Thomas Brown on Taking Over as Bears Coach.mp4

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Bears interim coach Thomas Brown details what he told his team at their first meeting and some of the issues he needs to address before facing the 49ers on Sunday in his first game after Matt Eberflus' firing.

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00:00Our first team meeting, talk about our players as far as plan of attack moving forward.

00:11All right, so before we talk about X's and O's, before we talk about the game plan

00:15for San Fran, I talked about making sure our house is right to begin with.

00:20So the initial goal is to unify this football team.

00:26Staying the same accord, moving the same direction, speaking the same language, and attacking

00:31together.

00:32Talked about the penalties, pre-snap penalties were all kind of bored down to a lack of focus.

00:38So a one play at a time mentality, after that play is over with, hit the reset button, get

00:42back in the huddle, go do it again, and over and over again.

00:45I just talked about as far as our identity as a football team.

00:50I said this initially, always believe in the standby, football is a violent game, it rewards

00:57those that play the game violently.

01:00So physical in every position is going to be our mentality.

01:03On the defensive side of the ball, Eric Washington will call our defense, I have tremendous trust

01:07and faith in him, and I am not a micromanager, so obviously we'll be around to be involved

01:13with their game plan, but I trust those guys 100%, and I'll probably be the first interim

01:19head coach or head coach in history to stay in the box, I'm not going to do that, so I'll

01:22be on the grass.

01:23I thought about it though, but it's probably too aggressive to begin with.

01:29On game day, we'll execute, don't panic, do a great job communicating, be poised in the

01:36moment, make a decision and go roll with it, that's the thought process.

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