Declan Doyle New Bears OC.mp4

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New Bears offensive coordinator Declan Doyle discusses his responsibilities as an OC without play-calling duties and how they'll build the offense around Caleb Williams.

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00:00First and foremost, you know, you said table-setting role, I think that's a great way to describe

00:09it.

00:10Ben is going to have less time than he's ever had as a play caller.

00:13And so, you know, obviously I think that that's kind of a thing that's morphing as we, as

00:17we go, kind of figure out what that looks like.

00:20But my job is really going to be to organize and detail, you know, the game plan initially,

00:25utilizing, you know, our staff, they'll have, everybody will have different assignments,

00:28kind of how we are going to build this thing with schematically as we attack a defense.

00:34But basically I have to do that work that he's not going to have time to do, and he's

00:37going to have to be able to trust me that I'm going to be able to give him the correct

00:42information that he needs as a decision maker.

00:45And then, you know, really throughout the week, streamlining the teaching progression

00:49for the players, making sure that everything is built around them.

00:53You know, you know, there's a progression to every step of this.

00:56And that is, that is first and foremost, mastering the language of it, mastering, you know, being

01:00able to communicate and understand where the pieces are supposed to be and be able to envision

01:04those things.

01:05And I think Bo got better as the year went on and got more comfortable within the offense.

01:11You know, we certainly tried to shape it around him.

01:13There were things that we did that were different than we had ever done, you know, allowing

01:16him to try to evade the pocket and get out into space where he wanted to play.

01:20That was something that, you know, we had a big play against Kansas City late in the

01:23game on something that we had never, you know, in previous years ever had before.

01:29And so I think first and foremost, like Caleb being in here, going through all of his tape,

01:33evaluating, you know, what we feel like he's good at, what we feel like he's really capable

01:40of going out and being the best in the world at excelling at it and trying to shape and

01:46build the offense around that.

01:47I would say that's that's what we try to do with Bo.

01:49And that's what we're going to do here.

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