Eddie Jackson on the Turnaround Within Bears Defense
Whether it's the Yannick Ngakoue signing or a chippy attitude in practices, Bears safety Eddie Jackson sees a real turnaround on his side of the football.
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00:09 When you got that rush, quarterback ain't got time to sit back there and
00:11 pat the ball all day.
00:12 I got the text from from Brits, Brits guy text me like, hey,
00:15 something I was sleep woke up and I'm like, it's up.
00:18 Just to have that type of that pressure up front, man,
00:21 it helps us a lot in a back end and we get to capitalize off that as well.
00:26 It's just getting scarier and scarier.
00:28 We just add more talent and more talent.
00:30 Then when that started to mesh together, I mean,
00:33 everyone in here seeing what was gonna happen.
00:35 You got a lot of very large group of talented players and
00:39 people that's actually locked in and really love football.
00:42 So that's just more fuel to the fire.
00:44 We just feel like, okay, we just keep taking it up a notch.
00:46 Now we done added him, it's like, man, it's up.
00:49 This thing is headed in the right direction.
00:51 And I hate to sound like a broken record every year saying the same thing, but
00:54 >> [LAUGH]
00:55 >> Man, listen,
00:56 it's a different feeling right now, man.
00:58 You feel the culture shift.
01:01 So I said, man, it's a great feeling.
01:04 We high energy flying around, man.
01:06 We ready for this thing to head into that church.
01:08 I know it seems like it's something personal, but it's not personal.
01:12 It's just the brain and competitiveness out of everyone.
01:15 Guys are locked in.
01:16 It's a whole different mindset compared to last year.
01:21 You guys see it.
01:22 If y'all out there watching, we on fire, man.
01:26 We really flying around, we really getting it.
01:28 No one's complaining, everyone's locked in, buying into it.
01:31 And everybody's trying to get better.
01:33 Everyone's competing, no one's complaining.
01:34 So when you got that, I feel like it's always headed in the right direction.
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