WEBVTT - Eberflus: Learn from it and move forward | Coaches Show 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.480 And a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into the 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:06.280 Bear's Coaches Show featuring head coach Matt Eberflus Jeff Joniac 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:08.160 with you until eight o'clock tonight here on news Radio 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:10.760 one oh five nine w BBM, as we recapped the 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:12.719 week two matchup with the Green Bay Packers. Get you 0:00:12.800 --> 0:00:15.360 be met? How you doing it? I'm doing well. Early 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:17.880 arrival this morning. Obviously these late night games there are 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.759 always tough on coaches and players for that matter. But 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.040 the coaches hit the tape right away, would you see. Yeah, 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.520 so we got in this morning and you know, obviously 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.840 great at the tape mostly on the plane and then 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:31.160 in this morning and the players got in. We had 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.640 the team meeting and uh, like we always do, always 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:35.760 talk about you know what we can do better, you 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.319 know what was good and we have a twenty four 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.920 hour rule that we employ that win lose, win or lose, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.040 we always have that and then that's move on to 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.960 the next opponent. But today was all about corrections, you know, 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.360 and making sure that we do a good job with 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.919 coaching player making those corrections from last week. So where 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.040 do you start on yes, corrections? Yeah, So where do 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.160 you start you know, obviously on defense, I think we 0:00:57.200 --> 0:00:58.600 need to do a better job. But what we call 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.600 cup and the ball where we four you know, we 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.360 pursue an apex to football, so we limit big plays, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.440 you know, getting downhill in the running game, and we 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:08.959 got to have to improve on that, you know. An offense, 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:10.880 I thought we did some really nice things you know, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.880 running the football, so that was a positive takeaway, you know. 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.319 And then also, you know, we got to do a 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.080 good job of dispersing the ball, you know, and our 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.040 offensive staff knows that we got to do a better 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:22.399 job of hitting our skill and getting those guys involved 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:24.520 early in the passing game. So we're looking to do 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.520 that here coming up. All right, we're gonna break down 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.119 some of those things. But just for the visualation, if 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.120 somebody can close their eyes to define what cupping is, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:34.520 you know, in terms of tackling. Yeah, I think it's 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.480 an interesting turn. So yeah, so it's it's very simple. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.840 So if you look at a defense, uh, you know, 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.200 let's put them in shell coverage, right, so they're in 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:44.120 to you know, we got two corners on the outside 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.040 and two safeties. That means that the corners are responsible 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:49.559 for turning the ball back, so they're forcing the ball. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.880 That's the force part of it. The apex is going 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:53.600 to be the safety, so he's gonna be able to 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.360 apex the ball. He's also an outside end player, and 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.920 the pursuit players are the defensive line and linebackers. They're 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.360 inside out hitters on the football. So in a common sense, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.240 that's what it is right there. So sometimes that broke 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:07.800 down a little bit, and that's where you get some 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.560 of the bigger type runs, and we have to clean 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.760 that up because that's really a fundamental to our defense. 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.240 How about in those situations where you know, you just 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.919 get blocked though, also, and because that seemed to happen, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.200 especially with Aaron Jones, man, he was hitting that gas 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.799 right out of them. Give credit to him. He's a 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.600 good runner and he's got great, great contact balance, But 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.040 we got to bring our feet. You know, there are 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.480 several times where you know, like Eddie Jackson would come 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.320 up there and do a great job of running his 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.360 feet and tackling, and you know, not every time, but 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.280 he did a really nice job with that. So the 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.000 younger players can learn from that, how to bring your pads, 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:45.400 how to hit him low, and how to grab the 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.680 hamstrings and run three hard steps. So we got to improve. 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.200 So with your hard grading scale, was it a high 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.200 number of mistackles in your opinion? Yeah? Oh yeah, I 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.400 think it was, and it's more than than we were 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.119 used to and we got to do a better job 0:02:58.160 --> 0:02:59.959 with that. And guys understand that we got to drill 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.040 this week and get better. All right, let's go to 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.760 the fourth quarter goal line standby Green Bay. It could 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:09.359 have been a difference making moment. Obviously, did you talk 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:10.760 with the league about it at all or is that 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.800 something you don't bring up? Well, I mean, obviously we 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.520 thought we made it because I challenged it. We challenged it, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.560 and you know, the league sometimes, you know, they looked 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.760 at it and they it's in a pile sometimes and 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.600 they can't see it with all the cameras they have, 