Speaker 1: Welcome into the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Nagge,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Whippley CPAs and consultant Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: with you until eight o'clock here tonight on news radio
Speaker 1: one oh five nine w BBM and Coach Naggie here
Speaker 1: until the bottom of the hour, and then we'll be
Speaker 1: joined by defensive coordinator Sean Dasai after seven thirty tonight. Uh,
Speaker 1: good evening, Matt, First and foremost, how you feeling. Everybody
Speaker 1: would like to know how your health is? Yeah, Hi, Jeff,
Speaker 1: appreciate it. No, I'm feeling a lot better and it's
Speaker 1: it's good. And you know, I just uh yeah, it
Speaker 1: was it was wasn't wasn't easy watching that game yesterday
Speaker 1: on TV. But that's part of how this thing goes.
Speaker 1: And uh um, you know, we gotta we gotta be
Speaker 1: able to regroup and get back at it. How many
Speaker 1: times did you jump out of your chair or you know,
Speaker 1: pull out whatever her you have left on your head
Speaker 1: as a man, you're a fan at that point, No, No,
Speaker 1: you really are, and it's uh um, you know you
Speaker 1: just put your phone to the side, you don't look
Speaker 1: at it. You don't want any calls or text messages.
Speaker 1: You just want to watch the game and be entrenched.
Speaker 1: And I know in the touchdown pass that Justin had,
Speaker 1: you know, I started yelling and I was just real
Speaker 1: excited and just happy for the guys, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you go through and you just you you
Speaker 1: go through the rest of the game, and you know,
Speaker 1: just the way that went in the second half. Uh,
Speaker 1: you just really wish we could have came out of
Speaker 1: there with the win. And so that that's probably the
Speaker 1: most difficult part obviously. So assuming that you'd have Jeff
Speaker 1: and Tim on the radio listening to the broadcast, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to time up with the television. So you're
Speaker 1: do you have the TV sound down? Are you just
Speaker 1: absorbing it on your own it? Did you have it
Speaker 1: cranked up? No? I had it down low, and I
Speaker 1: just was I was just trying to to to watch
Speaker 1: the game, um from my perspective and just get a feel.
Speaker 1: You you are able to see replays and you can
Speaker 1: see a lot of things that you can't see down
Speaker 1: on the sideline. UM. So that that part is good,
Speaker 1: But for the most part, it was more about visual
Speaker 1: than audio. Would you learn about this experience about your
Speaker 1: own self. Yeah, you know, very difficult being a way
Speaker 1: when everybody else is um is back into facility. All week,
Speaker 1: I had no clue what to expect for those three
Speaker 1: and a half hours on game day, I had no clue.
Speaker 1: And it was it was hard, um you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: I was just I just was at a point where
Speaker 1: I again, it was kind of crazy. But I can remember,
Speaker 1: you know, back in nineteen ninety three when I was
Speaker 1: growing up watching a basketball game. I was a Michigan
Speaker 1: fan and watching them. Uh they were down big, like
Speaker 1: twenty points to UCLA in the ninety three NCAA tournament,
Speaker 1: and I remember watching the game and being like superstitious
Speaker 1: and not moving and they started creeping back and winning,
Speaker 1: and so I was kind of I found myself yesterday,
Speaker 1: like just sitting here watching the game and we were good,
Speaker 1: things were happening, and I wasn't moving, you know, I
Speaker 1: was just shoot, I was just staying in the moment.
Speaker 1: And it's just hard. It's weird, it's different. You don't
Speaker 1: want to do it, but it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's just it's just it was a
Speaker 1: part of the protocol. Heck, I used to have my dad.
Speaker 1: We'd be watching the game and things we're getting out
Speaker 1: of hand and losing. I'd leave and then when I
Speaker 1: can hear him yelling out in the basement and he
Speaker 1: wouldn't let me back down because I I left. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was superstitious. But you can appreciate with fans in
Speaker 1: a different perspective now through sometimes Hey, I even lose
Speaker 1: that a little bit from a fan perspective because we're
Speaker 1: absorbed in what we're doing professionally. I think for sure
Speaker 1: you can you can definitely understand how that can go
Speaker 1: from from that side of it, and uh, again, just
Speaker 1: just how how that is. And it's totally different. It's
Speaker 1: totally different watching it on TV than being down on
Speaker 1: the sideline and everything that goes on. And you can
Speaker 1: definitely see a lot. You see a lot throughout the
Speaker 1: game and just a little with the with the replays
Speaker 1: and stuff that they show, and you can get to
Speaker 1: feel too from the game as well, just kind of
Speaker 1: how the momentum is going. But um, you know that
Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest thing that I noticed. All Right,
Speaker 1: we can probably point to a series or two that
Speaker 1: turned the outcome in this one. You're up sixteen nine.
Speaker 1: You're outscored twenty six. But the drive before the half,
Speaker 1: you get a field goal and no touchdown. You know
Speaker 1: you're getting the second half kickoff, but they get the bomb.
