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Now, Bears Etc. brought to you by Chevy Drives Chicago, the official truck partner of your Chicago Bears. Looking for their fifth win in six games, the Bears are going to travel to the great northwest for a Monday night affair in Seattle. The Bears have extra time to prepare. Seattle will be playing their third straight primetime game as well.

They've been on a Thursday, Sunday, Monday schedule. The Bears are on a Thursday, Monday, Sunday schedule. Very interesting. Three straight for each of those guys. The NFL scheduling is diabolical. Coming up, Bears head coach Ben Johnson with an overview of where the Bears are at after seven games. Sole possession of second place right now, the NFC North behind 6-0 Minnesota. With Super Bowl winning Bears guard Tom Thayer.

I'm Jeff Joniak. Welcome to Bears Etc. Episode 257. And it is brought to you by Chevy Drive Chicago. Chicago, then in Northwest Indiana, Chevy dealers. Coming up, Ben Johnson with a little look ahead, a little overview of where they're at after seven games. We're certainly going to discuss a lot of different things between the two of us, Tommy.

And I hope you enjoyed your weekend. Did you watch the Seattle win over Kansas City? And did it change your view at all of the matchup ahead for the Bears? 20-3 the final there.

You know, the first thing I take in consideration talking about Seattle is where you have to play them. And when you have to go to Seattle and play them, it's going to make your offensive communication more dysfunctional than functional. But I think the Bears are in a really good position that they have the communication skills and ability from Ben to Caleb, but Caleb on the field. And so that is something that in the past, it may be a bigger concern that it is right now.

However, Seattle is a really good football team.

There's no denying that, but so are the bears and the bears are coming off.

A confident win. And I think they got to.

Continue rolling the momentum but when you talk about a thursday to a following monday that's a significant amount of time and i'm still have lingering thoughts.

In my head about the new england game but.

Because seattle's more fresh in my mind from just watching them i have a lot more in my mind about seattle.

Well anything that you can uh pull from the win over new england that matters here in terms of individual personnel like uh I saw Brian Baldinger do a breakdown of the Bears' run defense. And the amount of bodies, and Ben keeps talking about, I want 11 guys in the frame. The run defense, and man, the guy you've been asking for, and a guy we have not yet broken down in any detail, Jamry Croma. He's doing a heck of a job. He's looking sturdy on the edge.

He's setting an edge. He did against Atlanta, did against New England. And the guys on the interior, every one of them is flashing from Neville Gallimore to Contavia Street to Vandenberg. Even if it's for one snap, it's making a difference. It's adding up to a bunch of one and two yard runs.

Yeah.

Croma, Shamar Turner, Daniel Hardy, all three of them. They have an opportunity to play with some changing in the roster of the Bears over the last couple of weeks. And every single time that they get a chance to get inside the rotation, there's a fresh group of bodies that are playing up front. And that's what I really like about Dennis Allen is all the guys that have a valuable to him on the inside defensive tackle position are playing fresh snaps. The guys that are playing on the outside, the defensive end, the guys in a three-point stance, they're all playing fresh snaps.

And then I don't want to leave out Austin Booker.

We're just talking about the new guys on the spot because Austin is playing a really solid brand of football as well. And then you think of the exterior of the outside. You think of the amount of single digit and low double digit numbers that are lined up there from Kyler Gordon to Cam Lewis.

To Clark Phillips, to every one of these guys, man.

So it's the innovativeness of Dennis Allen and his thinking, but it's the fresh snaps he's getting out.

Of the big guys.

Yeah, and it was the plan, you know, get as many in the rotation. So Montez Sweat will be back, the suspension lifted, and Dio's still on IR, but that's also something to keep an eye on. But the loss of Cole Komet is substantial. There's no way that you can deny that fact. Ben says, hey, you know, we're going to be okay. And I trust in Ben. But the multidimensional aspect of what he does from the blocking to the receiving and what he can threaten middle of the field and red zone, that is going to have to be a group effort to replace that.

