Speaker 1: Pleasant, Good even everybody, and welcome into another edition of
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Naggie
Speaker 1: wrapping up a loss to the Titans in Nashville. Jeff
Speaker 1: Joniac with you to eight o'clock tonight. We'll be joined
Speaker 1: by Chuck Bogano, the Bears veteran defensive coordinator, coming up
Speaker 1: at seven thirty met Good evening, and first and foremost,
Speaker 1: how is the team related to their health at the moment,
Speaker 1: the cases of COVID and any concerns moving forward. Yeah, hey, Jeff,
Speaker 1: we're still kind of going through all that. I think
Speaker 1: that Andre's done a great job in regards to you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's different level where they're at from last week with
Speaker 1: those guys, and so we'll just keep an eye on
Speaker 1: out here moving before. We do have that extra day
Speaker 1: this week, which which does help in regards to if
Speaker 1: a guy has symptoms or no symptoms. But for the
Speaker 1: most part, hopefully feel a little bit better about it.
Speaker 1: When when Ward lead yesterday about Lachevia Simmons first reaction
Speaker 1: that I had wash because on the trip and you
Speaker 1: guys did what you did to quarantine him. But as players,
Speaker 1: I mean everyone saw a quote from Alan Robinson. It
Speaker 1: is a cause of concern, you know, because he was
Speaker 1: on the flight and whatnot. And Dian Bush do you
Speaker 1: have to play psychologists a little bit with the team
Speaker 1: also two calm nerves. Yeah, there's a lot of calls
Speaker 1: that are made. Um you know that when you find
Speaker 1: out you just want to make sure. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that the players appreciate is making sure they're
Speaker 1: in the loop as to what's going on with the communication.
Speaker 1: So when stuff does pop up, there's a logistics in
Speaker 1: the timeline of how it goes down and what can
Speaker 1: be said and not said, and then there's that communication process.
Speaker 1: Our guys have been great with that and for the
Speaker 1: most part, I thought it's been really good there. So
Speaker 1: Lachevia Simmons gets a limo right home and Dan Bush
Speaker 1: drives home, and that had to be the plan, right
Speaker 1: to coordinate all that and to tell a player this
Speaker 1: is what you got to do to keep us all safe.
Speaker 1: That has to be an interesting conversation. Yeah, I'm sure,
Speaker 1: you know, and for them to understand that, I know
Speaker 1: for Lachevias it was kind of a homecoming of sorts
Speaker 1: for him to come back to Tennessee and play and
Speaker 1: you know, his high school coach how to ticket ready
Speaker 1: to see him play, and all of a sudden he
Speaker 1: gets this news, you know, in the middle of the night.
Speaker 1: So it's crushing. It's it's hard, but it is where
Speaker 1: we're at right now. It's twenty twenty, and I think
Speaker 1: it's all about how we're going to respond, and so
Speaker 1: it's not easy. All right, let's talk about the game
Speaker 1: big picture. Take us a thirty thousand foot view from
Speaker 1: your vantage point on the current state of affairs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say this, I would say, um, starting with
Speaker 1: the with the good Um, with the defense. I thought
Speaker 1: the defense played really, really well, might have been their
Speaker 1: best game of the season. Was fired up about the
Speaker 1: way that they played on that defensive line, stopping that
Speaker 1: run game. UM, was was really good to see two
Speaker 1: games now back to back, both of our linebackers Roquan
Speaker 1: and Danny just flying around making plays. The whole unit
Speaker 1: in general. They basically, you know, on the long pass
Speaker 1: there for the touchdown, buster played really good defense and
Speaker 1: it was just really great offense. That's that's the game
Speaker 1: of football. And then we gave up that that deep
Speaker 1: cross there over the middle towards the end of the
Speaker 1: game for thirty yards down to the two. Other than that,
Speaker 1: what a job by the defense. Special teams did a
Speaker 1: great job fuel position wise. I thought, you know, Dwayne
Speaker 1: did a really good job of punts and doing a
Speaker 1: great you know, just giving us that fuel position. We
Speaker 1: got to fake punt. It's it's a shame that we
Speaker 1: couldn't turn it into anything. We've been working on that
Speaker 1: for weeks and to be able to hit it was awesome. Offensively,
Speaker 1: as we all know, it's been a struggle. It's been hard,
Speaker 1: but you know us, Jeff were it would be easy
Speaker 1: to quit, but none of us are going to do that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep plugging away. And then usually these are
Speaker 1: the times where the success stories at the end of
Speaker 1: the year. Kay callous you a little bit and you
Speaker 1: and you always look back and you say, how did
Speaker 1: I handle that? Did I quit? Was I a blamer?