Speaker 1: I thought they were they that the clock running. I thought, okay,
Speaker 1: they're really doing this. The bomb for the three for
Speaker 1: the field goal, and then out of the locker room.
Speaker 1: You have a thirteen play drive but to a field goal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that seemed where the slippage felt, would you agree, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we we didn't come away with a touchdown on
Speaker 1: third and goal, we lost four yards. It was first
Speaker 1: and goal at the five we lost. We ended up
Speaker 1: losing four yards. Um, you know at an you know
Speaker 1: there's times in the red zone, like so when you
Speaker 1: get in the red zone, you gotta you gotta have
Speaker 1: positive yards. But on that third and goal when we
Speaker 1: threw it to coal, you know, we didn't come away
Speaker 1: with the touchdown, and and then you know, we come out,
Speaker 1: like you said, we get three points and then they
Speaker 1: end up getting at that long screen and it just
Speaker 1: kind of went from there. So being able to recover.
Speaker 1: Now we're all that said, and you're still in the game.
Speaker 1: Justin had that big play on fourth and one on
Speaker 1: the scramble and the spe play that he had and
Speaker 1: you're right there, and then you know, they went down
Speaker 1: and scored again, and so we just couldn't recover from that.
Speaker 1: And you could just kind of feel, like like I
Speaker 1: said this morning, touchdowns in the red zone and then
Speaker 1: you got to get stops. They didn't have many third
Speaker 1: downs in the second half, and they had too many
Speaker 1: explosives in that game. Yeah, I couldn't believe the math.
Speaker 1: They were seventeen plays at ten or more for four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty two yards. We had thirteen for two
Speaker 1: hundred some and you'd be you'd be happy with that too,
Speaker 1: But that's an extraordinary amount. So what do you think
Speaker 1: they were doing to create those It seemed like they
Speaker 1: were working your edges pretty good. Yeah, they did a
Speaker 1: good job of working the edges, you know, getting the
Speaker 1: tosses on the outside and then a couple contested catches
Speaker 1: that they came down with, obviously the big one. I mean,
Speaker 1: when you look at it right, they had a what
Speaker 1: was it a fifty yard fifty yard post throw at
Speaker 1: the end of the half, and then an eighty yard
Speaker 1: throw that's one hundred and thirty yards in two plays
Speaker 1: to the same guy. So these are he's a good one.
Speaker 1: He's a really good football player, and that's not something
Speaker 1: that when we knew that going into it. But those
Speaker 1: are the ones that, you know, those big explosives. They
Speaker 1: flipped the field and they scored. You know, they ended
Speaker 1: up getting a field goal off of one and a
Speaker 1: touchdown off to the other. But those are the ones
Speaker 1: that we got to eliminate. And you know, the other
Speaker 1: part two is being able to start getting some takeaways
Speaker 1: and flipping the field that way is going to be
Speaker 1: something we really need to emphasize, and getting those takeaways
Speaker 1: is paramount in any NFL game. Justin took a big step.
Speaker 1: His attitude. You could feel it, as you often refer
Speaker 1: to it when you watch it. You can feel it
Speaker 1: the way he was bouncing in the pocket, hanging in
Speaker 1: the pocket, leaving the pocket, running quickly when he had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to see green grass. There's a lot to
Speaker 1: break down. We will in our next segment, but in
Speaker 1: these final thirty seconds before this segment, if you kind
Speaker 1: of summarize what he did, Yeah, he played fast. His
Speaker 1: decision making was great, there was no hesitation, He played confident,
Speaker 1: the game is slowing down to him, in my opinion.
Speaker 1: You can see it. He was excellent on third down.
Speaker 1: If you're if you're good on third down in this league,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a chance. So growth for him. A
Speaker 1: lot of great growth yesterday for him, and I think
Speaker 1: we all need to be really excited about that because
Speaker 1: that's and then oh, by the way, you rushed for
Speaker 1: one hundred plus yards, so that's an element that really
Speaker 1: helps us out. Eight of ten on third down throwing
Speaker 1: the football, he had five first downs and just one
Speaker 1: sack going into the game. Five interceptions, ten sacks on
Speaker 1: forty five pass plays on third down, no touchdown, So
Speaker 1: a big improvement there. I'm gonna take Fields was gonna
Speaker 1: do something with it, but it was not this. He's
Speaker 1: trying to get out of trouble, breaks out of a tackle,
Speaker 1: lift to the fifteen ten five peno touchdown, touchdown Bears
Speaker 1: twenty two yard and lift play I'll broke it. Play
Speaker 1: turn into six for Justin Fields. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: Whipley dot Com with Matt Naggie, Jeff Joni X. So
Speaker 1: you just heard the exciting play Justin fields. He rocked
Speaker 1: the building. He rocked the building this south then as
Speaker 1: Soldier Field was his home. He was looking into the
Speaker 1: crowd and everybody saw a glimpse of what the future
Speaker 1: could be. Nine forty three to go in the game,
Speaker 1: and I know, I yelled, we got ourselves a ballgame.
