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What are the challenges with the Bears' slow starts?
Three TVs in there. One TV is always like on Fox Sports or something like that. Colin Calhart, I think is his name. Yeah. So he does his sports every day. Colin Calhart. Yeah. Calhart. I'm sorry. I don't mean to butcher his name. My bad.
Ah, something tells me we'll use that from time to time. That was Kevin Byard on the Bussin' with the Boys podcast. Thanks to everybody who helped out with the show. Ray Diaz, Tyler Buterbaugh, Tyler Ferengul, as I understand, helped cut up our Bears audio. So go Tyler Ferengul. Thanks to Alex Kuhn because he's standing in there. Ryan Portu is also standing there. Everybody gets a thank you today. Thanks to Connor O'Donnell.
With some great stand-in.
Yes, Jacob Stutz and Max Curtis, always working for us.
Y'all mind if I stand here?
You can stand in there all you want, Ryan. Ain't going to make your tight ends any better anytime soon.
Y'all expecting both of the Mats to be working in Nashville next year? That's my dream.
They're going to have a partnership.
Matt Nagy and Matt Eberflus coaching Cam Ward and Ryan Porth's Titans.
It's time for Porth to continue his Bears education and just accept Bearsness in his life. Put away the Titans.
You know what I just realized? What I just realized? That you can't have Mats without a Ryan. That's the rule here in Chicago.
Ryan Porth might be in need of a job.
Ryan Porth can fill the Ryan need for the Titans. And Matt Ryan is taking over the Falcons. All right.
We've got it all handled. Thanks, of course, to Patrick Manley and Tim Jenkins for coming on our show and to the Take the North podcast, which I've decided will sponsor our breaking news for the next couple of days.
Yeah. And you know what? That Tim Jenkins conversation, if you didn't get a chance to listen to that, you're going to want to go back in the... Odyssey app, use the rewind feature, because let me tell you something. At 1 p.m. today, that man was giving an education. Do tell. He was talking about why he thinks Caleb Williams is having problems at the outset of games versus the second half, and he called it an easy fix. Is that what he said?
How does coaching impact a team's performance early in games?
Or easier than we thought?
Not insurmountable, I think, is what he's saying.
It can be overcome. What was he thinking would be the way to fix it? Third down.
He thinks that he's trying, and it's visible. You can understand why Caleb Williams is like, I'm going to get this third down the way I know how with my legs. That makes perfect sense. I understand it completely. And he thinks that Ben Johnson's play calling has indicated, no. You need to stay in the pocket a little bit more and throw this to get out of this third down situation.
It is odd to think that he would struggle on third downs because, again, maybe this is just me projecting, like, there's a sense of urgency right there on third and fourth downs, obviously. And if we're all to believe that he has this thing that clicks that becomes icy and urgent in the fourth quarter, why not?
down too i think well if it's third down early it's probably just because your thought process is to move the chains and if it's if it's late he's probably thinking get as many yards per play as you can because the clock if that's the case it's situational there was an early third down that's what you want in your quarterback
The second third down of the game on Sunday was a third and nine, and Caleb audibled to a Kyle Menungai screen on the right side, and there was nothing there. He dirted it, because Darnell Wright was kind of already downfield. It was probably going to be a penalty. But that was one of those times, Lawrence, that I thought it was like where the Lions were running something different than what they expected. And that's more on Nagy than it is on Caleb.
But that goes back to the six mental errors in the first 11 plays.
Yeah. Six errors. I heard you guys react to that yesterday. Yeah. And Adam Hogue said it and you both were like, what?
And we have a little window as to what that might've been. Offensive line.
big pile of mistakes but that third and nine like as i watch stuff like that i put that more on the coach getting out schemed possibly yesterday well i i think of it as because you know you know inside the group chat is like wow two plays back to back where caleb changes it yep and they were negative plays and that's why i'm like it might be the quarterback seat make they're making him see stuff that's not there uh-huh oh yeah so maybe this guy's coverage
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the challenges with the Bears' slow starts?
0:01–2:01
2
How does coaching impact a team's performance early in games?
2:01–5:11
3
What insights did Tim Jenkins provide about Caleb Williams?
5:11–7:36
4
What are the implications of mental errors on game performance?
7:36–10:15
5
How does play calling affect quarterback performance?
10:15–12:57
6
What role does offensive line play in a quarterback's success?
12:57–16:17
7
How can the Bears improve their offensive strategies?
16:17–18:06
8
What are the future prospects for Matt Nagy and the Bears?
18:06–19:56
Speakers
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