Coach Ben Johnson traveled a list of recent superb champions at a Bears team meeting this month when Grady Jarrett noticed the Roman numerals he hoped not to see: Li. His mind reduced another set of figures-28-3, the head that Falcons have kept half the third quarter of a super bowl.
“I saw the number and I thought,” Oh my god, “said Jarrett, who had three bags in the nose puncture place for the falconons this match. “It was a good lesson, guy. For me, he was able to open the injuries a little.
“At the same time, history is constantly repeated.”
Former Bears head coach Matt Eberflus spent two and a half seasons trying to build his team around the principle of his success. Johnson has no fantasy acronyms, but it is clear that the first-year head coach spent the pre-season trying to instill physical and mental tenacity to a team that lacked both last year.
Call this the principle of the grain.
“These are the reflux and flow flows and the emotion between it,” Johnson told Sun-Totes. “And how do you earn when you are in a hole, which we are going to at some point this year. Each good team does it every year. … You find your back against the wall. How do you answer this in the right way? New England did it.”
Learn to overcome
To achieve the most infamous return in the history of the NFL – if not the history of American sports – the patriots have marked 25 consecutive points to end the regulations, including a touchdown and a conversion in two points with a minute to play. They gained extension after having traveled 75 yards in eight games, never even needed a third.
Johnson showed key moments of the match, after leaving the guard Joe Thuney, a quadruple Super Bowl champion who played for the Patriots, telling what his team thought and said throughout the match. Jarrett, who joined Thuney as two additions to the big guys’ arguments this spring, told a room full of her new teammates what Falcons thought – and felt.
“I felt bad for Grady, I’m going to tell you,” said Cole Kmet. “But it’s a good thing to show the whole team. … The cooler heads prevail in this situation.”
The Grady Jarrett des Falcons d’Atlanta is looking for the quarter-Arrière des Patriots de la Nouvelle-Angleterre Tom Brady in the second half of the Super Bowl Li on February 5, 2017 in Houston.
The Bears lived the opposite last year, losing against commanders when the Coin Demi Tyrique Stevenson was in the backdrop on a Mary’s hail, falling to the cardinals after abandoning a 53 yards touched with 12 seconds to play in the first half and having a potential goal in terms of game blocked by rival pellets of the pistol. And it was just in the space of a month.
Eberflus, of course, was dismissed after having failed to call his last time in the decreasing seconds of a three -point Thread Thanksgiving defeat against the Lions.
“Ben spent a lot of time on resilience and how to overcome things,” said Managing Director Ryan Pola.
Success requirements
Even his own practices. On August 5, Johnson directed what most veterans of the Bears called the most physical practice of their career. Bearing full pads on field 1 in Halas Hall, the Bears ran through their most taxed exercises and fought on the ground, a rarity at the professional level. Some players left with injuries. Sometimes it was difficult to say which exercises presented plated live and which were not supposed to do. They all scrambled together in a lot of strokes, blocking and jaw.
At the end of the training, however, the team huddled together. Johnson had a smile on his face.
“It gives a tone,” said Jarrett. “I was happy to see the call receive an answer.”
Johnson had told his players before training that the Bears needed a physical game for insensitive to rigors at the end of the season – the Bears have the oldest goodbye in the NFL, in week 5 – but also to help develop their own identity.
It would have been easy for veterans to roll their eyes to such a request. A practice that Nasty may seem useless for those whose list spots are secure.
“They let him tear up,” said the posts, “because they heard him put himself in front of the play and say:” This is what we have to do to have success. “”
The posts thought it may be the most important moment of the whole training camp. He hopes it has established a base. Subsequently, he told Johnson that the practice was proof that his players trusted him. He asked them to go beyond what was normal and they followed him.
“It sort of gave me goosebumps,” said the posts.
Twelve days later, the Bears departure offensive played in a pre-season match for the first time. During the fourth game of the match, the Drew Dalman center was reported for having held, the installation of the second and 14.
“How many times in recent years have we had a situation where we have a call … It’s like:” Oh, this reader is done “, right?” Said posts.
During the next room, Caleb Williams found the choice of first Tour Colston Loveland for a gain of 18 yards. Three games after that, the Bears marked a touchdown.
This resilience, although in a small sample size, is a reason for hope inside Halas Hall.
“Ben has just done a very good job with this type of messaging …”, said the Poles. “The proof of concept is as if the guys believe it more and more every day. They believed it a lot when he came for the first time, but now they really see it and feel it.”
In the NFL, optimism peaks the weekend of the Labor Day. Each team thinks they can win the championship. This is another reason why Johnson taught the super bowl band.
“There will also be a time when we are 28-3,” said Johnson, “and how do you continue to trample the neck and not allow them to get out of this?”
A coach can dream.
The Bears think they have established a foundation. That their concentration on resilience is transformed into their identity depends on what they do in real games.
“I think it gave us a good base to go out and show the identity we want to have,” said Jarrett. “But you have to respect respect.”
Contribution: Jason Lieser
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The former Cowboys star has 52½ bags in four seasons.
He is eligible to come back after at least four games.
