Speaker 1: And a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into the
Speaker 1: Bear's Coaches Show featuring head coach Matt Eberflus Jeff Joniac
Speaker 1: with you until eight o'clock tonight here on news Radio
Speaker 1: one oh five nine w BBM, as we recapped the
Speaker 1: week two matchup with the Green Bay Packers. Get you
Speaker 1: be met? How you doing it? I'm doing well. Early
Speaker 1: arrival this morning. Obviously these late night games there are
Speaker 1: always tough on coaches and players for that matter. But
Speaker 1: the coaches hit the tape right away, would you see. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so we got in this morning and you know, obviously
Speaker 1: great at the tape mostly on the plane and then
Speaker 1: in this morning and the players got in. We had
Speaker 1: the team meeting and uh, like we always do, always
Speaker 1: talk about you know what we can do better, you
Speaker 1: know what was good and we have a twenty four
Speaker 1: hour rule that we employ that win lose, win or lose,
Speaker 1: we always have that and then that's move on to
Speaker 1: the next opponent. But today was all about corrections, you know,
Speaker 1: and making sure that we do a good job with
Speaker 1: coaching player making those corrections from last week. So where
Speaker 1: do you start on yes, corrections? Yeah, So where do
Speaker 1: you start you know, obviously on defense, I think we
Speaker 1: need to do a better job. But what we call
Speaker 1: cup and the ball where we four you know, we
Speaker 1: pursue an apex to football, so we limit big plays,
Speaker 1: you know, getting downhill in the running game, and we
Speaker 1: got to have to improve on that, you know. An offense,
Speaker 1: I thought we did some really nice things you know,
Speaker 1: running the football, so that was a positive takeaway, you know.
Speaker 1: And then also, you know, we got to do a
Speaker 1: good job of dispersing the ball, you know, and our
Speaker 1: offensive staff knows that we got to do a better
Speaker 1: job of hitting our skill and getting those guys involved
Speaker 1: early in the passing game. So we're looking to do
Speaker 1: that here coming up. All right, we're gonna break down
Speaker 1: some of those things. But just for the visualation, if
Speaker 1: somebody can close their eyes to define what cupping is,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of tackling. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: an interesting turn. So yeah, so it's it's very simple.
Speaker 1: So if you look at a defense, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: let's put them in shell coverage, right, so they're in
Speaker 1: to you know, we got two corners on the outside
Speaker 1: and two safeties. That means that the corners are responsible
Speaker 1: for turning the ball back, so they're forcing the ball.
Speaker 1: That's the force part of it. The apex is going
Speaker 1: to be the safety, so he's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: apex the ball. He's also an outside end player, and
Speaker 1: the pursuit players are the defensive line and linebackers. They're
Speaker 1: inside out hitters on the football. So in a common sense,
Speaker 1: that's what it is right there. So sometimes that broke
Speaker 1: down a little bit, and that's where you get some
Speaker 1: of the bigger type runs, and we have to clean
Speaker 1: that up because that's really a fundamental to our defense.
Speaker 1: How about in those situations where you know, you just
Speaker 1: get blocked though, also, and because that seemed to happen,
Speaker 1: especially with Aaron Jones, man, he was hitting that gas
Speaker 1: right out of them. Give credit to him. He's a
Speaker 1: good runner and he's got great, great contact balance, But
Speaker 1: we got to bring our feet. You know, there are
Speaker 1: several times where you know, like Eddie Jackson would come
Speaker 1: up there and do a great job of running his
Speaker 1: feet and tackling, and you know, not every time, but
Speaker 1: he did a really nice job with that. So the
Speaker 1: younger players can learn from that, how to bring your pads,
Speaker 1: how to hit him low, and how to grab the
Speaker 1: hamstrings and run three hard steps. So we got to improve.
Speaker 1: So with your hard grading scale, was it a high
Speaker 1: number of mistackles in your opinion? Yeah? Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it was, and it's more than than we were
Speaker 1: used to and we got to do a better job
Speaker 1: with that. And guys understand that we got to drill
Speaker 1: this week and get better. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter goal line standby Green Bay. It could
Speaker 1: have been a difference making moment. Obviously, did you talk
Speaker 1: with the league about it at all or is that
Speaker 1: something you don't bring up? Well, I mean, obviously we
Speaker 1: thought we made it because I challenged it. We challenged it,
Speaker 1: and you know, the league sometimes, you know, they looked
Speaker 1: at it and they it's in a pile sometimes and
Speaker 1: they can't see it with all the cameras they have,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times they don't overturn those and
Speaker 1: we know that. But at that point, it was the
Speaker 1: game for us, so we got to make sure that
Speaker 1: we challenged it, and we did. They didn't agree with us,
Speaker 1: and sometimes that happens. It might have been different if
Speaker 1: they called touchdown first and had it reviewed, no doubt now,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't they couldn't tell, so they would they
Speaker 1: would have kept kept it as a touchdown for sure,
Speaker 1: and that would have, you know, put it in one
Speaker 1: score game and who knows what happens from there. You
Speaker 1: already know this as a coach, being a defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for so long, there's always questions about specific plays that
Speaker 1: I get to get second guests for perpetuity. Sure, how
Speaker 1: do you accept all of that in a head coaching
Speaker 1: role now, because you'll you'll hear it about these things
Speaker 1: throughout the course of year. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you just take it for what it is. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, people love this game. We have passionate fans,
Speaker 1: and I understand that when the play doesn't work, you'll
Speaker 1: get criticized for it. But when it does work, you
Speaker 1: know it'll it'll be all good. So you know, we
Speaker 1: liked the play call down there. We were we were
Speaker 1: thought we outnumbered the defense, which we did, and we
Speaker 1: just got to get a little bit more pad level,
Speaker 1: a little bit more push and we're going to score there.
