Speaker 1: And welcome into another edition of the Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with Bears head coach Man Naggie. I'm Jeff Joniak. Thirty
Speaker 1: to twenty six to come from behind, went over the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. The Bears three and over the first time
Speaker 1: since twenty thirteen, and they have a chance to go forward.
Speaker 1: Are for the first time, Matt since the Bears went
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl in two thousand and six under
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith. So that's something to look forward to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: Colt will break that down on our third segment today.
Speaker 1: Bill Lazier, the Bears offensive coordinator, checks in at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. First of all, how do you encapsulize?
Speaker 1: What is three victories? Like you guys have accomplished two
Speaker 1: on last place stops, comebacks twice from sixteen down. We
Speaker 1: got to come up with a nickname for these guys.
Speaker 1: Cardiac Kids was the Browns back of the day with
Speaker 1: Brian Pipe. I don't know if you remember him, but
Speaker 1: the comeback Kids. We got a lot of names we
Speaker 1: could throw around. You got one cooking. I don't I
Speaker 1: know this. So it's been it's been a lot of
Speaker 1: fun knowing that when we win these games, we can
Speaker 1: go celebrating Club dub I mean to win the games
Speaker 1: is what's been a lot of fun for us. On
Speaker 1: the sideline. I wish we could have our fans that
Speaker 1: are with us to be supportive of it and be
Speaker 1: a part of it. But they're all different, you know,
Speaker 1: in regards to we don't really want to have a
Speaker 1: trend here get behind sixteen points in a fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: but that's what's happened, and our guys have been able
Speaker 1: to fight back. It's the first time in history. By
Speaker 1: the way, you listen to this stat I know you're
Speaker 1: not a big, big numbers guy, but down sixteen to
Speaker 1: start the fourth one hundred forty five times in franchise history.
Speaker 1: Team's record prior to this year was one and one
Speaker 1: forty four. It's twenty ten matts. There have been six
Speaker 1: hundred and forty eight times, the teams only have won
Speaker 1: six times. The Bears have won it twice. So how
Speaker 1: do you put that in perspective about this bunch. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy to think about just because when you're you're
Speaker 1: you know, the first time in Detroit, when we're down,
Speaker 1: then you come back and it happened so quick, and
Speaker 1: you know, defense got turnover's offensive scoring and making our kicks,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, before you know it, you
Speaker 1: have the lead and it's like, okay, let's through that again.
Speaker 1: And then you have your second game against the Giants
Speaker 1: and it comes down the last play of the game
Speaker 1: and a tale of two halves. And then this this
Speaker 1: h this past weekend, similar type deal. You know, here
Speaker 1: we are in the fourth quarter and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: momentum starts to change a little bit and you can
Speaker 1: feel it. And by the time that we got that football,
Speaker 1: that punt, they punted the ball to us. Outside of
Speaker 1: two minutes, I think there was not one person on
Speaker 1: that sideline that knew that we were not going to
Speaker 1: go down there. And when we all knew that we
Speaker 1: were going to go down there and win this game,
Speaker 1: we just felt it. And there's a belief, there's a trust.
Speaker 1: There's something about this team, like I said yesterday, that's
Speaker 1: just a little bit special, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, but it's it's powerful and I love being
Speaker 1: a part of it. And it's just a credit to
Speaker 1: all these players and coaches. All Right, Matt, you did
Speaker 1: have the conversation with Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Foles. The
Speaker 1: turn to Nick Foles. Now, if you can explain your
Speaker 1: decision making after minuting with your coaches and then what
Speaker 1: the individual conversations were like, if you could share a
Speaker 1: little bit about that. Sure, Yeah, Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: you know, what we ended up doing in the decision
Speaker 1: that we're making is what we're doing is making it
Speaker 1: for the best of the team, you know, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what's um In this profession, you do have
Speaker 1: to have difficult discussions with players, and especially when you
Speaker 1: build these tight relationships with them. Fortunately for us, both
Speaker 1: of these guys, Nick and Mitch are really good people,
Speaker 1: and they're both competitors. They both want to be the guy,
Speaker 1: but they also understand. You know, it was having discussions
Speaker 1: with him when you had to announce, when we had
Speaker 1: to announce the starter after training camp was an important
Speaker 1: discussion for both of them. They both handled it really well.
