WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Tabor talk Saints 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.000 Pleasant, good even everybody, and welcome to PNC Studios. Here 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.320 at allis Hall. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:08.000 post bye week version with head coach Matt Nagge Jeff 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.160 joniank here with you until eight o'clock tonight. Good to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.280 have you along. We're brought to you by a Whippley 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.320 CPAs in consultants. How it wasn't buddy, It was good? Yeah, 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:16.840 you know, yeah, it's good. It's good to be back. 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.160 We had a good practice earlier today and the guys 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.480 were out there running around. It was refreshing, and so 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.280 I think we were able to all get refreshed and 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.720 ready to reload. What'd you do well? I was. I 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:32.240 was able to do that reflecting reload and do a 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.560 little bit hang out with the kids, which was great. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.559 You know, it's good to be a dad and let 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.080 them um see you at dinner and let them see 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.400 as some of their sporting events, but at the same 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:43.880 time stay focused here at the task at hand, which 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:45.400 is getting ready for the Saints. Yeah. You don't get 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.479 you know, in the coaching industry, you don't get see 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:50.200 your kids every day play sports. So I know they're playing. 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:51.879 What did you get to see you over the week. Yeah. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.760 So I was able to see a football game yesterday, 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.920 which was nice over at Lake Forest High School, and 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.160 um and uh and now I got to see a 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.080 basketball game in the evening, so I was able to 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:05.840 check it out. And um, you know that that's what 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.280 it's all about. That's that's being able to sit there 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:10.000 and just take it all in, not say a word 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.000 and just watch it all happen. Is it goes quick? Yeah? Yeah? 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.440 How about when they come home a little bit. Yeah, 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.480 we we hang out. We we we play catch in 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.319 the in the front yard, and then we watch we 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.480 watch a little football too while we're while we're at 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.080 the house. Yeah. What I meant was, do you give 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.000 them a little advice after the fact? Do you let 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.480 their coaches do? Oh? I got you. No, there, I'll 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.479 give them some You know what, though, Jeff, it's more about, um, 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.560 you know, how they handle themselves in certain situations. It's 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.360 not so much ex's and those. It's more about how 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.840 do you handle this when something bad happens? And how 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:42.920 do you share respect when you're playing the game. Yeah, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.319 and I'm sure it's not easy when you're the head 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.960 coach of the bears of sons, Right, Yeah, they might 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.600 tell you they listen word to their mom than they 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:53.600 do me. All right, in terms of let's get the 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:55.600 day of the news out of the way first, and 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.920 it's it's always about injuries coming out of a bye week. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.720 Who's coming back, who's not, what's the situation? And Kyle 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.760 Long going at injury reserve, um with the hip injury 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:05.720 and it is a season ender, so there will be 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:07.960 no chance for a return. How you put that one 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.840 in a in perspective, Yeah, it's it's always tough when 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:12.840 you have those decisions to make and you see where 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:14.920 guys are at and you have these these injuries that 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.120 go on. But um, it is what it is. And 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:19.880 we we we really appreciate Kyle and what he's given 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.040 to us, and uh, it's a it's a part of 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.720 the business. But he's he's done a m you know, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.480 he's worked really hard for us and um, you know what, 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.440 he wants us to move forward and keep keep pushing ahead, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.720 and uh for him, we you know, we definitely wish 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:34.600 him the best to year. And body's been through a lot, 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.800 hasn't it. Hey has it has He's a he's a 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.400 big guy. And he's been playing in this league for 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.040 a while at a position that you know, you're you're 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.280 you're banging bodies there for for a lot of a 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.200 lot of plays and you know, back to back sessions. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.560 So but he'll be okay. He's a great guy, he's 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.600 been good to us, and um, you know, we'll see 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.359 where it goes. And everybody wants to know where you're 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.880 at on Mitchell Trubisky. Yeah, same thing. You know, he 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.640 was able to get out there today at practice and 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:58.760 throw the ball around, and that's a step in the 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.280 right direction. I think, uh, you know, we'll give him 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.840 you know, tomorrow the players will have off, come back 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.960 in all Wednesday and and and see how things go 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:10.120 for him. But we're staying cautiously optimistic Kiem Hicks. Obviously 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.680 you're you're still learning some information about that and and 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.960 gauging that situation. But to any update and Akeem, yeah, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.920 no updates yet. You know, next twenty four to forty 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:22.000 eight hours, I think we'll know more exactly decisions that 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.960 we make, but um, no updates as of right now. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.760 But you're getting some of the guys back healthy, so 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.239 Bala and Nichols, that would be a big return in 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.280 the event that Keem's going to be out for a 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.600 considerable monitor. Sure, yeah, that was an unfortunate situation for Balah, 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.120 but um, he's taken some time. Now he's back, he 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.119 has has that that cast and and so we're we're 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.600 hoping that you know him out here at practice that 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.560 he's able to run around pretty good and see what happens. 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.560 How had he been playing for you really fancy? He's 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.920 doing a lot of good things. Uh, it's neat watching 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.800 him grow and Akeem's being his mentor you know, in 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.160 the last year and a half that that's been pretty 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:59.200 cool to see is how they interact with each other, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.920 how how how much he wants to learn from a 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.480 guy like a team, and um, he's really improving. You know, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.960 you can never have enough speed on on an offense 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.360 or a defense. But getting potentially Taylor Gabriel back this week, 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.960 what would that do to infuse something in the offense. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.280 It's just the confidence that the players have in him, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.599 our quarterbacks that they have in him. And uh, he 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.840 has experience, he brings some leadership. Uh, and he really 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.240 works well together with with Alan Robinson when they're in 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.159 a hold of together knowing where to line up, where 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.000 to go, and how to do things. As you looked 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.360 at things in this self scouting aspect, would you learn Well, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.720 there's always a lot of things to learn, and you're 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.560 always very critical um of where you're at. I know 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.719 that for us really into three phases right now. Defensively, 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:45.440 we're we we're playing well, We're we're limiting teams point wise, 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.440 that the past game against Oakland really wasn't us, and 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.680 we know what we'll improve from that. Special teams has 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.719 been doing great with field position, uh, you know, Eddie 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.000 Fannia has been doing a really good job kicking field 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.040 goals for us. But and then offensively, we understand that 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.960 we want to improve in the one game and there's 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.400 other other elements too. But the great thing, Jeff, is 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.279 that we have a lot of really good guys on 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.839 this team that understand that and they want to correct themselves. 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.320 They want to get better, and they want to they 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.159 want to do everything they can to do it. You know, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:15.200 in this situation with the offense struggling in the first five, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.960 you're still winning, you still get a winning record, You're 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.440 still in the thick of things in the NFC. In 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.320 a long season you have to go. But I think 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.560 the images that you go back to, you know, to 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.119 the drawing board or something. Is that the case, Well, 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.360 you're always doing that. Um. The one thing that can 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.120 happen is sometimes you end up going five and oh 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:38.160 instead of three and two, and there's there's similar problems, 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.320 you know, issues, and they don't get corrected or they 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.400 don't get looked at per se. So this gives us 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.320 a chance at this point in time during the season 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.679 to be able to really take some time and step 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.960 back and see where we're at and try to figure 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.200 things out. That's what we're That's all we can do 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.520 is try and it is as long as we're trusting 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.640 each other and putting in the work to do that 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.839 and working together, then you that the there's you know, improvement. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.360 You know, you're a super positive guy. You're going to 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.039 take that stance all the way through your coaching career 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.360 and your day to day living, no matter what it is. 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.760 But as you went back through the tape and saw 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.520 some like the runs in particular, that there's not a 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.760 lot going on there is that there's how do you 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:24.240 handle your own aggravation and frustration with it not popping. 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.360 Just knowing that you know, we're all competitors. We as 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.800 coaches um used to all play the game, and so 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.599 you're you're competitive, and that's a challenge you have it 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.120 you have something that's struggling. That's why you're here is 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.440 to try to fix things. So it'd be really easy 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.400 if everything was was roses and simple and you just 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.000 keep doing your thing every day and there's no changes. 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.120 But and we want to eventually get to that point. 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.119 But there's there's always something and so that always something 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.560 right now happens to be in an area on offense 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:52.960 that we know we can get better at and we're 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:54.960 gonna do everything we can to do it. Has it 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.719 slowed a little bit what you want the offense to 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.799 be at this point though, in terms of adding things, um, well, 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:06.119 for no, I mean for us, you know, identity wise, again, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.840 we know where we're at, we know what we can 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:11.280 do better and as coaches, we just got to do it. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.720 Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints. He is brought 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.760 to you by Hall of Fame partner Advocate Healthcare, the 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.840 official healthcare partner of the Chicago Bears. With head coach 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.880 Matt Neeggie coming along our special teams coordinator Chris Tabor 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:23.640 at the bottom of the hour as the Bears get 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.160 ready for a five and one Saints team. Let's look 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.600 at you know at this point, you know your job 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.000 in addition to making things seeing in the offensive aspect 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.680 of what you put together, but you're putting out fires. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.040 That's your job in essence as as a head coach 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.000 of this football team. Do you feel like there's been 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.600 a lot more fires this year? Yeah, there there has been, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.480 but that I'm okay with that. That's that's a part 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.640 of every year. These are the ones that you talk 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.680 about writing a book, you know, and these are these 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.040 are all these chapters of this book that you remember 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:52.880 and believe it or not, these are the ones that 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.960 when you have fires to put out, you you remember them. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:57.920 And it just it's kind of like being calloused it 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.080 mentally or physically, whatever it is. For us as coaches, 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:04.360 it's more mental and so how do you come up 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.960 with solutions? And that's what it's all about. And there's 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.600 times where you are calloused or you are mentally challenged, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.880 and but our guys have I have no doubt my 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.280 mind of who our team is and who we believe 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.520 in and I'm I'm really excited for the future here. Yes, 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:20.400 And you know, you know these guys in a different 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:22.640 way than any of us do. But I think the 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.160 impression you've left upon us over the year plus here 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.040 is this a team that has a lot of heart. 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.800 And that's the part that does manifest itself typically in 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.040 a very positive way. There was a lot of teams 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:39.240 in that Oakland game, the way things were going, when 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.559 it's seventeen to nothing, there's a lot of and I'm 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.920 not saying by any means that this as a consolation prize, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.240 but what I am saying is being real here. There's 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.559 a lot of teams that would have folded up shop 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.040 and they would end up losing thirty four to nothing. 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.360 And the one thing that I'll always look for the 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.680 positives even when there is a loss, and what is it? 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.679 And our guys never did that. They gave us a chance. 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.560 Our whole team, offense, defense and special teams gave us 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.400 a chance to win an NFL football game in the 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.120 fourth quarter with five minutes to go, and so we 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.200 didn't do it. Now we learn from that and we 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.080 use that. How do we finish and so you take 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.240 that and you use that for down the road. There's 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.760 a lot of other teams right now that maybe you 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.640 aren't going through that. So that's making us a better team, 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.040 believe it or not. At three and two. Uh So, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.120 how are we going to spend that into helping us 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.040 down the road? Uh? To make this final push? When 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.800 they hit the field to day, what kind of team 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.520 did you see out there? Say that? When when they 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.720 hit the practice field today, what would you Yeah? They were, 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.600 they were they energized, you know, they were refreshed. The 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.720 players were, um, just it was a it was like 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.640 a you know, we go right from we skipped a 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:47.040 fall here right, there's no fall. We go right from 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.760 this really hot to really gold. So there was some wind, 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.800 it was chili. The guys had the hoodies out, they 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.679 had the sweatpants. Um, the music was going. There was 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.760 a nice crispness to it. I mean it was it 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.959 was good. I mean, guys were they're ready. I mean, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.720 we'll we'll we know that, we'll give them off tomorrow, 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.719 come back in on Wednesday, put a good week of 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.440 practice together and see what happens. You know, you said 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.959 this more than once and I'm paraphrasing I have an 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.400 exact quote what we say. But you feel you know 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.600 how to fix things that you are a fixer. Um, 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:19.120 where's that born from? Is that just you being an 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.240 ex quarterback and always being in command and being in 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.280 control of a situation, the balls in your hand, you 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.320 can dictate the outcome of everything. I mean, how do 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.920 you Where does that come from? Yeah, there's a some 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.120 of it is always being associated in athletics and being 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:38.680 