Speaker 1: And a pleasant good end to me, everybody, and welcome
Speaker 1: into another edition of The Bears Coaching Show with Bears
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Nage twenty to nineteen winners over the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucceteers four and one now through five weeks,
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac with you here until o'clock tonight, and Bears
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano in here tonight as well, coming
Speaker 1: up shortly after seven thirty. Hope you had a triffic weekend, Matt,
Speaker 1: what'd you do well? I watched a lot of football
Speaker 1: and got some family time for a little bit, which
Speaker 1: was good. But the most part was just getting getting
Speaker 1: onto these Carolina Panthers. We'll talk about that because they're
Speaker 1: they're surprising team to a lot of folks. Right now.
Speaker 1: We'll get into all their style and substance and whatnot.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's hard to relax because there's so
Speaker 1: much going on, and you intimated before the season it began,
Speaker 1: this was the way it was going to be. So
Speaker 1: are you finding it difficult to just get in flows
Speaker 1: because there's these starts and stops and issues that go
Speaker 1: on that pop up that cause you to make a
Speaker 1: lot of different decisions that just can't be your decision alone.
Speaker 1: And we refer to obviously the positive COVID test for
Speaker 1: Badara Trevoor and what that meant for the whole weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what it does. It's like a domino effect. And I
Speaker 1: think you know, every day as long as you live
Speaker 1: this year in twenty twenty, that expect the unexpected to
Speaker 1: know that every day is going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit different, and you don't panic, you don't get it
Speaker 1: out of sorts. And that's kind of the pattern that
Speaker 1: Ryan and I have taken and going after this thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, our players have also done a really
Speaker 1: good job. I mean they just listen whatever they trust,
Speaker 1: and they listen to what the schedule is or what's
Speaker 1: supposed to happen, and they're rolling with it. I think
Speaker 1: you feel that in the record. You know, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the score is. Our guys come out,
Speaker 1: they trust, they play hard, and we try to put
Speaker 1: it all together. Yes, that has been the case, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Three come from behind wins and the
Speaker 1: defense on the field at the time of those wins
Speaker 1: to finish the job. You're getting the clutch play when
Speaker 1: you need a clutch play, And I guess in the end,
Speaker 1: all that really matters is who makes a clutch play
Speaker 1: win in this league because it is a one score league.
Speaker 1: It is, And I think that what you're feeling right
Speaker 1: now with these players on this team is that we're
Speaker 1: having guys do that at the right time. And as
Speaker 1: a coach you really appreciate that because in big moments
Speaker 1: they're stepping up big time. Can we get better in
Speaker 1: a lot of areas, absolutely, but the players know that
Speaker 1: and the coaches know that, so we just want to
Speaker 1: you know, the way we look at is, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: when we get this thing put together, specifically on offense,
Speaker 1: and we really get motor and in doing things how
Speaker 1: we know we can do it with our defense and
Speaker 1: our special teams, we think we can have something special.
Speaker 1: Is it difficult? Though? At the same time living on
Speaker 1: the edge? Are you okay with living on the edge?
Speaker 1: Because it strike me is that type of guy? At
Speaker 1: the same time, though, yeah, we're kind of liking it
Speaker 1: right now. Not that way. I'd rather live on the edge.
Speaker 1: When you have the lead, you don't have to get
Speaker 1: the lead, you know. So there's gonna be too many
Speaker 1: games in the NFL are decided by seven points or least.
Speaker 1: So any way you look at this thing, you better
Speaker 1: be ready to be able to make a sack at
Speaker 1: the right time, throw a lobbed first down to the
Speaker 1: half back down the left sideline at the right time,
Speaker 1: be able to tip the ball, be able to make
Speaker 1: a few goal at the right time. And that's what's
Speaker 1: happening to us right now. Well, you're ten and three
Speaker 1: since last season and games decided by seven points or less.
Speaker 1: So that's that's a big number for a team that
Speaker 1: has playoff aspirations and for a team that's learned how
Speaker 1: to win under Matt Naggy. Yeah, and that's a that's
Speaker 1: really cool for our players to know where they're at.