Speaker 1: It was crazy week, No lead was safe. People kept
Speaker 1: whispering air. You know, you guys are starting to make
Speaker 1: that drive. Look okay, this is going to get interesting,
Speaker 1: no lead is safe, and obviously as a coach, and
Speaker 1: you have to keep your players thinking the same way.
Speaker 1: Clearly they did because they did work to the finish here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you know what I showed him in the team
Speaker 1: meeting today was when we got that takeaway midway through
Speaker 1: the third quarter, you know, our offense responded with a
Speaker 1: field goal. You know, they drove it down there, and
Speaker 1: then we end up getting another stop, and then they
Speaker 1: pumped the ball down and ever you get ninety yards
Speaker 1: and we drive it all the way down the length
Speaker 1: of the field to make it a one score game,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you know the obviously, like we said,
Speaker 1: the league didn't agree with us at that point. But
Speaker 1: I really like our mental toughness there and the way
Speaker 1: we battled, and we did a nice job with our
Speaker 1: mental and physical stamina. If someone would put a gun
Speaker 1: in my head and say, hey, how many snaps did
Speaker 1: Dylan and Jones played together? I would have said, man,
Speaker 1: probably twenty five thirty. It turned out to be I
Speaker 1: believe eight. It felt more like that though, So I
Speaker 1: was gearing up to do this, and after I watched
Speaker 1: the tape and did the men thing. Okay, since al right, anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but what are the challenges of facing the old traditional
Speaker 1: two back off You see it a little bit because
Speaker 1: those are two halfbacks back there, so you don't have
Speaker 1: a lead blocker. So a lot of times those are
Speaker 1: perimeter type plays because it's you know, what we call
Speaker 1: it twenty one fast, you know, where they got two
Speaker 1: halfbacks in there, and a lot of times those are
Speaker 1: outside perimeter type plays, so you don't a lot of
Speaker 1: times get the lead blocks in that. But you see
Speaker 1: that pretty prominent around the league. Now. It allowed Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers though, to get going a little bit in the
Speaker 1: passing game, didn't What did you see from the past
Speaker 1: defense in those situations? Yeah, you know, we just got
Speaker 1: to keep our coverage a little bit tighter. You know,
Speaker 1: some of those were play passes, you know, some of
Speaker 1: those were you know, individual routes. You know, so we
Speaker 1: gotta gotta do a better job with our with our coverage.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of times it's individual technique. For example,
Speaker 1: when we're playing man, we gotta get better connection on
Speaker 1: the whiteouts, you know, so we use a thing called
Speaker 1: Scooch technique, and we just got to do a great
Speaker 1: job of really catching those guys inside of five yards
Speaker 1: and then keeping that connection scooch technique. Yeah, exactly. Can
Speaker 1: you be a little more elaborative, I'm intrigued. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: you you're within the first three yards, you're scooching off,
Speaker 1: you know, and being patient, waiting for the receiver to
Speaker 1: make his move, and then once he commits to his move,
Speaker 1: you get hands on and then you stay connected through
Speaker 1: the down. Obviously you gotta keep your hands off after
Speaker 1: five but you are still connected to the body. So
Speaker 1: we do a good job with that. You know, our
Speaker 1: guys do a nice job with that. We have to
Speaker 1: improve though, every single time Sam Brown to the left
Speaker 1: stack line of scrammage, tight tight ends right side Montgomery
Speaker 1: on back snap fields baking, now gonna keep it to
Speaker 1: the five diamic for the end Z audience for the
Speaker 1: touchdown touchdown Bears justin fields and from three yards there
Speaker 1: you go, justin Fields, his third NFL rushing touchdown, the
Speaker 1: Bears only touched out of the day in the loss
Speaker 1: to Green Bay. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with Bears head coach Matt Eberflus. Break down that one
Speaker 1: for us on the three yard run. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: know that was a design pass you know where that
Speaker 1: he was going to hit Mooney in the flat I
Speaker 1: mean Montgomery in the flat. Sorry, and then he just
Speaker 1: opted to run the football, you know, and obviously with
Speaker 1: his speed and athleticism, he's able to do that. And
Speaker 1: it was an exciting run to watch, you know, from
Speaker 1: the sideline, because you could see him make that decision
Speaker 1: to go ahead and tuck it and run and he
Speaker 1: got it. And he's a strong player too, and it
Speaker 1: was a good decision on his part and he could
Speaker 1: have had absolutely got a couple of those yesterday. Obviously
Speaker 1: he has a good feel for that one to lean
Speaker 1: the ball out. It's it's always a question if it
Speaker 1: breaks the plane, but he's got a good sense for that,
Speaker 1: it appears. Yeah, he's got great instincts when it comes
Speaker 1: to that. And what a tremendous athlete as well. All Right,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery was running with his hair on fire certainly
Speaker 1: on that drive to start things up. It just it
Speaker 1: seemed like he was in a mood last week about
Speaker 1: after the game last week and throughout the week seemed
Speaker 1: to be very determined. Yeah, he was very determined this week.
Speaker 1: He had a great week of practice and it showed,
Speaker 1: you know last night, so he's and again you got
Speaker 1: to give credit to the offensive line. You know, we
Speaker 1: showed a lot of those clips in the team meeting,
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't get big runs without the
Speaker 1: receivers blocking, you know, so this height ends and the
Speaker 1: receivers blocking on the perimeter to break those and as
Speaker 1: soon as he got into the secondary a lot of
Speaker 1: times Demo did break those. But also it was great
Speaker 1: blocking on the perimeter. All right, let's talk more about
Speaker 1: justin just the minimal number of passes, because you were
Speaker 1: pressed on this put both after the game and up
Speaker 1: here monday at Hallis Hall at your news conference about that.