in competitions where you've got to be competitive and so 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.520 usually I mean in sports in general, there's a lot 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:45.280 more negatives and losses that occur for us to learn 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.240 from and uh, that that you got to use in 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.080 the in the right way. And so that's what we 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.600 talked about going into this year. Right, everything that happened 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.920 last year with the Eagles game, and how do we 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.480 fix that? How do we correct that? Um, how do 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.120 we use that as a team? And so it's more 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.920 about mental toughness. It's about Um, every every player on 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.079 this team handles certain situations, you know, differently, So how 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.480 how am I able to and how our coaches able 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:14.319 to to help them adjust to bad things that happen. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:16.400 That's a part of it that comes with this with 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.120 this business. So I don't know, I've just always kind 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.000 of been that way. Um, you got to try to 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.560 stay positive and and just believe that that no one 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.680 can hold you down. What did you instruct your coaches 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.600 to do this week in the bye week and then 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.440 moving forward here to make sure things stand the right track. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.960 So we were we were in last week on Tuesday 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.080 and Wednesday, and then once Wednesday came around and they 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.320 got out of the office, I just get away, Go 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.000 spend time with your family. We need it everybody here. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:46.840 It's important that we have a long stretch here with 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:48.600 a lot of hours coming up in front of us, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.320 to make sure that we're actually as coaches, UM, getting 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.920 stronger mentally and you know, physically throughout the rest of 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.120 the season. But get away, come on back, and then 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.880 when you come back, let's go. Man, it's time to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.120 it's time to rock and roll. And so that's where 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.080 we're at right now. Let's look at some things that 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.439 that did go very well in the first five games. 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.600 Alan Robinson right now, he's at the highest catch rate 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.880 of his career. He's at seventy three percent of his catches, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.840 which he's never had he I think he's had one 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.240 year with just over sixty but and seventy one percent 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.280 of his catches have gone for first downs. What's that 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.120 saying about his adaptation to this system, this offense and 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.080 his health. So it doesn't surprise me number one with 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:27.400 him just because he's such a such a guy that 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.720 he's such a reliable player in person. So when you 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:32.720 do that in practice, when you do it in a classroom, 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.800 it you know, it goes on to the football field 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.800 and you see that there's production right now from him. Uh, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.319 and we we need that. You know, he's a he's 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.839 a guy that is making plays. When the ball is 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.000 in his area, he's coming down with it. And as 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:49.079 a wide receiver, it really doesn't matter who's covering you. Um, 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.400 he's a he's in a good place. So that's that's Uh, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.880 he's so far after five games, he's doing a heck 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.040 of a job. And you automatically think of him as 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:59.360 an outside threat, right, but he really he can own 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.040 that middle of the field very well. He seems to 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.040 do a ton of damage in there. Well, he's smart, 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.680 he understands coverages. So if you're gonna play his zone, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.320 he's gonna know where to sit, he's gonna know how 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.160 to turn your leverage wives, turn inside, turn outside, and 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.160 then he's making plays after the catch. Let's talk a 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.079 little defense because they've made I mean the three red 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.800 zone takeaways in five. Yeah, it's a lot like and 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:23.520 that's just stiffening not break in at the key moment. 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.320 You're you know, teams have had the ball, especially in 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.720 the second half where they're driving, so you know, there's 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.480 more an opportunity to create mistakes, which is one of 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.560 the strengths of this unit. Do anything. Yeah, they're being opportunistic. 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.000 You love that when they're in the in the red zone, 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.600 teams are getting ready to score. And I just go 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:41.959 back to to the punch at shirt. But Man has 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.160 had at the one at the one yard line going 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:47.880 in against Oakland, and those are those are game changers, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.600 and you want to be able to take advantage of 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:53.120 our defense doing that right now, the aspect of being 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.800 on the field goal there's a lot of ten play 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.400 drives this year for some reason. Um, and is this 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.800 what team want to do just to mute the pass rush? 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.199 Is that really what's you know doing? The quick get 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:05.880 rid of the ball, take a few yards here and 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.439 there and just try and eat that eat that field up. Yeah, 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.280 every team kind of has their own plans that they're 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:11.800 going to go into it based off of who they 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.920 are as as an offense and then what they want 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.319 to do to our defense and in some of that too. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.200 There's been a couple of games this year where fourth 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.920 downs have gotten us you know, where it extends drives 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:24.160 in time and possession. Um. So you know, I know 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.360 that coach Pagano and his guys will be hammering that 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.640 through and trying to Hey, when we get a team 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.080 to fourth down, let's finish them. You know, let's put 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.880 them away. Let's talk special teams, because that's been a 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:38.160 great source of comfort, I guess right now, right, it's been. 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:41.520 It's been really good. Yeah, it's especially when we've had 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.160 the struggles that we've had on offense, fuel position and 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.000 protecting the football. So when you when you're able to 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.200 flip the field, have have you know, a really good 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.920 punt team, uh that can cover and keep the field flipped. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.600 And then you have a defense that's plan as well 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:59.320 as they are. Uh. It's really right now, It's it 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:03.400 worked out well, um, just because they're doing that. Now, offensively, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.360 you get things going and you score some touchdowns, you 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:06.880 don't need your punt team as much. You need to 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.560 go out there and you got your your your your 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.440 kickoff teams and your extra point teams. So that's the 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.960 automate goal. But overall that the special teams is playing 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.560 really well and coach Tabor is doing a great job. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:22.680 Cordell Patterson, is there more that can be done with him? 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.400 Because he's got this knack of get when the train 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.440 geep gets going, man, he's tough to bring down. Yeah. No, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.720 And I think with the weather. As a weather changes, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.880 the ball gets a little harder, the ball doesn't travel 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.239 as farther. On kickoffs, you'll see you'll see more opportunities, 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.400 and with more opportunities comes the ability to have some 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.560 successful plays and and hopefully you'll see that with him. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.880 Tell us about JP Holtz now that you've got to 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.000 know him here for several weeks. Yeah, seems got a 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.080 really edge edge to him. He does. He's a he's 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:52.840 a he edge. He's a great way to put it. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.720 You know, he's tough. Uh, he's he He's always looking 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.280 for contact. Give it to me anyway I can get it. 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.200 I want to go in there, and I'm not. He's 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.120 not afraid to sacrifice his body and he does the 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:07.200 dirty work. But yet you see too, he's making some 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.040 nice catches too, so teams can't just they understand it. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.520 We're able to throw the ball with him as well, 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:13.720 So that's been a nice addition to our offense. It's 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.440 interesting because again, the records the same as it was 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.800 after five last last year. Eagles also want three and three. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.239 You guys met in the playoffs obviously, so people are thinking, Okay, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:27.200 you know it could be a replica. It could, but well, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.320 how do you tell your players what this rest of 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:33.280 the season could be like given that what they did 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.360 last year ripping off that great run there. I mean, 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:38.560 it could take on many different shapes. Oh yeah, it's 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.400 still it's still early, and you know that's that's that's 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.520 why we as coaches and myself, you can never you 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.520 can't listen to the noise, good or bad. You know, 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:49.520 you've heard us say it a million times, the the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.240 um you know, the horse you know, the ear muffs 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.960 and the horse blinders. I mean all that right there, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.880 We say it, and we gotta you gotta believe it. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.520 You cannot get into that. It's something that, Um, when 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.200 you're doing well, you can't and when you're when you're struggling. 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:03.920 But the fact of the matter is is I keep 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.680 saying it. We're three and two, it's early on, there's 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.880 eleven games to go, and we can only worry about 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:09.600 this week. Yeah. I like what you had to say 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.080 at your news conference earlier today because I look at 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.360 some of the prominent playoff teams that go every year 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.200 and you know, I mean end of November is when 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.320 they really start to feel like, okay, we gotta kick 0:17:21.359 --> 0:17:22.680 it in gear here, and this is when we play 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.120 our best football. So that's a long time from now. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.520 It is. There's a lot of and it's it's the 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:31.080 instant gratification world. And you've heard us, You've heard me 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.600 say that. But you can never panic. You gotta stay 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.399 the course. Um, there's peaks and valleys throughout every season. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.040 There's a lot of teams right now that are going 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.280 through some crazy situations as a team across the league, 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.119 good end bad. So you know, as we talked about 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.600 this morning with our team, is how do we handle 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.160