You know, and it starts with his presence in the facility inside the locker room because you have an elder statement that walks in and you see how committed he is to being a great football player throughout his entire career here. And then all of a sudden he goes down with an injury. Now that personality is not walking in the locker room. So you need that next man up mentality to affect the personality of the locker room as well as you do on the play on the field.

And I believe in Colston. I believe in Steven Carlson.

You know, our good friend Tony Medlin, the head equipment manager, he's got that saying, you only have one year to be young in the NFL. Well, Sam Rauch, your time is up. You don't have a year to be young. You got to be a veteran as of next Monday night. We'll practice starting this week. So I think they can pick up the slack. And like you said, in Ben, we trust.

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All right. Thanks, Ben. Appreciate it. What feeling are you left with after seven weeks of the season?

Well, yeah, I'm encouraged about the trajectory that we're on right now. I think our guys are really building that belief and confidence that we can win each and every week that we go out there.

So there's a certain way to do it. There's a path to victory.

We try to outline that as a coaching staff to these guys over the course of the week. I'm proud of the hard work and preparation that these guys are growing accustomed to. It gives you a chance, and they understand that. And then we've got to bring it to life there on game day. But a lot of confidence within the locker room with each other, teammates. And I think they believe in their coaching staff as well. So we're heading the right way. We've got some big tests coming up here. Certainly this week, Seattle on the road.

Super Bowl champion. There's a lot going on. So we'll really find out what we're made of here this week.

Banking experiences for even bigger games in the future. I think it started a year ago. These guys are somewhat getting conditioned for these big moments and resiliency. We talk about how they bounce back. Guys make plays. Is this kind of what this team is now?

Well, by design, we've tried to stress, we've tried to load, we've tried to, we tried to make it feel like the lights are always shining, you know, and that's, you know, we're trying to, we want to be able to play in the big game at the end of the year. And yet when we get to that one, we want it to be just like, just like the other ones have been. And so, um, yeah, we, we, we want, we want the bright lights. We want the primetime games.

We want all that because it's just going to make us realize sooner, hey, it's just another one. Let's go out there. Let's execute the game plan. Let's play fast. Let's play for each other. And I think as long as we start to understand that, then there will never be a moment that's too big.

I love how you won that game as a team because you had the lead, never gave it up, but it was always there, right on the edge. So what is the challenge of protecting a narrow lead? what all goes into that.

Well, yeah, I mean, I think it's, there's a lot that you feel emotionally when you're on the sideline and you see, oh crap, they just scored again. And well, offense needs to respond or, you know, there's a lot of riding that wave just emotionally. And yet, you know, I think it's good for our guys to see, you know, just what we're capable of. A year ago, the way we were winning games was completely different. There were a lot of the fourth quarter comebacks that And this year, we're just showing that there's a different way for us to win these ballgames.

So it's good. I think it's good for the overall growth of our team.

I've been encouraged by seeing multiple times this year our offense in the fourth quarter really be able to possess the ball and close the opposition out. I think that's been fantastic. And then same thing with our defense. They've been able to make some big plays at the end of games to help us out as well.

Yeah. You mentioned, you know, when you got hired about time of possession, ain't a thing to you, but the reality of it is something else. Our stat man, Doug Coletti, the play differential right now is the most by a team since 1964 and the fewest defensive plays for a team since the 73 Rams. I mean, that's a different era of football. I don't know what you take out of that. It's It's interesting, if nothing else.

Yeah, yeah.

And like I mentioned before, it's not by design necessarily. This is happening organically. We'll see if that continues to hold up for the second half of the season. We're just solely focused on finding a way to win the game. Certainly our offense wants to score points every time we're out there. Defense wants as many three and outs as we can possibly get.

That's the mission.

Yet When you look up and you see these time of possession numbers and the snap differential, it is kind of wild.

When you look back, you got a rookie out of Texas, a fourth rounder, who's as cocky as great word when he's on the field, right? Malik Muhammad against A.J. Brown and locked him up.

Well, I give a lot of credit to Ryan and Jeff King and our personnel department for identifying these type of guys that, you know, especially at that position, you got to You've got to have a fearless mindset. You've got to have a quick memory because you're going to get beat occasionally, and you've got to be able to bounce back.