Speaker 1: Did I point fingers? Did I suck it up? And
Speaker 1: did I did I fix it? And you know, until
Speaker 1: the end of the season comes, you're not gonna you're
Speaker 1: not gonna see any quit from us on offense. When
Speaker 1: the coaches get together and we've touched on these things before.
Speaker 1: But as it gets deeper into a season and there
Speaker 1: isn't much difference in the production of the offense at
Speaker 1: this point. Are those wrong meetings? Are those meetings vocal?
Speaker 1: Are they hot? Are they constructive? How would you describe
Speaker 1: or is it all the above when you and your
Speaker 1: offensive coaches get together about it all? Yeah? No, there,
Speaker 1: there they are. There's a lot of times where, um,
Speaker 1: depending on the situation, there there can be some times
Speaker 1: for sure, without getting too much into details, where they
Speaker 1: do get a little bit hot, you know. And I
Speaker 1: think that's for us as coaches to know and understand
Speaker 1: and probably h it would probably be good for a
Speaker 1: few fans to to sit in some of those and
Speaker 1: hear what's said, just to have a taste of where
Speaker 1: we're at and how we look at this thing and
Speaker 1: that it's just not at home, we're just going to
Speaker 1: keep doing the same thing over and over. Um. But
Speaker 1: when things continue to keep going over and over, that's where,
Speaker 1: you know, you get that point as a coach where
Speaker 1: you say, Okay, here's where we're at and we got
Speaker 1: to try something new, we gotta try something different, And
Speaker 1: for us we're like, like I just said, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: earlier this morning, talking to the coaches and talking to
Speaker 1: other people. We're going to evaluate all that stuff. And
Speaker 1: you told me to do that as well, because now
Speaker 1: it's almost a weekly question, are you going to give
Speaker 1: up the play calling? And so you're at no requirement
Speaker 1: to shed light on that because there is the competition
Speaker 1: aspect of it as well, and keeping things in house,
Speaker 1: and if in fact, something like that does happen, we
Speaker 1: may not know about it. Yeah. Yeah, And and honestly,
Speaker 1: you know me, Jeff, you know you know that you
Speaker 1: know that I am going to do whatever is best
Speaker 1: for this team, and it has whatever that is, we
Speaker 1: will do. And I said that this morning in regards
Speaker 1: to just like you said, in regards to any type
Speaker 1: of advantage that another team could get. I just hope
Speaker 1: everybody can understand that, you know, whether it's an injury
Speaker 1: or whether it's something on that topic, it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do be impersonal. It's just kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of other coaches would be
Speaker 1: the same way. All right. So when your calm plays,
Speaker 1: a big part of it is, you know, putting guys
Speaker 1: in the right position to succeed, having those players believe
Speaker 1: they're being put in the right position to succeed, and
Speaker 1: then building your plan throughout the course of a game.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's the little things. More
Speaker 1: and more, it's looking at the little things that derail
Speaker 1: an offense. The little things are becoming big things. Would
Speaker 1: that be the main headline here about the offense in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Yeah, for sure, for sure. And you've heard
Speaker 1: me say it over and over. I think it's real.
Speaker 1: It's a really touchy subject when you start question and effort,
Speaker 1: and that's never been the question with these guys, the
Speaker 1: effort efforts there. These guys are awesome guys, coaches and players,
Speaker 1: and so what we got to do as a group
Speaker 1: of leaders is just that number one, we as coaches,
Speaker 1: this is now at the point in time when you
Speaker 1: get to this point where it's now the player's job,
Speaker 1: the leaders of that offense, right, whoever you are, the
Speaker 1: leaders of that offense, this is your time to step up,
Speaker 1: and this is your time to get this thing, to
Speaker 1: help get this thing right. I truly believe that, and
Speaker 1: they know that. And I can say that to you
Speaker 1: on here because they know that I'll say that to them.
Speaker 1: I'll also say that to myself as a leader and
Speaker 1: to our other coaches as a leader. So this is
Speaker 1: when we rally around each other. If you're a leader
Speaker 1: by your actions, then lead that way. If you're a
Speaker 1: leader of vocally, then lead that way. But these time
Speaker 1: is when Doc Rivers used to tell us too, right
Speaker 1: in the all season, this is when you lean in.
Speaker 1: You don't separate, you don't start pointing figures, you don't
Speaker 1: start having crappy practices, none of that. You'll lean in
Speaker 1: together and you figure that you figure the thing out,
Speaker 1: and when you figure it out, it's a pretty sweet deal.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we're reaching for right now.