Speaker 1: And you touched on another term here, and that's, um,
Speaker 1: find your skill. Ye find your skill, you utilize your skill,
Speaker 1: and you know what, we want to do that So
Speaker 1: we want to have balance, you know, we want to
Speaker 1: have balance and the run pass game on you know,
Speaker 1: first and second down for sure, and we're gonna get that.
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, we're in a new passing offense.
Speaker 1: We're in a new offense altogether. And the rhythm and
Speaker 1: timing of that's gonna come and it's gonna improve every
Speaker 1: single week. Sometimes it will approve really big jump jumps
Speaker 1: and sometimes it'll just you know, proving small increments. So
Speaker 1: you know, we're excited about getting that going. Like I said,
Speaker 1: highlighting the skill of Mooney, commit all those guys. We're
Speaker 1: going to do that and our offensive staff for a
Speaker 1: great bunch of coaches, and they're going to work tirelessly
Speaker 1: to get that done. So when you say that, you're
Speaker 1: talking about not just the person though, about just about
Speaker 1: what they can do in terms of their skills set,
Speaker 1: and that includes justin right, absolutely, you know absolutely. So
Speaker 1: you know, when you put a ball, the ball in
Speaker 1: the hands of like a Mooney, where he can you know,
Speaker 1: catch a short you know, pass and take it for
Speaker 1: ten yards or twenty or break it. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about. You got to be able to
Speaker 1: do that, to spread the ball around to the skill.
Speaker 1: Everybody tries to make it sound so simple. Why don't
Speaker 1: you do that? You know, we all love running the
Speaker 1: ball and then the running looks good. But hey, you know,
Speaker 1: and the law certainly is something that people are going
Speaker 1: to focus on. But the fact of the matter is
Speaker 1: an equimenius. Saint Brown said so at the news conference
Speaker 1: today as well, experience same thing when there was a
Speaker 1: new offensive change in Green Bay. Even with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: things take time. Do players get as frustrated sometimes as
Speaker 1: fans and media with it? Well, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, the players are in the thick of it,
Speaker 1: so they understand a little bit. You know, where the
Speaker 1: process is, you know where where the plays are, where
Speaker 1: the timing is, how everybody's working. And I think that
Speaker 1: they understand that, you know, because they're in it. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so they're they're working entirely to get that done.
Speaker 1: And again like it's a process and again, well we'll
Speaker 1: search to get that this week. All right, So that
Speaker 1: was your first road game, and it was crazy. It
Speaker 1: was loud, if Justin said it, to a lot of
Speaker 1: noise in that place. Sometimes uh he didn't hear the play.
Speaker 1: Sometimes maybe somebody else didn't hear the play. But the
Speaker 1: best way to quiet that crowd is what I was
Speaker 1: like to say, the silencer. That's the big the big
Speaker 1: shot you know that somebody makes in the NBA or
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam home run in baseball, but those big
Speaker 1: plays you'll you'll find those is this season goes on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like the flea flicker that we ran.
Speaker 1: You know, that is a well executed play on our
Speaker 1: first scoring drive. And and you got to have plays
Speaker 1: like that, you know, in order to score, you know,
Speaker 1: on offense, you have to have chunk plays, and if
Speaker 1: you look at our scoring drives, we had chunk plays
Speaker 1: on every one of those. And that's what we got
Speaker 1: to do a great job on offense, and we got
Speaker 1: to have to do a better job on defense limiting those.
Speaker 1: But you gotta have the ball too. Yeah, forty one snaps,
Speaker 1: That's that's a small number really to get your offense cooking,
Speaker 1: get the rhythm of that with forty one yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean so you know, you know, people always talk about
Speaker 1: time of possession, you know, and they've talked about that
Speaker 1: all the time, and that to me is a team stat,
Speaker 1: you know. So we have to do a good job
Speaker 1: on defense and getting the ball back for the offense,
Speaker 1: you know. So we can't you know, allow the team
Speaker 1: to drive, you know, that many plays in a row.
Speaker 1: We got to be good on third get him a
Speaker 1: third down, Okay, first of all, have good first down efficiency,
Speaker 1: get him a third down, and get off the field,
Speaker 1: get the ball back to our offense or take the
Speaker 1: ball away and give it back to our offense. So
Speaker 1: that's a good we have to do there. And then offensively,
Speaker 1: we just have to do a good job of subtaining drives,
Speaker 1: you know, getting first and second down being efficient there,
Speaker 1: and well, you know, I think it was one of
Speaker 1: the orangeis. We didn't even have a third down. We
Speaker 1: scored it without even having one. But when you get
Speaker 1: the third down, it's got to be manageable. And that
Speaker 1: really goes back to the the first and second downy efficiency.
Speaker 1: So you have that third and four, third and three
Speaker 1: manageable when you get the third down, blasting game in motion,
Speaker 1: handing out Montgomery behind, blasting game, high steps at Prince
Speaker 1: to tackle thirty five to the forty. Running right, Montgomery
Speaker 1: cuts inside in midfield takes out another Packer. Another angry
Speaker 1: run for David Montgomery in the Packer territory. There it
Speaker 1: is former Iowa state star David Montgomery ran hard all
Speaker 1: night in Green Bay, and that twenty eight yard or
Speaker 1: Matt exemplified how determined he was in and moving the ball.
Speaker 1: After seventeen to twenty six against San Francisco. But a
Speaker 1: couple of years back he had a game in which
Speaker 1: was against Tennessee. I think he had fourteen for seventeen yards.
