Bears coach Matt Eberflus on the health of his offensive line and Kyler Gordon's return at slot cornerback as they head into a game with New England.
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00:00Brisker, Braxton also, and then Darnell Wright, the two tackles are out this week.
00:13Again, just didn't have enough time to get back to where we needed him to be.
00:17And then 71, Bates, Bates will be activated.
00:21He's going to be activated, so it's going to be good to have some depth in there
00:24and some different pieces in there.
00:26Obviously with our injuries, we're going to need that for sure.
00:29But in terms of the O-line depth, I know it'll be a question.
00:31Again, we had different combinations during the course of the week.
00:35We worked on those.
00:37And again, I'm not going to say who's going to line up where and all those things,
00:40but we had a couple good combinations there
00:43and guys have worked well in there with the reps that they've had.
00:47But it's been good.
00:48The guys really have done a good job.
00:50Shane and Seymour have done a really good job of cross-training those guys,
00:52like I've said in the past.
00:54And they've done a good job this week of getting those guys ready to go.
00:58We'll see where that goes.
00:59We'll see where it goes.
01:00And again, we'll talk with performance.
01:02We'll talk with trainers in terms of that.
01:04We talk about rotation in terms of reps during this time,
01:07between these next 48 hours before the game.
01:10We do that at D-line, O-line, and everybody.
01:12So we'll get everybody's take into a form.
01:14Mark, that's a good question.
01:15And you'd always like to avoid just any change, of course.
01:18But we like to make just one change, but sometimes you've got to make more.
01:21When you have multiple injuries, a lot of times you have to make more than those,
01:24and we'll see where it goes.
01:26This guy's been a big part of this defense, and it's great to have Gordon back.
01:29He's had a good week of practice.
01:31He's very dynamic in terms of his pass coverage, in terms of his pressure ability.
01:37Does a really good job.
01:38Brings a lot of great energy, and he's got ball hook skills.
01:40So he's a real good player.