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.440 and a lot of times they don't overturn those and 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.520 we know that. But at that point, it was the 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:28.160 game for us, so we got to make sure that 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.720 we challenged it, and we did. They didn't agree with us, 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.160 and sometimes that happens. It might have been different if 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.440 they called touchdown first and had it reviewed, no doubt now, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:38.680 because it wasn't they couldn't tell, so they would they 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:40.560 would have kept kept it as a touchdown for sure, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:41.920 and that would have, you know, put it in one 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:43.960 score game and who knows what happens from there. You 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.880 already know this as a coach, being a defensive coordinator 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.640 for so long, there's always questions about specific plays that 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.520 I get to get second guests for perpetuity. Sure, how 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.320 do you accept all of that in a head coaching 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.520 role now, because you'll you'll hear it about these things 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.400 throughout the course of year. Yeah, I mean, I think 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.440 you just take it for what it is. You know. Um, 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.160 you know, people love this game. We have passionate fans, 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.640 and I understand that when the play doesn't work, you'll 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.600 get criticized for it. But when it does work, you 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.600 know it'll it'll be all good. So you know, we 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:15.640 liked the play call down there. We were we were 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.560 thought we outnumbered the defense, which we did, and we 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.120 just got to get a little bit more pad level, 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:21.920 a little bit more push and we're going to score there. 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.640 It was crazy week, No lead was safe. People kept 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.880 whispering air. You know, you guys are starting to make 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.080 that drive. Look okay, this is going to get interesting, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.920 no lead is safe, and obviously as a coach, and 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.960 you have to keep your players thinking the same way. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.800 Clearly they did because they did work to the finish here. Yeah, 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:40.520 So you know what I showed him in the team 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.000 meeting today was when we got that takeaway midway through 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.640 the third quarter, you know, our offense responded with a 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.520 field goal. You know, they drove it down there, and 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.200 then we end up getting another stop, and then they 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.000 pumped the ball down and ever you get ninety yards 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.320 and we drive it all the way down the length 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.040 of the field to make it a one score game, 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.920 you know, and then you know the obviously, like we said, 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:58.720 the league didn't agree with us at that point. But 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.839 I really like our mental toughness there and the way 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.159 we battled, and we did a nice job with our 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.120 mental and physical stamina. If someone would put a gun 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.120 in my head and say, hey, how many snaps did 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.040 Dylan and Jones played together? I would have said, man, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.040 probably twenty five thirty. It turned out to be I 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.760 believe eight. It felt more like that though, So I 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:21.760 was gearing up to do this, and after I watched 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.800 the tape and did the men thing. Okay, since al right, anymore. Yeah, 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.799 but what are the challenges of facing the old traditional 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:29.920 two back off You see it a little bit because 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.160 those are two halfbacks back there, so you don't have 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.240 a lead blocker. So a lot of times those are 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.440 perimeter type plays because it's you know, what we call 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.760 it twenty one fast, you know, where they got two 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.040 halfbacks in there, and a lot of times those are 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.039 outside perimeter type plays, so you don't a lot of 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.159 times get the lead blocks in that. But you see 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.600 that pretty prominent around the league. Now. It allowed Aaron 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:49.640 Rodgers though, to get going a little bit in the 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.960 passing game, didn't What did you see from the past 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.400 defense in those situations? Yeah, you know, we just got 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:55.839 to keep our coverage a little bit tighter. You know, 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:57.680 some of those were play passes, you know, some of 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.400 those were you know, individual routes. You know, so we 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:03.120 gotta gotta do a better job with our with our coverage. 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.880 You know a lot of times it's individual technique. For example, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.720 when we're playing man, we gotta get better connection on 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:10.760 the whiteouts, you know, so we use a thing called 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.640 Scooch technique, and we just got to do a great 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.520 job of really catching those guys inside of five yards 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:20.160 and then keeping that connection scooch technique. Yeah, exactly. Can 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.840 you be a little more elaborative, I'm intrigued. Yeah. So 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.800 you you're within the first three yards, you're scooching off, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.039 you know, and being patient, waiting for the receiver to 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.039 make his move, and then once he commits to his move, 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.280 you get hands on and then you stay connected through 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.080 the down. Obviously you gotta keep your hands off after 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.640 five but you are still connected to the body. So 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:39.400 we do a good job with that. You know, our 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:40.960 guys do a nice job with that. We have to 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.719 improve though, every single time Sam Brown to the left 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.480 stack line of scrammage, tight tight ends right side Montgomery 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.880 on back snap fields baking, now gonna keep it to 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:54.200 the five diamic for the end Z audience for the 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.640 touchdown touchdown Bears justin fields and from three yards there 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.000 you go, justin Fields, his third NFL rushing touchdown, the 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.039 Bears only touched out of the day in the loss 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.080 to Green Bay. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.960 with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus. Break down that one 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.040 for us on the three yard run. Yeah, so you 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.480 know that was a design pass you know where that 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.360 he was going to hit Mooney in the flat I 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.960 mean Montgomery in the flat. Sorry, and then he just 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.560 opted to run the football, you know, and obviously with 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.200 his speed and athleticism, he's able to do that. And 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.080 it was an exciting run to watch, you know, from 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.080 the sideline, because you could see him make that decision 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.120 to go ahead and tuck it and run and he 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.280 got it. And he's a strong player too, and it 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:36.320 was a good decision on his part and he could 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:39.680 have had absolutely got a couple of those yesterday. Obviously 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.000 he has a good feel for that one to lean 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.600 the ball out. It's it's always a question if it 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:46.600 breaks the plane, but he's got a good sense for that, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:49.080 it appears. Yeah, he's got great instincts when it comes 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.720 to that. And what a tremendous athlete as well. All Right, 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.280 David Montgomery was running with his hair on fire certainly 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:58.400 on that drive to start things up. It just it 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.680 seemed like he was in a mood last week about 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.559 after the game last week and throughout the week seemed 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.960 to be very determined. Yeah, he was very determined this week. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.120 He had a great week of practice and it showed, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.920 you know last night, so he's and again you got 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.720 to give credit to the offensive line. You know, we 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.800 showed a lot of those clips in the team meeting, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.480 and you know, you don't get big runs without the 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:20.400 receivers blocking, you know, so this height ends and the 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.760 receivers blocking on the perimeter to break those and as 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.400 soon as he got into the secondary a lot of 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.840 times Demo did break those. But also it was great 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.400 blocking on the perimeter. All right, let's talk more about 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.839 justin just the minimal number of passes, because you were 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.840 pressed on this put both after the game and up 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:40.040 here monday at Hallis Hall at your news conference about that. 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:43.040 And you touched on another term here, and that's, um, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.160 find your skill. Ye find your skill, you utilize your skill, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.319 and you know what, we want to do that So 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.080 we want to have balance, you know, we want to 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.560 have balance and the run pass game on you know, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.000 first and second down for sure, and we're gonna get that. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.320 You know, like I said, we're in a new passing offense. 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.839 We're in a new offense altogether. And the rhythm and 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.120 timing of that's gonna come and it's gonna improve every 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:05.200 single week. Sometimes it will approve really big jump jumps 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.080 and sometimes it'll just you know, proving small increments. So 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.320 you know, we're excited about getting that going. Like I said, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.319 highlighting the skill of Mooney, commit all those guys. We're 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.440 going to do that and our offensive staff for a 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.559 great bunch of coaches, and they're going to work tirelessly 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.280 to get that done. So when you say that, you're 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.000 talking about not just the person though, about just about 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.480 what they can do in terms of their skills set, 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.560 and that includes justin right, absolutely, you know absolutely. So 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:31.800 you know, when you put a ball, the ball in 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.880 the hands of like a Mooney, where he can you know, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.360 catch a short you know, pass and take it for 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:38.320 ten yards or twenty or break it. You know, that's 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:39.760 what we're talking about. You got to be able to 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.800 do that, to spread the ball around to the skill. 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.120 Everybody tries to make it sound so simple. Why don't 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:47.600 you do that? You know, we all love running the 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.440 ball and then the running looks good. But hey, you know, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.720 and the law certainly is something that people are going 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:55.560 to focus on. But the fact of the matter is 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.440 an equimenius. Saint Brown said so at the news conference 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.839 today as well, experience same thing when there was a 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.560 new offensive change in Green Bay. Even with Aaron Rodgers, 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:09.560 things take time. Do players get as frustrated sometimes as 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.280 fans and media with it? Well, I think that, you know, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.200 you know, the players are in the thick of it, 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.520 so they understand a little bit. You know, where the 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.520 process is, you know where where the plays are, where 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.760 the timing is, how everybody's working. And I think that 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.520 they understand that, you know, because they're in it. Um, 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.040 you know, so they're they're working entirely to get that done. 