Speaker 1: And I think you just know you're always in it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've we've obviously dug our whole hole for
Speaker 1: for ourselves a few too many times this year, but
Speaker 1: we've come back. Now, let's win the other way, you know,
Speaker 1: Let's get up big and let's put them away and
Speaker 1: we have a lot of games left and so that
Speaker 1: that'll be really the goal. Why are you five and
Speaker 1: oh on short weeks in your career. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't even I have no idea. I
Speaker 1: saw that the other day, but I had no idea
Speaker 1: up until then. I think the biggest thing is, you know,
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens the prior week, it's making sure
Speaker 1: that you take care of the players on those those
Speaker 1: short days that mentally you're doing the right thing, and
Speaker 1: then when you get out there and you play the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, our guys are the ones playing, and so
Speaker 1: I've just been fortunate with our players that they're they
Speaker 1: get right, they get their mindset right, and then they
Speaker 1: go out and they do well. Got wind of your
Speaker 1: news conference, and I guess the best we described a
Speaker 1: little agitated about the details of what's going on offensively
Speaker 1: from down to down week to week, if you could
Speaker 1: put it into the right context for the for the
Speaker 1: fans out there, and what has your dander up about
Speaker 1: that and what's the fix? Well, so you usually like
Speaker 1: to I do at least give myself, you know, at
Speaker 1: least twelve hours some people say twenty four, but at
Speaker 1: least twelve hours to get over the emotions of the game.
Speaker 1: Just as a head coach and then as an offensive
Speaker 1: guy and a play caller, you want to make sure
Speaker 1: when people ask you questions that you've watched the game
Speaker 1: before you answer the questions or make make it, you know,
Speaker 1: a comment. And so you know, time went by and
Speaker 1: I was able to settle down and then wash the tape.
Speaker 1: And when you see the tape, you know the tape
Speaker 1: doesn't lie, and there's just none of these are critical errors.
Speaker 1: You know, there's it's one thing if it's a critical
Speaker 1: error and it's a bad play in a bad moment.
Speaker 1: But what's happening that I noticed was these are just
Speaker 1: little little details that aren't happening that you know, the
Speaker 1: common viewer will not notice and you'll say, well, you're crazy,
Speaker 1: there's but we're not crazy. The details do matter, and
Speaker 1: that's the little things that if you, for instance, on
Speaker 1: a route, if you take too too many steps, that's
Speaker 1: the difference of a defensive back. We're reading a quarterback
Speaker 1: who's thrown on time and pick six in it taking
Speaker 1: it the other way because it wasn't run at the
Speaker 1: right depth or the right steps. And so now there's
Speaker 1: times when the quarterback and throw with different footwork rather
Speaker 1: than you know, and it's not the way. So I'm
Speaker 1: not picking on anybody, but it's just when eleven people
Speaker 1: do it the right way, it's hard to stop. And
Speaker 1: now on the coaches too, right, like myself, we gotta
Speaker 1: put ourselves in that same ability, like are we giving
Speaker 1: our players the best chance in situational football? Are we
Speaker 1: calm and cool? Are we giving them opportunities to give
Speaker 1: a good play where they don't have to make too
Speaker 1: many adjustments and so that all comes into play. Do
Speaker 1: you feel that details are being attended to on practices?
Speaker 1: I mean, are they doing it on practice but not
Speaker 1: taking it to Sunday necessary? Well, they are. And again,
Speaker 1: like you know, I'm really happy with the way our
Speaker 1: guys were practicing right now. We have some really really
Speaker 1: high energized practices. The guys are they're all in with that.
Speaker 1: So you know, for whatever reason, you know, this hasn't
Speaker 1: been a common theme every game. It just so happened
Speaker 1: to feel like it was that game. Now, I'll also
Speaker 1: say this, on a short week right when you're on
Speaker 1: a short weekend, we didn't run any any reps live
Speaker 1: in practice. Sometimes I can get you. So what I'll
Speaker 1: do is I'll probably chalk it up to that, and
Speaker 1: now we'll grab their attention and see what they do
Speaker 1: this week. You're gonna get a ton of questions about
Speaker 1: the run game again. But you know you've brought it up,
Speaker 1: and you also have to look at what you were
Speaker 1: playing and if it's just not working out, why beat
Speaker 1: your head against the wall. How do you look at Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: the same way. I mean, you know, running the football.
Speaker 1: You saw what we did the first few games. We
Speaker 1: were really I mean shoot, the first game of the
Speaker 1: season into the second game. I think on first down
Speaker 1: we were leading the league first down run run. You know,
Speaker 1: yards per attempt and so yards per carry. Well, we
Speaker 1: gotta get back to that. And you know it's ironic
Speaker 1: that you face these two rush defenses like they are
Speaker 1: the last two weeks and it happens to match up
Speaker 1: with a new quarterback. So um, you know, for us,
Speaker 1: what we gotta do is just stay cool, calm and
Speaker 1: collect and not panic and don't go away from it.
