Speaker 1: Logan. The command is are back at home for another matchup.
Speaker 1: This one is against the Chicago Bears. We see it's
Speaker 1: off to head coaches Dad Quinn about our matchups today,
Speaker 1: and then we end the show with our ticket to
Speaker 1: a win. That is key matchups against the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: All that war starts right now on the game plan.
Speaker 1: Commander is family welcoming in head coach Dan Quinn. Now,
Speaker 1: the story of today is will Jayden play? We do
Speaker 1: not know the answer to that. However, Marcus Marriold has
Speaker 1: stepped in in a big way. How great was it
Speaker 1: to see him step up and rally this team.
Speaker 2: There's two qualities that both Jaden and Marcus have and
Speaker 2: I admire it and both of them. It's confidence and humility,
Speaker 2: and they have this really good blend of both. And
Speaker 2: the confidence comes from performing and doing well and knowing
Speaker 2: that you put the work in to do that. The
Speaker 2: humility is what you see from the joy on the
Speaker 2: sideline about Marcus making plays and the sideline erupting when
Speaker 2: he had that. So there's this great balance between the
Speaker 2: two of them that have confidence and their ability and
Speaker 2: the way they lead the team and execute the offense.
Speaker 2: But there's also this humility that they have for their teammates,
Speaker 2: for the game, for the position, and it's this great
Speaker 2: balance that they both have and it's something that like
Speaker 2: I admire about both of them so much. The sideline
Speaker 2: erupted for Marcus. They care about them, they love them
Speaker 2: because of all the things that he does that no
Speaker 2: one else sees. After practice, in a two minute on
Speaker 2: a Friday afternoon, when everybody's talking to media, he's working
Speaker 2: down a two minute drill you know, with some guys
Speaker 2: just just in case, and so when your numbers called
Speaker 2: and you're ready and you deliver, it's really really powerful.
Speaker 2: And man, he delivered.
Speaker 3: That's going to be so special for him, you know,
Speaker 3: like kind of all the hard work he's put in
Speaker 3: and like not everybody loves the backup quarterback all the time,
Speaker 3: you know, but like to see I mean that sideline
Speaker 3: was electric when he threw that touchdown his zac. It
Speaker 3: just kind of speak to again, like some of the
Speaker 3: stuff you talked about, just how everybody loves them and
Speaker 3: have a team that's like rooting for each other that way.
Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about Cleveland Farrell before support and
Speaker 3: not like it's just cool that there's so many guys
Speaker 3: like that on this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's a fantastic teammate, Logan, you would have
Speaker 2: loved to have played with Marcus. And that actual two
Speaker 2: minute we did one on Friday afternoon, Like he didn't
Speaker 2: think he was going in the game, but they actually
Speaker 2: did a two minute and here it was at the
Speaker 2: end of the first half. You know, two six to
Speaker 2: go and you know ninety six yards away. All right,
Speaker 2: there's a first down. All right, let's get going, and
Speaker 2: then again again moving down the field. And so to
Speaker 2: get a score to Zach like that was a really
Speaker 2: big moment. It was I didn't necessarily impact the game
Speaker 2: all the way. It was important to show this is
Speaker 2: how we get down and we attack, and Marcus is
Speaker 2: always ready for that.
Speaker 1: And coach, let's turn the pace to today. We are
Speaker 1: taking on the Chicago Bears. Let's start at an offensive line.
Speaker 1: Dave and Roland they looked really, really good. How do
Speaker 1: you get them ready for a tough matchup against the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the best parts about the NFL,
Speaker 2: the different matchups, the schemes. How does it change week
Speaker 2: to week? And it's why having the whole week to
Speaker 2: go through the process to get ready. What does this
Speaker 2: look mean? What does that look mean? Is their tails
Speaker 2: and so these guys dig in so hard. Brian to
Speaker 2: the tape the communication on the sideline. If I could
Speaker 2: have had you down there next to me to see
Speaker 2: the communication going on between Wiley and Cosme and game,
Speaker 2: this look happens, He's over to here, We'll go to this.
Speaker 2: And so it's always adjusting and it's always tweaking. And
Speaker 2: that's what I love about the line that like they're physical,
Speaker 2: they're playing as one, they're communicating well, and they love
Speaker 2: getting this chance to run the ball. Hey guys do
Speaker 2: so you know you saw Cosm coming out and man
Speaker 2: more more he was excited.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. And then you know the part of them
Speaker 3: like playing well as Cliff and how he's called games.
