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Speaker 1: Here for the next hour talking Bears football and get
Speaker 1: even in Coach Matt Naggie, Good, how are you doing? Okay? Well?
Speaker 1: Here from Vic Fangio. Later out of the program, let's
Speaker 1: talk things over about yesterday and look ahead because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be so much focus this week. You got your
Speaker 1: hands full quieting all the masses about this game, aren't
Speaker 1: you a little bit? Yeah? But that's okay. You know,
Speaker 1: our guys talking about yesterday. Um, you know, that was
Speaker 1: a tough one for us, but I appreciate the guys
Speaker 1: battle until the end and and sometimes you have those
Speaker 1: type of games. So we lost the turnover battle and
Speaker 1: we're a little inconsistent throughout the game, but overall, our
Speaker 1: guys will learn from it, will grow from it, get
Speaker 1: better from and you're ready for this week. What are
Speaker 1: your points of emphasis from that game to you guys
Speaker 1: when you get them together tomorrow. Well, ball security number
Speaker 1: one is you you got to protect the football and
Speaker 1: when it's wet out, you really got to focus in
Speaker 1: on that. Uh. And then just um, I think just
Speaker 1: being a little bit more consistent in our play throughout
Speaker 1: from start to finish. You know, um, starting a game
Speaker 1: there the second play with a pick six isn't isn't
Speaker 1: how you want to start it. But then you know,
Speaker 1: with that happening, I thought the guys kept their composure throughout,
Speaker 1: and Higur figured out a way in the end to
Speaker 1: battle till the very end and give us a chance
Speaker 1: to win. Because there was all sorts of things that
Speaker 1: happened right away, whether it be the kickoff muff to
Speaker 1: the interception you said, there, all sorts of things just
Speaker 1: not settling in. Was your job different yesterday? Out of
Speaker 1: all the games you had this season? How were you
Speaker 1: working the sidelines and working the working the fellas. Yeah, it,
Speaker 1: uh it was a little different, um, but nothing too crazy,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, Like I said, the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: once there is that turnover early in a pick six, Um,
Speaker 1: the nice thing is that you know, you have the
Speaker 1: whole rest of the game to to regroup and it's
Speaker 1: only you know, it's seven nothing. And that's what I
Speaker 1: like about our guys is you know, we we uh
Speaker 1: we we had a couple three and outs offensively. Defensively
Speaker 1: in the first half, the guys were playing really well,
Speaker 1: forcing a lot of punts and uh, you know, had
Speaker 1: good field position and so that that part was good, Um.
Speaker 1: And then we got into the second half, and that's
Speaker 1: where I thought, you know, we started out giving up
Speaker 1: a touchdown there that first drive, and then they got
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the next drive, and there just wasn't
Speaker 1: much rhythm on offense, and but we we did enough
Speaker 1: in the end, had a good day on special teams,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, came down to that fourth down
Speaker 1: and every time everything had to go exactly right for
Speaker 1: that even to be a possibility. Uh, it does give
Speaker 1: you another teaching point to your guys though, that anything
Speaker 1: is possible. I think you even touched on that a
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh, but you know, onside kicks, I think
Speaker 1: that's only the seventh all year in the league recovered.
Speaker 1: So your odds were against you. Sure, you know, no,
Speaker 1: it was and and yeah, I think it's below thirty
Speaker 1: percent chance of getting that, but that's why you do it.
Speaker 1: That's why you have it. And and uh, our guys executed.
Speaker 1: It's a perfection. And when that happens. Now, now you
Speaker 1: get the ball, you got a chance to go down
Speaker 1: to score, you know, I know we were talking about
Speaker 1: it because it's it's that temptation. You're right by the
Speaker 1: end zone you go for the field goal instead, so
Speaker 1: you you know it is at a temptation. Yeah, Well
Speaker 1: when it's a temptation is when you're that close. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: And because you're you're right there, and you know, really
Speaker 1: the right the right move is to kick to field goal.
