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  • 7/18/2024
Dan Bernstein has a modest request as the Bears are set to open training camp.
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00:00Can we pledge to try to not be stupid about what we see in training camp?
00:06Because I think I feel this way every year, I say something about this every year, but it's,
00:11I know that we're, the entire Bears universe right now is charged. It's animated, it's
00:22vibrating on a level that it hasn't before. And I'm worried that it's going to make the generally
00:31usual stupid of training camp louder and dumber, and it shouldn't. It's perhaps, part of me has
00:40resigned to the inevitability that it will be, you know what I mean? Oh no, totally. I don't
00:44know how you control it. Practice is where it's okay to make mistakes so you're less likely to
00:50make them in games. So people say, hey, Caleb Williams kept missing Cole commit wide on the
00:56same play over the middle. That's okay. They're calibrating. They're trying to figure out if,
01:03because he's, Williams has to get used to the way these guys come out of breaks.
01:07He has to get used to the way they look in his peripheral vision. All of that comfort level
01:14takes reps and reps and reps and reps and reps. And the mistakes are making on a well-coached team
01:21with smart enough players, mistakes are positives. You learn more from mistakes than you do from
01:28successes. You learn more from a bad practice than you do from a good practice. How many times have
01:34we heard a coach say, oh, great week of practice, great week of practice, great week of practice.
01:37You never hear a coach say, boy, we had a really crappy week of practice, but teams do. And that's
01:42okay. Especially teams with a rookie quarterback in this whole camp, whatever it is, whether it's
01:49another team in town or it's, it's routes on air. We can't get hung up. Well, he didn't look good
01:57today. Okay. But maybe he got better.

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