Chicago Bears coach Matt Eberflus puts a somewhat positive spin on the 27-17 loss in Week 2 to Tampa Bay and revisits a few medical issues from the game.
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00:09 I thought the guys battled to the end, gave ourselves a chance to win it at
00:13 the end.
00:13 And then we didn't take care of the football at the end of it, but
00:19 we had a chance to do that.
00:20 But overall, I thought the offense came out in that first drive,
00:24 did a nice job working down the field, got some good shots to DJ.
00:28 I thought that was excellent.
00:30 Defensively, I thought the guys battled, we had a couple opportunities early.
00:34 Brisker had a couple opportunities to get some takeaways.
00:38 And one was he stripped the one, just forward progress was down.
00:42 That's why we didn't throw the challenge flag.
00:45 But again, another one intercepted, could have intercepted that,
00:47 we just gotta look those in, so.
00:49 Yeah, I see improvement, I do.
00:51 I see improvement, it was definitely better.
00:54 I see guys fighting.
00:56 I see us executing in a better clip.
00:59 And it's a long season.
01:01 And to me, we just gotta keep doing that.
01:04 And we gotta keep doing that, and good things are gonna happen.
01:06 And the guys believe in that, the coaching staff believes in that.
01:10 And we're just gonna keep moving forward after these 24 hours.
01:14 We're gonna work and get to work on Kansas City.
01:16 I told the guys in there, you're battling, you guys got fighters' hearts.
01:20 And that's how you gotta win in this league.
01:22 We have to play complimentary football to be able to get that done.
01:26 You have to be able to take the ball away, and
01:29 when we had those opportunities, and seize those opportunities.
01:32 And when we had the block kick, we got the kick to the midfield.
01:36 We have to do a good job there with converting on those.
01:39 So those are things that wins games.
01:42 You seize those opportunities, and we do have to do a good job of seizing
01:45 opportunities. >> They said illness, so
01:46 it was just a little dehydration, is what it was.
01:50 And so he had to come in and get himself right for that.
01:54 But again, it affects everybody different, and that's what it was.
01:58 And but I just, I gave him a big hug after the game.
02:01 I said, man, I really appreciate you coming back out.
02:03 I thought he played well on the second half when he did come back in,
02:05 made some good tackles, and did some good things there.
02:08 So and play with good passion too.
02:11 We're gonna look at it.
02:13 We're gonna look at it.
02:15 We're positive right now, but we'll see where it goes.
02:18 We don't know how positive that will be, but we'll see.
02:22 (dog barks)