But you're right.

Malik's just a fighter. He's a competitor. He loves being out there playing ball. He does not back down from anything. And I look forward to him being a cornerstone piece of this defense here for a long time.

And every opportunity DeMarco Jackson gets, it seems, he embraces it. I see a smile on his face after every game, after a win. And if he has a part in it, you know, that interception in the end zone, that proved to be a significant interception.

Yeah, yeah, it sure did.

And, you know, you look at him middle of the game this week, and he's got a big cut on the top of his nose. And so the blood's running down on his nose. And, I mean, he just looks like a true Mike linebacker.

Just like how we like him in Chicago.

Just how we like him. And, you know, Coach Randall L. a couple weeks ago was in front of the team. And he's talking about our physicality. And he brought up D-Jack. And he nicknamed him Brick Wall. Because, I mean, he's got so many. hits on tape so far, whether they're on special teams or on defense, where he's just, you just, you just see the body of, of the guy carrying the ball change direction so violently.

It's like a car crash.

And, and so, yeah, we, we love everything about D Jack and, and he, he's earned every single opportunity that he's.

Getting right now.

And ditto Daniel Hardy.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Which, you know, we already, everyone knows the whole league knows how dynamic of a special teams player he's been. And, and yet, you know, with the, with sweat being out and dial being down, um, there's been opportunities to get them out there, uh, more so in the pass rush game. And he, you talk about a relentless guy off the edge. Um, he just goes, goes, goes, and then he'll say, you know, we'll get a third down stop. He's right out there to stay on the field for the punt return also.

And so his stamina is through the roof. He's got a great bend to him in the pass rush game. Um, And so I think he's adding a lot there, and he's got a heck of a celebratory dance, too.

Yes, he does. That I think is really catching on. Yes, he does.

And you got a thing. I meant to ask you. In fact, I'm going to give a shout-out to my daughter, Caitlin, over there in Durham. She watches religiously, listens to us. Ask him about the pen, the clicking of the pen.

It's not even something I think of. It just happens. I have all these fidget spinners in my office.

Okay, okay. Yeah.

Is it the same pen every game? Do you have a magic pen?

It has been this year. It has been this year. Yeah.

Don't lose that pen. Don't lose that pen. The stanky leg. I got to bring it up only because of this. I saw it on AI. They put Ditka in it.

Oh, did they?

It's hilarious. It's hilarious, but it's a galvanization of veteran, young, whatever. These are pro football players that it's almost a college atmosphere in there. How have you done that? How have you pulled this off?

Well, it's, it's those guys. It's those guys.

And, um, you know, it happened early on in the season there where, you know, they started playing music and they, they wanted me to get excited. You do it once and then they've asked for it a couple of times afterwards now. And so, um, you know, it's that locker room after a game, that's a special place. That's a sacred place. And, uh, You know, if you could just if you could just save those vibes and you don't get them anywhere else in life, you know, you really don't.

I think when whenever we got to hang up the whistle or hang up the cleats, it's what you're going to miss the most is those vibes in the locker room after a game. You put in all this work throughout the week and to see it to come to fruition and come to life like it does and get a victory out of it. You know, it's it's a special thing.

I'm jealous. I know outside looking in, like I'd love to be in there. You know, it's just, it's just, it's, it's, it's a party.

Yeah.

It's a party for a brief moment. Santos kicks the field goal. There's a, there's a shot of you and all you do in celebration is like that. Nope. How do you stay so stoic?

Well, yeah, there's still a lot of time left and it's a darn good quarterback. And you know, it's just, until it hits triple zeros, it's hard to, hard to enjoy anything, you know, especially with, with how it happened at the end of half two, you know, you know, giving up a touchdown with 14 seconds. So it was just one of those things where really proud of Cairo coming through and really the whole field goal protection unit.

When you're kicking that far back, the trajectory of the ball is going to be lower. And so you got to have great protection. A guy like Joni Jackson stands out to me. I mean, we already talked about how he's, animal. He's not feeling a hundred percent going into this game. And yet he's just, he's out there giving his all throughout.