Speaker 1: And now to have this again with them moving forward here,
Speaker 1: they've they've done the same thing. You know, just talking
Speaker 1: to to Mitchell Um, he understands it. He doesn't like it,
Speaker 1: he's he wishes it was something different, but he's handled
Speaker 1: it as best as he can and I think it
Speaker 1: definitely makes a lot easier when you have somebody as
Speaker 1: supportive as Nick has been to him as when Nick
Speaker 1: was the backup. And I know that Mitchell handled this
Speaker 1: the right way and would be just as supportive to
Speaker 1: Nick as we move forward here again with Nick just
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for Nick and myself as
Speaker 1: a play caller is just knowing that we're going to
Speaker 1: learn what's best and how he works best, what he
Speaker 1: likes best, and it'll take a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: but I think yesterday was just a little snippet of
Speaker 1: how things can go. And it's just a healthy quarterback
Speaker 1: room right now, and I know Nick's excited to get
Speaker 1: going when you make that change, and you felt the
Speaker 1: juice immediately. You know, when you think about it, it
Speaker 1: was five touchdown throws. You know, one was taken away
Speaker 1: by the interception by the Nard that's a debatable one obviously,
Speaker 1: the drop by Anthony Miller. So in six drives, five
Speaker 1: touchdown drives, which was what you've been preaching all along.
Speaker 1: This season has to be about touchdowns. And you look
Speaker 1: at how the league is forming at the moment, whether
Speaker 1: it be COVID related and no offseason or the reality
Speaker 1: teams are popping the scoreboard. Is that move is much
Speaker 1: a part of this than anything. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: bring up a good point. You know, in six possessions
Speaker 1: to have five five times at that ball ended up
Speaker 1: in the end zone with two of them being called
Speaker 1: touchdowns and both of them being called back, there's something
Speaker 1: to that, And I think you could just feel that,
Speaker 1: and that's you know, it's a credit to Nick and
Speaker 1: to these players of in that fourth quarter to be aggressive,
Speaker 1: to take shots we had to, And I think that
Speaker 1: that's kind of the DNA of who he is and
Speaker 1: what we want to be about. And and so that's
Speaker 1: a start. When you look at Mitchell Trubisky and he
Speaker 1: did try to push the ball down the field and
Speaker 1: it's been a continuing kind of issue for Mitch hitting
Speaker 1: those deep out routes and some of those deep balls
Speaker 1: are just a little off. Is that something that he
Speaker 1: can work on and get in tune with And what
Speaker 1: are you telling him to be ready because the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is he has to be ready in
Speaker 1: a moment's notice here. Yeah, for sure. I think Number
Speaker 1: one is in this situation, when you're told you know
Speaker 1: that you're you're going to be the backup. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of motion that go through your head, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's frustration, there's disappointment. But once you get through that,
Speaker 1: now you got to pick yourself back up and realize
Speaker 1: what we're all about and how we're going to do things.
Speaker 1: And you just said it, You're you're literally one play away,
Speaker 1: and so you've got to be mentally strong. You gotta
Speaker 1: be mentally all there, and then if and when that
Speaker 1: time comes again for you, you know, take it by storm.
Speaker 1: So he'll be good. I know he'll handle it the
Speaker 1: right way, and I'm proud of how he's handled it
Speaker 1: so far. Falls has made thirteen starts in the last
Speaker 1: five years, not including the Super Bowl run, and forty
Speaker 1: eight in his career. We look at him as a
Speaker 1: veteran backup, but what does he have that he's quipped
Speaker 1: to be a starter for the rest of this season. Well,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing, Jeff, is that the amount of experience
Speaker 1: that he has, He's really seen in all the years
Speaker 1: he's been in this league, a bunch of different defenses.
Speaker 1: He's been in some different offenses. He now has enough
Speaker 1: time here in Chicago to understand the timing of how
Speaker 1: these wide receivers run a route. He's learned that. And
Speaker 1: I think his biggest strength is at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: so he sees defenses really well. That's a strength of
Speaker 1: his and so when you have that, you want to
Speaker 1: be able to use that and you're able to play fast.
Speaker 1: And it's just with some of the big time games
Speaker 1: he's had, he does it. Well. Here's the snap. Good
Speaker 1: rush they throw, as he said, into the end zone, touchdown,
Speaker 1: middle of the end zode. How beautiful pro ball, Dann.