Speaker 1: The mixed extra point certainly was a downer there, but
Speaker 1: otherwise it would be tied at twenty three, still in
Speaker 1: a great spot to win this football game. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: one of those special plays that I think we're all
Speaker 1: going to remember. Um, you know, we had a we
Speaker 1: had a little movement player and naked being able to
Speaker 1: get on the edge and they did a good job
Speaker 1: of containing that taking it away. And sometimes that happens
Speaker 1: in this league. And so you got it's about the players,
Speaker 1: and Justin made a heck of a play on his own,
Speaker 1: and then guys working on the backside helping to get
Speaker 1: some blocks and then finishing with a touchdown. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you could feel it in the south end zone. You could,
Speaker 1: you could, you know, h everywhere watching it on TV
Speaker 1: and didn't matter. You could feel it. And so it's
Speaker 1: one of those moments, one of those plays that we
Speaker 1: all kind of felt the same thing and to make
Speaker 1: it what we thought was gonna be a tie game.
Speaker 1: We obviously missed the extra point, but that that was
Speaker 1: definitely a special moment. That was the first time since
Speaker 1: Bobby Douglas in nineteen seventy three. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you ever put on some Bobby Douglas highlights when he
Speaker 1: is he ran for you know, a lot of yards
Speaker 1: in his career, but you don't necessarily want that. You
Speaker 1: want it balanced. But those big plays are there and
Speaker 1: they're there for the taking against defenses that'll put them
Speaker 1: on their heels. And when he was on the move,
Speaker 1: he I think he was perfect throwing the football and
Speaker 1: design rollouts and he had eighty some yards of his
Speaker 1: rushing yards were on those type of plays. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: when you add that element to his game that he
Speaker 1: has in when it could be a play action, it
Speaker 1: could be a drop back if it's not there, and
Speaker 1: you see a lot of other quarterbacks that have the
Speaker 1: ability that he he has, they take off and run
Speaker 1: and now now that's a major stressor to the defense.
Speaker 1: Now you're talking about scramble drills. Now you're talking about
Speaker 1: you know, uh, fifteen plus yard runs. It's a whole
Speaker 1: other element. And he did that yesterday. You got to
Speaker 1: be able to balance that now with how much and
Speaker 1: where and all that. But yesterday, again, Justin grew as
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback and that that's you know, you hate,
Speaker 1: you never want to lose and all that, and that's
Speaker 1: that's the tough part. But but Justin grew yesterday, and
Speaker 1: we want to we want him to grow and win.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite plays was the third and thirteen.
Speaker 1: He threw to Marquise Goodwin under a blitz on time
Speaker 1: in rhythm, picked up twenty two yards, let him have
Speaker 1: some after the catch on that which you think of
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, decision was awesome, Timing was awesome, accuracy
Speaker 1: was awesome. Uh, Marquise ran a great route and again
Speaker 1: NFL throw, it's never always a clean clean pocket. There's
Speaker 1: always stuff in front of you. And he made death row.
Speaker 1: So you know, even starting with his progression and his
Speaker 1: decision based off the coverage they gave us, that's where
Speaker 1: we get excited as coaches. And he did it there,
Speaker 1: you know, Alan Robinson has been a big third down
Speaker 1: weapon for you in his years here, and because he
Speaker 1: got the lion's share of the targets. That's obviously changed
Speaker 1: to this point of this season so far. But emerging
Speaker 1: now is Darnell Mooney in that target for third down.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of more third down catches, now
Speaker 1: leads the team in third down catches. Is it important
Speaker 1: to develop a guy that is a go to guy?
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys that you see around the
Speaker 1: league quarterbacks having you know, they need a guy in
Speaker 1: third down, they're going to this guy. Yeah, it's nice
Speaker 1: to have a few. And a rob has been amazing
Speaker 1: for us this entire time he's been here. And when
Speaker 1: you get you know, a younger rookie that was in
Speaker 1: here like Mooney who comes in and now is in
Speaker 1: you know, not a rookie anymore. He's able to go
Speaker 1: out there and learn how to play this game. And
Speaker 1: he's done that, and so you have multiple guys that
Speaker 1: you can rely on it, which may said the stresser
Speaker 1: on the defense because they got to guard different guys
Speaker 1: and so it might be one game that a Rob
Speaker 1: gets more Mooney another, But it was nice to see
Speaker 1: that yesterday with Darnell and him starting and building that
Speaker 1: connection with Justin. No, let's talking about the run game
Speaker 1: because Khalil Herbert was really good again. But was there
Speaker 1: an adjustment at all by San Francisco because there was
Speaker 1: one series he had four negative runs. I mean, the
Speaker 1: hats were moving across the line of scrimmage, no question
Speaker 1: about it. Um, was there an adjustment from your perspective
Speaker 1: after watching it on your tablet. No, there wasn't an
Speaker 1: adjustment there. Some of that was, you know, they they
Speaker 1: made good plays, uh, you know, and that was rare
Speaker 1: for sure. I agree, And even watching it on TV
Speaker 1: when you see man, you know, they weren't four run
Speaker 1: plays in a row, but they were four run plays
Speaker 1: for losses in that series. That's not like us, let
Speaker 1: alone losing It's one thing to lose one, but to
Speaker 1: lose four yards on three or four of those that that's, uh,
Speaker 1: we can't have that. So we're really digging into the
Speaker 1: tape and looking, like you said, schematically slash execution and
Speaker 1: all that time it together. But I thought Khalil ran
Speaker 1: the ball really well and he got opportunities, and that
Speaker 1: offensive line again was doing everything they could. Here's Fields
Speaker 1: got a bootleg it throws side arm pro went to
Speaker 1: the end zone for the touchdown. That's Jesse, Jesse James.
