Suffering a loss heading into the bye week is always difficult, if not only because you have two weeks to stew on the loss and think about the "what could have beens" of the most recent game. Luckily for the coaches and players, the bye week isn’t about stewing or focusing on just this loss. For the coaches this is a week of self evaluation, a time when they can look back at everything they’ve done over the first half of the season.
This self-scouting process is time-consuming, because the staffs on both sides of the ball will examine every possible scenario when it comes to down and distance, game situation, formations and alignments and find all of their tendencies from those situations.