Speaker 1: The Bears have the lead a stirring performance by Nick
Speaker 1: Foles in the offense three fourth quarter touchdowns, including the
Speaker 1: game winner right there to Anthony Miller. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggie. I'm
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Speaker 1: that play. Because I love x's and o's as much
Speaker 1: as anybody, and I really work hard to try to
Speaker 1: understand him. But when you are in a huddle and
Speaker 1: you tell a guy, hey, run to the L, I
Speaker 1: have a feeling they're gonna bring extras, And they bring
Speaker 1: the six and the blitz is coming from the rookie
Speaker 1: linebacker and he waits as long as he possibly can
Speaker 1: to hang in the pocket and folds finds Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: at the L. That's like goal, go down the street,
Speaker 1: hit the the oldsmobile, the red one down the corner,
Speaker 1: and then make an incut as a coach and just
Speaker 1: a guy who's a total jim rat like yourself. How
Speaker 1: fun is that to hear that? Yeah, it's pretty it's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. And then what's crazy, Jeff, is that that
Speaker 1: all that conversation went down and during that two minute
Speaker 1: warning that TV time out, so as everybody's at a
Speaker 1: TV time out, we're out on the huddle, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Nick is talking through with the guys as
Speaker 1: to what could happen, and we were able to get
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pre snap read as to
Speaker 1: what we thought they might do before the two minute
Speaker 1: warning him and so, uh you know, there he is
Speaker 1: being able to tell these guys, Hey, this is how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. This is the mechanics of how
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it, and the you know a lot
Speaker 1: of times if you end up getting to a certain
Speaker 1: play at the line of scrimmage, sometimes the defense can
Speaker 1: show you a look and then they can get out
Speaker 1: of it because they know you're you're checking and you're
Speaker 1: making an audible But if you do it discreetly and
Speaker 1: you do it quick, they can't get out of it.
Speaker 1: And that's essentially what happened. And so, knowing that that
Speaker 1: was going to be the case, he then took it
Speaker 1: to the next level and tell Anthony, hey, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get him on this, and then run to the L
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna have to get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quick if it's cover zero, and I'm gonna throw it
Speaker 1: to a spot and you run to that L and
Speaker 1: you catch the ball. And that's what happened. And so
Speaker 1: when you see that, it's really special. So we should
Speaker 1: explain the atl is how Atlanta refers to itself here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty with new uniforms and whatnot, and it's
Speaker 1: at atl in the end zone. But those landmarks, is
Speaker 1: it's that simple sometime to create those landmarks as opposed
Speaker 1: to all the crazy language in Chinese that you guys
Speaker 1: throw at these players in the huddle. Yeah, you know what,
Speaker 1: it can get a little crazy when you're when you're
Speaker 1: looking at it from the film view the All twenty
Speaker 1: two or from you looking from our TV cut up
Speaker 1: versus when you're down on the field, you know. And
Speaker 1: so it's just really simple when when a quarterbacker, when
Speaker 1: Nick says, hey, into the l there's a spot, there's
Speaker 1: a landmark in the end zone that's as an L there.
Speaker 1: Just run to that and the ball be there, and
Speaker 1: that's what happened. And you know, it's sometimes you can
Speaker 1: make the game a little easier and then that's what
Speaker 1: Nick did. Sometimes simple is better. But when you talk
Speaker 1: to Nick then afterwards about that play, what's he tell you,
Speaker 1: because now you could have a good laugh about it
Speaker 1: and you got to win. Well, yeah, I mean it's
Speaker 1: always great when it's completed and when it's a game winner.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's just what it's a memory you
Speaker 1: always keep. And you know, just talking to Nick after
Speaker 1: the game, he's had a lot of big moments now
Speaker 1: in his career. He's had a lot of highs and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he may mention to me that that's one
Speaker 1: of his favorite plays that he's been a part of.
Speaker 1: And so to hear that in the first game with
Speaker 1: him as a Chicago Bear, you know, and to come
Speaker 1: back and win, like that's pretty pretty cool. So you
Speaker 1: do reap what you saw good or bad in this game.
Speaker 1: What is what you reap from that in terms of
Speaker 1: his teammates and now moving forward as you prepare for
Speaker 1: him as a starter for the time with the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears and getting starter snaps in practice, sure, I think again,
Speaker 1: and all of this too is all these quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: a little bit different. And one of one of Nick's
Speaker 1: strengths that he has is is um you know, and
Speaker 1: he's been doing it his whole career is being able
Speaker 1: to um uh maybe give a wide receiver a specific
Speaker 1: route within the play call. And because he does, he's
Speaker 1: one of his strengths to seeing defenses really well and
Speaker 1: he knows where where they're coming from, and maybe a
Speaker 1: blitz coming from the field or it's coming from the boundary,
Speaker 1: he sees it. And he's not always right. But what
Speaker 1: what I think you saw yesterday in that fourth quarter
Speaker 1: was our wide receivers just knowing Okay, uh, be ready
Speaker 1: any at all times there could that ball could come
Speaker 1: to you and when maybe in a normal situation it doesn't.
