I went into our first preseason game Sunday with a pretty simple mentality: fly around and make plays.<\/p>\n
I knew there would be things I needed to clean up and mistakes I’d need to correct, but for Game 1, I just wanted to put things on tape that I could be proud of and just enjoy myself. I think I did just that.<\/p>\n
First of all, playing in DA’s (Dennis Allen’s) defense for the first time in real action was a lot of fun. Especially when we were playing goal line defense, just running through guys and making things happen in a high pressure situation, I loved it. We really attacked rather than playing conservative, so it was just truly fun. I can’t wait to keep playing for him.<\/p>\n
I know there were a couple plays I left out on the field that I want back, but for the first game, I feel good about how I showed up and how I executed my role within our scheme. I felt like I was really just getting my feet wet and gave myself a good foundation to build on the rest of the preseason.<\/p>\n
The one play that definitely stood out was the tackle-for-loss I had. That was really just me playing ball. The ball carrier came to where my assignment was and I just made the play. It wasn’t anything bigger than me doing my job, but I definitely had fun with that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I went into our first preseason game Sunday with a pretty simple mentality: fly around and make plays.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[54303,374,443,692,391,2493,7,2526,6,2922],"class_list":{"0":"post-282839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bears","8":"tag-article-rookie-diaries","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-centerpiece","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-bears","13":"tag-chicagobears","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-kyle-monangai","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ruben-hyppolite-ii"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115017261241419815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}