Speaker 3: And I know you've coached defensive line for a long time,
Speaker 3: and is there anything that you're like, Man, this coordinator
Speaker 3: does this thing really well that really is disruptive to
Speaker 3: the defensive line. I think fans sometimes, oh it's you know,
Speaker 3: the offensive line's got to win one on once. But
Speaker 3: there's some tricks there. And I was wonder if you
Speaker 3: can kind of peel back the veil on.
Speaker 2: That for sure, And for me, it always starts with balance.
Speaker 2: When a team has balance and run game and play
Speaker 2: passes and then drop backs and now a defensive lineman
Speaker 2: they're not quite sure what look is how they can
Speaker 2: get to go. Then misdirection plays and all the things
Speaker 2: that can slow you down, and anything that can slow
Speaker 2: a pass rusher down is a good thing because they
Speaker 2: want to go and they want to like have a
Speaker 2: you know, this is my man, I'm going to go
Speaker 2: beat him. And so then now here comes a chip,
Speaker 2: and here comes a pull, and here's a guard coming
Speaker 2: into it. And those are the things that can slow
Speaker 2: down a real pass rusher, and those are some of
Speaker 2: the things that our team does well.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about those guys that ship Zach erth right,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Zacher's little We had a big
Speaker 1: game Sunday. How do you expect him to impact this
Speaker 1: game today?
Speaker 2: He really has a knack in some of the specific situations.
Speaker 2: He has a very good understanding for third down and
Speaker 2: where's a zone or where's a leverage from Manda Man
Speaker 2: red zone is a another spot you know for Zach,
Speaker 2: he knows where a hole might be, he studies it.
Speaker 2: You know, he knows a leverage and he's friendly for
Speaker 2: the quarterback. And then the last piece for him is
Speaker 2: third down and knowing a certain route or a certain
Speaker 2: you know, leverage that can win. Those are to me
Speaker 2: the areas that he really makes his impact the third down,
Speaker 2: the two minute, and the red zone. And that comes
Speaker 2: with experience and he's been in all of the big
Speaker 2: fights and knows how to get open. He knows how
Speaker 2: to work, you know, see his own where to sit down.
Speaker 2: It's a man a man how to break off a leverage.
Speaker 2: He is very accomplished in that and he's able to
Speaker 2: carry that into the game.
Speaker 3: And it just you mentioned like his experience and it
Speaker 3: just seems like he's able to connect kind of with
Speaker 3: every quarterback no matter what. You know, Like Jaden's in
Speaker 3: awesome connection, Mariota comes in same thing you think about
Speaker 3: when he's in Arizona, wherever he's at before, Like, is
Speaker 3: that is that because he's so good at some of
Speaker 3: those things you're talking about, or is that because he's
Speaker 3: just really good at building those relationships with the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's very intentional about both okay and building the relationship.
Speaker 2: What did you see there? You know where we need
Speaker 2: to be, So he asks, you know, the quarterback specific questions,
Speaker 2: but because of the experience, he also knows, Okay, this
Speaker 2: is likely coming to me right here, I get to
Speaker 2: this spot. So a combination of both. But he has
Speaker 2: been really important for our office.
Speaker 3: And does he ever kind of like tell the quarterback
Speaker 3: like this is maybe like this is how I see it,
Speaker 3: and like the quarterbacks oh yeah, like I didn't even
Speaker 3: think about that because of the level of experience, absolutely.
Speaker 2: And showing it looking back on the iPad at practice,
Speaker 2: discussing it, and so he is just very intentional about
Speaker 2: being in the right spot. And as a quarterback, you
Speaker 2: want someone to be at the right location at the
Speaker 2: right time, at the right depth because so often you
Speaker 2: have to throw it before the receiver even makes it
Speaker 2: out of his route and they may not be open
Speaker 2: at that time. So you have to have a lot
Speaker 2: of trust that the receiver, the tight end the back
Speaker 2: is going to be where he's supposed to be. So
Speaker 2: that's how it should always be. Somebody's hitting you, trying
Speaker 2: to move you off that mare.
Speaker 3: That's a good fun you know, like they're not just
Speaker 3: running straight Yeah, there's.
Speaker 2: Not a bigger game where no one hits you like
Speaker 2: you absolutely could get hit here, and so being able
Speaker 2: to be in the right spot at the right location,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of trust that goes with that, and
Speaker 2: I would imagine Zach's earned that trust with a lot
Speaker 2: of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And our defense teams to have earned your guys just
Speaker 1: trust as well. What has been the message to them
Speaker 1: to keep that momentum going this.