Speaker 1: And that's no slight against Mitch at all. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks that that aren't to that point that
Speaker 1: that Nick is, And so I think some of our
Speaker 1: wide receivers and tight ends are realizing, hey, there might
Speaker 1: be a progression into play where I'm number three and
Speaker 1: I'm getting I'm getting the ball. Seeing that cover two
Speaker 1: beater to ted Kin Junior, you said is your favorite
Speaker 1: play when you met the media earlier today, Why is
Speaker 1: that your favorite throw and play when the protection's right
Speaker 1: and you know what to attack when they're doing cover
Speaker 1: two like that, those pockets are open on that side
Speaker 1: of the field. Yeah, I just thought, Jeff did that
Speaker 1: that moment that play, You know, you don't always get
Speaker 1: Usually there's nine or ten guys that do it do
Speaker 1: it right within a play, and there's always one or
Speaker 1: two that are a little bit off. But that play there, man,
Speaker 1: they were Our guys were cooking. They they everybody was
Speaker 1: doing their job. Everything was on time and it's hard
Speaker 1: to stop when you're on time and end rhythm. It
Speaker 1: was just everything about that play was good. And then
Speaker 1: to throw on top of it that it was fourth
Speaker 1: and six to keep the drive going. We had to
Speaker 1: have that. And and so I just I love when
Speaker 1: a play comes together when you visualize it and then
Speaker 1: when you execute it. It's really it's really neat to
Speaker 1: see third and seven from the twenty six yard line
Speaker 1: left Hash Ryan and the gun pourvn On third Downny
Speaker 1: he is in trouble and Donny goes. They climb over
Speaker 1: the top and bring him down. Keep Hicks and I'm
Speaker 1: a sack three and a half a half shy of
Speaker 1: the league lead right now as the Bears get ready
Speaker 1: to meet the Indianapolis coach. Welcome back to the Bears
Speaker 1: Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matt Naggie. I'm Jeff
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Speaker 1: bottom of the hour. Let's talk about the pressure because
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it. Maybe you've already told
Speaker 1: it up on how many pressures or hurries the front
Speaker 1: gave yesterday to Matt Ryan because at different points of
Speaker 1: the game. Let's take the first drive of the game
Speaker 1: out of it and the opening drive of this third
Speaker 1: quarter out of it, because I felt it really made
Speaker 1: him jump in there and feeling uncomfortable. Without a doubt,
Speaker 1: I think we had seven team pressures. We ended up
Speaker 1: getting them into a sixty seven point seven rating. We
Speaker 1: had some sacks, some hits. You felt that at all times,
Speaker 1: and even Jeff that third quarter, that first drive of
Speaker 1: the third quarter we got off the field and unfortunately
Speaker 1: we had a late hit or not a late hit
Speaker 1: but UNSPORTSMLI conduct on ninety six. So with Akim Hicks
Speaker 1: and you really really felt at all game and you
Speaker 1: have to have that really against any quarterback but great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks like Matt Ryan, and it affected them and at
Speaker 1: the end there to get that interception to finish it.
Speaker 1: But pressure in the quarterback is how you start. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the run defense though. Is that something that
Speaker 1: does have your attention at the moment. Yeah, we want
Speaker 1: to get better there. I think that, Uh, there was
Speaker 1: a couple of third down runs that they hit on
Speaker 1: us yesterday and some longer ones. I think if you
Speaker 1: go back and you ask our guys, our coaches on
Speaker 1: a few of those plays. You know, we definitely need
Speaker 1: to be better there. If you you get pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you stop the run, you make a team
Speaker 1: one dimensional, you usually do pretty good. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep focusing on that. I got a lot of faith
Speaker 1: in our guys up front. You don't have a guy
Speaker 1: like Tarik Cohen on the active roster at the moment
Speaker 1: we lose him to acl Tara it's awful, especially on
Speaker 1: a fair catch on a punt. Where do you go
Speaker 1: from here on that? And does that alter how you
Speaker 1: may use your personnel moving forward? And is the punt
Speaker 1: return a wide open competition at the moment, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would think it would be. I know Coach Tabor will
Speaker 1: have some some guys back there that he wants to
Speaker 1: take a look at and regards to replace, and Tarik
Speaker 1: it's it stinks to lose him because he's such a
Speaker 1: valuable piece of this team and we'll do everything possible
Speaker 1: to make sure he still feels that. He was in
Speaker 1: great spirits last night, which I love about the kid
Speaker 1: um in regards to offensively with you know, how we
Speaker 1: replace him. I have a lot of faith in our
Speaker 1: coaches that schematically will be able to find different ways
Speaker 1: that you use different people, if that's somebody on this
Speaker 1: roster already or somebody different, or whatever that case may be.