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.880 And again like it's a process and again, well we'll 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.760 search to get that this week. All right, So that 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:35.640 was your first road game, and it was crazy. It 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.080 was loud, if Justin said it, to a lot of 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:41.600 noise in that place. Sometimes uh he didn't hear the play. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.800 Sometimes maybe somebody else didn't hear the play. But the 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.600 best way to quiet that crowd is what I was 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.640 like to say, the silencer. That's the big the big 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.040 shot you know that somebody makes in the NBA or 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.640 a Grand Slam home run in baseball, but those big 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.800 plays you'll you'll find those is this season goes on. Yeah, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.560 I mean it's like the flea flicker that we ran. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.160 You know, that is a well executed play on our 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.079 first scoring drive. And and you got to have plays 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.320 like that, you know, in order to score, you know, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.360 on offense, you have to have chunk plays, and if 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.480 you look at our scoring drives, we had chunk plays 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.080 on every one of those. And that's what we got 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:14.640 to do a great job on offense, and we got 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.160 to have to do a better job on defense limiting those. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.720 But you gotta have the ball too. Yeah, forty one snaps, 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.840 That's that's a small number really to get your offense cooking, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.319 get the rhythm of that with forty one yeah, I 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.120 mean so you know, you know, people always talk about 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.280 time of possession, you know, and they've talked about that 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.280 all the time, and that to me is a team stat, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.000 you know. So we have to do a good job 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.439 on defense and getting the ball back for the offense, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.600 you know. So we can't you know, allow the team 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.480 to drive, you know, that many plays in a row. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:41.839 We got to be good on third get him a 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.560 third down, Okay, first of all, have good first down efficiency, 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.439 get him a third down, and get off the field, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.760 get the ball back to our offense or take the 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.920 ball away and give it back to our offense. So 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.600 that's a good we have to do there. And then offensively, 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.640 we just have to do a good job of subtaining drives, 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.000 you know, getting first and second down being efficient there, 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.760 and well, you know, I think it was one of 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.800 the orangeis. We didn't even have a third down. We 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.240 scored it without even having one. But when you get 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.160 the third down, it's got to be manageable. And that 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.599 really goes back to the the first and second downy efficiency. 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.480 So you have that third and four, third and three 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.920 manageable when you get the third down, blasting game in motion, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.640 handing out Montgomery behind, blasting game, high steps at Prince 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.120 to tackle thirty five to the forty. Running right, Montgomery 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:25.240 cuts inside in midfield takes out another Packer. Another angry 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.640 run for David Montgomery in the Packer territory. There it 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.360 is former Iowa state star David Montgomery ran hard all 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.800 night in Green Bay, and that twenty eight yard or 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:37.160 Matt exemplified how determined he was in and moving the ball. 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.480 After seventeen to twenty six against San Francisco. But a 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.559 couple of years back he had a game in which 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.319 was against Tennessee. I think he had fourteen for seventeen yards. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.400 Then he plays Green Bay and has a game just 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.600 like he did here. So clearly, when something doesn't go 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.720 right for David, he's got that inner fire burning to 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.280 go and get it. Yeah, he's a determined guy, you know, 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.920 and he was laser focused a sweet and that showed 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.720 in his play. And like I was saying earlier that 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.440 the you know, the offensive line did a nice stab 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:07.320 of blocking. If it was a zone scheme or a 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.160 gap scheme, they did a really nice job of picking 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.480 up the numbers, you know, and staying on their blocks. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.079 You know that that run you're referring to, they did 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.800 just that. They stayed on their blocks, and you know, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.600 the receivers had really good job of second effort of 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.640 staying there. I think on that one Mooney might have 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.480 blocked two guys. He started blocking inside, then came back 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.240 outside and then bore him on that one should have 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.720 really turned up because they were hustling down the field. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:31.959 He could have turned up and actually blocked the safety 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.160 and we could have sprung that for even longer than that. So, uh, 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:37.800 you know, guys, the offensive line and Chris Morgan do 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.080 a heck of a job coaching those guys up and 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.360 their efforts there they're going down the field to get 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.400 the second effort blocks filed up by twenty seven yard 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.319 run by Herbert on that Yeah, so like another good run, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.800 another well blocked run, and certainly Herbert is a guy 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:54.760 that can take it all the way. Great seats available 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.000 to see your Chicago Bears this season at sold your field. 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.559 Get your tickets at Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.400 Wanted to back on time possession thing. Where are you 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.920 at on that stat? Because I look at it as 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.360 as significant for a lot of reasons when you want 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.240 to keep a great quarterback off the field, but if 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.199 you don't score, they're still quality quarterbacks that can take 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.280 a minimum amount of time and still beat us. So 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.800 as a defensive head coach and just the head coach 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.240 in general, how do you look at that stat? Yeah, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.400 I mean, I think it can be significant if you're 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.080 playing that type of ball, you know, if you're trying 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.360 to keep the ball away, you know and doing that. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:28.680 But sometimes it doesn't matter. You know, it's about scoring 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:30.960 points and it's about not allowing guys to score points. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.520 So third down defense is big in that set, you know, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.760 where you get off the field or stay on the field, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.440 that's got to be a big one, you know. And 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:39.680 then also you know, like we said, it comes down 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.560 to score and so ultimately it comes down to your 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.640 red zone defense and red zone offense. So that to me, 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.520 it's it's sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:52.520 There are most reactions are overreactions two games into a season. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.320 That's always the case. And I think with the extra game, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.560 one less preseason game, there is a lot of overreaction. 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.800 Good are bad, what is not? And there is much 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.400 work to be done obviously, But how do you frame 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.880 it and how do you look at the season in 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.240 those terms? Yeah, so it's you know, like I told 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.560 the players and you know, the last you know since 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.600 training camp, this is going to be about us. It's 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:16.720 gonna be about us doing our job and us building 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.720 our football team. You know, we're in week two and 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.880 we're now moving on to week three and we have 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.560 to get better. So we've done some good things in 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.240 the first two weeks and we've done some things we 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.560 have to correct. We have to make those corrections and 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.600 move forward. Our eyes are forward onto Houston. But we 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:34.080 have to make sure that we're really focused on making 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.920 those corrections. How much do you talk to your players 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.680 bring them into your office? I don't recall if we 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.760 discussed this before, just you and I, but do you 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.120 have like a like a council of players that you 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.920 touch base with? Yeah? I mean I did. How does 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.960 that work? And I meet with those guys every Wednesday, 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.240 you know, it's it's the player council, and we talk 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.160 about the week and talk about the message for the 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.720 week and how we're going to work and the work 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.480 patterns we're gonna have and any schedule changes that we 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.280 might have. I get their input on those. And I 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.600 was certainly a job did a few things along the way. 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.320 But those guys are very insightful for us and for 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.960 the football team. And those guys really are the leaders 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.080 of the team. Are they the captains? Their captains are 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.000 in there for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And there's there's probably 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.040 I think fourteen total. Oh wow, Yeah, so there's there's 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.120 there's one from every position. Groups sometimes too so um, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.040 but it's a it's a great group and those guys 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.480 have worked really hard and those guys are our leaders. 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.760 This is maybe a silly question, but do you bring 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.400 all fourteen at once or you just okay? So you 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.880 have set So I meet with him every week every week, 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.640 ye eight forty five on Wednesday before we start the week. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.560 So we talked. I show them what we're gonna do, 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.000 what the messaging is, and they have to carry out 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.840 that message. Did you pick these fourteen individuals or did 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.440 some of these volunteam here? The team picked up? The 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.800 team picked him. We had to vote two weeks before 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.600 we voted for captains um and we selected those guys 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.960 at that point, and then two weeks later we selected 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:56.080 the captains. Our football Is it free flow conversation? Yes, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.800 absolutely sure. I guess guys opinions. I want them to 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.080