And so, um, and that, that was that way across the board, but kudos to Cairo calling for it and saying, Hey, Hey, give me a chance here and, uh, coming through for us.

That was huge.

Yep.

Are you going to bend Kobe Bryant's ear for a couple in a couple of nuggets?

Yeah.

I told him just to be around a little bit.

Good luck with the prep. Thank you.

Thank you.

I went broad with Ben. Uh, so there was some fun things in there. Uh, And, you know, a lot to talk about. But I think he feels very strongly about where this team is at and what they've already gone through. And, yeah, there is a reference to a year ago, how they won, but they're winning differently. And that's going to continue. You're going to need some of those fourth quarter comebacks, though, throughout this season. But we're already, you know, approaching a midway point of the year, which is crazy to think. but a couple of big games before the bye week.

Tell me. Yeah. You know, you know, the game Jenga where you pull the blocks out.

So this is like a Jenga right now to me, because you have the foundation that always has to be sturdy. And that's something that you've been building since the first OTA, but then you're just having those blocks that are built on top of the last performance, but you get to understand and get to know your team a little bit better.

So now you know how to develop and where you want to.

Put that next block and And so I see that as this tower getting higher, but you're just starting to understand of the capabilities of a Caleb Williams, where you can go with the relationship between Roma dunes and Luther burden and all the other receivers, where you need to go with the tight end position, the development of the offensive line with Ozzie trapillo coming back. So there's so many things that Ben understands about where to put the next piece on this football team and the game planning and stuff. I guess I'm as excited to see that as all Bears fans are.

Gosh, even look at special teams that I brought up last night on the TV show. Xavier Scott, Buddy Johnson. Now, already five combined tackles each in a couple weeks of playing. And you got some roster decisions there because in terms of Scott, his three call-ups, that's up. So you hope to keep him on the roster. We'll see as the week goes on. But Xavion Thomas... with his 47-yard return.

You know who had one of the key blocks on that one? Daniel Hardy. Sam Rausch, just to name a couple. Torrey Taylor, I think he's having a Pro Bowl year. Another 65-yard return. Excuse me, 65-yard punt. Coverage on kickoff has been outstanding overall. And depending on Rasheed Shaheed, if he's healthy or not, because he did injure his knee in the Sunday night game, he's a dangerous guy on kick and punt return. But you're seeing all these additional pieces to the puzzle coming in. And he is really using the full breadth and width of the roster.

Well, you know, you think of where they needed to increase the protection for extra point and field goal. So now you got Joe Tooney on one end. You had Cole Komet on the other. So inside this game, they inserted Colston Loveland. So let's see if Coach Hightower believes that Colston Loveland is that edge guy, which is such an important position on extra point and field goal. Is Colston the guy going forward, or do they believe they're– is another veteran in there that could come and help you just as much.

Or give Roush another shot at it.

Roush? I would consider Montez Sweat. Back when I played with the Bears, it was Steve McMichael and Mikey Hardenstein. And because of their strength and sturdy, they were really good at it. And so if you ever look at the size of the frame of Montez Sweat, he's a big guy. So he can increase the width of that edge significantly. just because of his size and his arm span.

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He worked out of the slot. That's where you can theoretically have Kyler Gordon in this matchup. But what do you think of JSN? He's leading the league.

Yeah, he's amazing.

Nine catches on 12 targets, well over 100 yards, super elusive. All the good things that you can say about a receiver, he's got it all. But the thing about it is you can't let him run downfield without hassling the quarterback. And I think the more of a jeopardized position that you can put in Sam Darnold, then you affect his accuracy, his throwing foundation. And maybe that's what you need to do in order to come in between a great receiver and a really good quarterback, but there's still question marks about him. So to me, my approach with Dennis Allen starts from the line of scrimmage to the coverage, not just exclusively coverage.

I will say Sam makes pretty quick decisions and sometimes leads to interceptions at the same time. But I guess I'm surprised by that mobility. He can still burn you. If you're in man coverage, backs to the quarterback, they're worried about defending those areas, and bam, he can go pick up a first down or two.