Speaker 1: You still gotta run the football, So how are you
Speaker 1: gonna do it? And let's figure out a plan and
Speaker 1: let's go attack it. Blitz just coming back to throw
Speaker 1: Foles gonna love it up in the air. Montgomery the
Speaker 1: catch over the top of the linebacker and it started
Speaker 1: the thirty yard line to the twenty five. That's a
Speaker 1: veteran moved by Nick Foles, and he lobed it over
Speaker 1: the top of a wheel route to David Montgomery. Throw
Speaker 1: by Nick Foles and David Montgomery popped in between a
Speaker 1: triangle of defenders on that game winning drive on second
Speaker 1: and eleven. Folds is under pressure. But Matt Nagg's we
Speaker 1: get back to the Bears coaches show here, That's not
Speaker 1: the easiest catch in the world. I'd imagine that that
Speaker 1: throw that Nick made um was special too. You know,
Speaker 1: he backpedal and he anticipated how that linebacker was going
Speaker 1: to try to undercut the throw to the flat, and
Speaker 1: so he floated up in the air and threw it
Speaker 1: to a spot. And then you know, I was talking
Speaker 1: to David after the game and I told him I
Speaker 1: can see his eyes get real big, and he told
Speaker 1: me the reason is that ball got kind of lost
Speaker 1: in the light, so he was really trying to focus
Speaker 1: on the ball and and he did a great job.
Speaker 1: But that was certainly a big play at a big moment.
Speaker 1: Is he getting more opportunities in the passing game because
Speaker 1: of his development in that regard? Yeah, No, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's improven there and I like that he's
Speaker 1: worked hard in the off season at that part of
Speaker 1: his game. Um. You know, David is a really well
Speaker 1: rounded football player, and as a running back, he's where
Speaker 1: we have a you know, he's just he's a special
Speaker 1: running back. So anytime you can get him the ball,
Speaker 1: if it's not running the ball um for a certain reason,
Speaker 1: then if you're if he's doing things out of the
Speaker 1: battlefield and it's it's a it's a plus for our offense.
Speaker 1: What's the impact of losing James Daniels. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: big one. You know, James worked so hard to get
Speaker 1: to this point. He's putting in a lot of work
Speaker 1: in the off sea and he put on some good weight.
Speaker 1: You can see his confidence really growing. Um. So anytime
Speaker 1: you have a significant injury like that, it's it's hard,
Speaker 1: you know, but he's a he'll work hard to get
Speaker 1: to get right and to get back on track. I
Speaker 1: know it's a big blow to our offensive line, just
Speaker 1: the the unity and the communication part. But we'll look
Speaker 1: forward to you know, the next guy up mentality and
Speaker 1: embrace it. Time to talk a little bit about Alex
Speaker 1: Bars since you've gotten to know him here in the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Is he's trying to learn this
Speaker 1: system and find a role for himself. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: alex Is he's a really hard worker. UM that you
Speaker 1: you understand, He's he's smart, he understands leveraging technique. He's
Speaker 1: a big guy UM as well. So you know, that's
Speaker 1: never the easiest thing to do, to jump into a
Speaker 1: game right away like that. And but he'll continue to
Speaker 1: work hard at his craft and and um and do
Speaker 1: a lot of good things. Do you have any way
Speaker 1: of finding out how many miles Cordell Patterson runs in
Speaker 1: a game, because I'll tell you, you know, it's one
Speaker 1: thing to be, you know, on field offensively, but and
Speaker 1: it's another to have you know, now three already one
Speaker 1: hundred plush yard games in the kick return aspect. He
Speaker 1: had three all of last year, which led the league.
Speaker 1: So he's got three and five weeks already, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna keep kicking to him. But
Speaker 1: then he's covering punts. He's running a lot. He is,
Speaker 1: he is, and he does that in practice a lot.
Speaker 1: He'll take some Scout team wraps in practice just to
Speaker 1: stay in condition, but he runs a lot and he's
Speaker 1: a guy that a lot of guys don't want to
Speaker 1: hit because when he's going so fast, he's such a
Speaker 1: big guy. So we want to keep that going. And
Speaker 1: I know he just embraces that role and anytime he
Speaker 1: touches the football and a lot of good things can happen.
Speaker 1: Just get me north and south and runs with a
Speaker 1: full head of steam. I mean you talk about guy
Speaker 1: running with reckless, abandoned. I mean, that's that's a tough
Speaker 1: guy to bring down. That's a train coming, no doubt.
