ckparrothead
Premium Member
Nothing interesting, proud of the way we competed, how we kept bouncing back during the game...outlined a lot of situations where we had to bounce back. Brought up the special teams battle as a big factor.
Key moving forward is remembering how we played in this game and building on it.
As a staff, was hard to pick offensive game ball...because everyone blocked well, even the receivers. Mentioned great tight end blocking too. Ronnie did fantastic but it was such a team effort.
We had 8 players with double-digit production points...which is a lot.
Jason Taylor, Kevin Carter, Zach Thomas, and Channing Crowder all had 20+ production points, which is more than we've ever had before. All four got game balls.
On STs, Sammy Morris got it.
As for the chip on the shoulder thing, he said that it boiled down to that you always want to be a factor. Even when you're 7 years old picking for dodge ball or whatever you always want to be picked high and be a factor. A lot of players kind of felt like going into this game everyone was saying we're not even a factor in the Bears' thinking.
When asked about Joey, said he did a good job "managing the game" and brought up that one of their goals heading into the game was not to make negative plays happen that put the Bears D in the pressure position that they love being in when they tend to break games wide open.
He never discussed the criticism of the 72 Dolphins with the players. He was graduating college back in 72. He said the more you can make things personal in terms of feeling responsibility to play well, the better.
Praised L.J. Shelton for his personal sacrifice going over to RG.
Said Yeremiah Bell played very well, but the pressure caused a lot of things...brought up how everything worked in concert, the pressure, the run stopping, the coverage, the gap control, etc.
When asked what the film showed about Will Allen's big give and whether or not it was a push-off...Saban just stared...and said "You gonna pay the fine?"
"You're not supposed to extend your hand to push off a guy, and...I didn't see anything different on the film than what I saw on the field, but...does that get me in trouble, Harvey?"
Said that they thought, in the box, that the Wes Welker catch was not a catch. He said it was basically a timeout that was spent to trust in the player (Welker) and the other players. They thought in the booth on the replay it wasn't a catch. The only thing he'll say though is that both officials on their sideline called it a catch and the one out behind the bench is the one that said he saw it hit the ground.
This is basically what I thought as I saw it happening. It ain't easy to forget Chris Chambers and Randy McMichael pleading with Saban to challenge that one sideline catch a few games ago, and their reactions when Saban put away the flag.
So there's Wes telling him its a catch and I think McMichael right next to him too pleading...so this time he trusted in the players and threw the flag to trust in them, and yeah it didn't work out but he still thinks it was a good decision. Savvy move. He said he'd do it again in the future, depending on the situation.
Key moving forward is remembering how we played in this game and building on it.
As a staff, was hard to pick offensive game ball...because everyone blocked well, even the receivers. Mentioned great tight end blocking too. Ronnie did fantastic but it was such a team effort.
We had 8 players with double-digit production points...which is a lot.
Jason Taylor, Kevin Carter, Zach Thomas, and Channing Crowder all had 20+ production points, which is more than we've ever had before. All four got game balls.
On STs, Sammy Morris got it.
As for the chip on the shoulder thing, he said that it boiled down to that you always want to be a factor. Even when you're 7 years old picking for dodge ball or whatever you always want to be picked high and be a factor. A lot of players kind of felt like going into this game everyone was saying we're not even a factor in the Bears' thinking.
When asked about Joey, said he did a good job "managing the game" and brought up that one of their goals heading into the game was not to make negative plays happen that put the Bears D in the pressure position that they love being in when they tend to break games wide open.
He never discussed the criticism of the 72 Dolphins with the players. He was graduating college back in 72. He said the more you can make things personal in terms of feeling responsibility to play well, the better.
Praised L.J. Shelton for his personal sacrifice going over to RG.
Said Yeremiah Bell played very well, but the pressure caused a lot of things...brought up how everything worked in concert, the pressure, the run stopping, the coverage, the gap control, etc.
When asked what the film showed about Will Allen's big give and whether or not it was a push-off...Saban just stared...and said "You gonna pay the fine?"
"You're not supposed to extend your hand to push off a guy, and...I didn't see anything different on the film than what I saw on the field, but...does that get me in trouble, Harvey?"
Said that they thought, in the box, that the Wes Welker catch was not a catch. He said it was basically a timeout that was spent to trust in the player (Welker) and the other players. They thought in the booth on the replay it wasn't a catch. The only thing he'll say though is that both officials on their sideline called it a catch and the one out behind the bench is the one that said he saw it hit the ground.
This is basically what I thought as I saw it happening. It ain't easy to forget Chris Chambers and Randy McMichael pleading with Saban to challenge that one sideline catch a few games ago, and their reactions when Saban put away the flag.
So there's Wes telling him its a catch and I think McMichael right next to him too pleading...so this time he trusted in the players and threw the flag to trust in them, and yeah it didn't work out but he still thinks it was a good decision. Savvy move. He said he'd do it again in the future, depending on the situation.