Speaker 1: I do have a lot of faith in our guys,
Speaker 1: plus not to you know, it gives David Montgomery, it
Speaker 1: gives Cordell Patterson, it gives you know, Ryan Nall or
Speaker 1: Tavius Piers. It gives these guys opportunities. That's a part
Speaker 1: of this how that's how you draft and develop. I
Speaker 1: boiled this down to three hours yesterday. Okay, the rescue,
Speaker 1: Nick was the rescue. That is something that is all
Speaker 1: ingrained in him. What is it about the wiring of
Speaker 1: this guy allows him to step into the fire and
Speaker 1: take control. It's probably a DNA thing, honestly, Jeff, I
Speaker 1: think it's something where for him, he's built that way.
Speaker 1: He's been in big time moments. You know, you talk
Speaker 1: about being in the super Bowl and the way that
Speaker 1: that game was played in his calm that he had
Speaker 1: the whole time. I felt it from him when we
Speaker 1: played the Eagles a few years ago in the playoff game.
Speaker 1: I sensed it because our defense was getting after him.
Speaker 1: And then he'll he'll you know, he still talks about
Speaker 1: how difficult it was playing against our defense and so
Speaker 1: but yesterday, Jeff, I, I also felt it in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter during TV Timehouse, I'd look out at him
Speaker 1: before I call a player, after I called play. There
Speaker 1: was just an extreme amount of calm from him and
Speaker 1: the moment wasn't too big. And it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: something good's going to happen. You don't know, but I
Speaker 1: think that's the strength of his to the point of
Speaker 1: he may come out and throw three touchdowns a one
Speaker 1: quarter and you're never gonna know if he threw three
Speaker 1: interceptions of one corner and that's just not everybody has that,
Speaker 1: but he has it, and it probably affects his teammates
Speaker 1: more than they know, and affects his you know, his
Speaker 1: coaches too. Second one is redemption. It's Anthony Miller drop.
Speaker 1: Then they go to him and he makes the big one.
Speaker 1: He wants to be great, he said it in the
Speaker 1: postgame show. So what about redemption. Yeah, that that keyword
Speaker 1: right there is trust And with redemption with Anthony, you know,
Speaker 1: he would tell you he wished he could get that
Speaker 1: That passed back two weeks ago in New York right now.
Speaker 1: But he's a fighter and he cares, he's passionate, and
Speaker 1: so hey, he got a chance, he made the most
Speaker 1: of it and it doesn't surprise me one bit. And
Speaker 1: then relentlessness because that is also found in your pass
Speaker 1: rush with a guy like a Kim Hicks and Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack and Robert Quinn, but this team in general, it's relentlessness. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that word. And that's a that's a word
Speaker 1: that just speaks in so many manners to different parts
Speaker 1: of the game. And you feel fifty two Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: on every play coming around the edge, ninety four you
Speaker 1: know with Robert Quinn and offensively you can feel it.
Speaker 1: You felt it on the from the bench, you felt
Speaker 1: it on the field. Once we got to that fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: it was just like, okay, we're gonna be relentless here
Speaker 1: with with the aggressive calls and with the aggressive decision making.
Speaker 1: And you felt it. So you know, between rescuing, you know, redemption, relentless.
Speaker 1: I love all three of those are word. All right, quick,
Speaker 1: look at the Colts. I have a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for Frank Reich as a as a head coach. Obviously, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Chris Baller as a general manager, and so
Speaker 1: they're they're doing good things there in Indianapolis, and so
Speaker 1: Frank's gonna have those guys ready. They're playing really well
Speaker 1: right now. They're they're really balanced, and I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have our hands for our guys will be up
Speaker 1: for the challenge. All right, goodluck with your preparation as
Speaker 1: always this weekend, and we will talk to you later
Speaker 1: in the week. Thank you. You got it, Jeff. That's
Speaker 1: Bear's head coach Matt Naggi. Coming up next, we'll talk
Speaker 1: to offensive coordinator Bill Laser. Balls, looks right, throws right, touchdown, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: he'd touchdown Bears twenty six sixteen here on the port.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham with a second touchdown catch and you know it,
Speaker 1: another red zone catch for a touchdown. That guy's been dominant.
Speaker 1: Continue on on the Bears Coaching Show with offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Bill Laser. During the twenty twenty season, the Chicago Bears
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Speaker 1: and how you can help out. Bill, Thanks for joining
Speaker 1: us once again. Good evening, Congratulations Thanks Jeff, happy to
Speaker 1: be here. Hey, let's talk Jimmy Graham before we talk quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: We know what he can do in the red zone,
Speaker 1: but it just continually happens, and nobody can stop this guy.
Speaker 1: When you get the position that he gets and the
Speaker 1: size he gets in the matchups he gets and now
Speaker 1: three on the year already, there's gotta be a little
Speaker 1: bit more to it than just the size though. It's
Speaker 1: it's it's his basketball background, you know, boxing guys out, whatnot.
Speaker 1: But still gotta run the route, still gotta beat your guy.