Speaker 2: Sunday, Really we were pleased to see the two takeaways.
Speaker 2: That is something that has to be part of how
Speaker 2: we play defense. It's so important to make sure we
Speaker 2: can be responsible for getting the team into the plus.
Speaker 2: You know, you want to win the turnover margin. Well,
Speaker 2: to win the margin, you have to get turnovers. You
Speaker 2: have to get them, and so that is a big
Speaker 2: piece for it. So scoring on defense that's even bigger.
Speaker 2: But creating field position opportunities for the offense another drive
Speaker 2: another scenario. Those are big deals. So tackling always a
Speaker 2: number one top of the pile. I'm hoping that you
Speaker 2: and our f everybody's seeing the effort, you know, to
Speaker 2: say can they finish, can they go?
Speaker 1: And then that the.
Speaker 2: Last piece is getting that ball and getting a few
Speaker 2: knocked out, getting a few interceptions, so we can give
Speaker 2: the offense you know they're shots at that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, And it's something that jumped out on the film,
Speaker 3: is like just how fast the guys are playing. And
Speaker 3: some of that comes to like game plan and you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you got to pull back, sometimes you got to
Speaker 3: add stuff in. How do you walk that line coming
Speaker 3: into a game like this.
Speaker 2: I think the first thing you look at is, you know,
Speaker 2: going through the practice, what type of errors I see?
Speaker 2: Are their errors? And if it is out it comes
Speaker 2: I can remember.
Speaker 3: Do you do it right away or is it like, hey,
Speaker 3: this guy messed up one time, let's give him a
Speaker 3: second shot.
Speaker 2: You give him a second one. If it gets towards
Speaker 2: the end of the week and it's still not clear,
Speaker 2: I can clearly remember. And a practice a player said, hey,
Speaker 2: we need to run that one again. This was on
Speaker 2: a Friday asset. Now we don't no more time. It's like,
Speaker 2: what do you mean, No, I messed it up? I
Speaker 2: need to goad. It's all good man, Like it's out
Speaker 2: for the game, you know, like we'll work it again
Speaker 2: next week. And so sometimes you put something in and
Speaker 2: it takes a while to get reps at it and
Speaker 2: know because oftentimes you may see a blitz that a
Speaker 2: team did against another team that looks good, Well, what
Speaker 2: do it look like against empty? Or what about their
Speaker 2: emotion or what if they put something? So sometimes it
Speaker 2: just takes a few weeks to marinate if you are
Speaker 2: going to try something new, and people are always you know,
Speaker 2: working through things to get it just right, and I
Speaker 2: call it game ready. And when something's game ready, you
Speaker 2: know you've executed it. You know it and you can
Speaker 2: go deliver.
Speaker 1: And the Bears offensively have a ton of firepower. How
Speaker 1: do you game plan for a team that poses challenges
Speaker 1: like this with all their weapons.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got a full arsenal of people from you know,
Speaker 2: receivers and tight ends and running backs and quarterbacks. So
Speaker 2: you have to look at the scheme first and say, okay,
Speaker 2: what do they do best? And then find how do
Speaker 2: they feature the players doing those things? And then you know,
Speaker 2: what can we do to make sure those things they
Speaker 2: do best aren't easy access? And so we try to
Speaker 2: make them play a little bit left handed and say
Speaker 2: that one thing that you do really well not today,
Speaker 2: And so we can make sure we can try to
Speaker 2: take that part away matchups. Everybody has a hard down sometimes,
Speaker 2: you know, when you have weapons like that and you're
Speaker 2: playing people, you know, no one gets hey you can
Speaker 2: You're good, you know you can take this one off.
Speaker 2: No everybody has hard downs, whether you're blocking, playing defense,
Speaker 2: all of it. And so winning those matchups is really important.
Speaker 3: Buddy said that because everyone's like, oh, you got to
Speaker 3: take this person away. But you can't take everything the
Speaker 3: offense does away all the time, right you got to
Speaker 3: kind of say, like, what are the things we are
Speaker 3: we're prioritizing taken away and what are we kind of
Speaker 3: okay with? And I'm sure that is really tough to
Speaker 3: do on all.
Speaker 2: Because you have to be willing. It's a give and take,
Speaker 2: you know, and say, if you're willing to go, you
Speaker 2: know and all out blitz, you should be able for this.
Speaker 2: But you want a pressure. That's one way to do it.