Speaker 1: What a throw by Fields on a bootleg left. Download
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Speaker 1: bets and accustomed Bears Jersey. There was the touchdown throw
Speaker 1: and a beauty from Justin Fields to Jesse James and
Speaker 1: an eight play catch that had a lot to it.
Speaker 1: So I love for you to break down those plays
Speaker 1: from your eyes. Special quarterbacks are able to go to
Speaker 1: their left and throw against the grain, and he slots
Speaker 1: his arms sometimes in different levels, which is also not
Speaker 1: something every quarterback can do. That's encouraging and enticing for me.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us all about that play? Yeah, so
Speaker 1: you know it's just a simple bootleg or naked to
Speaker 1: the left. I thought our tight ends did a really
Speaker 1: good job of getting good releases and cold did a
Speaker 1: wonderful job at protecting the edge. Jesse got out to
Speaker 1: the corner. You want a nice sell with the run
Speaker 1: and then coming back out you get a little bit
Speaker 1: of depth. You got to get your head and eyes
Speaker 1: around to be able to locate the corner route. And
Speaker 1: then whoever else is coming into your vision along with Cole,
Speaker 1: who's going to bounce back out for an opportunity to
Speaker 1: throw it to him. But Justin at that point in time,
Speaker 1: rolling to his left, that's one of the most difficult
Speaker 1: throws that you can make as a right handed quarterback.
Speaker 1: And so when you go back and slow motion it
Speaker 1: and you pause it and you look at it, you
Speaker 1: realize how accurately, how accurate he was with the throw.
Speaker 1: And then the TV copy, which you know we could see,
Speaker 1: was it made it by about an inch off of
Speaker 1: the defender's fingertips. And then Jesse made a great catch.
Speaker 1: So you needed a lot of things to happen. And again,
Speaker 1: like in those situations, it's about the players making plays,
Speaker 1: and our players made plays right there. That was a
Speaker 1: you know, they played good defense, we played better offense.
Speaker 1: Is how that went. So those touchdown passes, those throws
Speaker 1: are all immense confident builders for Justin. The more of
Speaker 1: those he can have, the more that confidence is going
Speaker 1: to come out. And I think we all felt it
Speaker 1: yesterday and you saw it in the way his emotions.
Speaker 1: You could see it in the way he played. And
Speaker 1: the more that we get from that, the more that
Speaker 1: this offense is going to really start taking off and
Speaker 1: doing a lot of good things. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: growth that we really want to see in our site
Speaker 1: at all about you're being chased, you're rolling, you're looking,
Speaker 1: you're running out of real estate. Your target is on
Speaker 1: a postage stamp because you gotta keep it away from
Speaker 1: the defender. What's the key for the accuracy on that one?
Speaker 1: Because you can't set your feet? But it is it hips?
Speaker 1: Is it shoulders? What is it? Yeah, it's well, Number one,
Speaker 1: it's practice, which he does that coach flipping them work
Speaker 1: that throw a lot, because we have that in, you know,
Speaker 1: in our game. But then there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: feel to it as well. You know, it's like it's
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's like a basketball player they got a
Speaker 1: guy in their face and they got to shoot a
Speaker 1: fade away three. You know, you gotta have some touch,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what that was. When you flip
Speaker 1: those hips around, you gotta have you gotta be able
Speaker 1: to throw through it. You can't throw across your body.
Speaker 1: You gotta be able to flip the hips around both
Speaker 1: your feet are in the air, and then you got
Speaker 1: to have just great accuracy and a lot of that
Speaker 1: is DNA. That's him. You know. Some guys have it,
Speaker 1: some guys don't. He's an accurate thrower and that's a
Speaker 1: play right there where we needed him to be spot on,
Speaker 1: and he was. Larry Born first start, and then they
Speaker 1: started shoving Nick Bosa over there. Quite the challenge for
Speaker 1: your first NFL start? How do you? How do you fare?