Speaker 1: I think number one, You're right that I think teams
Speaker 1: expected to combat. That's why there is a lot to it.
Speaker 1: And it's experience over time, and it's time on tasks
Speaker 1: with our quarterbacks, you know, just maybe well the defense
Speaker 1: is working a period in practice. The quarterbacks and Jimmy
Speaker 1: go down and the other end zone and get together
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what if I throw it here, if
Speaker 1: the defenders in this spot, this is a good place
Speaker 1: to put it, and it just it takes time, and
Speaker 1: you know, you got to be proud of them, the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and Jimmy with the short amount of time we've
Speaker 1: had to get here, you know, to be able to
Speaker 1: work that out. But it's I know, he makes it
Speaker 1: look easy. It's not easy, and it's not easy when
Speaker 1: there's a guy in your back, and it's especially not
Speaker 1: easy when they pretty much know what's common. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get physical with them when they do, so you
Speaker 1: got to fight through that too, be strong at the
Speaker 1: catch point. All right, tight ends, it seemed really were
Speaker 1: a focal point. Was at a plan yesterday? You see
Speaker 1: matchups that you liked and will this be more what
Speaker 1: you see from the tight ends this year? Well, I
Speaker 1: think sometimes you plan it going in. Sometimes it's how
Speaker 1: the game plays out. I think we've been using them
Speaker 1: quite a bit, uh in the run game and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just the way it worked. Uh, they got
Speaker 1: targeted early and it was productive. And so sometimes that
Speaker 1: means you just kind of come back to it. But
Speaker 1: there's only one ball to go around per play, Jeff.
Speaker 1: You know, so sometimes sometimes why didn't you do this?
Speaker 1: Why don't you do that? Well, yeah, you know, coach
Speaker 1: is calling what's going to be successful in our mind,
Speaker 1: you know, every every single play, and we certainly liked
Speaker 1: those tight ends, and there hasn't been a game that
Speaker 1: we haven't come out, including this one, and said, gosh,
Speaker 1: we could do even more, you know, but again there's
Speaker 1: there's only one ball per play. So the page charts
Speaker 1: to Nick falls talk about what that means to you
Speaker 1: as a staff and what you guys discussed as a
Speaker 1: staff to get to this point. I had great confidence
Speaker 1: that Nick would be prepared if his number was called,
Speaker 1: because had we've had a chance to watch him for
Speaker 1: these uh three weeks or so uh since since he
Speaker 1: was told he's gonna be the backup, and just how
Speaker 1: he prepared, how he takes mental reps, how he physical reps,
Speaker 1: doing everything he can to put himself in a game
Speaker 1: like situation on the field of practice, on the practice
Speaker 1: field every day. I mean, he really works hard at
Speaker 1: doing that, and I think I think that that just
Speaker 1: gives you confidence. I mean that he's going to be
Speaker 1: as prepared as you could possibly be. Obviously, his track
Speaker 1: record of having success success in this league helps, but
Speaker 1: he's worked at it. He's proven to everyone, players and
Speaker 1: coaches both that that he'll be prepared when his time comes,
Speaker 1: and I think he was I asked Matt earlier in
Speaker 1: the show, Just what what kind of guy is able
Speaker 1: to just at a moment's note to step in like
Speaker 1: he does? And I you know, you call him the fireman.
Speaker 1: You use the baseball analogy, the guy who puts out
Speaker 1: the fire as the closure. And he's been doing it
Speaker 1: his whole career. How he's why? Why is he wired
Speaker 1: this way? I don't know why, Jeff, I just I
Speaker 1: just I've seen it happen before. In twenty thirteen, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw it happen and he came in and had
Speaker 1: a great year, led the league in passer rating that season.
