Bears coach Matt Eberflus addresses last week's offensive problems and how they relate to the big overall picture.
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00:07 >> Yeah, I mean, looking at that in a whole in terms of the expectations,
00:10 you wanna focus on what we're gonna do this week.
00:13 And we've had some improvements during the course of the year on all sides of
00:17 the ball.
00:18 And it's critical that we focus on being the best we can be this week,
00:22 against this question.
00:23 And again, we're gonna assess all those things at the end.
00:26 And again, we gotta play these games right here, right now.
00:28 So we're gonna focus on being our best, when our best is required and
00:31 that's required today.
00:33 Really, when you look at the staying ahead, being ahead of things.
00:37 And that's what running the football and having good control passing will do.
00:43 And how do you do that?
00:44 Well, it's through the design, right, the execution, and being ahead of it.
00:50 We're good when we have, in every offense, I could say this about every offense,
00:53 they're good when they have manageable third downs.
00:55 Or their first down, second down, first down, not even getting the third down.
00:58 So it's important that we move the chains that way and do a really good job.
01:02 Obviously, we've done it well during this year at times, right?
01:07 The Carolina game, we did a nice job.
01:09 The Minnesota game, and then the Detroit, that come to mind, the Detroit,
01:13 the second one.
01:14 So when you do it right, what are you doing there?
01:18 Well, you're taking care of the football, right?
01:20 You're converting on third and fourth downs, right?
01:22 And then you're handling the situations and finishing with the ball in your hand.
01:26 And that's the critical moments.
01:28 And a lot of times, you're getting explosives.
01:30 You go back to the Minnesota game, big explosive at the end, and
01:33 you're getting those.
01:35 And it's the same thing on defense, the opposite on defense.
01:38 The ball, obviously taking the ball will be premium in the fourth quarter.
01:42 Finishing with the third and fourth downs, and stopping those, and
01:45 spitting the ball back to our offense is huge.
01:48 Then eliminating explosives.
01:50 That's what the criticalness of the fourth quarter, and how you execute, and
01:53 how you operate there.
01:54 And then it just comes down to the guys executing the call when they get the call.
01:59 And it being a good call in terms of its scheme, in terms of the setup, or
02:03 attacking the Cardinals.
02:05 It's a different structure than last week.
02:08 So it's gonna be important that we move to that type of structure in our style that
02:12 we have going against that structure.
02:14 And we've went against this structure a few times,
02:17 a couple divisional opponents play with that.
02:19 So it'll be a big challenge for us.
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