Speaker 1: He did really well. I was proud of Larry. I
Speaker 1: thought that it didn't surprise me because he prepares himself
Speaker 1: like he should. Uh, He's well coached, and his teammates
Speaker 1: do a great job of working with himself. He's only
Speaker 1: gonna get better because he wants it and he has
Speaker 1: it in him. He's a big he's athletic for his size,
Speaker 1: and like I said, he cares. So when you have
Speaker 1: that again, another rookie that to me, is only going
Speaker 1: to get better every rep he gets. I know you're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of questions about future and where this
Speaker 1: goes after three game skid and where you're at and
Speaker 1: so forth, But I'm assuming I know the answer to this,
Speaker 1: Does the message change, does the process change? No? Nothing changes.
Speaker 1: But what we need to do is we need to
Speaker 1: just you know, make sure we're we're extremely focused with
Speaker 1: the details, just the little things. And then it's about
Speaker 1: it's about finish. We played, you know, three quarters yesterday,
Speaker 1: two and a half quarters, three quarters. It's about finishing.
Speaker 1: It's about these these these phases playing together. There's no
Speaker 1: easy game in the NFL. You can't say that. We
Speaker 1: got to come out every week and know whoever we're playing,
Speaker 1: how are we going to win? And that's what we
Speaker 1: gotta do. And again I have ultimate belief in every
Speaker 1: single one of these guys in that locker room, players,
Speaker 1: all the coaches that are that are here. Um, in
Speaker 1: times like this, we get tested. Um we we we
Speaker 1: stay tight. Uh we we we we speak the same language.
Speaker 1: We practice hard because how you practice is how you play.
Speaker 1: And then on game day you go do it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so we got a You saw a team yesterday
Speaker 1: in the forty nine ers at lost four in a
Speaker 1: row and they came back yesterday and got to win. So, um,
Speaker 1: we need to go one and oh we need to
Speaker 1: beat Pittsburgh in a hostile environment on primetime Monday night,
Speaker 1: and we got to do it together. And that's the
Speaker 1: only thing we can control right now is doing that.
Speaker 1: All right. You get the Steelers, tough minded coach, tough
Speaker 1: football team. You know what you're getting from a past
Speaker 1: rush pressure standpoint in a running game. And then if
Speaker 1: it's a big ben no, they for sure. I mean
Speaker 1: they got there. They got a coach and spend there
Speaker 1: a long time that that does a wonderful job. They
Speaker 1: got a quarterback to spend there a long time that's
Speaker 1: won a lot of big games. Um, and I think
Speaker 1: you know what a what a big win for them
Speaker 1: yesterday against Eveland. So they're going to be coming in
Speaker 1: with a lot of confidence. And we gotta we gotta
Speaker 1: again understand playing together, playing tough, vehem mentally tough, physically tough,
Speaker 1: and doing whatever we need to do to I don't
Speaker 1: care however it is, but by one point, win the game.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, Good health to you. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you later this week. Thank you. Thanks Jeff Sea. Come
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Speaker 1: to the Bears Coaches Show. Welcome and defensive coordinator Sean
Speaker 1: Dasai looking back at yesterday's game and looking ahead to
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Good evening, Sean, how you feeling. What's
Speaker 1: your overall takeaway on what transpired yesterday? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think defensively, in particular, we didn't play up
Speaker 1: to our standard. We didn't play the Brandon football that
Speaker 1: we wanted, and that's disappointing, and it starts with me,
Speaker 1: and so we're obviously gonna get the things that we
Speaker 1: need to get corrected as a group, business, staff and
Speaker 1: with the players, and then look forward to this great
Speaker 1: opportunity we got on the road, which would be a
Speaker 1: tough challenge against Pittsburgh. Anything that is a common theme
Speaker 1: through what happened yesterday and the big plays, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I would say just a lot of technique
Speaker 1: and fundamental issues, whether it's a run play with the
Speaker 1: guy over the gap or getting off blocks and making
Speaker 1: some plays on that wide receiver screen, some scrambled plays
Speaker 1: that were extended, and find some holes in some defenses
Speaker 1: where we need to be better with our plastering. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of different things, and then they kind
Speaker 1: of hiss in a lot of different ways, and those
Speaker 1: are things that we're going to be looking forward to
Speaker 1: getting corrected quickly. And they tacked the edges quite a bit,
Speaker 1: tried it a little bit. You gotta keme in there,
Speaker 1: and Eddie though, and the big guys up front, you know,
Speaker 1: it's probably not the best place for them to go.