Speaker 1: Then he plays Green Bay and has a game just
Speaker 1: like he did here. So clearly, when something doesn't go
Speaker 1: right for David, he's got that inner fire burning to
Speaker 1: go and get it. Yeah, he's a determined guy, you know,
Speaker 1: and he was laser focused a sweet and that showed
Speaker 1: in his play. And like I was saying earlier that
Speaker 1: the you know, the offensive line did a nice stab
Speaker 1: of blocking. If it was a zone scheme or a
Speaker 1: gap scheme, they did a really nice job of picking
Speaker 1: up the numbers, you know, and staying on their blocks.
Speaker 1: You know that that run you're referring to, they did
Speaker 1: just that. They stayed on their blocks, and you know,
Speaker 1: the receivers had really good job of second effort of
Speaker 1: staying there. I think on that one Mooney might have
Speaker 1: blocked two guys. He started blocking inside, then came back
Speaker 1: outside and then bore him on that one should have
Speaker 1: really turned up because they were hustling down the field.
Speaker 1: He could have turned up and actually blocked the safety
Speaker 1: and we could have sprung that for even longer than that. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, guys, the offensive line and Chris Morgan do
Speaker 1: a heck of a job coaching those guys up and
Speaker 1: their efforts there they're going down the field to get
Speaker 1: the second effort blocks filed up by twenty seven yard
Speaker 1: run by Herbert on that Yeah, so like another good run,
Speaker 1: another well blocked run, and certainly Herbert is a guy
Speaker 1: that can take it all the way. Great seats available
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Speaker 1: Wanted to back on time possession thing. Where are you
Speaker 1: at on that stat? Because I look at it as
Speaker 1: as significant for a lot of reasons when you want
Speaker 1: to keep a great quarterback off the field, but if
Speaker 1: you don't score, they're still quality quarterbacks that can take
Speaker 1: a minimum amount of time and still beat us. So
Speaker 1: as a defensive head coach and just the head coach
Speaker 1: in general, how do you look at that stat? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it can be significant if you're
Speaker 1: playing that type of ball, you know, if you're trying
Speaker 1: to keep the ball away, you know and doing that.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it doesn't matter. You know, it's about scoring
Speaker 1: points and it's about not allowing guys to score points.
Speaker 1: So third down defense is big in that set, you know,
Speaker 1: where you get off the field or stay on the field,
Speaker 1: that's got to be a big one, you know. And
Speaker 1: then also you know, like we said, it comes down
Speaker 1: to score and so ultimately it comes down to your
Speaker 1: red zone defense and red zone offense. So that to me,
Speaker 1: it's it's sometimes it shows up and sometimes it doesn't.
Speaker 1: There are most reactions are overreactions two games into a season.
Speaker 1: That's always the case. And I think with the extra game,
Speaker 1: one less preseason game, there is a lot of overreaction.
Speaker 1: Good are bad, what is not? And there is much
Speaker 1: work to be done obviously, But how do you frame
Speaker 1: it and how do you look at the season in
Speaker 1: those terms? Yeah, so it's you know, like I told
Speaker 1: the players and you know, the last you know since
Speaker 1: training camp, this is going to be about us. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be about us doing our job and us building
Speaker 1: our football team. You know, we're in week two and
Speaker 1: we're now moving on to week three and we have
Speaker 1: to get better. So we've done some good things in
Speaker 1: the first two weeks and we've done some things we
Speaker 1: have to correct. We have to make those corrections and
Speaker 1: move forward. Our eyes are forward onto Houston. But we
Speaker 1: have to make sure that we're really focused on making
Speaker 1: those corrections. How much do you talk to your players
Speaker 1: bring them into your office? I don't recall if we
Speaker 1: discussed this before, just you and I, but do you
Speaker 1: have like a like a council of players that you
Speaker 1: touch base with? Yeah? I mean I did. How does
Speaker 1: that work? And I meet with those guys every Wednesday,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's the player council, and we talk
Speaker 1: about the week and talk about the message for the
Speaker 1: week and how we're going to work and the work
Speaker 1: patterns we're gonna have and any schedule changes that we
Speaker 1: might have. I get their input on those. And I
Speaker 1: was certainly a job did a few things along the way.
Speaker 1: But those guys are very insightful for us and for
Speaker 1: the football team. And those guys really are the leaders
Speaker 1: of the team. Are they the captains? Their captains are
Speaker 1: in there for sure. Yeah. Yeah. And there's there's probably
Speaker 1: I think fourteen total. Oh wow, Yeah, so there's there's
Speaker 1: there's one from every position. Groups sometimes too so um,
Speaker 1: but it's a it's a great group and those guys
Speaker 1: have worked really hard and those guys are our leaders.
Speaker 1: This is maybe a silly question, but do you bring
Speaker 1: all fourteen at once or you just okay? So you
Speaker 1: have set So I meet with him every week every week,
Speaker 1: ye eight forty five on Wednesday before we start the week.
Speaker 1: So we talked. I show them what we're gonna do,
Speaker 1: what the messaging is, and they have to carry out
Speaker 1: that message. Did you pick these fourteen individuals or did
Speaker 1: some of these volunteam here? The team picked up? The
Speaker 1: team picked him. We had to vote two weeks before
Speaker 1: we voted for captains um and we selected those guys
Speaker 1: at that point, and then two weeks later we selected
Speaker 1: the captains. Our football Is it free flow conversation? Yes,
Speaker 1: absolutely sure. I guess guys opinions. I want them to
Speaker 1: be able to speak in there your mind and so
Speaker 1: I understand the pulse of the football team without being specific.