Speaker 1: You have to get points because if you don't score,
Speaker 1: it's game over. So we went ahead and got two
Speaker 1: points and we felt like with the amount of time
Speaker 1: that was left on the clock, we could go ahead
Speaker 1: and still kick to field goal, get too points and
Speaker 1: then just try for that onside kick. We got it,
Speaker 1: and then you could see right there that we uh,
Speaker 1: you know, guys caught the ball. They got out of bounds.
Speaker 1: I was a big throw and catchy by Chase and
Speaker 1: to wreak there down the sideline and then ultimately got
Speaker 1: a pass interference and then had the touchdown. Play. The
Speaker 1: clock was working in your favor. It was plenty of time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, and the guys did the credit to the
Speaker 1: guys on offense for executing that. It's not easy and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that can happen, a lot
Speaker 1: of things that go on, and I thought they did
Speaker 1: a great job with that. How do you maintain your
Speaker 1: calm as play caller in those moments. Well, that's what
Speaker 1: you have to do, is you have to remind yourself
Speaker 1: to just stay calm. There's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: are going on outside of you. You can hear all
Speaker 1: the noise, you can hear the excitement, you can feel
Speaker 1: the excitement, but I have to stay composed and make sure.
Speaker 1: And that's why if you do it the right way.
Speaker 1: You try to prepare days ahead of time, or than
Speaker 1: night before, you play those type of situations, what if,
Speaker 1: what if if, and so that when you do, when
Speaker 1: you are presented with an opportunity to make a call,
Speaker 1: you can at least get close or try to get
Speaker 1: close to those situations. Now, don't jump on me, but
Speaker 1: you literally go through all those very specific scenarios, play
Speaker 1: call for every single possible sing no, no, not every
Speaker 1: single one, but a lot of them are are more
Speaker 1: you know, fourth down and then with a particular distance.
Speaker 1: That's where you get into your when you know you
Speaker 1: don't have another call, it's either fourth down or nothing.
Speaker 1: So you try to play those out and then you
Speaker 1: got to play it out too where you're out in
Speaker 1: the field. So that's where I'm saying. If you have
Speaker 1: if you're at the it's fourth and goal from the
Speaker 1: fifteen yard line, that's hard. That's one of the hardest
Speaker 1: play calls in football. If it's fourth and goal from
Speaker 1: the two yard line, that's a little easier because you're closer.
Speaker 1: If it's a two point play. Is what has happened
Speaker 1: throughout the game? Have you shown you know it's easy
Speaker 1: to sit there and say, well, you got the whole
Speaker 1: play call sheet to call this play, but now you're
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. You've already run that play,
Speaker 1: So what's the next one? Right, what's what's what's play
Speaker 1: B and play C? And so that's where you start
Speaker 1: playing around with some of the choices. How often, and
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to talk about it, but how
Speaker 1: many if a play is working, you trusted to keep
Speaker 1: on working? And how many times do you call the
Speaker 1: same play over and over? Yeah? No, there's there's some
Speaker 1: coaches that that won't repeat a play um or maybe
Speaker 1: they'll change a personnel or slightly change the formation. Uh
Speaker 1: and and so for me, I think it's more of
Speaker 1: an opinion on where you're coming from who's running the play.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with repeating plays. I probably don't do it
Speaker 1: as much as some but uh but I certainly think
Speaker 1: that in the game, if you feel like you're you're
Speaker 1: feeling good, we repeat we repeated plays yesterday, uh and something,
Speaker 1: And if they're working, then why not keep testing it? Right?
Speaker 1: I think it's your fiduciary responsibility and that that's what
Speaker 1: we do sometimes must get give you some respect for
Speaker 1: those came before you in league history, because you know,
Speaker 1: you think of the great teams and they knew it
Speaker 1: was coming, and they still couldn't stop it, repeating over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. I think of, uh, you
Speaker 1: know plays the Bears of running their history, or the
Speaker 1: Lombardi sweep. You know, you know it was coming, but
Speaker 1: sure he gets stabbing. Sure, yeah, No. It's sometimes we
Speaker 1: as coaches cannot think ourselves and we think it's about
Speaker 1: the plays and not the players. And uh and and
Speaker 1: so when you repeat plays and you see it really
Speaker 1: is about the players. The last play, if Chase had
Speaker 1: time to set his feet and throw into it, did
Speaker 1: you feel Taylor it beat his man? Could that have
Speaker 1: been a touchdown? Well, looking at it again, well it
Speaker 1: could have been. But again that's that's a credit to
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, James Betcher. He called a cover zero
Speaker 1: look where they were going to bring the one more
Speaker 1: than what we had. I thought Chase did a good
Speaker 1: job of stepping aside and at least giving us an
Speaker 1: opportunity to make a play or get a pass interference.