Speaker 1: And when we do figure it out, which we will,
Speaker 1: When we do figure it out, that's when it's going
Speaker 1: to make all this stuff that we're going through right
Speaker 1: now a lot better. Fools to throw right side caught
Speaker 1: by trying no pearls into the end zone, but a touchdown,
Speaker 1: splitting quarters and fired. How the Bears have their first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the game, five or six remaining. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bear's Coaching Show with head coach Matt Naggie,
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Speaker 1: to you by Verizon. Just heard Ryan Noll's first NFL touchdown.
Speaker 1: That's sprint to the end zone, just getting north and south.
Speaker 1: Reminded me a little bit about JP Holts last year
Speaker 1: when he got a few touches, just put his head
Speaker 1: down and go yeah, no doubt. It was great to
Speaker 1: see him get that touchdown. And I loved his energy
Speaker 1: that he had on the sideline. And again, um, you
Speaker 1: know when David went down and he came in, h
Speaker 1: he's able to be that next man up. And so
Speaker 1: Ryan's been a guy like you said that that's been
Speaker 1: able to really grow into his role and understand who
Speaker 1: he is a great He does a great job for
Speaker 1: us on special teams, and then yesterday had a couple
Speaker 1: big plays. So I'm proud of him. I want to
Speaker 1: see him keep growing and he's definitely can do great
Speaker 1: things for us. The Titans defense yesterday and the second
Speaker 1: half loosen coverage a little bit. But are you dismissing
Speaker 1: the seventeen point fourth quarter for us? You know, we
Speaker 1: got to be able to score more in the first
Speaker 1: quarter and then you know to the third quarter score
Speaker 1: score there as well, So you know our guys didn't quit.
Speaker 1: We kept fighting. Um, they go into more of a
Speaker 1: prevent defense. It's more predictable as to what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But we did keep fighting and we did score. We
Speaker 1: did make good throws, we did make good catches, we
Speaker 1: protected so but we got to understand, like that first
Speaker 1: drive of the game, or that second driver, that third
Speaker 1: drive is you know, you can't have three and ounce.
Speaker 1: We got to be able to work off of our defense,
Speaker 1: go down there and get points. That's what we got
Speaker 1: to focus on. A kind of an interesting staff. But
Speaker 1: seventeen to seventeen to the backs and tight ends for
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty nine yards is it enough bang
Speaker 1: for your buck? Well, I think you probably see a
Speaker 1: lot more of that, Jeff, when you get behind like
Speaker 1: we were, and then you get a little a lot
Speaker 1: of the checkdowns is where that can jump up and
Speaker 1: be a little bit off. But no, the running backs
Speaker 1: in the tight ends, in the pass game, in this
Speaker 1: offense are supposed to be on the higher end in
Speaker 1: regards to the reception. So again, we just we want
Speaker 1: to be able to I think I was really I
Speaker 1: was disappointed with our red zone. Yeah, really in that
Speaker 1: big red zone area, you know that twenty five thirty
Speaker 1: yard area where you're in that field goal slash kick
Speaker 1: four down territory, And that's where I thought yesterday we
Speaker 1: just we weren't good enough. All right, Let's dig deeper
Speaker 1: into the defense because it does deserve a ton of credit.
Speaker 1: They knew what the task at hand was to slow
Speaker 1: down King Henry there, but they did it in a
Speaker 1: very big way because a lot of hats on the ball.
Speaker 1: That's what the defense was tasked with by Chuck Pagano
Speaker 1: this week, and they really delivered in and Roquan was
Speaker 1: all over the field and Danny Travitha. We got to
Speaker 1: talk about Danny because when he's going down the field
Speaker 1: breaking up a pass play, I mean, that was a
Speaker 1: heck of a play. It was. Those linebackers played unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mean just flying around, Danny just making tackles, formed
Speaker 1: tackles against Henry and the hole on a couple of
Speaker 1: power plays, and road Quan flying around. And I think back,
Speaker 1: you know, those two guys in the past two weeks
Speaker 1: and put the best back to back games together as
Speaker 1: a tanem since they've been here. Um. The other part
Speaker 1: two that I think is really important is that that
Speaker 1: that defensive line and those asshialle linebackers just setting setting
Speaker 1: the mode up front. Um with with with McCullers and Hicks,
Speaker 1: and you know what, what a what a great way.