Speaker 1: It's private matter obviously, But has anything surprised you about
Speaker 1: what they've said to you? And maybe if you've changed
Speaker 1: their opinion or view on something on your own perspective.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of them appreciate the openness
Speaker 1: and that we're willing to listen, to listen to them
Speaker 1: and then listen to me. And it's it's we're about
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears and us being a football team, you know,
Speaker 1: and so how we speak to each other and how
Speaker 1: we communicate to each other's very important. You know. We
Speaker 1: have to be able to challenge each other, you know,
Speaker 1: during the course of the season, and that has to
Speaker 1: have In order to do that, you have to have
Speaker 1: open communication. I get a two backset Rogers empties it
Speaker 1: now it looks to throw type pocket towers and goes down.
Speaker 1: And a penalty marker Trevis Gibson again. Now third sacker
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show with Matt Eberflus.
Speaker 1: Just heard one of two Trevis Gibson sacks. This week
Speaker 1: it was Dominique Robinson. This week it's Trevis Gibson. Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn also had one. So you want all these guys,
Speaker 1: they like to say they all want to eat, right,
Speaker 1: So that's that's that that's their term, want to go eat.
Speaker 1: So Travis didn't and again a similar amount of snap total.
Speaker 1: I think as Dominique was the week before, so he
Speaker 1: got a lot done. Yes he did, Yes, he did.
Speaker 1: He played well in the run game, you know, and
Speaker 1: he also had those two sacks, so you know, one
Speaker 1: of them was a second effort sack where he had
Speaker 1: to come back inside as a quarterback stepped up, and
Speaker 1: the other one he just beat the guy. So it
Speaker 1: was it was great technique. I thought, as get Off
Speaker 1: was really good, um, you know on the one, and
Speaker 1: I think I believe he created a holding penalty on
Speaker 1: that one. I believe, but um, he certainly played very
Speaker 1: well for him and for our football team. Kyler Gordon
Speaker 1: a typical veteran quarterback circling a rookie, doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: it's a first round pick or a seventh round pick.
Speaker 1: He's done this many times and other quarterbacks will try
Speaker 1: to do the same. And I know you touched down
Speaker 1: it in your press conference today with the media that
Speaker 1: you did speak with Kyler just to see where he's
Speaker 1: at and keep confident. Yeah. So you know, it's when
Speaker 1: you play keys, you know they're going to have ups
Speaker 1: and downs and ebbs and flows to a season, and
Speaker 1: the most important thing is they look at the performance
Speaker 1: for what it is. So the performance is over now
Speaker 1: how can they stack this in and make it make
Speaker 1: themselves better by learning from it. So I have them
Speaker 1: take all their point of attack plays off and look
Speaker 1: at them, and they really do a good job sitting
Speaker 1: down with their coach and say, how can I improve
Speaker 1: on this particular coverage and this particular technique And they
Speaker 1: have to put that away in their file because when
Speaker 1: you become a good pro, you don't make the same
Speaker 1: mistake twice, and they just you know, you have to
Speaker 1: improve on that, learn from it, and then go forward
Speaker 1: and then drill it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1: This is no doubt in the way you've always coached, right,
Speaker 1: This is the way I've done it. It It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it was a player that you know was Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year or you know, an All Pro player.
Speaker 1: All the guys that I've coached over the years have
Speaker 1: always had that same mindset. That's the only way you
Speaker 1: can improve as if you focus on the corrections and
Speaker 1: then have your eyes forward to improve for next week.
Speaker 1: How much does a player appreciate this because we often,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's sports, we don't look at it
Speaker 1: as like I know that some people don't look at
Speaker 1: it as like a normal job where you just go
Speaker 1: in and you know, if you're gonna sit down with
Speaker 1: your boss, it may not be a good conversation. This
Speaker 1: is just the opposite. You know, you're you're pointing out
Speaker 1: the facts, but you're also trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: this doesn't become a bigger issue for a guy in
Speaker 1: terms of count Yeah, I think what you what you
Speaker 1: do is you micro it down for the players, so
Speaker 1: you know, it's not this big thing that's a mystery.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the details of the fundamentals and
Speaker 1: technique that we're talking about, you know, and when do
Speaker 1: we apply those fundamentals and techniques. And if you do that,
Speaker 1: it's more manageable, certainly for a rookie, but even for
Speaker 1: a veteran, you know, because if you do that, it's
Speaker 1: it's you can put a handle on it, and then
Speaker 1: you put the work in to improve that fundamental or technique,
Speaker 1: and then that foster's confidence and then you carry it
Speaker 1: to the game. You have success, you get more confidence,
Speaker 1: and that's what we're here to do as coaches. We're
Speaker 1: here to encourage those guys and help those guys along
Speaker 1: the way. The bigger issue would be if you're asking
Speaker 1: a player to do something they just can't do because
Speaker 1: of their skill set, right. Yeah, So you know, we
Speaker 1: obviously had the assess skill sets and we have to
Speaker 1: do a good job of that, and that's what the
Speaker 1: coaches are there for, and we certainly want to put
Speaker 1: our guys in the best position to succeed. Kickoff tail
Speaker 1: getting season with a league leading a lineup at your
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Speaker 1: wings and other things in one quick trip. Bears head
Speaker 1: coach Mattieberflu's here on the Bears Coaches Show as the
Speaker 1: Bears will start looking at the Houston Texans for next
Speaker 1: week's game at Soldier Field. In terms of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: never mentioned Braxton Jones yesterday. I talked to one of
Speaker 1: the players today, Really proud of what he's been doing
Speaker 1: over there at left hand. Yeah, he's done a good job.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a real good athlete, and he's able
Speaker 1: to mirror and stay in front of guys in the
Speaker 1: pass rush, and he's done a good job in the
Speaker 1: run blocking, you know, so we're really pleased where he is.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the veterans are helping him
Speaker 1: out along the way. Simo's done a wonderful job of
Speaker 1: coaching him and he's continuing to grow. And Lucas Patrick
Speaker 1: another just keeping getting stronger, getting ready, right, Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: gonna keep getting stronger. We'll see where he is this week,
Speaker 1: you know, if he stays that guard, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: swings in the center, we'll see where his thumb is.