Speaker 1: And the dB made a good play and um, you
Speaker 1: know we we we had an opportunity. It didn't work
Speaker 1: out for us, But in that situation, I thought that
Speaker 1: I thought the guys on offense did a good job
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Speaker 1: I happen to be walking to the bus from the
Speaker 1: booth as he was walking out of the locker room
Speaker 1: to the bus. So we had a little conversation and
Speaker 1: you know, even in defeat, he had a big grint
Speaker 1: on his face. I mean that was that was something.
Speaker 1: And at one point of the broadcast, in another situation,
Speaker 1: you know, right near the going give it to him again?
Speaker 1: Why not it works? Yeah, you know, yeah, no, it was.
Speaker 1: We've had some fun with that in the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks and uh, in that in that situation, I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great, great opportunity for us to
Speaker 1: uh to punch it in with him. And I went
Speaker 1: back and watched it uh this morning and just we
Speaker 1: got to work on his ball hand a little bit.
Speaker 1: He kind of reached for that ball. We got to
Speaker 1: be carefuls right, he accepted, he took it. He took it,
Speaker 1: and he's a tough man to tackle, so I was.
Speaker 1: I was happy for him, happy for the guys. There
Speaker 1: was much need to touchdown at that time, and we
Speaker 1: had a little fun with it. Yeah. And let's be clear,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not doing this just for you know,
Speaker 1: for kicks. This is this is serious football there there.
Speaker 1: You're utilizing assets on your roster. Right Robertson Harris is
Speaker 1: on the field at the same time, big body to block,
Speaker 1: and it gives you other options moving forward to use
Speaker 1: different personnel and use the same personnel but in a
Speaker 1: different way. I mean that that's the whole point of this,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. And you know, that was a big
Speaker 1: play that we needed at that time. That wasn't something
Speaker 1: where we were winning by fourteen or twenty points, and
Speaker 1: and uh, just to have some fun. That was a
Speaker 1: much needed play. And that's what when we went to
Speaker 1: and and again we we've practiced that and uh, you
Speaker 1: know a team has done a great job at you know,
Speaker 1: going in there and being ready too, because a lot
Speaker 1: of times guys aren't ready. So we made sure that
Speaker 1: he was ready for that opportunity, that situation, and he
Speaker 1: did it and we executed it. What would make them
Speaker 1: not ready just coming off the field and get yeah,
Speaker 1: or being coached up for something else. Yeah, they could
Speaker 1: be watching They could be watching the you know, looking
Speaker 1: at the video or the cutups or not the cutups,
Speaker 1: but the pictures of the previous series, depending on how
Speaker 1: fast it is. And and so our coaches did a
Speaker 1: good job on the sideline and getting them ready to
Speaker 1: come on down there. And I turned around and he
Speaker 1: was ready to go in. Now do these guys have
Speaker 1: to attend a little bit of the offensive meeting when
Speaker 1: they're involved. That's some of the best times of the week.
Speaker 1: To tell you, the truth is, Uh, they get a
Speaker 1: little knock knock knock every morning if if it's a
Speaker 1: if it's a play that they're in. And then I
Speaker 1: walk into the defensive team team room and they all
Speaker 1: turn their heads to look at me, and then I
Speaker 1: go ahead and give them numbers a number call and
Speaker 1: if their numbers called, they come on into the offense
Speaker 1: and then they get an applaud in the offensive meeting room.