Speaker 1: Those are two big individuals. Now, when you put those
Speaker 1: two guys out there to stop the run, I thought
Speaker 1: Dan Dan McCullers did a great job, uh you know,
Speaker 1: matching there with with Hicks, and then you know, uh,
Speaker 1: these other guys come in and just I thought overall,
Speaker 1: like you could really feel us stopping that run and
Speaker 1: we forced them into some quick play action plays. We
Speaker 1: made some nice plays. They really had two plays in
Speaker 1: that game. One was for a touchdown and one was
Speaker 1: to get them down to set up a touchdown. But
Speaker 1: for the most part, really really proud of our defense. Again,
Speaker 1: we're not getting those takeaways and those turnovers. Had an
Speaker 1: opportunity early in the game. You know, you love to
Speaker 1: coach off of a broken up past, but I know
Speaker 1: Kyle probably is wishing he had that little pick six
Speaker 1: there and but one of the it'll start turning on
Speaker 1: our way. Yeah, you mentioned the colors. We got to
Speaker 1: also mentioned Brent Urban and Mario Edwards because they're they're
Speaker 1: really enjoying this defense right now too, and playing some
Speaker 1: aggressive play up front and putting pressure on the quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think aggressive is a key word. I mean they
Speaker 1: fly around and you know, Brent Urban is a is
Speaker 1: a tall, tall individual, and then he also he does
Speaker 1: a great job I think of getting his hands into
Speaker 1: division of the quarterback being all to try to tip balls.
Speaker 1: And then Mario Mario is just he just flies around
Speaker 1: and beats guys with the speed and had a huge
Speaker 1: sat so all those guys. You know, Jay Rogers is
Speaker 1: doing a really really good job and moving those guys around,
Speaker 1: putting them in different spots. A bunch of the twists
Speaker 1: and the games up front that helps our linebackers make
Speaker 1: plays in the run game. And then these DB's breaking
Speaker 1: on balls. And I thought Jalen Johnson had a really
Speaker 1: really good game estraday. He also had a chance at
Speaker 1: an interception he did and he made a nice break up.
Speaker 1: And those will start coming. But those safeties, the corners,
Speaker 1: they're they're really coming together right now. You see it,
Speaker 1: you feel it again. We get this offense role and
Speaker 1: we just we do more on offense, and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be really good to see this complimentary football. They're gonna
Speaker 1: fake it. They're gonna snap it and hand it up
Speaker 1: to the near side to the forty to the forty
Speaker 1: five and it Mingo for the first down on the
Speaker 1: fake punt, Bears pick up the first down. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears Coaching Show with Bears head coach Matteggie.
Speaker 1: The fake punt on the eleven yard run by Barkbus Mingo,
Speaker 1: what do we call on that play? We got a
Speaker 1: name for it, I'm sure to Yeah, we call it
Speaker 1: Sally at seven. That's that goes back to the Delaware
Speaker 1: the Delaware wing t days when I was there. But
Speaker 1: Tabes likes to call it that because that's what That's
Speaker 1: what the first time I saw that, I mentioned that
Speaker 1: looks like Sally at seven and the little counter handoff.
Speaker 1: So Tabes has been working on that for weeks. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you had to hit the right time. And
Speaker 1: I give coach Tabs a lot of credit. He saw
Speaker 1: the way that they were playing and what a what
Speaker 1: a great call at that time to be able to
Speaker 1: hit it. Uh, And and I just I that's a
Speaker 1: way to be aggressive and attacking and when you hit those, uh,
Speaker 1: it's really really a great spark to the team. And uh,
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the parts in the game where
Speaker 1: I'm just a little little little disappointed at offensively, we
Speaker 1: didn't turn that into seven points. Sally at seven. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of fans would get a kick out
Speaker 1: of understanding the background on some of the names of
Speaker 1: these plays. Well, Sally at seven is a little uh,
Speaker 1: it's a little fake zone zone read counter back to
Speaker 1: the to the wing back in the Delaware wing t
Speaker 1: So it looks like you're handing off one side and
Speaker 1: then you hand it off underneath to the running back
Speaker 1: or the wing back head in the other direction in
Speaker 1: a counter So that's just what it looked like to me.
Speaker 1: And so we called it that, and I always I
Speaker 1: tell Tage Man, just let me know when Sally at
Speaker 1: seven's coming, and so we talk about it all week
Speaker 1: and then he feels them out as to where they're at,
Speaker 1: and then again he called it at a great time.
Speaker 1: As you learned in eighteen, you've learned that the traits
Speaker 1: in the skill sets of some of your players are
Speaker 1: not just restricted to their position or their position group
Speaker 1: that they have athleticism that you can carve out a
Speaker 1: plan for them. I dam miss being able to use
Speaker 1: some of those guys in other ways offensively. That's the
Speaker 1: part that you really like, is that creativity of being
Speaker 1: able to get into all that and do that. And
Speaker 1: you know, we just gotta continue to battle through that
Speaker 1: and then when the time comes that we got to
Speaker 1: use them, we'll do them. We have them in there now,
Speaker 1: we just system matter of getting to them. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: hear you, Dwayne Harris Matt I've proven to be a
Speaker 1: gutsy return man back there. He catches everything and he
Speaker 1: wants to go that that one bomb punt that he
Speaker 1: caught over his shoulder, it could have been a disaster,
Speaker 1: but he turned it into something positive and really helped
Speaker 1: you get better if field position than you would have.