Speaker 1: But that'll be a day to day operation and a
Speaker 1: decision later in the week as we get the Bears
Speaker 1: ready for the Houston Texans. Hope we'll see us out
Speaker 1: a soldier field on Sunday with a noon kickoff. Rogers
Speaker 1: and have gone on third down to ten hard counts
Speaker 1: trying to draw the Bears. Here's the snap, four man rush,
Speaker 1: Here comes pressure Quinn get them from Behard, gobbles him up,
Speaker 1: head down, he goes to the twenty eight or nine
Speaker 1: yard line. Another sack for Robert Quinn against Green Bay
Speaker 1: Packers at seven in his career. Welcome back to the Bears.
Speaker 1: Coaches show Matt Eberflus break that one down. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would just say that was, you know, just a great
Speaker 1: speed rush. You know, he beat him around the corner
Speaker 1: and he did his signature move. And you know with
Speaker 1: his little side swipe where he jumps up in the
Speaker 1: air where it's really hard to block him tows their
Speaker 1: pointing towards the quarterback. Then his acceleration was outstanding to
Speaker 1: get the sack. It's really good. It doesn't sound as
Speaker 1: simple as you made it, beat, but you know what
Speaker 1: sometimes it is when you're sat in the quarterback beating
Speaker 1: Josh and Niman on that one. Um. I read in
Speaker 1: the paper that Quinn signed his jersey for Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and right, you know, he doesn't get many quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: also do that, but Rogers did agree for this one.
Speaker 1: He says he's collected a few over the years. I
Speaker 1: always thought that was pretty cool because again, these are
Speaker 1: grown men playing a kid's game. Uh, and many of
Speaker 1: them probably warred jerseys throughout their whole childhood or whatever,
Speaker 1: as we probably did as well. Uh. That's the part
Speaker 1: of the game that I think is kind of interesting,
Speaker 1: kind of cool. What do you think? No doubt? I mean,
Speaker 1: you know this, Uh, this game of NFL football is
Speaker 1: really amazing with the with the guys. First of all,
Speaker 1: you know, all the guys are wonderful, wonderful men. You know,
Speaker 1: and uh, just a tremendous athletes, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: those are the guys that make the game special, you know,
Speaker 1: the guys that everybody's you know, wants to go see
Speaker 1: play and then get to see those two guys go
Speaker 1: at it and Robert get the sack on that. So
Speaker 1: it was pretty special for yourself, you know, as a
Speaker 1: head coach. Now when you walk out in that field
Speaker 1: and you go and shake the hand and Matt the
Speaker 1: floor or next week it'll be Lovey Smith, you know,
Speaker 1: a free game and then postgame. Is it a different
Speaker 1: feeling then you've had in the past story, Is it
Speaker 1: the same, It's just now you're in charge. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's really the same. You know. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys from being in the league a
Speaker 1: long time, so, uh, you know, I know Lovey, I
Speaker 1: know Kyle, I know Matt. So I've known those guys
Speaker 1: for some years. And it's just going over there to
Speaker 1: say a load to a colleague or to a friend,
Speaker 1: and with every passing day, more and more comfort for
Speaker 1: you and what you're doing and how you're doing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so. You know, like I said, I have
Speaker 1: a great coaching staff. I got a lot of support
Speaker 1: staff that helped me out during the course of the
Speaker 1: week to to manage you know, everything from you know,
Speaker 1: the schedules to the practice itself to you know, the
Speaker 1: PR department, you know, to working with the white staff
Speaker 1: and everybody. So we've hired a bunch of good, good
Speaker 1: men and women and uh, we're certainly working in the
Speaker 1: right direction. And then with your coordinators, these are important
Speaker 1: positions obviously, you know what the value that is after
Speaker 1: being with one. How is that going with you with
Speaker 1: your guys, Alan Williams, Lucasian Richard, it's going great. You know.
Speaker 1: Communication has been wide open and we're continuing to look
Speaker 1: in search to how to improve our football team every
Speaker 1: single week. You know, we know we have a young
Speaker 1: roster and we're looking at ways to enhance the skill
Speaker 1: and you know on offense, defense and kicking, and we're
Speaker 1: trying to get that done every single week and we're
Speaker 1: working to improve that. Some of the things that did
Speaker 1: well in San Francisco game resulting in a win. Some
Speaker 1: of the same things did well, it doesn't result in
Speaker 1: a win, and some things, you know, flare up. Your
Speaker 1: expectation remains the same, but you can't you know, these
Speaker 1: things are gonna happen. There's gonna be games where this
Speaker 1: is the issue, but it happens to be Green Bay
Speaker 1: and everybody's you know, upset about losing, you know, so
Speaker 1: many n row nothing to do with the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, you sometimes inherit the past when you become
Speaker 1: a new head coach, right, Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 1: it's you know, like, like we said, we're disappointed in
Speaker 1: that loss, but now we're looking at that a performance
Speaker 1: we can improve from. You know, so our hours are
Speaker 1: forward to Houston and we're looking forward to get now
Speaker 1: on Wednesdays to Wednesday's practice. Also with the mooney and
Speaker 1: the comet and the touches and the lack of passes,
Speaker 1: do they understand that in the framework of your plan,
Speaker 1: this is possible. Yeah. I mean those guys are great teammates.
