Bill Whittington

Well, you know, those two teams have had three really good clashes this year, and it's been fun to watch those play out on bigger stages.

We know the one late in the season that got wild there at the end and really ultimately decided who was going to be the one seed in the NFC.

And it's a reminder that that one seed is important because when you can play those games at home, you got a little bit of an edge and it helps in a lot of ways.

I love watching the receivers in that game yesterday, whether it's Puka and Devontae for the Rams or

uh jsn in seattle you're just talking about guys that do that at a high level and how fun that is to watch when they're when they're playing at that level the bears were right there with the rams and i i really did think that those two teams yesterday were the class of the nfc and and just realizing that you were in overtime with one of them it gives you hope right like it does and that hope is very real now again it's got to be married up with all the things we talked about with this understanding that

As Ben said last week, this doesn't carry over.

There's no building off this, but you do see that you are competitive at a level higher than you've been in many, many years.

The nature of Ozzie Trapillo's injury and what we understand about that specific injury and how long the recovery can be, and sometimes players don't recover from it.

I'm curious as to if you think they will draft another left tackle to play that position or sign someone.

How do you think they're going to address that?

Yeah.

I mean, you have to go about addressing it as if there's nothing in place, right?

Like you just have to.

And it's where you're at in your journey right now is that you have to go try to find a guy that can be a...

full-time starter for you.

We know the revolving door that was there this year for the Bears from the first day they stepped into training camp to the last playoff game they played.

They just never got that position solidified for a variety of reasons this year, and you have to get that solidified next year.

If you want to give Caleb his best chance at taking the big developmental leap, if you want to give your offense the best chance at being

one of the top five offenses in the league, you've got to make sure that you go out and you're very, very serious about what you do at that position.

And so they're going to have to figure that out.