Speaker 1: That's who he is, you know, And so that's why
Speaker 1: being able to kind of get him the ball in
Speaker 1: certain areas, whether it's handing off or doing different things
Speaker 1: on offense. You know, we're just gonna keep plugging away
Speaker 1: at that. I'm using Nick Foles words and I think
Speaker 1: you and I used it to preview the matchup, not
Speaker 1: only against the Colts but also the Buccaneers. Is you're
Speaker 1: going to be in a fist fight and that's what
Speaker 1: happened in both cases. Is that important? Yeah, they're seeing
Speaker 1: that for sure. It's a mentality. You gotta be mentally tough,
Speaker 1: mentally strong, and there's gonna be different games that you're
Speaker 1: in where you can get mentally exhausted and break down
Speaker 1: and you're not tough. But our guys aren't doing that.
Speaker 1: They're they're showing a big time resilience and staying together,
Speaker 1: finding different ways to win our defense being out there
Speaker 1: on the field at the end of these games. You know,
Speaker 1: from the very first week until this past week with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, that's not easy to do. So they they're
Speaker 1: starting to get more and more confidence. There's different things
Speaker 1: we're trying to get better out across the board as
Speaker 1: a team. But again, to be four and one is
Speaker 1: a good thing for us and we gotta just keep growing.
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Speaker 1: Foles lights up when he says Jimmy Graham, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: my guy. He's loving playing with Jimmy Graham. And what
Speaker 1: quarterback wouldn't Matt Well, No, I mean it's it's when
Speaker 1: you have a guy that's, you know, six foot seven,
Speaker 1: has that wingspan and the ball skills that he has.
Speaker 1: It's a friendly target. So they have a great relationship.
Speaker 1: They build a great relationship here in the in the
Speaker 1: off season and training camp. Their lockers are near each other,
Speaker 1: so they're able to communicate to each other. And I
Speaker 1: think you're seeing and you only see more and more
Speaker 1: here moving forward. Welcome back to the Bears Coaching Show,
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Speaker 1: head coach Matt Naggy, Jeff Jonik with you Duay to
Speaker 1: clock tonight. Let's talk about the hit by Kyle Fuller
Speaker 1: and Kasham Vaughn. Perfectly timed up, but that was a
Speaker 1: difference making hit for the game. Yeah, that was huge.
Speaker 1: It was right down there in front of me and
Speaker 1: you you saw it, you felt it, you heard it.
Speaker 1: You know what a big play in that moment that
Speaker 1: we needed. And that just kind of speaks to what
Speaker 1: Kyle's been doing this year. Not only is a great
Speaker 1: defensive back, but he'll come and hit you too and
Speaker 1: set the toad. And that was a big time play
Speaker 1: for us that that we've fed off of him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's playing at a very high level. And what you
Speaker 1: think about Jalen Johnson because with every great quarterback he faced,
Speaker 1: see he's just notching mile post so to speak, in
Speaker 1: the development of his young career. But he still looks
Speaker 1: and plays like a veteran out there. He does. I
Speaker 1: think that's probably his biggest strength is that he doesn't
Speaker 1: he doesn't get affected by a negative play. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's going to happen in this league. He's very He's
Speaker 1: just he's got a really good moxie about him that
Speaker 1: I like. Um doesn't say a whole heck of a lot.
Speaker 1: He just kind of comes out and does his job.
Speaker 1: And you feel that. So between him and Kayle out
Speaker 1: there and the Edges feel like we're in a pretty
Speaker 1: good place. They're playing fast in your opinion, and because
Speaker 1: that's what you want for the whole team. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they're sensing again. The only the only game that I
Speaker 1: didn't think they played very fast and and they know
Speaker 1: it was, was Detroit Week one. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes into that. I mean, there was it was
Speaker 1: It wasn't an easy environment, but they channel and our
Speaker 1: coaches challenged them and they stepped up to the to
Speaker 1: the deal. Now. So they're every game so far, they've
Speaker 1: been affecting quarterbacks. And when you do that, you're always
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance, and the turnovers will come, the
Speaker 1: sacks will come. Some of them came last week, but
Speaker 1: they're they're they're really playing fast. Three ten play drives
Speaker 1: that ended in field goals. I'm certain you'd like to
Speaker 1: get those drives a little shorter so you don't have
Speaker 1: your backs up against the wall. But overall, do you
Speaker 1: like everything that they're doing. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: care if if it's it been no break or is
Speaker 1: that a term that you're okay with, But in those situations,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes that's gonna happen. Yeah, And again, I
Speaker 1: think as you play certain teams, you might get some
Speaker 1: of that more than others. You might get a quarterback
Speaker 1: that's a little more aggressive, and so there's opportunities to
Speaker 1: get to football on turnovers and it flips the field.
Speaker 1: But if the team is going to just kind of
Speaker 1: dink and dunk or try to run the ball between
Speaker 1: the tackles and and and churn out first downs. Then
Speaker 1: when they get down inside that red zone, you gotta
Speaker 1: make them kick field goals or at least attempt them.