Speaker 1: Number one. They're very unselfish and they're gonna do whatever
Speaker 1: it takes to win the football game and whatever it
Speaker 1: takes for us to be good on offense and help
Speaker 1: help our football team win. So they are first of all,
Speaker 1: great men, and they're in they're skilled, you know, so
Speaker 1: they want to touch the ball and they're going to
Speaker 1: and we got to do a better job of getting
Speaker 1: those guys touches and uh, you know, our staff's gonna
Speaker 1: work hires to get that done. You talk about six
Speaker 1: plays that may change a game, Yeah, do you have
Speaker 1: them in your mind? What could have changed the game yesterday?
Speaker 1: Some of those? Uh, yeah, you definitely do you have
Speaker 1: you have those six that changed the game? Obviously the
Speaker 1: fourth through one's a big one. I think the one,
Speaker 1: the second and twenty eight you know where they get
Speaker 1: screen the screen back there. Um, you know there's certain
Speaker 1: plays in there that you know, we have to do
Speaker 1: a good job of executing. And it always comes down
Speaker 1: to that. It's there's six or seven plays that comes out.
Speaker 1: You never know what it's going to be, though, and
Speaker 1: that's why you have to have the cycle of the
Speaker 1: snap and the hits, the principle of every single snap,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna put swing things in our favor. I
Speaker 1: like what Ecamenius had to say. Two. It was a
Speaker 1: third down play. They brought it up about you know,
Speaker 1: he's changed his route from curl to a go route,
Speaker 1: hand up in the air. That's a weapon, right, It
Speaker 1: is a weapon, it is, you know, And then I
Speaker 1: thought we used another weapon yesterday. You know, we got uh,
Speaker 1: you know, too many men on the field on defense
Speaker 1: on the opposition, and we went you know to uh
Speaker 1: we got him to get a penalty there. They didn't
Speaker 1: throw the flag, but it would have been. And we
Speaker 1: hit Griffin down the middle there. And that's a tool
Speaker 1: we can use going forward. And that's really great, good
Speaker 1: growth by the offense, you know, them utilizing the tools
Speaker 1: that we have inside of our offensive system. But amyas
Speaker 1: Sam Brown beyond the numbers left slot right, Mooney outside
Speaker 1: of him as Montgomery takes flips it back on the
Speaker 1: police flicker the field throws left side of his part
Speaker 1: at the thirty five middle of the field thirty to
Speaker 1: twenty five and a big first down for Saint Brown.
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Speaker 1: Our final segment just heard the flee flicker to Econymius
Speaker 1: Saint Brown. Nice play called GiB to Montgomery, flip the
Speaker 1: fields and bam a thirty yard or it's a big play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a big play, and it was a nice play.
Speaker 1: And I really want to, you know, commend Justin for
Speaker 1: hanging in there because he took a hit on that.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, ninety one was on the corner
Speaker 1: there being blocked by Coal, and Coal did a good
Speaker 1: job with staying in front of him that little you know,
Speaker 1: the fleeflicker holds him for a second, but he had
Speaker 1: to hang in there to get to a second read
Speaker 1: took a shot and threw it right on the dime.
Speaker 1: So that that was a real nice play by both
Speaker 1: those players. Overall, what else are you seeing with us?
Speaker 1: I know a lot of folks are wondering, Hey, how
Speaker 1: come there not letting him pass the ball? Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, we have to search for balance in
Speaker 1: the offense, and we're going to do that. But he's growing,
Speaker 1: you know, he's growing and getting better every single week,
Speaker 1: and I can see it in practice and we're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing in the performances. And he's done that during
Speaker 1: the course of the games. I think he's got a
Speaker 1: real good feel for when to tuck the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: on that one score where he reached out and almost
Speaker 1: scored on that one. We thought that was a really
Speaker 1: good decision on his part and the timing of that
Speaker 1: was really nice. But he's just continuing to grow. That
Speaker 1: was the first opening drive touchdown on the road for
Speaker 1: this team, again predating you, but it's been a long while,
Speaker 1: I think since Jacksonville in twenty twenty. So I think, uh,
Speaker 1: with more of that, whether it's coming out of the
Speaker 1: locker room in the second half or or right out
Speaker 1: of the gate in the first half, that's going to
Speaker 1: build natural confidence in your team too. Execution. It was
Speaker 1: one of the things we've talked about about starting fast,
Speaker 1: and we did a nice job of that. I know
Speaker 1: they got a field goal, but we held to help
Speaker 1: him to a field goal. Then we you know, we
Speaker 1: score on that first drive on offense too, So that's
Speaker 1: that's that's growth and you know, guys are getting better
Speaker 1: at that. And again that's what we did from our
Speaker 1: first performance, you know. So our first performance in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: we didn't start that fast and we wanted to get
Speaker 1: that going and the guys responded to that, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's to me is grows, you know, and they
Speaker 1: still showed mental toughness. We were in it till the
Speaker 1: end there, and they got to keep doing that and
Speaker 1: we'll be in a lot of football games and a
Speaker 1: chance to win those. There are only so many great quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: not not every team has great great quarterbacks like Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: As a defensive coach, do you get as frustrated at
Speaker 1: his excellence sometimes because even if you've got him covered,
Speaker 1: even if you got every lane blocked, he somehow finds
Speaker 1: a way to beat you. Yeah, I would just say that,
Speaker 1: you know, every individual quarterback is different, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: respond to that and we're gonna do the best we
Speaker 1: can to defend that quarterback. And you know, obviously we
Speaker 1: got to do a better job next time, even as
Speaker 1: a DEFENSI according to do you sit in that tape room,
Speaker 1: how did that happen? We had it perfectly. We had
Speaker 1: a great call. Yeah. You you know the Breeze, the bradies,
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that have been in the league
Speaker 1: for all these years. You know, I actually was with
Speaker 1: Rivers for a year, and you know, those guys are
Speaker 1: just phenomenal. You know, the first of all, they're great
Speaker 1: human beings and man, they're so smart and they know
Speaker 1: how to readcoverages and they know where to go with
Speaker 1: the ball, and uh, you know, certainly I've learned a
Speaker 1: lot from those guys, you know, going back to even
Speaker 1: like you know, I was with Tony Romo and those
Speaker 1: guys over the course of the years. I love talking
Speaker 1: to those guys about what they see, how they see it,
Speaker 1: and then what's hard for them. And I've certainly gained
Speaker 1: a lot of knowledge from those quarterbacks that I've been
Speaker 1: with over the years. So you a quarterback information gatherer? Yes,
Speaker 1: you better be. Yeah. Yeah, When did that start for you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: To me, it was, it started way back when I
Speaker 1: was probably in Dallas, you know, Okay, I started to
Speaker 1: talk to you know, Jason Garrett and Tony Romo and
Speaker 1: those guys, and that's kind of where it started, and
Speaker 1: visiting with Dak and all those guys, and then you know,
Speaker 1: moving on to my next spot. So, um, it was.