Speaker 1: And and then you know, depending on the play, they'll
Speaker 1: either get shushed out of here and by the offensive
Speaker 1: guys and they'll tell them to leave, or they'll they'll
Speaker 1: cheer him and say, all right, let's go. So depending
Speaker 1: on the play, but they have the guys have fun
Speaker 1: with it, and um we as coaches have fun, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you want it to be productive. Safe to say,
Speaker 1: we'll probably see that guy in there. Yeah maybe, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's for sure. Six tackles and sack, tackle for loss,
Speaker 1: two quarterback hits and a pass breakup in addition the
Speaker 1: day for a team hicks. I mean, we could we
Speaker 1: could talk about guys all we want, But that guy's
Speaker 1: playing at a very high Pro Bowl level. He really is,
Speaker 1: and and we appreciate that. And uh, he's such a
Speaker 1: such a big guy, very athletic for how big he is. Um,
Speaker 1: he's really growing as a player. I think he's becoming
Speaker 1: really well rounded in regards to the different styles will play.
Speaker 1: Whether it's stopping the run, batting down passes, sacking the quarterback,
Speaker 1: making tackles for losses in the backfield, chasing down screens.
Speaker 1: He can do it all. And that's a big, huge,
Speaker 1: huge part of our defense. And I think you could
Speaker 1: see that especially the first three plays of that goal
Speaker 1: line stand until they had that fourth down touchdown. Those
Speaker 1: first three plays, not just that team, but that whole
Speaker 1: that whole defensive lineman, they were penetrating getting to the
Speaker 1: other side, and they made it. They made it really difficult.
Speaker 1: And again I'll keep going back to it, this is
Speaker 1: a team that just they don't just get so many
Speaker 1: other teams will just give an easy rushing touchdown in
Speaker 1: that situation from the one yard line, and we don't
Speaker 1: do that. The same thing happened in Miami against the Dolphins. Now,
Speaker 1: both games we ended up losing, but you pull those
Speaker 1: instances and you use that to teach it for us
Speaker 1: down the road. Here Hicks in terms of say Quon
Speaker 1: Barkley said, man, that kid is legit. That was his quote.
Speaker 1: He says, you feel him when you tackle him or
Speaker 1: you attempt to tackle him. And that's coming from a
Speaker 1: guy who's a monster at three thirty six in there.
Speaker 1: So you had the year on the field level watching
Speaker 1: him run and he even says every time he touches
Speaker 1: the ball, uh, I feel I can score. And he
Speaker 1: runs that hard he does, and it's uh, he's got
Speaker 1: a ways to go before this comparison hits, but he
Speaker 1: resembles the way he runs style wise and speedwise. Is
Speaker 1: a bo Jackson. And he's just such a thicker body,
Speaker 1: thicker legs. He's got tree trunks for legs, I mean,
Speaker 1: but they're so strong and powerful. You can see him jump,
Speaker 1: you know, when he jumps into you know, in the air.
Speaker 1: Uh he can beat you with speed. He you know,
Speaker 1: he can beat you with different moves. And that's why
Speaker 1: he was chosen so high this year in a draft.
Speaker 1: And he's a very quality type person human being and
Speaker 1: uh um that they you know, he's a he's a
Speaker 1: heck of a player. Some of these guys, you can
Speaker 1: only bottle up for so long, and you guys did.
Speaker 1: Overall they had nothing going, really yeah, really nothing going
Speaker 1: until he had that run right before. Yeah. And that's
Speaker 1: that's what he can do. And that's what That's what
Speaker 1: good running backs do, is uh and and good rushing
Speaker 1: teams as they can go ahead and every now and then,
Speaker 1: um pop one and and so that's what that's what
Speaker 1: he did. And this isn't the first time he's done that.
Speaker 1: Now he's he's he's been doing that all season long.
Speaker 1: And we knew that. And like you said, I think
Speaker 1: our defense did a really good job. There was one
Speaker 1: or two plays I think did Dave want back? And
Speaker 1: we gotta learn from it. No more of the Bears
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Speaker 1: he better? From Terry Cod and Matt Naggie pulls another
Speaker 1: trick out of his bag and an extra point away
Speaker 1: from tying at his time expires. Yeah, we were get
Speaker 1: a little excited. Yeah, we get a little excited this.
