Welcome into the under center podcast brought to you by State Farm.

I'm Lawrence Holmes here with Jim Miller and Alex Brown.

There's so much that we have to discuss in the Bears 29 to 7 loss to Tampa Bay.

Jim, what did we learn from what we saw on this loss?

Well, I think like most things, the Bears have to play a more perfect game.

They're not a good enough team to come back from when they dig themselves a hole early.

And granted, it was a self-induced hole, but they're just, they're not good enough.

They're still challenged in a lot of areas, roster-wise, talent-wise, developing-wise,

because young players are out there making mistakes that you're going to go through those growing pains.

So I think that's a lot of what we learned.

You know, they have to play a perfect mistake-free game in order to be a competitive team to even have the opportunity to win.

You know, having four turnovers in the first half alone is not a recipe for success for this challenge group.

AB, what did you learn?

That if we can't dodge the injury bug, it's going to be a long year because you got these young players.

I mean, you finally get the talent on the team, but that talent only goes as far as the

starters, right?

So the backups aren't ready to be starters.

So when you're on a really good team, that backup is all, everybody, you hear that saying,

next man up, well, that's on a really good

team is the next man up because that backup could start on seven or eight other teams in NFL.

We don't have backups that can start on other teams in NFL. So when that starter, when that starter

goes down, then that backup has to come in. Oh, my gosh, the backup just went out.

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