Speaker 1: It's always been something that I've always wanted to do,
Speaker 1: talk to the guys, and now I'm sitting in the
Speaker 1: quarterback room, so it's it's been good. Is there a
Speaker 1: common theme or string of knowledge that is say you are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think they see things a lot of times
Speaker 1: the same way. You know, how they read coverages. You know,
Speaker 1: what their tells are, what are they're looking at first?
Speaker 1: What's their first read to tell them what the coverage is.
Speaker 1: And then we you know, we try to combat that
Speaker 1: with you know, making that look a little different sometimes
Speaker 1: for the quarterback. All right, Matt coming up next to
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Uh. This is brought to you by Bette Rivers,
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Speaker 1: we have to bring up as Lovey Smith, certainly very
Speaker 1: successful coach here in Chicago, brought a team to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and oh six and had a long run
Speaker 1: and a part of that family of coaches that you're from. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you know, a lot of respect and a lot
Speaker 1: of love to Lovey Smith. Pardon to pun there, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's certainly been in this business a long
Speaker 1: time and did a great job here at Chicago, and
Speaker 1: he's been part of you know obviously that one of
Speaker 1: the original guys from the system with Rod Marinelli, Monti Kiffin,
Speaker 1: you know, Lovey Smith, all those guys in Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: with all those great players down there. So that was
Speaker 1: what started all all those years ago, and certainly he's
Speaker 1: had a great career for himself. A lot of love
Speaker 1: for Rod. That was Roomy, right, you heard about yea
Speaker 1: room I've heard about Roomy a bunch of times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a bunch of times. But you know, I'm reading the
Speaker 1: quotes from from their loss yesterday and some of the
Speaker 1: same things that you say, you know about you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we got to get the ball out. We got everything's
Speaker 1: similar in that regard, right, So you'll be seeing a
Speaker 1: team I'll be trying to do the same thing to
Speaker 1: you that you want to do them. Yeah, they played
Speaker 1: with great effort on defense. You know, their offense is
Speaker 1: really the same style. So it's it's going to be
Speaker 1: a heck of a battle. Anything that you could tell
Speaker 1: us about their offense at this point, I know it's
Speaker 1: early in the process, but they got the quarterback. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we've played those guys last year a couple of times. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, at the last spot I was at, you know,
Speaker 1: so Davids Mills obviously Cooks is a really good player
Speaker 1: on offense. You know, they got some you know, good
Speaker 1: good guys at tight end. And again I'm looking at
Speaker 1: him right now. I'll be going to study him a
Speaker 1: lot this evening. So I'm just starting early stages that right,
Speaker 1: a very young team as well, with a lot of
Speaker 1: new players that we're getting acquainted with. A demon Pierce
Speaker 1: running back, rookie um coming out of this past draft
Speaker 1: to somebody that will be needing to stop because once
Speaker 1: the team starts running the ball and everybody's going to
Speaker 1: try to do the same. So last two games a
Speaker 1: lot of yardage in the run game, Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 1: And like I said, we got to do a better
Speaker 1: job up front, the front seven, the linebackers and defensive line,
Speaker 1: and then the keeping that cup on the ball in
Speaker 1: the secondary. So we're gonna have to have a great
Speaker 1: week of practice today of this week to get that done.
Speaker 1: All right, Any updates at all on some like Bayliss challenges.
Speaker 1: He is he getting closer? Yes, you know, so we're
Speaker 1: we're excited where he is. Again, it was day to day,
Speaker 1: but we're hopeful that he can start the practice this
Speaker 1: week and we'll see where he goes during the course
Speaker 1: of this week. All Right, you got a shorter day
Speaker 1: so to get ready, so you're a little behind already, right,
Speaker 1: Houston text and sell going. Let's get it going. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much as I always appreciate it. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to good luck with your preparation this week, all right,
Speaker 1: thank you As Bears head coach Matt Eberflus want to
Speaker 1: wrap up our show by thanking Keith Johnson, Andy Gersher,
Speaker 1: Dan Billy and Jordan tread Up and for Bears A
Speaker 1: coach Maddie reflu Sim Jeff Joniac. Week three kicks off
Speaker 1: back at Soldier Field against Lovey Smiths Houston, Texans. Our
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