Speaker 1: Uh is weird hearing it that way? Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: Break down the play. Well, it was a Again, we've
Speaker 1: had some plays now we call him an incubator that
Speaker 1: we practice and they just kind of grow and and uh,
Speaker 1: and we feel like when we have a good opportunity
Speaker 1: to call him or run him, we will. And again,
Speaker 1: credit to the players for executing it. And they they
Speaker 1: covered the number one option, which was Chase, and those
Speaker 1: guys made a play. I mean, twenty nine Colvin made
Speaker 1: a great throw. Seventeen Anthony got a cross there and
Speaker 1: got open and then he made it. I mean, the
Speaker 1: heck of a throw in that situation. Even Colin, right
Speaker 1: after the game, we interviewed him on the field. If
Speaker 1: his options are taken away, he goes, well, I got
Speaker 1: I got a lot of thinking to do. What happens? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that can happen when he
Speaker 1: has the ball, and he has a lot of thinking
Speaker 1: that goes on. But it's good thinking. So uh, those
Speaker 1: guys ad lib and you want the ball in your
Speaker 1: playmaker's hands. And I think you saw that there in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Twenty nine. Tarik was having a great
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, making a lot of plays and he was
Speaker 1: almost he was in his own and that throw that
Speaker 1: he made to Anthony Miller was a was a great throw.
Speaker 1: That's not an easy throw and in that situation on
Speaker 1: the run, the way he did that was really good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it was right yeah, where anyone else could
Speaker 1: get it. So, I don't know if you're aware of this,
Speaker 1: but he and Jerry Rice, is that right? Are the
Speaker 1: only two players to catch at least twelve for one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty yards and throw a touchdown? Wow? Yeah,
Speaker 1: h yep, that's great. Five seven, that's it. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me though. Um, a lot of different action,
Speaker 1: you know with the with laterals and reverses and whatnot.
Speaker 1: When is there a maximum time a lateral pass can
Speaker 1: actually work to success and get to a receiver? Do
Speaker 1: you do you run out of time? Ever, it depends
Speaker 1: on the type of you know, reverse or lateral, um, toss, bat,
Speaker 1: whatever you call it. I think everyone's a little bit different,
Speaker 1: and it depends where you're doing it at Uh. There's
Speaker 1: some some that are execute where there's a double reverse
Speaker 1: and it happens so quick that guys don't know where
Speaker 1: the ball's at. There's others, you know, the flea flickers,
Speaker 1: you hand it off, he tosses it back, and then
Speaker 1: you see the one that the Giants ran against us.
Speaker 1: So they're all a little bit different in terms of
Speaker 1: the snap. And Cody in the preseason changed at you
Speaker 1: guys coaching technique and as an extra quarterback, did you
Speaker 1: ever take snaps like he does now? And what is
Speaker 1: that like? Is there any difference and hand adjustment for
Speaker 1: quarterbacks or anything different. No, there's nothing different. It's it's
Speaker 1: the same coming back. There's really no difference there. Um,
Speaker 1: I think yesterday, uh, you know when in a normal,
Speaker 1: completely dry situation, those don't happen. And unfortunately it was
Speaker 1: a little wet out there and just the way they were,
Speaker 1: you know, coming back and just with the ball, security
Speaker 1: just wasn't there. And some of these guys did practice
Speaker 1: it though, oh yeah during the week, which is good.
Speaker 1: He's like sticking in a bucket or what do you do?
Speaker 1: Well you can and there there was the one day
Speaker 1: where it was raining, so you just go ahead and
Speaker 1: practice outside in the rain and get used to that.
Speaker 1: All right. Looking at this game coming up, obviously the
Speaker 1: top team in the NFC. You guys are on the
Speaker 1: top for the NFC yourself, So there's a headline matchup.
