it. 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.520 All right, I get you, I get you, and you 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.320 know we're in scramble mode. You know, it's it's it's 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.600 everybody's used to it now. Thursday night football is a 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.440 regular part of our existence, and we'll be moving forward 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.240 and who knows what else will come down the line. 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.960 But there's all you know, for players, for coaches, for 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.680 people like us who do the games, it's a man 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.960 scramble to check all the boxes that you normally have 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:01.720 six days to get ready for. You've got a couple 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.600 and then we're flying and on top of it, we're 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:04.320 flying out of town. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.240 Like the scramble mode though you don't have time to 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.919 think about it. It's like the Caleb Williams DeAndre Swift 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.360 scramble mode completion yesterday. 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.880 He just fly by the seat of your pants. 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.080 You make yourself available, let the quarterback loft a nice 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.400 pass into your hands, and then take advantage of the opportunity. 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.600 So you're Caleb, You're Caleb, and well. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:28.400 I'm right Land. 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:30.519 I'm gonna look at you still as an offensive line 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.240 and clearing a path to victory for me. 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:34.760 And then we got the quarterback joining us right now. 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.760 It's Jim Miller. Jim A few weeks, big Jim, how 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:38.080 are you. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.639 I'm doing well, wishing you guys a happy Thanksgiving. So yeah, 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.320 and you know it's unfortunately. I was excited that, you know, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.800 another game where it looked like it was in the 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.160 balance and the Bears we're gonna pull one out there 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:55.079 in overtime. But disappointing, disappointing way to to finish the game. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.639 Yeah, and uh, you know, you've had a few weeks 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:02.320 to watch without talking to us. Just give us your 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:05.640 quick view of how things have gone. Certainly, the three 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:10.800 losses of the five that have have curtailed their plans. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:14.200 Here are the ones that are are are tough to shake. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.040 They're tough to shake. You gotta do it. You got 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:17.280 to do it as a player, you gotta do it 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.280 as a as a franchise to move forward. But uh, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.239 just to think what it would be if that didn't 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:25.640 turn out like that, it'd be a whole different conversation 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:26.480 on a scriptlip. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.400 Yeah, well, I think it's one either way, it's one 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.280 you can learn from. I think this in the in 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.160 the Washington game. I mean, certainly, how did Mike McCarthy 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.040 classify their law or their win to to watch? He 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.640 called it yachts out there. I mean that game had 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:42.960 all kinds of special teams things going on in it. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:46.320 But yeah, you know, here you go into overtime, you 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.640 know you got a moment where you can take advantage. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.119 Unfortunately you have the big sack. And but I think 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.640 the Bears are competing and they got to find a 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.000 way a way to win. And sometimes when you go 0:03:56.120 --> 0:04:00.600 back in the games earlier, like in the first quarter, second, 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.120 there's a handful of plays that you can probably eliminate. 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:07.000 And if you disliminate, you know a few more mistakes. 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:08.839 Who knows it puts you in a position to win. 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.800 But I do know this, the last two weeks there 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.480 has been an uptick on offense, and they put themselves 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.599 in a position to win. Now they've got to put 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.200 out some fires in some other areas. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.560 Yep, Thomas Brown, there's a Thomas Brown effect, that's what 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:23.120 we're calling it. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.160 Tommy, Well, that's what I wanted to hear out of 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.480 Jim Miller. Has he ever had that happened to him before? 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.200 Where they've let an offensive coordinator go mid stride and 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.000 then you had another voice of reason that was leading 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:37.840 the team on the offensive side of the ball. Because 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.320 what I hear from Thomas Brown, Jim out of the podium, 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.320 it transfers to the field of play. I'm super encouraged 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.120 by what I'm seeing out of Caleb. I'm super interested 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:50.960 in what I'm hearing out of Thomas Brown. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.640 Have you ever had that experience before? 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.080 Yeah, and it was in Chicago, but it wasn't due 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.120 to a firing. It was due to a hiring. Gary 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.040 Croton elected to take the Utah job. Right he took 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.279 the head coaching job out at Utah. John Shoop was 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:12.279 then elevated as interim OC and we commenced on putting 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.520 in a whole new offense is what we did during 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:14.920 the year. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.599 You put in a whole Nay, wait you I didn't 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.840 realize that I was. I was covering the team. 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:24.320 Wait, a whole new offense. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:24.760 Yeah. 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:27.880 We decided to put in the West Coast run schemes 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.080 married with Gary Croton's passing principles, so we had a 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.919 quote unquote hybrid. Wow, is what we had of an offense. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.920 So we installed our run game as the year went 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.800 a long, and I didn't think it was possible, but 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.120 we did it and we gained. You know, we started 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:49.080 to make strides offensively, specifically in our running game, which 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.400 under Gary Croton, there was a lot of it because 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.599 it really wasn't a focus. It was more of a 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.760 wide open offense. But we know, we knew we needed 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:00.000 a run game when the weather was about to turn 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.400 and all that, and so that's what we did. It's 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.920 not easy to do, but we were able to do it. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.520 And then the following year is where we reaped the rewards. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.960 Wow. I so, I mean, I've never heard of that. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.919 You know what Jim's holding information back on us, you 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.040 know when we covered him, when we covered him as 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.320 a player, he was kind of a standoff guy. He 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.280 should have been He should have fed us that information 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.040 years ago, that really post career RelA. 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.600 And you know what, and that not to not to 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.680 correct you because I went to look it up to 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.760 catch the years here, but he went to BYU or BYU. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.760 Yeah what I say, you taught yeah b Yu. 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.120 Yeah, Mary you got You're not far off. But yeah, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:41.960 and you. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:43.960 Know, they're all part of the Latter Day Saints, I 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:45.560 think out there, but you know. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.800 What's crazy and I'm just looking at it right now. 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.320 Gary they went twelve and two in his first year there, Yeah, 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.200 twelve and two and they lost to Liberty and uh yeah, well. 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.760 You remember Gary Croton coming out of Law Tech Louisiana Tech. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.719 That was tim Ortay. They had a very good offense. 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.919 I mean they they I mean they led the basically 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.159 the nation and passing and it was all the rage 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.040 and Gary had quite a bit of a success with 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:13.440 that offense in college. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.400 Absolutely, boy, Tom, you never, you never. It's about the questions. 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.760 You don't ask. We asked that one. That's a good one. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.400 That's that's some good info right there. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:21.160 But it wasn't. 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.840 Wasn't Gary Crowton the offense that was called the razzle 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.520 dazzle offense by the Kansas City head coach. I was 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.480 goun to Cunningham gun the Cunningham called it the razzle 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:30.560 dazzle offense. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.320 That's right. Well, I remember one game we went in. 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.720 We were going to run a five wide package and 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.840 on the opening kickoff one of our receivers got hurt. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:44.200 So we quickly went to four wide package, which now 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.200 we had to insert a tight end. But the whole 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.440 game plan was based on five wides and speed, and 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.680 we lost that on the opening kickoff. That game did 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:52.480 not go well, by the. 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:56.679 Way, No, no, but you know since so so again 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.120 this is just from interesting perspective. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.920 So he hit a lot of colleges. 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.680 So after BYU, he was an OC at Oregon, and 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:08.320 OC at LSU, and OC at Maryland, and OC for 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.560 the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and OC at Southern Utah, an 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:17.640 offensive consultant at Oregon State, an offensive coordinator at Steven F. Austin, 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.240 and as recent as twenty twenty one, was a high 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.720 school coach offensive coordinator in Utah. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.560 Unbelievable career, long career. 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.040 Listen, I don't think people realize the difficulty of being 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:33.280 a career assistant coach and how you can move every 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.240 couple of years. You can change from college to high 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:40.560 school to pro and back and forth. So when you know, 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.720 listen to the stories behind some of these guys you 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.319 get to the podium, you have to understand the commitment 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.840 that they've made to the sport of football in the 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.520 difficulty of living that life. 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:55.600 Yeah, it's like fifteen different jobs since he started as 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:57.800 a ga at BYU in nineteen eighty two. All right, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.760 we'll get off the Gary quote train right now, but 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:01.520 very interesting stuff. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.880 All right, let's let's talk about Caleb. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.959 Let's let's get let's dive deep into Caleb because and 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.480 we'll hear a little bit from my interview for Our 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.439 Bears et cetera podcast that drops tomorrow with head coach 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.080 Matt Eberflus regarding how he played. And I I said this, 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:19.720 I said he played star level football yesterday. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:21.720 Would you both agree? 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:26.440 Because that ball was coming off his hand with fire 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.360 like if you if that was a cartoon, there'd be 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.480 flames coming off of that pig skin. I mean that 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.280 ball was getting ripped with confidence. Throws over the middle 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:38.319 in other parts of the field. 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.040 I agree. I thought he played with a lot of confident. 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.920 I think the past two weeks he's he's played with well, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.640 even the last four games, he hasn't turned over the football, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.560 but I think he's you know, you can tell he's 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.360 playing with more confidence, at least for me, the last 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.760 two weeks. So I think prior to that you could 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.560 start to see with his mannerisms, his sideline demeanor, he 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.680 was pretty frustrated. But I thought obviously with Thomas taking 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:08.040 over the play calling, you know, probably communicating a little 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.319 bit more. You know, as a quarterback, you can be 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.520 more forceful, Like, hey man, I really like these third 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.640 down plays, whether it's third and medium, third and long, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.439 you know where I really feel confident in these throws. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.280 And it kind of showed on that last incut to 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.080 DJ Moore. And like you said, Jeff, did he not 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:25.640 rip that? 