Speaker 1: But you know, he had sixty four punt return yards
Speaker 1: in the game. The first eight games of the year,
Speaker 1: you had forty seven total. So he's been a difference guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, he's been awesome back there the last
Speaker 1: couple of games. I mean, he tricked me last week.
Speaker 1: He tricked me in one that he I thought he
Speaker 1: was just gonna let hit and he did it and
Speaker 1: just got it last second and saving us a major
Speaker 1: field position and doing a great job with it. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that we're trusting back there. Uh. When you
Speaker 1: have that, that's huge, and so I feel good about that.
Speaker 1: That's a credit to Ryan Pacing his guys for finding
Speaker 1: him and bringing him in and getting him in here
Speaker 1: now to let him go play football. So I'm really
Speaker 1: really proud of him. I think Dwayne Harris is a
Speaker 1: great player back there. Quick injury update. You don't play
Speaker 1: until Monday night, so we're not gonna know a lot
Speaker 1: of things. But you did tell everybody today Shereck McManus.
Speaker 1: He said a tough year. He's been banged up quite
Speaker 1: a bit now with a broken index finger. What's that
Speaker 1: mean for him down the road? I guess yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see it could be a possibility. I
Speaker 1: R just with him him and then where he's at.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been a really such a great soldier
Speaker 1: for us and being able to be a great teammate
Speaker 1: and obviously special teams and then has a great role
Speaker 1: in the defense. So it'll give somebody else an opportunity
Speaker 1: to step up. But we love the way Sharks were
Speaker 1: playing and David Montgomery officially in the concussion protocol. I
Speaker 1: thought for a moment it was a shoulder, so when
Speaker 1: he was coming off the field, just from the two
Speaker 1: quick TV shot, But how do you keep his spirits up? Also? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: David's an emotional player, which I love. It's it's a
Speaker 1: good emotion. He cares immensely about his craft, He cares
Speaker 1: immensely about this team. He cares immensely and being able
Speaker 1: to be out there with his buddies and his teammates
Speaker 1: and his coaches and so, you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: this is out of all of our control. He's got
Speaker 1: to do everything he can to take care of himself
Speaker 1: and then when the time's right, we'll see where he's at.
Speaker 1: But you always want to have eleven David Montgomery's on
Speaker 1: your team because he's a special, special player. All Right.
Speaker 1: You've very familiar with the Vikings, had great success against
Speaker 1: them so far in your career, and they're coming off
Speaker 1: a couple of wins. But at Dalvin getting everybody's attention
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, anytime you have over twenty carries and
Speaker 1: you know two hundred yards your average tend to carry,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. So our defense is going to be
Speaker 1: challenged again against the run. They like to set things
Speaker 1: up off of that with a bunch of nakeds play
Speaker 1: actions and shots. So defensively we'll have to, you know,
Speaker 1: really be focused in on that. And then again offensively,
Speaker 1: I think we need to worry about ourselves right now
Speaker 1: and make sure that we take care of us and
Speaker 1: uh but again they've they've always I know they're a
Speaker 1: little they've had some changes on defense and they've made
Speaker 1: some different moves, but coach Nimmer does a really good
Speaker 1: job with his defensive scheme and the things that they do.
Speaker 1: And so we're gonna have our handsful. Lastly, one game
Speaker 1: in twenty days. Now, does that help this team? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I would, I would say right now healthwise, and then
Speaker 1: what the what the buy coming up? We're at a
Speaker 1: position where again it's it's this is a big one. Now.
Speaker 1: You also talk about division games, right, so you know
Speaker 1: it's always very very important. It's one when I first
Speaker 1: got here is one of the first things that coach
Speaker 1: Dick has said to me was win your division games.