Speaker 1: I've seen it from Afar at other places. I just
Speaker 1: think the guy does a great job when he is
Speaker 1: not the starter of preparing one hundred percent. He's a
Speaker 1: professional and he works at it. And you know, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm old fashioned, but I just tend to think that
Speaker 1: that's that's the formula. Throws left side come back Robinson
Speaker 1: the catch pressure tackle twenty fifteen ten five touchdown bears
Speaker 1: Ellen Robertson goes to distance Alan Robinson with a touchdown
Speaker 1: on a huge day. Thirteen targets ten catches, another one
Speaker 1: hundred plus yard performance in his career Bill Laser, the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator the Bears back on the Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: my favorite players in the game, just because it kind
Speaker 1: of fit into the theme of the day, and that's again,
Speaker 1: or the theme of the season for that matter, the
Speaker 1: resilience of this team to keep fighting through. And he
Speaker 1: broke two tackles and had one thing on his mind
Speaker 1: getting that ball in the end zone. Let's break that
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Well, I think one of the
Speaker 1: things that showed up in this game I was run
Speaker 1: after catch and Alan had some of that and obviously
Speaker 1: that play was a big one. And uh, Alan, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a guy that not only is he a worker,
Speaker 1: not only has he proven to be productive, but I
Speaker 1: think it's it's impressive to watch him every day and
Speaker 1: whether it be in the meeting room or on the
Speaker 1: practice field, he wants to know the why, he wants
Speaker 1: to talk the details. He wants to make sure he
Speaker 1: and the quarterback around the same page as far as
Speaker 1: what's expected. Um, you know, real real intellectual approach along
Speaker 1: with his physical approach to the game. And that's been
Speaker 1: real impressive for me. You know, you enjoy being around
Speaker 1: veteran players who who are smart, who can work with
Speaker 1: you and getting things figured out and get on the
Speaker 1: same page. And you know, I just I just think
Speaker 1: in those situations, we had a number of guys and
Speaker 1: Ad was probably the number one example. I mean it
Speaker 1: was a clutch time, right, we needed it to come
Speaker 1: back and never blamed, just just operated and went out
Speaker 1: and did his thing. And so, uh give it gives
Speaker 1: you great confidence that no matter what situation we're in,
Speaker 1: you know, Alan's gonna gonna be there for us. Mitch
Speaker 1: and Nick really hit on those inside slants the great
Speaker 1: you know, you took advantage of leverage given by the defense.
Speaker 1: Those are very productive chain moving plays that if you
Speaker 1: do break a tackle, it becomes something more significant as well. Right,
Speaker 1: and he obviously is outstanding that And he did it.
Speaker 1: He did it from the slot, he did it out
Speaker 1: why right, he did it out wide left. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: think the ability to move our receivers around is critical.
Speaker 1: You know, I think in this league, anything you have
Speaker 1: a success on, you'd have to expect the next defense
Speaker 1: is going to work to take that away. For Alan
Speaker 1: to be able to work inside outside, be the single receiver,
Speaker 1: be part of a three receiver set, and he's really
Speaker 1: able to do any of those things, and I think
Speaker 1: it showed up in this game. But it makes us
Speaker 1: so much harder to defend because a rob can do
Speaker 1: all that. When you break it down, Nick had the
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone five times in six drives.
Speaker 1: The reverberation of that moving forward, do the receivers, the
Speaker 1: tight ends, the backs, does that change their mentality a
Speaker 1: little bit? You know, you have to talk to them
Speaker 1: whether something's different or not. I don't know. I think
Speaker 1: they come out with great confidence. I think as a team,
Speaker 1: we have great confidence right now, and this is this
Speaker 1: is a couple of times right that we've had to
Speaker 1: do it and we haven't really blanked. I mean, as
Speaker 1: a coach, right I'm thinking about right now, how do
Speaker 1: I fix the negatives? You know, I'm thinking about coming
Speaker 1: out of this game and where we haven't scored. But
Speaker 1: the reality is in the fourth quarter we have And
Speaker 1: I think it speaks towards the conditioning of our team.
Speaker 1: It speaks towards the mental toughness, and it speaks towards
Speaker 1: the fact that we really don't flinch when we get
Speaker 1: in tough situations, which unfortunately we've been in a couple,
Speaker 1: but we've we've pulled through, and I think we just
Speaker 1: keep proving towards those yes, we can do this, and
Speaker 1: Nick was obviously the key part of that in this game,
Speaker 1: getting them involved. So now I think we come out
Speaker 1: of it with more confidence than ever. I've seen some
Speaker 1: analysts talking already about, Okay, you decided that it would
Speaker 1: be to the strength of the offense to Mitch to
Speaker 1: be more under center and have play action, and now
Speaker 1: that Nick has played the majority of his snaps in
Speaker 1: a shotgun situation, that that play action is not as prevalent,
Speaker 1: and does it change the running game again, Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, I think Nick can do it. Makes been
Speaker 1: in a whole bunch of different offenses, so I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any limitation with him. I think we go
Speaker 1: into every game trying to figure out what's the best
Speaker 1: way to attack this opponent and balance that with what
