Olin Kreutz: Ben Johnson is still searching for Bears players he can count on

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00:00You try to empower your players, right?

00:02Like Lovie used to do a good job when I was here.

00:04And really all my coaches, Coach Jerron also and Dave Wan said,

00:07they would empower their leaders, right?

00:09Where you empower certain guys on your team, prop them up.

00:12You say, look, this is what we want to be like.

00:14This is the kind of work we want to do.

00:16And it just depends on who Ben Johnson, he's still learning those guys too, right?

00:19When coaches first get in here, sometimes they would pick the wrong guys, right?

00:23And okay, man, as the year goes on, everyone's going to show you exactly who they are.

00:26Through 17 weeks in an NFL season, you can't hide who you are.

00:31You can't hide the amount of work you're putting in, the amount of focus,

00:34the amount of preparation you're putting into each week, each game.

00:38The mental mistakes, are you making mental mistakes?

00:40Are you coming to the sideline?

00:41Are we hearing the things that you're actually seeing on the field?

00:44Or are you just seeing things that aren't actually going on?

00:47So the guys that you're trusting on your team, David, the guy Coach Ben Johnson,

00:51the guys Coach Ben Johnson is looking for, he may still be looking for that, right?

00:55He may be still trying to figure out who he has on his team.

00:59Who are the leaders on this football team?

01:01And you got to almost go through a large part of the season to get to who you want to trust.

01:07Because for six, seven, eight weeks, sometimes guys can fool you.

01:10But week 10, week 12, week 13, man, when it's working, when that season's still dragging on,

01:17that's when you figure out who are the guys still putting in the work, still putting in the preparation.

01:21And we understand, to your point, that these are a lot of young guys that have to learn,

01:25have to be on the field, and have to make mistakes.

01:27And remember, Coach in Loveland was out for a couple of weeks, and he was injured.

01:30So he lost some time.

01:31He lost some playing time, some of the preparation.

01:33All of a sudden, they lose Cole Komet, who's their Swiss Army knife,

01:37who does a lot of the motions and the stuff that you're talking about.

01:40And now just the little things are off.

01:42I know they used Augie Trapillo yesterday in a little bit more of a tight end role,

01:46that Cole Komet went down and went a little big, went extra tackle in the game.

01:49But these are things that they're going to have to work on.

01:52And remember, Caleb, I don't know, I don't want to speak for him,

01:55but through high school and through college, not a lot of understanding, right?

01:59Not a lot of cadence, not a lot of play calls.

02:01So they're working through a lot of things.

02:04We want to see that get corrected.

02:05We want to see that get fixed.

02:07We want to see the coaches, and like you're talking about, great point,

02:10and the players together got to fix this.

02:13A couple of the leaders and the coaches,

02:14who's going to help us get these guys moving in the right direction,

02:17is what Coach Ben Johnson is talking about there.

02:20And it's just frustration on the podium after the game

02:22because it's like, man, we've been fixing this.

02:25We've been saying this, right?

02:26And there's a saying, a good high school coach I coached with up there

02:30at Carmel Catholic who's having a great year with Jason McKee

02:33and their young quarterback, Coach Scott Steiner, used to say,

02:36man, if everything's a problem, nothing's a problem.

02:39By that he means if you're always yelling about the same thing,

02:42guys start to tune you out a little bit.

02:44So maybe Coach Ben Johnson's talking about, look, man,

02:46we need someone else to say these things,

02:49to emphasize the little details in practice

02:51because obviously we keep yelling the same things

02:53and no one's listening anymore.

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