Speaker 1: You win your division games and you take care of
Speaker 1: everything else. And so that's got to be a main
Speaker 1: focus for US is making sure that we do that
Speaker 1: because we're gonna have several here and a rough coming up.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, we'll let you go. Good luck with
Speaker 1: the prep this week, and we'll talk to you down
Speaker 1: the road, all right. See Jeff, Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaching Show, brought to you by a Whippley CPAs
Speaker 1: in consultant Jeff Jonnyak. Welcome again, defensive coordinator Chuck pug
Speaker 1: out a Chuck, How you doing this evening? All right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Doing good? Your defense was great yesterday. I know the
Speaker 1: team overall did not get to win, but everything that
Speaker 1: you would probably hope for, and stopping the run and
Speaker 1: just the way they played that game yesterday ferociously. You
Speaker 1: had to be pleased with it. Yeah, the guys, the
Speaker 1: guys rose up and challenge themself, did a great job
Speaker 1: all week preparing. Coaches did a great job preparing them,
Speaker 1: you know, for that scheme. And you know they've been
Speaker 1: running the football obviously, Henry had been doing a great
Speaker 1: job leading the league all that stuff. So collectively, those
Speaker 1: guys went out and did a great job and pretty
Speaker 1: shut him down. He had the one the one run
Speaker 1: that shoot, we missed a couple of tackles there, we
Speaker 1: could have really really shut him down, but uh, proudly
Speaker 1: the guy's effort. And again there's no moral victories, as
Speaker 1: you know, Uh, in this stuff. We win as a
Speaker 1: team and we lose as a team. And there's some
Speaker 1: things that I got, you know, I could have done better,
Speaker 1: and we collectively could have done better, and uh, we'll
Speaker 1: work on those and get those cleaned up and move on.
Speaker 1: Kind of tease the media last week about a number
Speaker 1: in mind for Derrick Henry. Did you did you reach
Speaker 1: your goal? You know what, we came pretty close and
Speaker 1: it was again I asked the players, you know on
Speaker 1: Saturday after our last meeting, you know what they what
Speaker 1: they wanted to do, and I said, I put it
Speaker 1: on a team. I said what is it? And he
Speaker 1: said fifty fifty yards? And uh, you know, minus the one,
Speaker 1: you know, we would we would have been right there.
Speaker 1: But still a hell of and effort by those guys
Speaker 1: on a on a really good offense and a really
Speaker 1: good run game, really good back and you needed everybody
Speaker 1: kept saying a lot of hats to the ball, and
Speaker 1: that started right right away. Buster screen, small sky in
Speaker 1: the field, him down, getting low on on that two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound free train. Yeah, he read the play,
Speaker 1: you know, beautifully and got the got the TfL. I
Speaker 1: think we're talking about the same same play. And he
Speaker 1: had four or five, you know, really good plays. But um,
Speaker 1: you know we talked about you don't want to go
Speaker 1: high on this kid. You know, he's got the best
Speaker 1: stiff arm you know in the National Football League, and
Speaker 1: we've seen him throw a bunch of guys out of
Speaker 1: the club, you know, with that stiff arm. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know our guys, um, you know again in the
Speaker 1: front front seven, the two linebackers, you know, Danny Rode
Speaker 1: played lights out the defensive line, you know, did a
Speaker 1: great job, like you said of you know, maintaining their gap, integrity,
Speaker 1: playing square, tearing off blocks. You know, me and Joe
Speaker 1: we call him me and Joe Green, Mile, d Clips,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call Big mccolos. For his first game,
Speaker 1: he got better as the game got going, He got
Speaker 1: warmed up and lathered up, and he made he made
Speaker 1: some great plays, you know, some big time plays in there.
Speaker 1: You know, Kim made plays and secondary guys came up
Speaker 1: when that thing bounced and got that kid on the ground.
Speaker 1: So again, you know, kudos to those to those guys,
Speaker 1: they did a hell of a job. We must talk
Speaker 1: more about Danny Traviathan and row Quant Smith's play yesterday
Speaker 1: because they were all over the place. The play, Danny
Speaker 1: going down the field with the with the receiver and
Speaker 1: breaking up that pass and maybe even could have intercepted
Speaker 1: it if it was just right, was one of the
Speaker 1: best plays I've seen him making. Now we've said this
Speaker 1: in consecutive weeks. That was the best play of the
Speaker 1: year for Danny Traviathan. Now he's got another one. So
Speaker 1: are we seeing him getting his legs now completely under
Speaker 1: him and rolling. Yeah, no doubt about it. That was
Speaker 1: That was a special, special play, you know, made by
Speaker 1: a special player. Um sniff it out number one and
Speaker 1: then and then make that play uh down the field
Speaker 1: on a on a you know, excellent wide receiver or
Speaker 1: he did it just phenomenal. I mean, I've not seen
Speaker 1: a playmate like that, uh by by an inside back
Speaker 1: off of play action in a long long time. Truly amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean, but you know, Mark, Mark da Leone does
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job of coaching those guys. And you know,
Speaker 1: two weeks ago he said, you know, there's some best
Speaker 1: game those two guys played. And we walked in there
Speaker 1: today and we went over the tape, you know, with
Speaker 1: coach Nags and and the d staff, and he said,
Speaker 1: this is the best game those two guys have played
Speaker 1: in for two weeks in a row. I mean, they've
Speaker 1: been rock solid as good at combo Um I think
Speaker 1: right now as there is in the league. And Um again,
Speaker 1: Mark does a great job with them and those guys.