Speaker 2: Bring more than they can block. However, there's risk go
Speaker 2: associated with that. So it's the fun part of coaching
Speaker 2: and where's the balance? What can you do? How do
Speaker 2: you match up? And every game is different and I love.
Speaker 1: That about the NFL And We'll be going to Gains
Speaker 1: working quarterback and Caleb Williams. How do you game plan
Speaker 1: for a workie quarterback with that type of skill set.
Speaker 2: It's the mobility, you know, extending plays and I know
Speaker 2: guy that does that a lot of practice too, So
Speaker 2: so it's it's unique because one play may start and
Speaker 2: then a second play can begin. It doesn't happen all
Speaker 2: the time, but big plays are often generated when a
Speaker 2: quarterback can get outside the pocket and now the coverage
Speaker 2: can change and it turns in demand a man and
Speaker 2: so those are big deals to go. But you know, clearly,
Speaker 2: you know their their quarterback. Kleeb's really talented guy. You know,
Speaker 2: the mental quickness, the ability to process and put the
Speaker 2: ball on the right location, the arm strength, the athleticism.
Speaker 2: That's what playing at the highest level is. And so
Speaker 2: it's awesome. You know, they's say like this is a
Speaker 2: really good competitor. You know a lot of skills and
Speaker 2: like let's go battle and.
Speaker 1: Course before we go home game back to back home game.
Speaker 1: First one, talk about that energy that the fans bring
Speaker 1: because we really have that home field advantage. Now, how
Speaker 1: great is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the best and I feel it on third down,
Speaker 2: I feel it in two minutes on the defensive side
Speaker 2: because there's this energy that can take over. And when
Speaker 2: the place is absolutely lit up and you want to
Speaker 2: bring everything you have because this could be the play.
Speaker 2: It's hard to change the protection. It's hard to change
Speaker 2: the play for the offense. So the louder the better,
Speaker 2: and we need every single person there bringing all they have. Man,
Speaker 2: I want this thing to be absolutely rocking. So when
Speaker 2: our defense gets that third down and first third down
Speaker 2: or eight third down, whatever it is, to say this
Speaker 2: is the one fall, start and play. Because our crowd
Speaker 2: is so into it, it just makes it hard to
Speaker 2: concentrate and focus.
Speaker 1: Commands, family, we know you are enjoying the game plan. However,
Speaker 1: if you want to see coach and logan Paul said
Speaker 1: breakdown plays in the film room, you could check that
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Speaker 3: First up, the defensive line for Chicago versus the offensive
Speaker 3: line for the Washington Commanders. And this is going to
Speaker 3: be maybe the most impactful one because this group for
Speaker 3: the Shago Bears is playing good football right now and
Speaker 3: they're supported by a really good secondary. But these guys
Speaker 3: are playing so well. And it's not only them, it's
Speaker 3: the way Cliff's call in games. He's elevating them with
Speaker 3: the different styles of protections and they're just a bunch
Speaker 3: of junkyard dogs and I love that about them. So
Speaker 3: this is going to be something that's really going to
Speaker 3: have a big impact on this game.
Speaker 1: This is something we've talked about a lot, the weapons
Speaker 1: versus our secondary.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so many different weapons and you know Dan
Speaker 3: and it is an the interview we did with them
Speaker 3: talking about how you can't take everything away, but you
Speaker 3: can take some stuff away. And I think a lot
Speaker 3: is going to be on the secondary and a lot
Speaker 3: on Joe Wid Junior in terms of how to disguise
Speaker 3: the coverages to make it harder for these guys to
Speaker 3: know exactly what coverage is, where the soft spots are
Speaker 3: on the zone. These guys are super talented, but I
Speaker 3: think Joe Wid Junior's got some tricks up a sleep
Speaker 3: and Foresight logo. Oh my gosh, it's almost like we
Speaker 3: know this is going to be up there. So yeah,
Speaker 3: Joe Who Junior and Caleb well, I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the story of the week, right Caleb Williams and his
Speaker 3: maturation of the last couple weeks of the season. He's
Speaker 3: just getting better and better about playing on schedule at
Speaker 3: on time. I look at the way the defense is playing,
Speaker 3: specifically in the Carolina game, and I'm like, Joe Wi
Speaker 3: Junior is starting to get these guys bought in. They're
Speaker 3: playing fast, they're playing physical. It's awesome to see. But
Speaker 3: what schematically can he do to disrupt this young football player.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to check it out.
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