Mark Potash

That's the beauty of having – that's why people said, why are you keeping Eberflus when you have this number one quarterback coming in and they ended up getting – because you need an offensive guy because you're not going to lose the offensive guy.

You lost the defensive guy in 2018.

Now you're not going to.

So I'd say overall they're in pretty good shape to take another step.

in year two, just like the Lions did with Campbell and Johnson in 2023.

Even though Ben Johnson is, and I'm sure that you have heard Ben Johnson and how he could not have pivoted more quickly to next season than he did.

Almost four words in, right?

Yeah.

Before the last season.

Yeah, that one too.

Yeah, but even after the game, it was.

Even after you lost to L.A.

and the players uttered the same because Ben Johnson said it to them, and that is that none of this is coming back.

that you well obviously some of it is coming back but you can't just assume that there is going to be carryover for that you know it's been interesting that his messaging has been so hard but i like it and i wanted to bounce it off of you because you and i have seen it and have been pessimistic and cynical about some of these past winning bears teams because they were one and dones like i

The 2001s of the world, the 2018s of the world, which really was that, even though it never really was like rock bottom in that era.

It slowly went down, but at least this coach has, not necessarily because of the Bears past, has that knowledge of understanding the way the real world works, that you're not a field goal kicker away like in 2019 from getting back to winning a playoff game.

Yeah, this is this is not this is not that this is not a one and done team.

They could not make the playoffs next year, but make it to the next two or three years after that.

I mean, this is you can't even look at it like as a next year thing.

This is a four or five year thing where I think I that's why I say they they could falter next year.