Speaker 1: Those guys study, they practice really well. And usually when
Speaker 1: you practice like they practice and you and you're doing
Speaker 1: really well, you know, good and bad, it shows up
Speaker 1: on Sunday, and their their preparations really showing up. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought to you by
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Speaker 1: Learn more at Whipley dot com. We're with Chuck Poganto,
Speaker 1: the Bears defensive coordinator. Let's talk about Jalen Johnson. According
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus, Zero Yards and Coverage, had a
Speaker 1: couple of pass breakups, so his incompletion rate now down
Speaker 1: to twenty two point four percent, fifth best among all
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the NFL. Does that represent from what you
Speaker 1: saw on tape again this morning, how he played yesterday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had his uh, he had his best outing UM
Speaker 1: of the season yesterday. It was you know, as close
Speaker 1: to being flawless as you can be. His technique, his eyes, Um,
Speaker 1: you know when he had to come up and run support,
Speaker 1: he came up and you know and run support. You
Speaker 1: know that that at third down play, you know, in
Speaker 1: the two minute deal and backed up you know, and
Speaker 1: him and Kim got in on that tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was he was phenomenal again. His technique was was outstanding. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, he made plays, he had PBUs and um
Speaker 1: those are those are really good wide receivers. And he's
Speaker 1: been challenged a ton and most guys, you know, especially rookies,
Speaker 1: they get challenged like that, Um, you know, their first year.
Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of them go straight in the tank,
Speaker 1: you know, and lose their stinger and lose their confidence.
Speaker 1: And this kid, this kid, we knew from the you know,
Speaker 1: from the beginning, just going through training camp and stuff.
Speaker 1: Once he finally got on campus with everybody else and
Speaker 1: he had something special, battle, something a little bit different.
Speaker 1: So really proud of of Jalen and Um, the set's
Speaker 1: done a wonderful job with him. Uh. And and the
Speaker 1: kid is uh, he's a bright kid. He's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: He gets football, he's got talent, he's got length and
Speaker 1: all the things you're looking for, you know in a
Speaker 1: cover corner. But yeah, he had a he had an
Speaker 1: excellent outing. You died up some very impressive run blitz
Speaker 1: as yesterday. Tell us the genesis of that. You know,
Speaker 1: there's certain things that we've had in the system, um
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, if you get the you get
Speaker 1: the right situation, Um, you get a personnel group, Like
Speaker 1: there's some of those that you just don't you can't
Speaker 1: dial up because they're not going to be in a say,
Speaker 1: a full back oriented offense or two back offense, and
Speaker 1: so um, those are things that we've had. And again
Speaker 1: the guys, Um, the guys a great job executing those things.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't it wasn't perfect by any means, but again,
Speaker 1: we got really good players and they understand and they
Speaker 1: get things, and they communicate and they just they have
Speaker 1: the ability to overcome some of their coaching Number one
Speaker 1: and number two, you know, when guys get sideways, they
Speaker 1: cover up for each other. So they did a good
Speaker 1: job execute yesterday. And someone asked me yesterday, what does
Speaker 1: the defense have to do now moving forward, because the
Speaker 1: offense still is not as productive as as the hope
Speaker 1: was said, Well, the defense is gotta keep doing its job.
Speaker 1: You just got to keep going and help out the
Speaker 1: team the way you can. No, And you're exactly right, Jeff,
Speaker 1: is that's exactly what you know. We all know what
Speaker 1: we signed up for, and you know that's sixteen weeks
Speaker 1: and then hopefully if you do good enough in those
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks, you're getting the playoffs and you make a
Speaker 1: run at that trophy. And like we got, we got
Speaker 1: good man, We got high character guys that you know,
Speaker 1: they keep their blinders on and their ear muffs on,
Speaker 1: and they come to work every single day and they prepare,
Speaker 1: you know, for for these opportunities there. You know, it
Speaker 1: seems like a lot, but they're not. And so you
Speaker 1: know they're going to take advantage of every last one
Speaker 1: of them and go out and and play their guts
Speaker 1: out for the for their you know that decal on
Speaker 1: the side of their helmet, for our fans, for the organization,
Speaker 1: for the McCaskey family, for the name on their their jersey. Um,
Speaker 1: that means a lot to these fellas, means a lot
Speaker 1: to our coaching staff. I know that. So, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta you know, the takeaways. You know, we had,
Speaker 1: we had opportunities where we talked about it. We talked
Speaker 1: about it. I mean, we've we've got to find a way,
Speaker 1: you know, to to take the ball away and scorn defense.