Speaker 1: But those pitches it was almost like army football pitch right,
Speaker 1: pitch left, But they were getting to the edges. So
Speaker 1: with pursuit, how do you get a guy to fundamentally
Speaker 1: technique wise score up and make those plays? Well, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, part part of getting to the edges is
Speaker 1: making sure that we have good edges in our defense,
Speaker 1: whether that's you know, usually falls in the outside linebacker
Speaker 1: room or defensive back to making sure that we're setting
Speaker 1: the edges firmly and not getting wide in there. So
Speaker 1: then like you said, we can force cutbacks into the
Speaker 1: meat of our defense. And then from a stack backer
Speaker 1: position in a safety position, and the guys that are
Speaker 1: stack fitting, they got to be able to feel and
Speaker 1: temple those linemen coming up quick, hind them and getting
Speaker 1: over the top, and then when you do that, there
Speaker 1: should be some gap exchanges with the d lineman where
Speaker 1: they need to be able to rip and run as
Speaker 1: well and set leverages and win their gaps. In terms
Speaker 1: of pressure of the last few weeks, obviously you have
Speaker 1: some great quarterbacks this game, a very good offensive line,
Speaker 1: anything that you looked at from a pressure point of view,
Speaker 1: because there weren't weren't a lot of pressure on Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo yesterday. No, yeah, you know, we didn't. We didn't
Speaker 1: get to him as much as we would have liked
Speaker 1: to the first half we played some pretty good defense
Speaker 1: and held him to some field goals there. But the
Speaker 1: second half we didn't really have any many opportunities on
Speaker 1: third down. You know, we had the big third down
Speaker 1: and then we didn't. We didn't get him to third
Speaker 1: down really until the four minute situations towards the end
Speaker 1: of that end of the game there. So we got
Speaker 1: to do better on first second down and we got
Speaker 1: to earn the right to pressure the quarterback and then uh,
Speaker 1: we gotta be able to mix it up on first
Speaker 1: second also and bring a little bit more pressure where
Speaker 1: we're still sound in the run defense, you know, just
Speaker 1: like a Keen brought up yesterday and post game and
Speaker 1: then just looking at it now myself, just with a
Speaker 1: minute and a half to go before halftime, one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty three yards of offense and six points, you're
Speaker 1: feeling really good. And I honestly thought, gosh, they weren't
Speaker 1: in a hurry for that final drive before halftime. The
Speaker 1: clock has run. I'm thinking, are they Are they not
Speaker 1: gonna try and even get in a field goal position?
Speaker 1: Is there any tendency win? The defense is also seeing
Speaker 1: that that you relax a little bit, I know you can't. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think we relaxed. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: I just think they caught us in a coverage and
Speaker 1: split safety coverage or they had a whole throughout, you know,
Speaker 1: against one of our corners, and uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: didn't execute with our technique there and it was a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty ball and obviously Deepo Samuel came down with it,
Speaker 1: and then we didn't get the help to the corner
Speaker 1: that we need to get. And that was a technique
Speaker 1: and fundamental issue we need to get corrected. And we
Speaker 1: will get corrected there. Quite frankly, you know that that
Speaker 1: was the way the forty Niners are going to run
Speaker 1: their two minute drill. You know. Part of part of
Speaker 1: the way they run their two minute you look at
Speaker 1: it throughout the season, is trying not to get the
Speaker 1: ball back to the other team, whether it's the end
Speaker 1: of a a half war in the game, and so they're
Speaker 1: very patient. Kyle Shandon is a great job in terms
Speaker 1: of being patient in the two minute, and so we
Speaker 1: expected that patience. We had an opportunity on third and
Speaker 1: four to get off the field there and we didn't
Speaker 1: get off the field. We lost a one on one
Speaker 1: on the slant route there, so that single game Bears
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Speaker 1: coordinator Sean Desai looking at the game yesterday, and we'll
Speaker 1: also take a look at the Pittsburgh Steelers coming up
Speaker 1: here in a moment. One other thing on the defense
Speaker 1: and what you faced. Did they do anything drastically different
Speaker 1: in the second half in terms of their scheme? I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say in terms of their scheme. I think they
Speaker 1: came out and tried to temple us a little bit
Speaker 1: and they went to a little bit empty. But you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of lead the league and empties against us,
Speaker 1: empty empty formations against us, so we expected some empty
Speaker 1: because they had hit us on some of those. Uh
Speaker 1: were tried to get us and we've actually played pretty
Speaker 1: good on some of those in the first half, and
Speaker 1: they just tried to get the ball out fast. You know,
Speaker 1: they didn't with the rush going. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: quick game where there was rhythm passing and tried to
Speaker 1: hit some spots. There were some easy throws for the
Speaker 1: quarterback and we weren't able to disrupt them, and so
Speaker 1: they got some chunk yards, whether it's an eight yard
Speaker 1: gain or eleven yard gain, and got themselves in some
Speaker 1: manageable second down situations. Why do you think teams have
Speaker 1: trended in that direction against you in that regard, like
Speaker 1: you just said, with the empty yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: know one thing empty does is it forces teams to
Speaker 1: sometimes show their coverages. You know, we're we're a mix
Speaker 1: of coverage where we'd like to show split safety and
Speaker 1: play some post safety defenses. We'd like to use that disguise.
Speaker 1: If your pressure, it shows your pressure. So I think
Speaker 1: for them it negates the past rushing and able to
Speaker 1: get the ball out quick and trying not with the
Speaker 1: big guys up front hunt a little bit. And so
Speaker 1: we got to be tired to those routes and we
Speaker 1: have to change up kind of who we're bringing as
Speaker 1: the rushers. With Eddie Jackson going down to the second
Speaker 1: play of the game, did it alter a plan you
Speaker 1: may have had, Well, you know, anytime one of your
Speaker 1: starters goes down, you need to be cognisant of that.