Speaker 1: That's what we're doing right now. The sacks, the turnovers,
Speaker 1: I think that stuff's gonna come the short field for offense.
Speaker 1: The only negative to the to the Benbitt don't break
Speaker 1: is at on the flip side. Offensively, that's time of
Speaker 1: possession and it keeps it out of you. And so
Speaker 1: you need to be so effective when you have the
Speaker 1: ball on offense with that time of possession, and if
Speaker 1: you're you know, if you're not getting the ball out,
Speaker 1: it can be a problem. So but our our defense,
Speaker 1: I'm really happy with playing. All right, let's talk Carolina,
Speaker 1: since you've had an early crack Adam uh tell us
Speaker 1: about what Matt Rule is doing, what kind of system
Speaker 1: they're throwing and this youngest offensive coordinator in league, and
Speaker 1: I think you can appreciate that the challenge of that
Speaker 1: for Joe Brady. Yeah, No, you know, coach Rule does
Speaker 1: a really good job overseeing all three phases. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got an experience in all three. I you know,
Speaker 1: I can remember the days back when he was coaching
Speaker 1: at Temple and UM, and now you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's a really good leader and you guys trust and
Speaker 1: what he's building there. You can see it on you know,
Speaker 1: winning three games in a row offensively with Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: back there. Um, we saw what Teddy can do last year.
Speaker 1: We'll play he gets someone the same side. You know,
Speaker 1: Mike Davis is having a you know, he's had some
Speaker 1: some really good games here with with McCaffrey out, and
Speaker 1: then they got speed on offense. On the outside it
Speaker 1: was wide receiver. Now they can fly, so what of
Speaker 1: our handsful there? And then defensively, I think you're seeing
Speaker 1: a little different scheme that that's coming from the college world,
Speaker 1: that that they do some different stuff there, mixing it
Speaker 1: in here or there. But they got guys that are
Speaker 1: trusting the system and you know they just they really
Speaker 1: play hard and they fit well together. So um, for
Speaker 1: us to go down on the road and go see
Speaker 1: this team that's well coached, we got to make sure
Speaker 1: we have our a game. I read where you know,
Speaker 1: he says the same things you do. He wants fast
Speaker 1: and physical. So you're looking in the mirror a little bit. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you you definitely feel that, you know, you feel the
Speaker 1: speed on on both both sides and special teams, and
Speaker 1: that's something that's an identity that they want to have.
Speaker 1: They fly around and move to the ball, so you
Speaker 1: better be ready for it for that speed. When you
Speaker 1: referred to more of a college style defense, what do
Speaker 1: you referring to? What are they doing? Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: You know, they have a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: package where they play an odd front with they just
Speaker 1: it'll look like, you know, they'll have three three down
Speaker 1: line and no one else on the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: and so it feels like it looks like you should
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, do some good things versus that.
Speaker 1: But they want you to think that. They want you
Speaker 1: to know that they do a good job with it.
Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of of you know, understanding
Speaker 1: that what they do when they do it and um
Speaker 1: and again they're they're well coached, so it's it's fitting
Speaker 1: what they do. All right, Well, good luck in your
Speaker 1: preparation this week. We'll talk to you again next week.
Speaker 1: He's Jeff First down to the sixteen yard line. Motion
Speaker 1: man Tyler Johnson snap from center play pick the Jones
Speaker 1: and pretties down Donovan Smith beating again by KELLEL. Mack
Speaker 1: his second sack of the night. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: in the defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears, Chuck Bogano. Chuck,
Speaker 1: how was your weekend? Excellent? Excellent, good, family time, good good.
Speaker 1: Kalel Mac with a couple of sacks and the Bears
Speaker 1: went over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yes, the sack numbers,
Speaker 1: people keep bringing that up, but among the league leaders
Speaker 1: right now, hits her. He's an overall pressures if you
Speaker 1: Pro Football focus fans, He's got at least five pressures
Speaker 1: in each of the first five games. So hello, Mack
Speaker 1: playing at a high level right now. Yeah, yeah, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. And again everybody's gonna always look at,
Speaker 1: you know, the bottom line, look at the stats sheet
Speaker 1: and say, well, you know, he didn't have four, he
Speaker 1: didn't have five sacks this game, this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: But we always talk about effecting the quarterback. He's doing
Speaker 1: a great job with effecting the quarterback. Again, nobody on
Speaker 1: our defense, you know, plays harder than Khalil. He gives
Speaker 1: one hundred percent effort on every down, doesn't matter run
Speaker 1: or passed. So they'll come, those numbers will come. And
Speaker 1: it helps to have you know, came in the middle
Speaker 1: those other guys pushing the middle of the pocket, you know,
Speaker 1: Robert on the other set, the other side. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's given guys opportunities to get some singles and
Speaker 1: win those singles. Kyle Fuller's hit, How does that make
Speaker 1: you feel when a corner delivers that kind of ship.