Speaker 1: And you know, we had an opportunity early you know
Speaker 1: in the game, Kyle makes a great break on a
Speaker 1: on a ball and talking to him, he said it
Speaker 1: was a little bit surprised he covered him so well.
Speaker 1: He was shocked that he threw it, you know. And um,
Speaker 1: but that's one that you we call it, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: missed opportunity for a big play that was that was
Speaker 1: one Jalen on the on the one on our sideline.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the receiver did a nice job
Speaker 1: of knocking that thing out of there. But we got
Speaker 1: to find a way to continue to play consistent good harden, noosed,
Speaker 1: you know, physical defense, get off the field on third down.
Speaker 1: But and that was a little bit you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they got us a little bit yesterday that
Speaker 1: wasn't up to snuff for us for our standard. But
Speaker 1: the takeaways gotta and again, like you said, you we
Speaker 1: can't press you know, and can't get you know, try
Speaker 1: to go and do something you know, crazy, to try
Speaker 1: to make a play. You just got to stay consistent
Speaker 1: and keep doing your job. You know, I got to
Speaker 1: do mine, do it better. We all got to do
Speaker 1: our job just a little bit better. But if we
Speaker 1: press and try to go outside the framework of the
Speaker 1: of the defense, then we'll hurt ourselves. The Chicago Bears
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Speaker 1: slash Crip Club. Our final segment here with Chuck Pogana
Speaker 1: before we turn them loose. Our teams doing with the
Speaker 1: big three. I call him three Kings, Hicks, Mac and
Speaker 1: Quinn because people can only look at sacks and form opinions.
Speaker 1: But even on the blow Nichols sack, Quinn made that happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he you know, he came, you know, crashing under on
Speaker 1: an ex stunt and blow played off of them. And
Speaker 1: that's what our guys, Our guys are getting a great
Speaker 1: doing a great job of, you know, um setting things
Speaker 1: up for each other, playing off of each other. But
Speaker 1: those guys, I mean every you know, every passing situation,
Speaker 1: obvious pass in situation. We're gonna get a little bit
Speaker 1: more runs. You know. The first couple of third downs,
Speaker 1: they ran the ball on us and got us um
Speaker 1: you know, which you usually don't see. Uh. That slows
Speaker 1: that slows down to rush obviously, you know. And then
Speaker 1: you get the chippers. You know, they in two personnel,
Speaker 1: which is you know, two tight ends and three whiteouts,
Speaker 1: you know, and they put those guys on both edges
Speaker 1: to chip those guys, and so they have to do
Speaker 1: some things, uh unselfishly to set it up for other guys. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, ninety seven's a rough rider. He got another
Speaker 1: another sack yesterday. The whole the whole you know, defense
Speaker 1: working together. The coverage was spot on, and and you
Speaker 1: know Ryan had nowhere to go with the football and
Speaker 1: he did a great job of um converting of off
Speaker 1: of play action, you know, and getting that sack. So Um,
Speaker 1: they'll come. They just they just got to keep working.
Speaker 1: I can't get frustrated. Um, stay upbeat, a lot of juice,
Speaker 1: a lot of energy, Uh, stay positive, um, and we'll
Speaker 1: get this thing turned around. Last week he had you
Speaker 1: guys preparing for Derek Henry. This week you get it
Speaker 1: prepared for that dynamic Minnesota running back at Dalvin Cook. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty similar to Kamara, you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. So we've been we've had our fair share
Speaker 1: of of backs to deal with. You know. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: Henry wasn't the threat that those guys are on on
Speaker 1: third down, you know, and in the past game you know,
Speaker 1: pure you know, same kind of run game stretch, you know,
Speaker 1: cut um, but different different, different back. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: you get Derek stopped at the line of scrimmage, you
Speaker 1: get him bottled up. He's not a stop, start, restart guy.
Speaker 1: Where these two guys, you know, and this guy coming up,
Speaker 1: Dalvin has you know, he's got feet like a shorebird,
Speaker 1: and he hides behind that line of scrimmage, and you know,
Speaker 1: and he sees one crease and he puts foot in
Speaker 1: the ground and he's north and south and he's gone,
Speaker 1: you know, And then the screen game, the check downs,
Speaker 1: the pat third down, all that stuff. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: going to take a huge collective effort to keep this
Speaker 1: guy contained. Feet like a shorebirds. Who doesn't love the ocean,
Speaker 1: who didn't love the beach, feet like a shorebird talking
Speaker 1: about that's fantastic. Well, good luck in your prep, Chuck,
Speaker 1: always wonderful to talk to you. Thanks a lot, take care.
Speaker 1: That's a rap on tonight's show. I want to thank
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