Tim Jenkins

If it's, you know, three years, this is year one, right?

We're 20 weeks into this thing or whatever it was.

How much more growth?

And then why?

Well, there's all these variables that, hey, I want your angle at this.

And then now it's not only Ben and the receiver coach, it's Caleb starting to echo to the receivers.

There's a ton of growth that's going to come from this game.

I think the reason it's hard for me, and it's funny, the reason I'm having a hard time with this loss is because

it just feels like, oh, okay, hey, you're all the way back at the bottom of the mountain, and it feels like you had a chance, right?

It feels like, man, we actually had a realistic chance to win this thing, get to the NFC Championship game.

Seattle does look like a buzzsaw, but hey, can the Bears play good defense, not turn it over?

So it does feel like, man, we had a chance, and nothing's guaranteed.

What I will say, though, is all the fixable items, we're going into this offseason...

with really addressable things that i feel like are easier fixes than where we've been in past off seasons of hey we got to figure out do we have our quarterback do we have a coach do we have a scheme we believe in all those sorts of things that are 90 of the game we have now we got to tighten up to 10 which is the difference between winning in the divisional round and moving on um

And again, I do think it's addressable.

I think you're dead on, though, in terms of Ben and Caleb have to see it one way.

And then from there, they have to articulate it to the rest of the building how they want it to be seen.

It's going to be way easier when Caleb is also out there demanding certain things that is aligned with what Ben wants versus just been kind of dictating all of that as Caleb starting to learn it as well.

Yeah, I mean, what's great is that he said it.

It's exactly what he said.