Speaker 1: are the best things that our players do, and you know,
Speaker 1: from that we formulate a game plan, so you know
Speaker 1: it'll it will all play out. And I don't think
Speaker 1: in the long NFL season, we know it's a very
Speaker 1: wrong season. I don't ever think it's just a one course,
Speaker 1: set the autopilot and let it go, you know. I
Speaker 1: mean there's a constant evolution of what's the best thing
Speaker 1: right now to do. And it's because your personnel changes
Speaker 1: over time, for sometimes because of injury, it's because of
Speaker 1: the matchups to face that week, and it's because, especially
Speaker 1: in this season, you develop your offense as you go. Right,
Speaker 1: we had so we had no offseason, no OTAs, we
Speaker 1: had so limited training camp. Some of it is going
Speaker 1: to have to grow as we go. And if we
Speaker 1: could predict exactly what our best players would be, obviously
Speaker 1: that's all we we call. But sometimes it's a little
Speaker 1: trial and error, and we didn't have preseason games to
Speaker 1: trial and error. We didn't have all the normal amount
Speaker 1: of padded practices against the defense to let some of
Speaker 1: these things show up. So there'll be an evolution as
Speaker 1: we go. I think this year more than ever and
Speaker 1: the key for us right to challenge as players and
Speaker 1: coaches is to continue to get better. I just think
Speaker 1: in the way this preseason an off season was, it
Speaker 1: just puts a tremendous amount of importance on the teams
Speaker 1: that will keep getting better and we want to be
Speaker 1: one of those back on the Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Bill Laser. We'll hear Matteggie from the top
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Speaker 1: com slash pink Bill, what is your best advice that
Speaker 1: you would give Mitch Trubisky right now as he prepares
Speaker 1: really for the first time in his career other than
Speaker 1: when he started out as a rookie as a backup
Speaker 1: to Mike Glennon, came in in a week five to
Speaker 1: be a backup now in the National Football League, at
Speaker 1: this stage of his career, well, I think Mitch has
Speaker 1: a long future ahead of him, and I think that
Speaker 1: perspective is critical. You know, it's just at some point
Speaker 1: right in the future, you're going to look back and
Speaker 1: see what happened in this time. Who we can't predict
Speaker 1: what's going to happen a week from now or a
Speaker 1: season from now, but he's gonna look back and see
Speaker 1: this is just part of a long future. And I
Speaker 1: think guys who are smart, who work hard, and who
Speaker 1: want to be great, those guys typically over time you
Speaker 1: can just keep getting better. And that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: expect much to do. He's just gonna keep getting better,
Speaker 1: whether it's as a starter again at some point here somewhere,
Speaker 1: or whether it's as the backup this week. But that's
Speaker 1: the challenge for him as a seaboat. In the long term. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a great future ahead of him, and
Speaker 1: this week all he can do is get better, and
Speaker 1: it happens to be as a backup. So that's what
Speaker 1: you do. The guys who do have to take a
Speaker 1: step back to take two steps forward, really study what
Speaker 1: the guy that's moved into his spot is doing, especially
Speaker 1: a veteran and in this case Nick Foles out of
Speaker 1: imagine just watching everything, learning from that aspect of it
Speaker 1: and say, Okay, if he's doing this, I gotta do this.
Speaker 1: Is that a fair representation of the next step in
Speaker 1: the process for him, Well, he'll he'll figure that. He'll
Speaker 1: figure out over the time with what the specifics are.
Speaker 1: I've got great confidence because I know what is I
Speaker 1: think I know over this time, I've learned what his
Speaker 1: character is and so he'll he'll work at it. He's
Speaker 1: a great team mate. Um, you know, it's it's some way, somehow,
Speaker 1: it's we're we're gonna get better as a team. And
Speaker 1: I hope he gets better as a player, and I
Speaker 1: think I believe that early in the process. But give
Speaker 1: us a little sneak peek before we let you go
Speaker 1: here in the next minute. On the Indianapolis Colts. They
Speaker 1: have a defense, Jeff, don't don't look at the statue.
Speaker 1: You might not think we can make a first downsively, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they are. Defensively, they play fast, uh in the front um.
Speaker 1: You know, they've they've taken the ball away quite a
Speaker 1: bit and now we've given it away a little bit
Speaker 1: here recently. So that's something that we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have to uh make sure that you always obviously are
Speaker 1: concerned with that. But but knowing how they rank and
Speaker 1: they're they're good against the run in the past right now,
Speaker 1: so um, yeah, it's it looks like we're heading up
Speaker 1: to against the formidable foe right now. We've we've faced
Speaker 1: them before. You know that they're very sound and how
Speaker 1: they coach. They've got some some uh some impressive players.
Speaker 1: So doesn't sound real promising, doesn't know, you sound like
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz back in the days. Time to go to work.
Speaker 1: We'll make sure we're ready. We'll have a great plan.
Speaker 1: But no, they've been really impressive. I'm joking a little bit.
Speaker 1: They need to really impressive three games. And so that's
Speaker 1: the NFL absolutely week to week league baby, And that's
Speaker 1: a wrap on Todnight's Bears Coach You Show. Want to
Speaker 1: thank our producers Jordan trut Up, Dan BURRELLI, Andy Gersher
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