Speaker 1: It's why they moved it. So let's break it down
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um, I don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: tell your fellas. Probably save that for them as you
Speaker 1: start the week. I mean, last week it was focused. Um,
Speaker 1: I would imagine this week is don't let it get
Speaker 1: too big. I mean, because there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of national media coming and really for the first time
Speaker 1: where it's gonna be major attention. Sure, and it's may
Speaker 1: be the rest of the season this way. Sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's that's that's a good thing. We like that. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think we understand how to handle We'll understand. We've
Speaker 1: been through now a couple national televised games, which is
Speaker 1: good for us, But you don't want to make this
Speaker 1: There's there's that balance of trying to say, Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: we know it's an important game. It's gonna be on
Speaker 1: on primetime Sunday night and there, but that's fun. That's
Speaker 1: that's what you want. Um. Now, how do you corral
Speaker 1: that and how do you make sure that you don't
Speaker 1: make it too big of a game, because when you
Speaker 1: do make it too big of a game, then you
Speaker 1: don't play the game you're supposed to play. That's my
Speaker 1: job to make sure that throughout the week I send
Speaker 1: the right message to these guys so that they're prepared
Speaker 1: as best as they can be. That's our coach's jobs
Speaker 1: to do the same thing, and then the players have
Speaker 1: to take responsibility and knowing that from here on out,
Speaker 1: no matter who it is that we're playing, every game
Speaker 1: is going to be the biggest game of the season
Speaker 1: from from the rest of the way here. So so
Speaker 1: ultimately nothing's changed. Nothing's changes now, nothing changed from for us.
Speaker 1: The environment's going to change, and there's going to be
Speaker 1: a feel to it, and it's going to be a
Speaker 1: home game for us, and so that part will change.
Speaker 1: But as far as how we practice, as far as
Speaker 1: how we prepare, we're not going to prepare more because
Speaker 1: it's the Rams than we did for the New York
Speaker 1: Giants last week. That all stays the same. And whether
Speaker 1: it's it's a Sunday night game, a Monday night game,
Speaker 1: or a Sunday game at twelve o'clock, it does not matter.
Speaker 1: We gotta go control what we can control. Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: is out of his mind at the moment. Eight and
Speaker 1: a half sacks last three games, yet none and one hit.
Speaker 1: In his first three games, He's got sixteen and a
Speaker 1: half sacks. Is he almost unstoppable at the moment. The
Speaker 1: way he's playing right now is on another level. And
Speaker 1: if you don't respect that, and you don't appreciate that, uh,
Speaker 1: And and coming from an offensive coach's perspective, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta know where he's at on every single play. UM.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's that's relevant and important that you
Speaker 1: see with him is that he's making big plays at
Speaker 1: big times and and so he's always his motor is
Speaker 1: always going. Uh. Doesn't matter whether he's double team to
Speaker 1: triple teams. Uh, He's still able to get in there
Speaker 1: and make plays. But the last several weeks now, he's
Speaker 1: been very opportunistic with um with with sack fumbles and turnovers.
Speaker 1: And just this past weekend, I mean that was a
Speaker 1: close game with Detroit the whole way through until he
Speaker 1: made a play, and he made that play, got the
Speaker 1: sack fumble, and the kind of flipped the game around.
Speaker 1: What do you think of their offense? Real quick. Well,
Speaker 1: their offense is really good. I think uh Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: does an amazing job of scheming you, putting his guys
Speaker 1: in great situations. He's built a great relationship with his quarterback.
Speaker 1: His players completely trust him. They trust what he's building,
Speaker 1: they trust his scheme, they trust how things fit and
Speaker 1: when you win, it helps. And they're doing that. They're
Speaker 1: they're a complete team. I really don't want it any
Speaker 1: other way. I think it's a great opportunity for us.
Speaker 1: You know, let's respect our opponents. Let's let them come
Speaker 1: on in here to Soldier Field, Let's have a little fun.
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with head coach mad Maggie and
Speaker 1: this hour featuring defensive coordinator Vic Bengio, brought to you
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Speaker 1: of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joni Eli Manning takes
Speaker 1: the snap. Big rush by Hicks and a rush by
Speaker 1: Floyd hammers Eli down to the ground and that's sec.
Speaker 1: Number two this season for Leonard Floyd, who has three
Speaker 1: steps in a big hurry to get to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Huge right there. The last six games very active for
Speaker 1: Leonard Floyd and that was a big play right after
Speaker 1: another sack. I think with four that or after that,
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio back with us and last six games Leonard.
