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Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312 Sports Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered on 312 Sports is brought to you in partnership with my bookie. Well, I got about four and a half hours of sleep and that's all you need. I think now that the Bears have traveled back home and they're licking their wounds and they're getting healthy again, all in all, the kind of game that cuts both ways. And I think we have enough ability to take in everything that we learn from the game. Not everything has to be boiled down to good or bad, happy or sad. You can be a little bit of both after that one outcome. And still, first of all, feel, I think my takeaways in general about the direction of the Bears a positive one. And maybe it's not just talking about this year necessarily, but the Bears are playing a brand of football that we really kind of haven't seen before, where they have the coach that does the stuff, they're the team that does some of the stuff and we're not used to it and that's okay. And we're going to learn, like we discussed on forward progress last night, this idea that when you say, well, that was too cute, you're going to just run the ball down the middle of the field. He's going to do that. Ben Johnson is going to do things that are too cute and he doesn't care. And in his world, that's just football. That's sometimes you get an advantage or sometimes you've got a play that you've had in there for months and you've been waiting for the chance to use it. And if it's that time, everything else be damned if it's time to run the play, you get it out, you dust it off, you call it and you put it in there. And that kind of thing should be fun. And I'm willing to meet the Bears halfway on that. I guess I'm saying it now and I'm sure I'm going to be the same guy who's also saying just run. Stop being so damn cute. But this isn't like Gary Croton stuff. And it's not a little Matt Nagy, side by side stuff of just bubble screens for the sake of bubble screens or refusing to block people. The cool thing about Ben Johnson cute is that it also involves blocking. That it isn't just trying to. Ooh, we gotcha. There is some of that, but it's the fundamentals of what he does are still based on hat on a hat making these play. Just an understanding of where football is and maybe where it's going. There is a, there is a discomfort as a Bears fan about existing in that world. It's okay. And I think it's on me. It's on us to get comfortable. Think about it like when, when you raise kids and they're speaking a language you don't quite understand or they're engaged in a, a carving up of their attention span in a way that doesn't seem right to you. You gotta change with the times a little bit. And all I can say is if they're going to keep scoring points like this and if they're going to build that trust that I've got in their ability to play in some of these games and not have to win games 17 to 10, that I have to move to a place where I'm not as comfortable and that's okay. I will be comfortable being uncomfortable. I will do that because this is what it's gonna be. There's gonna be stuff that previously a grumble, grumble, grumble. Too cute. Don't try to fool everybody, just block them. Just run the ball. You can't do that all the time anymore. You can't. And it's not as much fun if he's gonna play Madden with actual human beings. We got to join them. We've got to get used to it. And I pledge I'm try because I know that's where we are. Yeah.