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:26.920 He ripped it. 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:31.360 You rip throws like that because you're confident, you're confident 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.760 in what you're seeing, even how he layered it everybody 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.240 somehow of layering it over the linebackers. And that's what 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.000 you do. When you're focused and you're confident in what 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.000 you're seeing, you're just going to react and play football, 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.480 And in that moment he was reacting and playing football. 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.360 Yeah, you know, I like his intentions with his feet, 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.520 because if he's going to commit to running the ball 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.280 beyond the line of scrimmage, he takes off, he gets 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.360 what he can get out of it, then he gets down, 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.719 slides to the end of it, and then gets back 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:03.440 on the But the one yard touchdown passed to Keenan Allen, 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.480 he was able to scramble away from a lot of traffic, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:10.080 hurdle over a body and still stay with his intentions 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.520 of throwing the ball downfield rather than committing to run. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.520 And so to look at what that does for a quarterback, 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.120 what his intentions are to run he runs, what his 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.560 intentions are to buy some time and possibly run, but 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.440 still looking for receivers and being able to find him 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.520 in the corner of the end zone. That's two stages 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.440 of Caleb that's developing before our eyes. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:33.880 Guys. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.960 This is coming from the Minnesota Vikings website, but they 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.960 it was the fewest number of blitz percentage drops to 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:45.480 throw the Vikings all season long. They builits him twenty 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:49.680 one point eight percent of his drops to throw, and. 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:50.640 He ripped him for it. 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.680 He was nine to eleven for one hundred and fifty 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.880 one yards seem as a week before against the Blitz 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.199 he had two incompletions. 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.720 So this. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:05.760 Urgence of against pressure is significant. He is may, he's 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.760 seeing it, and he's getting rid of it quick. He 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.480 got rid of it in two point four to one 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.520 seconds to throw, his second fastest behind last week with 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.199 Thomas Brown at two point three to seven. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.080 So what does this tell you, guys? 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.400 It tells me that the defensive coordinator that he's. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:21.800 Going to face week to week is going to have 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:25.520 to devise up their own plan of strategy against him. 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.920 It's not something that you can take a template of 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.160 success against them from other coordinators and then try to 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.520 copycat that because everybody knows what Brian Flores is capable of. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.920 And then here he kind of changes his style of 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:41.640 the defensive approach because Caleb has I talked about the 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:44.840 ability to scramble beyond the line of scrimmage, the ability 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:47.840 to scramble and stay alive and look for receivers, and 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.600 then he can read. He can read during the cadence, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.439 and he's got fireball accuracy like he talked about. So 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.360 I think all these defensive coordinators are going to have 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.600 a period of time to try to decide their strategy 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:02.440 against Caleb. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.680 Well, if he's nine of eleven, you said against the blitz, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.880 so he's he's seeing and understanding what he's seen. So 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.600 I think he's the key and diagnose it is there. 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.600 And then I think, you know, when it tells you 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.000 that he goes turnover free, that's a big thing, you know, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.320 And that's the last four games he has done that, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.040 And so I think you are seeing growth. I think 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.120 you know, once he continues to log these plays and 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.320 it's going to register. And I always call it, you know, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.000 you're building this rolodex for the next time you see it, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.840 you have the answer. And so I think he's building 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.240 these answers, and you know, I think we see the 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.360 times where he's got to figure out some answers too. 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.720 And obviously the sack in overtime, that's a play he's 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.439 going to have to learn from and he's going to 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.160 have to put that in his rolodex too. So you know, 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.880 there's give and take. But I think you see the athleticism, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.280 you see the talent, you see the ability, and I 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.520 think you see the command in the leadership. He's he's 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.640 going to be a fine young player. I know the 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.160 wins aren't stacking up, but you are seeing flashes right 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:03.960 in front of your eyes. 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.360 And now it's four comebacks in the fourth quarter to 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.079 tire or take the lead with Caleb Williams. So that's 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.480 a very important development. Indeed, all right, we got to 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.600 take a break. Jim Miller with us this week with 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:17.560 Tom Thayer. I'm Jeff John Yaka and this is Bears 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:20.760 Weekly out of ESPN Radio and the Bears Radio Network. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:25.240 Is Bears Weekly with the voice of the Bears for 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:30.800 twenty four years, Jeff Chef on the Bears Radio Network. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.560 This segment of Bears Weekly is brought to you by 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:40.640 IGS Energy with Tom Dyer, Jeff JOHNI Yak and Jim 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.480 Miller from Serious x MNFL Radio. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.640 Moving the chains. 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.240 Jim, We're gonna hear from madd Eberflus here in a second. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:52.080 But just overall, how do you this NFC North is crazy? 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:52.480 Is it not? 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:53.040 Wow? 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.760 There's some talent, some good teams. 