Welcome to this week's edition of our Bears Talk podcast. I'm Chris Bowden, alongside former Bears quarterback Jim Miller and former Bears' defensive end, Alex Brown.

29 to 23 was your final.

Bears fall into 1 and 4 on Sunday in Indianapolis.

And this could have been a lot better.

There were some bright spots which we'll get around to,

but off on the wrong foot,

even though they opened the game with a field goal drive

to put them on top 3-0,

which is a good thing.

You want to strike quickly.

However, three penalties for 30 yards on their way to 10 for 80 on the game.

This was a game guys where discipline really jumped up and bit this team and may have cost them in the end.

There's no doubt.

I think young players are, again, they're being

thrown in there and have to learn on the fly. Obviously that first drive, the key penalty was

Jordan Howard. Here you got a rookie player down there. Cadeen Carey's going to bang it in there for

a touchdown and here a young player makes a costly mistake. He had a ton of positives. There's

no doubt about that. But just overall, when you look at the team, one we always taught playing a 60-minute game.

I thought they played much better in the second 30 minutes than they did in the first 30 minutes.

So the consistency from that standpoint has to get better for these young players, Alex.

And they didn't play bad in those first 30, you know, but they can play a lot better.

And then when we're talking about shooting yourself in the foot,

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