Olin Kreutz: Bears winning close games is a credit to Ben Johnson

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00:00This is an improved team, right?

00:02This is an improved team.

00:04This is an improved operation that we are watching.

00:07And that's why they are 6-3.

00:08And some of that, not some of it,

00:10a lot of the winning that they're doing late in games is not luck.

00:13Like to John's point, the caller,

00:15like Ben Johnson is doing a nice job controlling the game,

00:18making adjustments, staying in the game,

00:20keeping his team moving towards winning the football game,

00:24seeing how, okay, even though we're down right now 17-7,

00:27this is the way we have to win this football game.

00:30You'll see him come out, and they're down two scores,

00:32and the first thing he does is run the ball right at Jonah Jackson

00:36and Darnell Wright, right?

00:37No panic.

00:39Stay in the game plan.

00:40Stay in game mode.

00:42Get us the ball back.

00:43We need a takeaway here.

00:45Here we are in this game.

00:46This is when we use the timeouts.

00:47You see him.

00:48We talked about on the show last week,

00:50coaches have to process information like we talk about with quarterbacks,

00:54right?

00:55Process information under a time constraint.

00:58Here's the call.

00:58Here's the timeout.

01:00Ben is doing it.

01:01Man, he's doing calling plays and doing game management.

01:05So, yes, a lot of credit to the coaching staff here.

01:08Here's the timeout.

01:09We are stung.

01:09Here's the timeout.

01:23Here's the timeout.