John Gruden
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first heard Nov 2024
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He expects a lot from the defense. And they didn't give it to him last week in Arizona. So I can understand his frustration.
Well, I was a coach 15 years, so I've been a part of everything. My hands are dirty. You know, we've gone from first to worst. And, you know, there's a short way from the penthouse to the outhouse. But in this league right now, with the ability to change your team and free agency and the draft and your coaching staff, you can flip it in a year. So we've gone from last to first in the NFC South.
You got to have mental toughness. And I think you have to have a real bond in which how you handle the media and what you're saying in public. You know, there's just too much out there right now. When the fire starts in your kitchen, if you start releasing all these statements, it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And if it becomes an inferno, you can't stop. Yeah.
But there's negativity in Chicago. Yeah, that's what's happening. It's just a horrible thing. Yeah. So I was always one of those guys that... I was always trying to stir the emotions. I'd try to piss you off one day, make you laugh, make you cry, fire you up. I just think you've got to keep everybody together, and it's us against the world.
I think the great teams, the teams that come out of it, are the teams that love the misery. And we used to talk about that. Don't you love that we're 0-2? We're all beat up. We're tired. We're a 10-point underdog. We've got to go on the road. Our dog just shit in our yard. Yeah. certain teams love the opportunity to showcase how they can come out of it. And certain teams don't.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you, you, you said it, the, the cracks after the commanders hail Mary, like it just, it was a report from five different guys doing media and it all looked bad and it was finger pointing. And so if you were to coach the bears, I want you to stay here at Barstow, but if you want to coach the bears, I could, we could maybe get that worked out as well.
If you were to coach the Bears, what would be the first thing you do to try to put Caleb Williams back on path? Because it feels like we're off the path right now. It feels like we're off the road, and it's starting to kind of careen to a bad spot. What would be the first thing that you would tell him, tell your team, tell your offense?
What would be the first, like, hey, these are the fundamentals we've got to do?
Well, it's getting late to do that. We're at the 10-week point of the season.
I'm saying more for next year.
I think the big thing you do is you have a private meeting with the guys you deem as your leaders, the defensive leadership, the offensive leadership, the eight or nine Chicago Bears that you're really – saying this is the heart and soul of our football team. And we're going to get behind this quarterback, and we've got to spread that news downstairs and publicly.
But we've got to make this guy a great player. He is going to be a hell of a player unless we screw it up. Right. Let's be honest with you. You've had a lot of guys come through here, but this guy's a unique talent. And right now he needs support, man, and he needs it the most from his coach and the –
blue chip leaders that we have on the team now i don't know what kind of leadership they have on this bear football team yeah briskers hurt they got a bunch of guys from different teams dj more keenan allen everybody's the number one receiver swift is a new player i think they're all searching for an identity but we better figure it out this is our guy right here yeah and we got to get him to hand the ball off to swift play good defense win a couple ugly games the weather's getting shitty yeah but you gotta get excited about caleb williams
and keep putting your arm around this guy and challenging him and helping him get through it. What do you see on the tape? It's bad. There's too much of him. You know, there's 40 times he's carried the ball. There's 40 times he's been sacked. I just encourage him, you know, to get rid of the ball.
Sometimes the best play you can make is throwing the ball away because that's the only good play you could make.
I think he's waiting for receivers to get open, and I think it's hurting him. A lot of the sacks are on the quarterback holding the ball. You can't blame the offensive line for all these sacks.
No, I agree. I agree. It feels like a mental lock that's going on right now where it's a combination of guys not getting open, but even when they are open, he's not letting it rip.
I think they got to get them three for three to start the game. A quick pass. I'm not talking about quick screens either. Yeah. I'm thinking there are different routes we can run other than – if I see one more quick screen – You hate screens. Well, I can't take them.
I hate them too. I hate – I like running back screens. I hate wide receiver screens.
I mean, when you throw a bubble screen or a quick screen, I mean, how much – How many times do you see Jerry Rice run a bubble screen? You never saw Willie Galt run a bubble screen. You got these three Corvettes. I mean, Keenan Allen was a number one guy for the Chargers. DJ Moore is paid to be a number one guy. You draft a guy in the top ten because you obviously think he's a number one guy.
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