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.920 Well, you look at Green Bay taking off or taken down, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.240 I should say San Francisco. That's been kind of a 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.320 rivalry game because San Francisco has really had their numbers 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.600 specifically postseason, even as recently as last year. But just 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.640 the point totals. You know, we've talked about Detroit, look 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.000 at the numbers where they were, you know, encroaching on 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.560 the high forties even when over fifty points. I'd say 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.800 the same for green Bay. They have high point totals. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.840 Minnesota we know they can as well, and I think 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.960 the Bears are capable of it. You know, we know 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.320 the weapons that they have, and hopefully down the stretch 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:36.440 in these in these divisional games, playing these high scoring offenses, 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.960 we'll see if the Bears can match point for point. Hey, 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.680 they just took Minnesota to the brink and took them 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.800 to overtime. They're going to need that offense moving forward 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:45.360 the rest. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:45.560 Of the year. 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:46.480 Yeah. 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.480 You know, that's one thing about this game. There's so 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.720 much emotions attached to the green Bay Bears game. A 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.600 lot of emotions now, especially after an overtime loss to 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.600 the Minnesota Vikings, and now you have the emotions of 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.920 a Thanksgiving Day game, and it's probably more emotional in 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.760 green Bay just because this is a tradition for these guys, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.320 and you know, it's really tough and for the players 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:11.960 to have to be able to match the emotions from 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.760 one week to the next. But you know, when you're 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.200 on a positive trend in your quarterback play, I do 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.720 think it's exciting for everybody else to want to get 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.960 back on the field and see what this offense with 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.520 Thomas Brown and Caleb Williams and as Jim mentioned, all 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:30.600 the offensive assets they have, get back on the field 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.280 and see what you can do. I mean, there's nothing 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.920 more gratifying than having the challenge of playing the Detroit 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.160 Lions and then going there and having a showing that 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.480 you go toe to toe with them. 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:46.040 Lions have lost seven in a row on Thanksgiving. I 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.400 did not know that. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:52.360 I mean, wait, it threw me today because I thought 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:54.720 I had read something that you know, things haven't gone 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.720 well and the Bears have won three of those games 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:58.280 against them. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:16:59.960 But we think about going in there now. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:04.399 You know, in not so distant past, you know, the 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.919 suites were empty, there was no vibe in there. Now 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.399 it's quite the vibe and it has been for several years, 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.480 the electricity in there. But they have lost seven in 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:16.240 a row on Thanksgiving. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.040 Well, you know, the last year during the regular season 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.040 when we played him in Detroit. The noise contribution that 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:26.239 contributed to the ability for Hutchinson to get off the 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:30.480 ball and create a sack strip fumble at the latter 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:33.760 part of the game. If that played before, if there 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:37.080 may be been a different decision made, but they threw 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:39.520 the ball to Tyler Scott. If he would have continued 0:17:39.520 --> 0:17:41.760 to run and made a big catch like that, you 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:43.880 don't know what the outcome could have been of that game. 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:46.600 So I expect the same out of the Bears to 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.480 go into Detroit, no matter how hostile the environment is, 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.480 is to go in there and having that division emotional 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.880 attachment and go toe to toe with them. 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:56.320 All right. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.640 Each week we have an interview on our Bears, Etc. 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.520 Podcast and dropping tomorrow Matti Reflues. We go look through 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:05.479 the game and look ahead. So a little snippet of 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:09.600 this interview today that I did with Matt to discuss, 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.360 you know, just the cumulative effect of the impact of 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.160 these tough losses and other topics as well. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:19.159 Yeah, it's about having resolved right, being steadfast, you know, 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.719 you know, to each other and to the things we 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.480 wanted to accomplish, and that's about doing it for each 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:28.080 other and pulling together. And I think that's important that 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.600 you do that. And there's also a lot of good 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.120 things that are happening on our football team. And there's 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:35.240 a lot of things that have happened on our football team. 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.080 So I know the result is what it is, you know, 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:39.919 in terms of what we want in terms of the 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.920 last few weeks. But again, we're just that far away 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.000 and we have to close that gap. And how do 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.600 you close that gap by pulling together? And you close 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.040 that gap by just doing a little bit better. You know, 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:53.880 at the end of the football game, as a whole 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:54.800 football team. 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.240 What is the impact of a quarterback who is playing 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.480 like he is and really was a star yesterday? 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:02.560 He was fantastic. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.960 What does that do for everybody else on the team 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.959 in terms of getting ready for the rest of the season, 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.520 because you got a guy who is showing he can 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:15.320 pull you out of the fire here. He is young, yes, 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.120 but he can do that and does to make everybody 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.040