WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich talk Playoffs 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.960 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.880 now on news radio seven eighty and one oh five 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:17.079 point nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches Show with 0:00:17.280 --> 0:00:21.080 Bears Head Coach Matt Naggie, the coaching staff and Bears management. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:23.640 The Bears Coaches Show was brought to you by Whitpley 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:28.200 CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Advocate Healthcare, Hilton and 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.520 the Village of Bedford Park. No From Hellis Hall. Here's 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.040 the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff joni yac 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.320 and a pleasant, good even to everybody, and welcome at 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:39.519 a panc Studios here at Hollis All and welcome to 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.360 the Bears Coaches Show with Head Coach Matt Nagge Jeff 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:44.760 joniak with you until eight o'clock tonight. Happy New Year 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:46.720 every one as you head out for the evening, Stay 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.360 safe out there on New Year's Eve. And what a 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.920 magical time it has been for the Chicago Bears, A 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.840 magical time for you, Matt. You finished the season with 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.840 four straight wins, nine out of the last ten. You 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.640 finished twelve and four, and that part of the stories closing. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:02.480 A new one about to begin. But we're gonna we're 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.440 gonna break down all that, but first and foremost from 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.399 every Bear fan out there and everybody in this building, congratulations, 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.800 thank you. Yeah, it was a great, great day yesterday, 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.200 and just super proud of the team, the players, the coaches, everybody, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.360 all the support to fans to put us in this 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:19.200 position that we're in. And like you just said, now 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.400 it's time the role and our guys will be excited 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:23.959 to get after it. And there's only twelve teams right now, 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.039 so we want to keep going. Yeah, do you mind 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.039 talking about the game in a little detail before we 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.120 start with a prob a little bit. We're brought to 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.560 you by Whippley Financial Advisors. There's so much to get 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.679 into with every game because of how you guys play 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.760 the game and how you call the game, how you 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.320 design the game, how Vic calls the game, how he 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.760 designs the game. There's really never enough time. There's so 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.000 much to it, and it's so much fun to watch 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.120 you guys play. You guys talk about how much fun 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.880 you have, period, but it is also fun to watch 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.040 how you guys play. You never know what's coming next, 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.480 and you're never out of anything on any down or 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.680 any game. There's something too that I don't I don't 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.440 know how to explain it. Can you, No, I can't, 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.080 other than the fact that I think just as a 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.640 coaching staff in general, I feel like our coaches do 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:13.040 a really good job of communicating situational football. And no 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:18.120 you know, whether it's an assistant coach's idea, a coordinator's idea, 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.079 it's somebody that has a thought, and or maybe sometimes 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.760 it's a player that has a thought in these type 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.800 of situations, and you always want to be able to 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.720 use that to your advantage. And there's been times this 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:29.640 year where we've done that. You saw yesterday with the 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.360 punt situation. You just never know what can happen. But 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.959 overall situationally red zone, third down, backed up four minute, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.000 I really like where our teams at. Situational football is 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.359 really the difference between winning and losing. You know, Bill 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.480 talking about Bill Belichick's success, They spend a ton of 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.040 time on situational football, and I assume you do the 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.359 same we do. And I think what's unique for us 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.000 is is we were so consumed in OTAs and in 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.280 training camp at just trying to get the foundation of 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.440 this team together. There whether it's offense, defense, special teams 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:06.280 that some of the situational stuff. Unfortunately this first year 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.880 can can fall by the wayside. But we've done a 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.120 pretty good job throughout the year at picking and choosing 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:13.680 certain instances that we feel like we can take advantage 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.480 of certain situations. And we've done that and so I think, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.720 I think it can only get better. I can't promise that, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.760 but I do feel like that is one of our 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:28.000 strange does it take longer to work on situational football? 