The Chicago Bears offense went sideways often to try to beat the Minnesota Vikings blitz and coach Matt Eberflus discusses the merits of the approach.
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00:02 - They pack the paint, so to speak.
00:21 Some of their coverages are,
00:24 it's three deep and they got two guys in the middle.
00:28 So really the open spots on a lot of those
00:32 are the perimeter.
00:33 And you certainly can hit some high side pockets on those,
00:37 which we did with DJ a couple of times.
00:40 But certainly they give those things away.
00:44 You just gotta do a real good job
00:45 of spitting the ball out there,
00:47 blocking well on the perimeter, which we did at times.
00:50 You saw DJ get a couple of nice runs there
00:53 towards our bench, there was a couple of times.
00:56 But that's really where you can take advantage of.
00:58 I mean, you're always wanting more chunks.
01:00 Explosive plays are where it's at.
01:01 I think we had eight explosives,
01:03 which is where we're at in terms of goal-wise.
01:05 But we certainly, when you're playing a team
01:07 that pressures that way,
01:09 and they're vulnerable in the coverage,
01:12 I believe that we should have more.
01:14 And we're always looking to get that,
01:16 but certainly we had some opportunities
01:19 to hit some more of those,
01:20 and we wanna take advantage of those.
01:22 And it's disappointing to be able to move backwards
01:26 when you have that.
01:27 And we have to capitalize on that momentum
01:30 and those situations where our team has built momentum,
01:34 and we gotta seize the momentum at that point.
01:37 And that's either, obviously we want touchdown first
01:40 and field goal at second.
01:42 And to have negative plays by either a TFL sack
01:47 or penalty is not desired.
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