Speaker 1: And you know we've got an next man up mentality
Speaker 1: and DHC and Tease table fulfill that role at the
Speaker 1: other safety spot for the rest of the game. We
Speaker 1: did a suffishing job and we'll just continue to grow
Speaker 1: and improve there as well and get the continuity back
Speaker 1: to with the communication that we want to be able
Speaker 1: to get. Are you concerned at how much rushing yards
Speaker 1: are are piling up here in the last four weeks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's always a concerning. We want
Speaker 1: to play good run defense and starts with the upfront
Speaker 1: and being physical. Well, you know, the first half of
Speaker 1: that game, I thought, I thought we did a pretty
Speaker 1: good job or some of you know, we gave up
Speaker 1: one run play for about twenty seven yards in the
Speaker 1: first half. But the second half they leaned on us again,
Speaker 1: you know, and they found us in some situations where
Speaker 1: we got cut out some gaps and hit the perimeter
Speaker 1: and forced us in some situations where we need to
Speaker 1: swarm a little bittar than we did. And so yes, uh,
Speaker 1: to answer your question, the run defense will improve, and
Speaker 1: we need to make sure that our guys were able
Speaker 1: to process that and I got to get them in
Speaker 1: situations where they're the proper leverages to make those plays.
Speaker 1: What are some positives that came out of this? Obviously
Speaker 1: when you lose, you don't you don't want to just
Speaker 1: dwell all on the negative. There's got to be things, sure,
Speaker 1: building blocks for the next game. Yeah, No, I think
Speaker 1: there are. There's there's always some building blocks. Like I said,
Speaker 1: we played a pretty good defense in that first half,
Speaker 1: you know, and you held you held a good offense
Speaker 1: to some limited yards. We know some places that we
Speaker 1: need to improve, even after the big wide receiver screen
Speaker 1: in the second half that they on that third and
Speaker 1: twenty we got on the third down in the red zone.
Speaker 1: You know, so he played good for a second down
Speaker 1: defense down on the two yard line, but you got
Speaker 1: to win on that third down. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: thing that we want to continue to build on, is uh,
Speaker 1: there's instances of us playing really good football. Now the
Speaker 1: channel is to be consistent for sixty minutes, to bring
Speaker 1: that brand of football for the whole sixty minutes of
Speaker 1: the game. On a run like Elijah Mitchell, I think
Speaker 1: it was a thirty nine yard or I don't remember
Speaker 1: the exact but at that point the game, you're also
Speaker 1: trying to get the ball back and so guys are
Speaker 1: trying to rake you at it. It is a tricky
Speaker 1: thing because you need a possession at that point in
Speaker 1: the game. But at the same time, you know, if
Speaker 1: you can keep them off the board, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a real interesting situation. What is your coaching points on
Speaker 1: that run? Yeah, the first thing is one, we got
Speaker 1: to make sure that the first guy gets secures the tackle,
Speaker 1: and then the calvary's got to come to, like you said,
Speaker 1: hold them up and try to punch the ball out,
Speaker 1: but the first guy has to secure the tackle. You know,
Speaker 1: they outleverage us and we had some fit issues there.
Speaker 1: But the first guy that's that's in on that tackle
Speaker 1: needs to make sure they're wrapping up and hold the
Speaker 1: guy up until the rest of the guys come. I
Speaker 1: looked at I think it's play six of the game,
Speaker 1: Eddie Goldman dishing gage. This guy came in, made a
Speaker 1: really nice play, a powerful play. Now that he's had
Speaker 1: several games, I think he had thirty snaps yesterday. Are
Speaker 1: you are you seeing more of those coming? And how
Speaker 1: important would those type of plays be to deter their
Speaker 1: interest the opposition and going inside there? Yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: think I think Eddie, like you said, he's still been
Speaker 1: getting his feet when he's getting better each week, and
Speaker 1: this this is one of his better games with his
Speaker 1: hands and his physicalness at the point of attack. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, we expect him to continue to grow that
Speaker 1: way and that that will continue to help the interior
Speaker 1: of our run defense and that'll look probably for some
Speaker 1: people to try to run on the perimeter where we
Speaker 1: gotta make sure we're secured there. And what was it
Speaker 1: the impact of having a keen back, you know, a
Speaker 1: guy a veteran like that, his mindset and his approach.
Speaker 1: It's always a positive impact to having back. He's a
Speaker 1: physical presence obviously down the middle of the defense, and
Speaker 1: he likes to play sort of physical type of football,
Speaker 1: and so we'll continue to grow with him there as well.