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.360 Get it right? It does, just because there's so many 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.360 different Like for example, if it's at the end of 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.400 the half, there could be a major difference in a 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.160 play call for both the offense and the defense based 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.640 off of six seconds and based off of nine seconds, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.120 that's a three second difference, but the play becomes different 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.600 based off of those extra three seconds. So that's just 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.080 an example. So there's just so many areas that cover 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.520 and then you throw all the rules into into everything 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.840 that goes on, and it can become it can become 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.400 at times a headache, but we want to make sure 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.560 we teach it the right way. How do youaluate what's 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.160 happened and how do you evaluate you know, you go 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.040 back to week one. You know, you guys are twelve 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.320 and three since that game, and you you you know, 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.400 I write down everything you say because there is a 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.520 is a catalog brewing for me from my perspective and 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.080 just talking with you each and every week as I 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:20.839 do with you, that something was going to be positively 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.760 learned from that Green Bay game no matter what it was. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.520 And they played like at the rest of the season, 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:32.400 what was it? It was a and ultimately I think 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.159 it was a trust um with the players, UH and 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:39.320 all of their coaches, all of us together. The biggest 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:45.440 part of our success, I feel is um. Probably accountability, honesty, 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.520 understanding the why I think can be sometimes neglected in 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.960 coaching and in life lessons. UH all the time. You know, 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:56.880 people find out what you did this wrong, you did 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.279 that wrong, you did this right, you did that right? Well, 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.320 why did you do right? Why did you do it wrong? 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:04.200 And our coaches have done a phenomenal job at teaching 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.480 that to these players so they understand it, so they 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:08.320 either do it again or they don't do it again. 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.880 And then that you get you get it, and you 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:14.880 get in a situation in the game and they use 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.839 that later on for instance, the Green Bay game, and 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.600 fast forward down to later in the season and it's 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.159 just you become stronger. That's the callous thing part that 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.719 we talked about in situations adversity, and that's what makes 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:29.560 you a good team. Now you just did all of 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.360 that for this right now. So now you get into 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.560 the playoffs and you get an opportunity where you're one 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.960 and done or you keep going, and all that stuff 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.320 that we just went through for those you know whatever 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.279 it was those sixteen seventeen weeks, you now have a 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.640 stretch of five weeks where you got to use it all. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.920 Mattneggie here on the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.600 by Whipfley Financial Advisors here at P ANDC Studios at 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.479 how to Saw. To me, it's it's been fun to 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.640 watch these guys live in the moment almost day to day. 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:59.400 They talk about practice the way they do talk about 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.279 games and times you do win games on Wednesday and Thursday, 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:05.480 but you can talk about it about hey, stay in 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.800 the moment, put the blinders on, put the earmuffs on. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:12.360 But the guys have to be those type of people 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.719 to want to listen to that and to understand that, well, 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.159 you never worry about yesterday or never worry about tomorrow. 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.640 So is this just a little bit of a fortunate 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.760 type of character in that room in addition to the 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.279 coaching and the mix without it that? But but what 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.839 I what I think is this. I know you've heard 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:36.799 me say this throughout the year. When Ryan started putting 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.279 this team together and then included me almost a year ago, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.800 we both were an agreeance that in order to do 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.000 this thing the right way, we need to do it 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.160 with good, solid people because in the end, there's gonna 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.800 be bad times and there's gonna be good times, and 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:56.320 how do you handle yourself? And I think when the 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:58.960 season ends and I reflect back on this season, I think, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.440 I really truly believe that one of the things that 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.760 we're going to be most appreciative as we build this 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.040 thing is the fact that we're doing with great people. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.919 And you just said that, And now you take the 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.400 athletics side of it and the football side of it, 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.480 and they're all great players. So when you have great 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.760 players combined with great people, you get magical seasons. And 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.960 we're not we're not downe We're just getting started. And 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.200 by no means is this a magical season. But it's 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.320 been a fun season and that's what's so exciting about 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.239 where we could go. Oh, there's some magic in There's 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.080 definitely some magic in it. There's no doubt about it. 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.800 When we come back, we're gonna talk about third down. 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.280 What a killer day it was on third down on 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.320 both sides of the ball. With the Bears Coaches Show 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.680 with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff joni 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.000 Ad continues Bella me Gabriel on White to the right 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.280 White outside the Dombers back to the left of Tribisky 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.080 is Howard tight end, left side of the line. Shahi 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:54.880 snapped Trubisky giving to Jordan Howard. Howard searching for the 0:07:54.880 --> 0:07:57.600 goal line and putre's the end zone. He's in for 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:02.640 the touchdown, his hand rushing touch touchdown Bears a run 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.640 up six kind of six nothing Bears lead here in Minnesota, 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:09.080 tone setting opening drive with Jordan Howard starting out that drive. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.920 You know, in the O six Super Bowl season or 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.640 On Turner was the offensive coordinator here and almost every 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.440 every time, every series, almost in the game started with 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.360 a power roll. And so you started with a power roll. Uh, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.720 Kyle long obviously a big part of the starting out 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.280 the game, but that picked your six six yards up 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.640 to start the day's festivities, and I was like, all right, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.200 here we go. We're gonna get physical with these guys 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.920 and not gonna back down from that great defense. And 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.080 then it included a forty two yard run and finished 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:38.520 off of that touchdown round we just heard from in 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.560 the yesterday's game with Jordan Howard in from the six. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.240 So was that kind of the idea, Hey, we're gonna 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.560 we're gonna attack, We're not gonna be attacked. Yeah, it was. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.760 And you get into a situation like that where you 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.800 have a loud crowd and you got a defensive line 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.440 that can get after you in the past game, and 0:08:53.800 --> 0:08:55.520 it was a challenge to our guys up front to 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.640 be able to come out there and establish the run 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.280 and to Jordan as well. So you saw that first 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.280 couple of plays, you get fifty yards and two plays 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.800 and when you could kind of feel like, Okay, here 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.079 we go, and that's a credit to those guys for 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.559 just completing their assignments the right way. Jordan made a 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.760 nice run and that was a for sure, that was 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.480 definitely a part of the game plan. Scoring first on 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.520 the road, How critical is it. It's it's big because 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.600 you know it's it's first of all against that defense 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.880 is hard to score, it really is. And you kind 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.520 of knew what kind of game you're getting into yesterday, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.400 but you always like to kind of get that lead, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.800 stay ahead, give yourself a chance. And that's what we did, 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.000 all right. So third down Mitch nine of eleven, one 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.319 twenty four and one thirteen quarter rating on third down yesterday, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.080 And we cannot emphasize enough, and you throw in, you 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.840 guys are fifty percent in the week eleven game against 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.360 the Vikings on third down, but in the previous three 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.480 games they allowed in just nine third down conversions previous 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:56.839 four games, sixteen fifty for the season. So you guys 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.240 are eight to fourteen yesterday when you're throwing fourth down 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.400 as well. Just an incredible performance on third down? Was 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.680 that an area of emphasis throughout the course of the 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.520 week to absolutely give yourself's third and manageable third downs. 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.040 And on the other side of the ball, you guys 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:13.240 completely wipe them out on third down with the best 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.280 third down receiver in the league in Adam Thieland yeah, 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.840 it was. It was an emphasis all week long. It 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.560 was it's it always is, but you really emphasize it 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.080 against the team. Uh, like Minnesota. On defense, he's doing 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.320 so well, you're along with that. So for for Mitch 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:29.640 to go nine for eleven on third down with a 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.880 one thirteen rating, uh, you know, he's he's playing at 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:38.040 a level right now. That's that's really doing wonderful things 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.960 for this offense. And he's he's helping everybody out. He's 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.400 getting guys lined up in the right spot. It's loud, 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:47.280 their signals involved, and then you got guys breathing down 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.320 your throat while you're making a throw. And and he's 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.760 doing all that on the other side on defense. For 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.720 for them to not get their first first down until 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:56.480 six minutes to go in the second quarter and to 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.120 go one for eleven on third down, as you said, 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.319 against some of the better receivers in this league, it 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.240 just shows where our defense is at right now. And 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.760 when you get into situations where you make a team 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.599 fight for third down and you make them punt the 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.280 ball as much as they did, you're always going to 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:13.439 be in the game and turning the crowd on him too, 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:16.400 raining booze down there and once again that defense was 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.839 playing fast and I don't care who it was. Adrian 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.480 Amos had himself. He's had a physical year to begin with. 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.440 He was popping people. Kyle, you know, catch it. We're 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.960 bringing you down. Kevin Tolliver comes in there, boom, you 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.800 catch it, We're putting you down to the ground. I 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.200 don't know that there was one misstackle yesterday. I mean, 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.600 I don't know. I watched tape, but you watch it 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:40.160 differently than I do. But it was just really sound 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.880 fundamentals and they're in the right place at the right time. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.880 They're confidence right now in each other is sky high. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.559 You love that going into into the into the playoffs. 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.720 And then the other part of that, when you play fast, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.360 that's because you understand where you're supposed to be, so 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.040 you can play fast. These guys understand and that's a 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.079 credit to Vic for putting him in a situation and 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.600 to where they can go ahead and just let their 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:07.160 play just go. And so if there's a crossing route 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:10.280 across the middle and the guy knows he's gonna get hit, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.000 he might pull back a little bit because there's a 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.080 guy in the right spot. That's what they're doing and 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.200 not just on third down, but they're doing on a 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.040 first and second as well. And all those guys that 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.600 got into the game, you know this This goes best 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.000 really the preseason when you did rest your starters and 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.480 got those guys some snaps. Do you think even back then, 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.040 seeds of confidence were planted in who they are and 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.440 what you expect from them. Yeah, it was. I don't 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:34.520 know if they knew that they were going to be 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.840 at this point that they are right now. But you 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:38.920 never know that going into a year where you're gonna 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.920 be at in any any phase, whether it's offense or defense. 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.160 But you know, you look at earlier in the season 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:46.839 and you saw a couple of game you start out 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.640 the first two quarters in Green Bay, and you say, well, man, 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.920 I've never seen anything like this. But then all of 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.000 a sudden, you get into six games into the year, 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.960 and four of the six games were like that. And 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.320 now it stretches out. Now it's eight out of ten, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.760 and now it's ten out of and you start saying, well, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.360 this is kind of normal, and that that that's a 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.920 that's just a fun thing to have. I know, I'm 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.520 super pumped that they're on our They're on our side, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.440 and it's it's comforting. But now like now we go 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:12.920 and now it's now it's a time for them to 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:14.960 uh to step up here in the playoffs. What don't 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.640 it say you let every game this season? Yeah, that's 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.360 a that's all sixteen. That's a great stat You never 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:23.320 trailed in eight of them, is that right? Well, let's 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.120 let's keep that going. I mean those are eye openers 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.080 when you talk about a twelve team tournament. Man, Bears 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.680 are dangerous. I said that, you didn't, but I know 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:38.840 you think it. White whims In Bellamy scattered to the 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:40.839 left side, calling to the right of Mitch Drobiskie. Five 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.040 of the play clock, Bears moving right till left takes 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.679 the snap. Give it a Cohen's got the goal. I 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:49.800 pe barrels into the den zone for the touchdown. Cohen's 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.079 in from the three Bears up nineteen ten seven forty 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.760 six left of the game. Trek Cohen capping off the 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.240 long drive. In terms of snaps, the sixteen play the 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.560 longest of the season. Matt Nagge, How defining is it 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.720 in the big picture of every drive you had this year? Yeah, 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.360 it's without a doubt one of the better ones that 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.400 we had. And you go six team plays, you end 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:15.079 it with a touchdown, you convert, you know, four third 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.080 downs on the road in that situation after they had 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.960 just scored. It's I just love where our guys are. 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.360 I love their focus, I love their their ability to 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:29.360 handle adversity. They're in a great spot. And when you 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.240 have that that happened, it's just such a confidence booster 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.200 for the rest of the game. Mitch didn't run much, 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.560 but he did run on back to back plays. They 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:41.880 were I mean those happy at how and when he 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.080 decided to do it, Yeah, because he's not looking to 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.240 run right away, but he understands that when he does 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.640 pull the ball down and become a ball carrier, now 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:51.440 you know. And I was on the sidline a few 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.600 times yelling get down or get out of bounds, and 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.400 he did both of those on both those carries. But 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.840 he's a weapon. When you're able to run the football, 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.680 it's a weapon. And the defensive coordinators know that it 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.040 eliminates a couple of coverages that they can run because 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.080 if they want to run those coverages, he can beat 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.320 you with his legs and he's been doing that. Kyle 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:12.440 Long twenty nine snaps. How'd he great out? How did 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.000 he feel? I don't know if you've spoken him today 0:15:15.000 --> 0:15:18.200 at all or are you happy with what you saw? Yeah? 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.880 I talked to him last night on the plane and 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.760 everything was good, really, no setbacks at all. He was 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.720 well conditioned. Twenty nine plays was a good number for him. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.440 More than anything, just the mentality of knowing that he 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.360 did it. Whether it's the mentality of your injury or 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.560 whether it's the mentality of just getting back into you know, 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.960 hearing play calls and running your assignments the right way. 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:43.800 But he did everything we asked for him yesterday. I 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:47.800 gotta bring up James Daniels. While this kid is so 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:53.160 young and he played like a veteran yesterday clearing out guys. 0:15:53.600 --> 0:15:57.280 His strength and lower body power must be so significant 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.520 at his age. It just seems like he's fighting guys 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.680 out of the out of the way and terrific job that. 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.000 And Jordan Howard continues to be an outstanding blitz pick 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.200 up artist. He's attacking, he's not waiting. His cut block 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:16.960 was big on the Quikowski two pointer. Is that something 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.440 that you have learned and appreciated now from him? And 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:23.280 where is James Daniels headed here. James Is, He's at 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.400 a point right now where the game is finally slowing 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.920 down to him. He is so young, he's a pup. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.880 And what's scary is to think of what you just 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.600 got done saying is how well he's playing on the 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:36.560 offensive line, whether it's past protection or in run blocking. 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:41.200 You put a couple of years of strength to him 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.160 in that lower body, and it's only going to get better. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:44.800 And so to see where he's at now and know 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.520 where he can be is exciting. Jordan Jordan's been Jordan 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:50.800 are year long. I mean, he's he's done some things 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.200 under the radar that not a lot of people see, 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.240 and we just appreciate that so much. Yesterday, I think 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.880 he ended up with twenty one carries over one hundred yards, 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:03.240 a couple of touchdowns. And when you're able to get 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.600 that run game going with him and that offensive line, 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:08.760 it just helps you out in the past game. And uh, 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.680 you know, we started out early with some runs, got 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:13.320 away from it for a little bit, and then went 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.200 back to it, and that's just too Jordan Is, So 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:19.479 you played the Eagles, So I actually didn't grow up 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.840 an Eagles fan, but being around him. I had a 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:23.679 bunch of friends that were and I still did this day, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.720 have a ton of ton of family and friends back 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:29.480 in Pennsylvania that obviously are big Eagles fans. But my 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.800 first coaching job in the NFL was with Philly and 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.760 and they gave me the opportunity. That's where coach Reid 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:37.840 was and so I spent three three good years there 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.639 and had a great time learning how to be a coach. 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.800 So I still know we drafted a couple of guy 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.480 we actually draft when I was there. We drafted uh 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.360 Brandon Graham their defensive end and Fletcher Cox, so they're 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.960 still there on defense, and uh Jason Jason Kelsey was 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.920 at center and so and Peters was there at tackle. 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.120 So there's some guys there that that was there when 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.360 I was there. And of course there's coaches and how 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.760 he rose mean to GM. The a lot of history there, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.200 so a lot of respect and then Doug and I 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.720 being together for so many years. But it'll it'll be 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.479 a fun one. So much respect between the two of you, guys. Boom, 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.679 Now your guys are in the same game. It's it's 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.119 it's wild, it's it's it's but you know that when 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.320 you're both in the NFC, and UH, I know I 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.760 know Doug really well. I know his family and our 0:18:21.800 --> 0:18:24.679 wives know each other really well. Our kids. Um, you 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.640 know when you're when you're in the trenches like we 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:30.639 were for six years. Um, both hip by hip H. 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.919 Watching so much tape together, UH, going through game plans together, 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.560 sitting down with coach read the three of us. I 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.640 mean we have story after story, so we know each 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:43.080 other really well. And now being removed from for him 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.040 getting his you know, this is his third year away 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.639 from Kansas City, UH, and us being together, things change 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.280 offensively for for him and what they do. But uh 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.800 so there will be some chess match to it and 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.560 and but in the end, UH win loser draw for 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.159 both of us, there's that friendship and their appreciation for 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.480 how we do things well. We wish anohing but the best. 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.200 In the preparation, this week should be fun. It'll feel 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:07.679 just like a regular seat. You know, you got a 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.280 three forty start. Are you happy with that? I like that? Yeah, Monday, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:14.080 I like our spot on Sunday for sure, it's good. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.000 But I'm really thankful for a home game in front 0:19:17.000 --> 0:19:19.000 of all those fans. The Soldier field. They're going to 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:21.360 be rocking and rolling and I can't wait. Ask them 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.440 every day. They'll pay you back. Matt Maggie, Congratulations, Happy 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:28.640 New Year to you and your family too. The Bears 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.880