Yeah, I mean, he did have two scrambles for 17 yards in the game last night.

So yeah, it's not.

unlike him to take off if he sees the first down marker open so you can't necessarily forget about him but i do think that the bears have the string of athletes on the line of scrimmage that can pressure him increase his thinking time or maybe just get him out of a good throwing position.

And of course there's still cooper cup outstanding great hands he can he can hurt you and then aj barner I mean, we talk about tight ends galore, but he's a 255-pounder, Tom. He can catch it. They use him in their version of the tush push. That's a big load to deal with. Big and strong. Very impressive.

He was Colston's teammate, I believe, at Michigan. So now where are we going? We got tight end you at Notre Dame. We got tight end you at Iowa. Now we got tight end you at Michigan, Tommy.

Holy smokes. It's tight end you at Notre Dame.

But I just think of a guy, the experiences that Barners had. You're going from a national championship in college to a world championship in the NFL, and now you're increasing your role because they see what you're capable of. But I think that's the same thing with Colston Loveland. Two different types of athletes, but they both affect their offensive game plan.

And Tommy, with the trade deadline approaching here in November, there's all kinds of thoughts from the national media about Seattle wanting a running back. But they got Emmanuel Wilson. He hit over 100 on 24 carries. So that gives them some downhill balance, I guess. But a name like Jonathan Taylor has been mentioned. That would really... Make them a dangerous football team if they would get somebody like that.

But on the mend. So I don't know if he'll be ready for this matchup, Zach Charbonnet.

Yeah, but listen, you're just not going to recover and then have a 20 carry game. What you're going through in practice is there are no similarities between what you're going to go through in a game.

So when you talk about.

A guy recovering from a significant knee injury, you got to feed.

Him some carry, some opportunities, some attempts.

A couple of real strenuous practices and see how he's recovered. But maybe because it's a Monday night game, this is a week they can do that.

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They sure are.

And then, again, when you get complimented by crowd noise there, it kind of changes you how good of a player you are because you're initiating all movement from the defensive line to the linebackers, not necessarily the Bears' offensive tackles and tight ends. Yeah, the interior guys may hear it, but there's a lot of times you're going to go on a silent count.

So that.

When you look at the size and the ability of these defensive linemen, when you do unfortunately play them at home, it gives them that edge and they don't necessarily need it, but they have an edge that gets them off the ball. But then that compliments the linebackers that are standing behind them. And so this group front seven group eight, and now you got the head coach that calls the defenses against the head coach.

That calls the offense.

It's going to be a great mind game between these two coaches.

Yep, they do a great job. They have not allowed a 100-yard rusher now in 35 games. Yeah, I know. It's a little crazy when you think about it, but they go back all the way to 2024, and they've had different players coming in and out. The record, by the way, this year in the NFL, when the defense does allow a 100-yard rusher, three times.

31-1.

Only three times.

Three wins.

It was one last week. Now a couple teams hit 100. So if you don't allow a 100-yard rusher, you're winning the 90-something percent of the time. Now I bet it's similar throughout the league here in the last whatever, how many years. Maybe it's always been that way. Think about that. 3-31-1 if you don't rush for 100 yards in a game.

With one rusher.

Kansas City only had two people that had rushing attempts last night. And one of them was Walker. The other one, unfortunately for them, was Mahomes.

And Walker only got 35 yards.

Right.

And they took the Super Bowl MVP completely out of the game.

And then they made the receiver group not very effective.

So you don't give it up, though, because run games travel.

Right.

Yep.

So how do you attack this bunch?

You know, again, you know, it's it's the commitment to the whole called.

I don't think this is a defense that you can really freelance against a lot. If you have a whole call, that's to the right hand side of the offensive line. Take what's being offered you, because if you think you're going to bounce it to the backside line, of the whole call you're not going to because they have guys that can close the distance incredibly fast and they're being unblocked so to me it would be the determination like in the philly black friday game is we're gonna hit the whole call i don't care who's standing up there in front of us And if you can go out there and you can do that, I believe that with the struggle, you can get that three to five yards per carry. And ultimately when it comes to that third down,

you can put Ben in a more creative mind space and you can give more offerings to Caleb.

