What Bears coach Matt Eberflus said about Justin Fields' availability for Thursday night and the reasons his team lost despite being "close."
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00:09 >> I mean this would just, this would be evidence that we are very close, you know,
00:12 because, you know, being minus 5, you know, in the total margin and keeping it that close,
00:16 the ability for us to show our style, you know, our style is to run the football,
00:20 stop the run, be physical.
00:22 I mean, we just got to get the ball.
00:23 >> Look at the, you know, the third downs in the first half for the defense, it wasn't good, right?
00:27 We were 5 of 6, didn't do a good enough job on that, but we came back in the second half
00:32 and ended up, you know, 7 of 14, but we did a good job with that, you know, adjusting,
00:37 and the players did a good job of executing to give ourselves a chance to win.
00:40 And they shift the front a little bit here and there, you know, to overload that one side
00:44 that we were running to the whole time, and that's, again, my hat's off to them.
00:47 They made the adjustment, and it wasn't as effective as it was, but again,
00:52 I thought we did a really good job overall during the course of the day running the field.
00:55 >> In terms of his operation, okay, and knowing, you know, the offense and operating the huddle
01:00 in and out of the huddle for a guy to come in there, you know, as a rookie like that,
01:05 was pretty impressive.
01:06 His day-to-day, we'll find out more tomorrow, and we'll see where it is, because, you know,
01:11 we just, he started throwing, which is a positive,
01:13 and we'll see where it is in terms of his functionality.
01:16 I would just say the experience factor, you know, him playing all those games,
01:19 certainly an experience factor, and, you know, he's operated in this offense, you know,
01:24 and he's had some good weeks, you know, prior to this Washington game, you know,
01:27 he's had some good games this week, this year, you know, so we're excited to get him back
01:31 when he comes back, and certainly the dimension of also the disconnection running the ball.
01:36 You know, he likes, you know, he can obviously run the ball,
01:38 and the quarterback runs are viable there, too, and, you know,
01:42 the perimeter's getting under attack more, so that's what he brings out.
01:45 We had a couple good pressures there.
01:47 He's getting his feet wet, you know, different style of defense, you know,
01:50 a little bit different terminology, you know, so for him to come in here
01:54 and play that many plays, it was cool.
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