Speaker 1: Physical corners always equate to physical defenses, and in this league,
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long way. Yeah, And he's
Speaker 1: just another one in a long line of physical corners
Speaker 1: that have played here. You know, when you think back
Speaker 1: and guys that, you know, Peanut Tillman just comes to mind,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, force and turnovers and things like that.
Speaker 1: And it was so timely and so textbook, I mean,
Speaker 1: because he's been called earlier in the year, uh, you
Speaker 1: know on a hit. Uh, you know here and there
Speaker 1: we have as a defense. But you know, he lined
Speaker 1: that guy up perfectly. He got his head head out
Speaker 1: of there to the side. He took care of his
Speaker 1: responsibility and then had great vision looking back inside once
Speaker 1: the ball was checked down to the running back and
Speaker 1: time that thing up perfectly and force that force that
Speaker 1: turnover and obviously very very timely for us as a team.
Speaker 1: Quinn picked it up. That was big because there's been
Speaker 1: plays that have happened in this league where a fumble
Speaker 1: is recovered by the offense and they go and take
Speaker 1: it to the house or something like that. So the
Speaker 1: awareness is critical and not everybody does it though, do they.
Speaker 1: You know, coach Moniquino, everybody emphasizes that any ball that's
Speaker 1: on the ground, regardless quarterback, you know he's coming through,
Speaker 1: you don't know if it's empty hand or not, scoop
Speaker 1: every every ball up and we start, you know, back
Speaker 1: in training camp and charting, you know, scoops with the
Speaker 1: ball being on the ground. So it was great awareness because,
Speaker 1: like you said, we've seen that happen and you know,
Speaker 1: it turns out to be a fall. There's not there's
Speaker 1: no clear recovery, so you don't end up getting you know,
Speaker 1: you get the you know, maybe the third down stop
Speaker 1: the you know, the punt all that, but you don't
Speaker 1: get the turnover. So was it heads up played by Quinn?
Speaker 1: How do you coach guys that if they do get
Speaker 1: flag as you mentioned that, you know, Kyle got flagged
Speaker 1: you know a couple of times actually already this year,
Speaker 1: that they don't lose the aggressiveness because of the worry
Speaker 1: of john a flag because those are big plays, just
Speaker 1: like a pass completion. Yeah. Again, some of those things
Speaker 1: are just a byproduct of you know, the way you
Speaker 1: play defense and playing aggressive and playing fast and their
Speaker 1: bang bang plays and you show him, um over and
Speaker 1: over again, and you show clips of other guys on
Speaker 1: other teams, uh doing it the right way, showing uh
Speaker 1: the officials ones that they're calling you know, why are
Speaker 1: they calling it? So we just try to continue to
Speaker 1: educate him, and um, you know he learned, you know,
Speaker 1: and everybody else on our defense will learn learn from that.
Speaker 1: And you know, Roque had one, you know, on a
Speaker 1: ball across the middle on a on a third down,
Speaker 1: you know, where he hits a guy in the you know,
Speaker 1: with the head on the side and the shoulder pad
Speaker 1: and put it right on the ball and forces an
Speaker 1: incomplete path. So, Um, you just try to you know,
Speaker 1: teach as much as you can from from your own
Speaker 1: stuff and then you know other tape around the league. Oh,
Speaker 1: speaking of Roque, I think he's playing tremendous, but he
Speaker 1: was beating himself up a little bit on the spin move.
Speaker 1: Great blitz call that came down and spinning away. He goes,
Speaker 1: I got to do a better job with spinning backs.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people doing that right
Speaker 1: now in the league. How do you coach that one?
Speaker 1: And and how do you drive through when you're coming
Speaker 1: down the hill like that on a spin move? Because
Speaker 1: I would think that's not you know that he shouldn't
Speaker 1: beat him up. You know, we're all you know, he's
Speaker 1: he's you know, more upset than any of us because
Speaker 1: of you know, the standard he has for himself and
Speaker 1: then the standard that we all have for how we
Speaker 1: played defense. You know. Um, so you know, and the
Speaker 1: great great thing about it was should have been a
Speaker 1: potographer laws it didn't work out that way. But he
Speaker 1: got right up off the ground and chase the guy
Speaker 1: down from behind. Um, you know, he tied the thing
Speaker 1: up perfect. And um, he'll learn from that. Wall learn
Speaker 1: from that and it's you know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where you know, say, hey, you got to come
Speaker 1: under control, but the guy you know gets passed set
Speaker 1: and let's draw play this out and the other so um,
Speaker 1: and we got a spinner coming up you know this week.