These are two very physical teams that are going to knock heads. It may become, we may look at this in the rear view mirror as the most physical game of the year.

I agree 100 percent.

And I was coming, you know, when I was watching the game last night, I was thinking, wow, this is going to be a physical football game. There's no doubt about it. They have creativity in their defensive calls. But Ben Johnson is one of the most creative minds on offense. So they have to have their own concerns as well as what the Bears would.

And you look at, you know, you mentioned the next level, DeMarcus Lawrence on the edge, Dante Fowler, Uchenna Nwosu, Derek Hall, Ernest Jones, the fourth. He keeps showing up. Terrific leader on the defensive side of the ball. Nick Emanuari, a chess piece. Devin Witherspoon, one of the best nasty, aggressive, disruptive corners in the NFL. The local product, Julian Love and Tai Okada, who had an interception. They do a great job rotating on the back end, disguising, and so There's a lot to decode for Monday night.

Yeah, there sure is. And listen, that's why they're coming off a Super Bowl win. And they went down there and they just played in the Super Bowl. They played the team that the Bears just played. The Bears went toe to toe with.

New England and they came out on top.

So I don't think that the Bears should walk into that stadium lacking confidence. It's about you go out there and you play the best possible game you can play. And for every one of these guys, if you have a chance to be physical, you better be more physical than they are. And I think that will tell a lot of, you know, that'll tell a big story.

Of this game.

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One of the toughest in the National Football League, the loudest stadium I've ever called a game in, that's for sure. And that's without a dome. That 12th man gets into it out there. They embrace it. They've always done that. The rest of the division. Now the Bears are lone in second place behind 6-0 Minnesota. There's only one unbeaten team left, and it's the Minnesota Vikings. Anything you learned from...

this past weekend, and certainly that Green Bay matchup with Detroit, and then where the Vikings are at.

You know, there, you know, there's some, you know, calls made in the Green Bay Detroit game at the coaching staffs and the organizations are still talking about in terms of from the coaches calling them or the officials calling them, but it ended up working out how it did. And, you know, it's, it's kind of hard to have an opinion because I'm not pulling for either of them.

Right.

You know, but one thing when I was watching the Minnesota Vikings and I was watching Kyler Murray specifically. So Kyler Murray, when you go through training camp and you go through seven on seven, you practice against your own defense, right? I think Kyler Murray is getting better against the Blitz because he sees the Blitz so often with their coordinator.

And so that is one of my concerns is Kyler Murray is a great athlete. He's got the arm that can get the ball out of his hands. However, I think with the experiences of being around a blitzing football team, I do think that helps your thinking of going to the line of scrimmage as a quarterback. So when you talk about the environment that they're going to play in in Seattle, maybe that'll help the Bears go into Detroit, go into Minnesota, because they got some environments they're going to go into at the latter part of the season.

They're going to be.

Just as hostile as what they're going to go into Monday.

Yep.

And I believe the Lions are a much, much more dangerous team defensively with Brian Branch back there. He had an interception in the game. Outstanding player. But yeah, hey, the division's going to be the story. The battles within the division as we now move into closer to the month of November and moving into December, it really may just tell the story of what happens, you know, for all the four teams. Because it's the toughest division in football.

You've been making the claim since the schedule came out about where and when they play Detroit. And the separation in those two games. And the difference of, you know, we go there Thanksgiving Day, which I love playing that game early morning, first in, first out. But then you hope that the weather five weeks later in Chicago is, you know.

Cleveland-esque.

Yeah, fine.

Buffalo.

How about Buffalo-esque? Yeah, whatever the case may be. All right, Tommy, that's going to wrap us up. Good news, Chicago United Airlines is getting brand new planes with all the bells and whistles like Bluetooth connectivity, screens at every seat, and room for everyone's roller bag. United, proud to fly the Chicago Bears and you too. Want to thank head coach Ben Johnson, as always. And for Tom Thayer, I'm Jeff Joniak.

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