Speaker 1: A final moments here on the Bear's Coaches Show, which
Speaker 1: Sean side the various defensive coordinator as we get you
Speaker 1: set for the Pittsburgh Steelers as well. One thing real quick,
Speaker 1: you know before every season, everybody's got the high hopes
Speaker 1: that everybody stays healthy, everybody plays to their level. But
Speaker 1: I don't even know. You may know how many snaps
Speaker 1: you've had with Hicks and Roquan and Khalil Mack and
Speaker 1: Quinn and Eddie Jackson on the same field at the
Speaker 1: same time. It hasn't been much this year. Obviously that's
Speaker 1: out of everyone's control you go about it, but you
Speaker 1: just wonder what it would be like if they could
Speaker 1: have a consistency of all those guys together at the
Speaker 1: same time. Yeah, no health, health for sure in this
Speaker 1: league matters, but like you said, there's really no time
Speaker 1: for us to wonder and hope and wish for and
Speaker 1: so we gotta do the best with the guys that
Speaker 1: we've got, and we liked the guys that we got,
Speaker 1: and we got to continue to develop them and integrate
Speaker 1: them with everybody else. Because the biggest thing when you
Speaker 1: talk about health issues is is working as eleven as
Speaker 1: one Because guys get a lot of reps together with
Speaker 1: each other other, they know each other, play, they communicate
Speaker 1: well with each other, and then when you get new
Speaker 1: moving pieces in there, uh, you got to ramp up
Speaker 1: the learning time and make sure everybody's still on the
Speaker 1: same page. And so that's that's usually the biggest sound
Speaker 1: from guys Ranger. But I think we've got the coaches
Speaker 1: and the players to do that, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we obviously we feel the urgency to make sure that
Speaker 1: gets done sooner than later. All right, time to look ahead.
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Speaker 1: first thing you think of when you think of the
Speaker 1: Steel City, especially on the road. A rabbit fan base
Speaker 1: and a really tough minded football team with a tough
Speaker 1: minded head coach. Yeah, that's exactly right. And they obviously
Speaker 1: got a future Hall of Fame quarterback there. It's going
Speaker 1: to be a great challenge for us. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're a team, like you said, that kind of
Speaker 1: knows how to win. You know that they've won a
Speaker 1: lot of games obviously in coach Tom's kirby, even throughout
Speaker 1: that organization. So, uh, you know, we got to make
Speaker 1: sure that we're dot in our eyes and crossing our
Speaker 1: teas and making sure that we're fundamental technically sound to
Speaker 1: go ahead and win a road game, a tough road
Speaker 1: game in a tough place to play. Yeah, Coach Thomlin,
Speaker 1: you know, a similar path to years. You know, a
Speaker 1: young coach worked his way up to become a head coach.
Speaker 1: Quite the career he's had there. Yeah, No, he's tremendous.
Speaker 1: He's kind of Uh, there's there's a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that you would say, as especially as a young coach,
Speaker 1: that you would kind of model your career off of,
Speaker 1: and he's one of them. He kind of knows how
Speaker 1: to win. He gets the best out of his players
Speaker 1: every year, regardless of circumstances, situation, and they just played
Speaker 1: consistently good football. So that's obviously a credit to him
Speaker 1: and the way he's helped continue to build that Steeler
Speaker 1: tradition over there, there's our nugget for the Pittsburgh game.
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris, the rookie running back with two hundred ninety
Speaker 1: four yards and two touchdowns over the last three games.
Speaker 1: All right, so that's one place to start right there,
Speaker 1: because he's been he's in the top fifteen in the
Speaker 1: league in the yards from scrimmage right now. Yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic running back and he can do some
Speaker 1: things out of the backfield in terms of the past
Speaker 1: game as well. So we're gonna have our hands full there.
Speaker 1: We got to make sure that we're really sound and
Speaker 1: physical and be able to uphold that brand for sixty
Speaker 1: plus minutes in that game to stop him. And then
Speaker 1: the next factor is obviously the Ben factor, the big
Speaker 1: Ben factor, and so we need to make sure obviously
Speaker 1: that we're tighten our coverage responsibies and be able to
Speaker 1: impact been as many ways as we can with rush
Speaker 1: coverage in disguise. How do you feel his game is
Speaker 1: changed now that he's on the tail end of what
Speaker 1: has been a great career. What you still see is
Speaker 1: you still see the arm talent, you still see the physicalness.
Speaker 1: He's not an easy tackle. He's never been an easy tackle.
Speaker 1: He's a big, thick guy who can extend plays. The
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable he gets with the skill guys
Speaker 1: around him and all that you see the plays that
Speaker 1: he's able to make. So we got to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're prepared and playing at a high level. All right, Sean,
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. Thank you so much talking down the road.
Speaker 1: Thanks Jeff, Matt's gonna do it for tonight's Bears Coaches Show.
Speaker 1: I want to thank our producers Jordan trud Up and
Speaker 1: Dan Billy and Keith Johnson working the board in our
Speaker 1: WBBM studios for head coach Matt Naggie and defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Sean Dasai. I'm Jeff Jonnyak. Thanks for listening. Everybody. Well,
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