Speaker 1: This Mike Davis. Uh, you know, he's doing a great
Speaker 1: job of making guys avoiding myths as well. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pocatto,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Whippley CPA's end consultants. Chuck, we
Speaker 1: talked about Claire Max pressures in our last segment. Let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about his sidekick out the other side. With
Speaker 1: the amount of snaps he's getting at this point, what
Speaker 1: is your opinion of how things are going for Robert Quinn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's you know, becoming more comfortable with each and every day, um,
Speaker 1: with each and every game. So we fully expect those numbers,
Speaker 1: you know, to start to increase. But again, the way
Speaker 1: he's affecting the quarterback in a way, um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's open up things for his teammates. Um, I think
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of time before, you know, just
Speaker 1: like his first play as a Chicago Bear. Those those
Speaker 1: numbers start to ramp up, and we see the sacks
Speaker 1: and the sack fumbles and the hurries and the hits.
Speaker 1: A couple of guys want to bring up James Voters
Speaker 1: for a while. We talked to him in the postgame show.
Speaker 1: I got his first NFL sack. This has been a
Speaker 1: long journey for him, several teams. Very smart guy. Stanford
Speaker 1: Grad played some CFL but hearing himself a spot of
Speaker 1: this roster and contributing. Talk about his development in what
Speaker 1: you're in, what you want to see from him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: what a great story. You know about perseverance and grit
Speaker 1: and you know, you look at the road that he
Speaker 1: able to get to this point, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: kudos to James, and you know him staying at it
Speaker 1: and staying the course and and uh, you knows he's
Speaker 1: doing a great job for us. You know, he comes
Speaker 1: in and he gives those guys a spell, but he
Speaker 1: comes in and he's productive. He's been productive against the run. Um.
Speaker 1: It was great to see him, you know, get that,
Speaker 1: get that first act. But again it's a it's a
Speaker 1: guy that's a selfless guy's he's a great teammate. He
Speaker 1: works hard, Um, keeps his head down, does his job.
Speaker 1: You know, just again the ultimate ultimate selfless teammate. And
Speaker 1: I think anytime, you know, I always you know, learned,
Speaker 1: the harder you work, the luck you are. And he's
Speaker 1: one of those guys. I would think DHC is also
Speaker 1: that guy dere Houston Carson. To me, he's just a
Speaker 1: good football player and you put him in there in
Speaker 1: a critical moment and I just like the safeties before
Speaker 1: him this year with the defense out of the field
Speaker 1: to close it out in four wins. Are three of
Speaker 1: the four wins, I think, Yeah, uh, it's it's a
Speaker 1: credit to the coaching that's going on to get these
Speaker 1: guys ready. And DHC pretty much ran the rout for
Speaker 1: Cameron Brake broke it up. Yeah, Shaye and Sean do
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job with those guys. And the thing that
Speaker 1: Jeff that people don't understand is they don't get many
Speaker 1: reps in practice. You know, they get the mental stuff.
Speaker 1: They watch the tape. Um, we'll get him in uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a few reps here and there, you know,
Speaker 1: playing that that dime spot, um, and he's always in
Speaker 1: the right spot. Um. You know that was had been
Speaker 1: you know, Deon Bush had been playing the starting dime.
Speaker 1: Dion's out, so it's next man up, and you know,
Speaker 1: he comes in and uh, you know, uh closes the
Speaker 1: game out for us, you know, and make the call
Speaker 1: and they try to hit you know, Grounk down the
Speaker 1: seam and he's in perfect position and breaks that pass up.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm not surprised, you know, our coaches
Speaker 1: aren't surprised, just because the way the guy you know
Speaker 1: works and prepares and um, again, what what a phenomenal
Speaker 1: job by him. And it's a it's a it's a
Speaker 1: testament to to you know, to him and his work ethic.
Speaker 1: And it's great for our young guys to see because
Speaker 1: we always tell them, I said, you never know, you know,
Speaker 1: you better prepare. You better come in here and prepare
Speaker 1: like a starter each and every day because you never
Speaker 1: know when your number is gonna get called, and his
Speaker 1: gets called and he comes through. Yeah, well that's true.
Speaker 1: Truer this year because of the COVID threat. Uh there
Speaker 1: could be uh no advanced warning for a guy to
Speaker 1: have to make big place for you out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that's something you're constantly preaching these guys, yeah,
Speaker 1: all the time and h and you know whether they
Speaker 1: and it seems like obviously they're all taking it to heart.
