Matt Eberflus found a flower amid the rubble of a 31-26 loss to Detroit, one which the Chicago Bears led 26-14 with three minutes to go.
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00:18 >> The main thing is, is that, you know,
00:19 obviously the disappointment was the finish.
00:21 You know, we didn't finish it as a football team,
00:23 didn't finish it as coaches, as players the right way.
00:26 And there's a lot of plays to be had out there and good calls
00:29 that we could have made in those situations to get us that victory.
00:33 I'm obviously very disappointed in the loss.
00:35 I've been really disappointed because of the way we played
00:39 in the beginning, you know.
00:40 I thought the guys did a really nice job of coming out.
00:42 Offense scores, scores a touchdown
00:46 on the first possession, which was, that was our plan.
00:48 Defense does a really good job of taking the ball away
00:51 in the first half, did a really nice job of that.
00:55 The one thing that we could have done better
00:56 in the first half was capitalizing
00:58 on those takeaways, you know, and then getting points,
01:00 which we did in the second half.
01:01 You know, we got an interception.
01:02 You know, really the philosophy is you're playing your two-minute
01:06 defense, which is your mix and your coverages, which we did.
01:08 You know, we're throwing in pressures there as well.
01:10 You know, the big thing that you got to do
01:12 in that moment is, you know,
01:14 tackle when you get them inbounds.
01:15 You know, so you're forcing them to use their timeouts
01:18 and you're doing a good job with that.
01:20 And then they have less timeouts, less time as they go.
01:23 And again, they just went down the field too fast.
01:25 I think it was like, what, six plays a minute, you know.
01:28 Sensuated the positives with those guys
01:30 because there was a lot of good football.
01:31 Justin Fields came back, you know, from injury.
01:33 I thought he played really well, ran the ball nice.
01:36 I thought when he did scramble, he avoided sacks, you know,
01:40 most of the time.
01:41 And I know we had two.
01:42 And he did a really good job of looking downfield,
01:45 hitting some side pockets, hitting some things
01:47 down the field, and I think that's gross.
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