Speaker 1: They're doing a great job of navigating through. Um. These
Speaker 1: crazy times are circumstances. And again it's you know, it
Speaker 1: can be you know, Saturday morning and wake up, Sunday
Speaker 1: morning and wake up and all of a sudden, somebody's
Speaker 1: somebody's out for whatever reason whatever it's covided this at
Speaker 1: and the other and your number gets called. Well, the
Speaker 1: expectations are that you know exactly what to do. You've
Speaker 1: been preparing, you know your assignment, you know the game plan,
Speaker 1: and you go out there and execute at a high level.
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Speaker 1: weekend last weekend. We've seen your NFL commercials. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a wonderful story and uh, you know, thank
Speaker 1: you for for doing that because the messaging still needs
Speaker 1: to be out there. You know, obviously blessed us still
Speaker 1: be around to be able to do that and help
Speaker 1: encourage you know, others, and humbled that they would even ask, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, me to be a part of that. And
Speaker 1: it was an easy yes, uh for obvious reasons. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the uh, the awareness, the screening, uh, the encouragement. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we can't we can't do enough of it,
Speaker 1: and um and hopefully you know, hopefully the message you know,
Speaker 1: keeps keeps getting out there. And uh, they do a
Speaker 1: great job with a uh you know, our organization does
Speaker 1: a great job with the NFL does a great great
Speaker 1: job of it. And I know that, Uh the encouragement
Speaker 1: and the support that I got from so many people
Speaker 1: that I did not know, you know, had no idea
Speaker 1: you know, help me, get me, you know, through my journey.
Speaker 1: And so now UM, I have a you know, an
Speaker 1: opportunity to pay it forward and pay it back and
Speaker 1: you know, and and hopefully help help others. Chuck Pogotto,
Speaker 1: our guest, let's touch on a couple of things. Before
Speaker 1: he had to Carolina here to take on the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Eddie Jackson have you adjusted his ability to have more
Speaker 1: freedom to do what he does best, and that's to
Speaker 1: be a playmaker back there. And do you find that
Speaker 1: it's still not allowing him to get many chances because
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are staying away from him. Yeah, and that that
Speaker 1: becomes a frustrating thing for all of us, especially uh
Speaker 1: you know Eddie. Um, you know he does. He does
Speaker 1: a really good job in preparation and and uh we're
Speaker 1: doing uh you know, we're trying to do things us
Speaker 1: to where um, you know, we can get them in
Speaker 1: certain situations and put them in spots to uh, to
Speaker 1: give him opportunities to give our defense and opportunities to
Speaker 1: help us win. That's that's the ultimate thing with all
Speaker 1: our guys, that's what you know. But they all want
Speaker 1: to make plays. And um, these quarterbacks, I mean they're
Speaker 1: head coaches, their offensive coordinators, they are just telling them,
Speaker 1: you know, wherever you do, do not come, don't go
Speaker 1: near him. And um, and that's a byproduct of of
Speaker 1: being being really good and being a ballhawk and having
Speaker 1: ball skills and being a smart football player. And um,
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate. You go back to the Giants game and
Speaker 1: he makes the great play and we get flagged on
Speaker 1: a bang bang play and he takes him back to
Speaker 1: the house and it was like for all of us,
Speaker 1: it was like, Okay, this is gonna be two eighteen
Speaker 1: all over again. This is the start of it, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, but you know, those those things
Speaker 1: happen so um, he just can't press. He'll stay he'll
Speaker 1: stay the course. Um and and he's just got to
Speaker 1: trust to know that those things will someone it will
Speaker 1: make a mistake, you know, and he'll be in the
Speaker 1: right spot and take advantage of it. How's Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: playing in Carolina with Matt rule new system. Well, he's
Speaker 1: running that system to a t and he's completing you know,
Speaker 1: over seventy three percent of his pass is. He's efficient,
Speaker 1: he's athletic, he can get out of harm's way, he's
Speaker 1: spreading the ball around, he's running, he's operating that offense
Speaker 1: in that system, I mean beautifully. And it's going to
Speaker 1: be a huge, huge challenge. We have to have a great,
Speaker 1: great week of preparation. Guys are gonna have to dive
Speaker 1: into this film and study this kid. But he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job. It'll it'll take all eleven playing is
Speaker 1: one to slow this unit down. All right, coach, We'll
Speaker 1: let you go. Appreciate the time as always, and good
Speaker 1: luck with your preparation this week. Thank you, Jeff. The
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