Speaker 1: I know everyone wants to focus on the sacks, but
Speaker 1: he's making a lot of progress right now. Definitely. I'm
Speaker 1: in the first four games, five games. You know, he
Speaker 1: played the first three games with a cast on his hand,
Speaker 1: had no use of his one hand, and be honest
Speaker 1: with you, just a little disappointed in myself to even
Speaker 1: let him play as much as we did. But he
Speaker 1: wanted to go and he gave it a good effort,
Speaker 1: and then his first game out of the cast, he
Speaker 1: was a little hesitant to use it, you know, freely
Speaker 1: the way you need to be able to. So I
Speaker 1: don't think we've seen him play the way he's capable
Speaker 1: of until the last, like you said, five or six games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did an interview with him before the game, leading
Speaker 1: up to the game, I should say, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: I felt like myself through all that time. Now you
Speaker 1: know whether or not he's he's thinking like you're thinking,
Speaker 1: you're you're a coach and you're you can see things differently,
Speaker 1: but it seems only naturally you would be a little
Speaker 1: afraid to let it loose with that hand. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the first game or so when he was
Speaker 1: out of the big cast and had a smaller protective
Speaker 1: device on it. The first few games when he had
Speaker 1: the big cast on, he was trying everything, but it's
Speaker 1: not easy to play football with one hand. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I'm expecting a breakout rest of the season for Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd just because it just you know, the steps, his
Speaker 1: strides are so long. He gets there in a hurry. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know Roquins that way, in a different way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: guys are closed quickly on your defense, don't you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those two guys that you mentioned and some others can
Speaker 1: run and when they see it, they can go get it.
Speaker 1: All right. What is your evaluation yesterday? Just very disappointing loss.
Speaker 1: You know, we played extremely well in the first half
Speaker 1: up until the last two plays. We should never let
Speaker 1: them get that field goal at the end of a half,
Speaker 1: and then you know, we gave up the reverse pass
Speaker 1: for the touchdown, and you know, we had a period
Speaker 1: there where we just didn't play as well, you know,
Speaker 1: and we had a chance to win at the end
Speaker 1: of the game and gave up that fuel goal. You know,
Speaker 1: after the first play run that Barkley broke out of there,
Speaker 1: that we could have played a little better, And you know,
Speaker 1: that's the way it is in the NFL. You don't
Speaker 1: get many mulligans and hopefully don't pay for your mistakes.
Speaker 1: But we did pay for ours yesterday. I just had
Speaker 1: a curiosity and to Beckham touchdown throw, because he's so
Speaker 1: good with the ball in his hands, is it put
Speaker 1: everybody on edge a little bit because could somebody have
Speaker 1: hit him? Well, it's like everybody hesitated, like they now
Speaker 1: treated him like almost like a quarterback, don't touch me
Speaker 1: type of thing. It just looked that way. I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I looked that way a little bit, But I think
Speaker 1: some of it too was because he's so elusive. They
Speaker 1: were afraid to miss him. But we were a little
Speaker 1: tentative at going after him there. For some reason, we
Speaker 1: could have done a little better there. Breakdowns have not
Speaker 1: happened often. Was it something they did on this day
Speaker 1: to the secondary that had a few breakdowns? Well, on
Speaker 1: that play, we you know, we just vacated the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, which we shouldn't have done, and you
Speaker 1: know we paid for it. The Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Bit Bengio and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continued
Speaker 1: Shotgun Manning takes in trouble. Daddy goes sacked on the
Speaker 1: play and brought down by Khalil mack back at the
Speaker 1: forty yard latt his ninth sack of the year, and
Speaker 1: Manning the victim of his four hundredth career sack, and
Speaker 1: it's a big one on third down and they now
Speaker 1: will punt. That was a big sack in the game.
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Speaker 1: as we get ready to meet the La Rams. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about it with Vick here in a moment. Let's
Speaker 1: just go back a little more through the game yesterday
Speaker 1: and just in general, any particular reason why you guys
Speaker 1: have been so stingy in first half of games. It's
Speaker 1: an NFL low seventy five first half points allowed. You're
Speaker 1: gonna win a lot of games if you continue to
Speaker 1: play that kind of stingy football. I know it hasn't
Speaker 1: you know, happened in the second half necessarily, but to
Speaker 1: get that head start where you can do things a
Speaker 1: little differently in the second half defensively when you're on
Speaker 1: the lead and so forth, Has that made a big difference? Well,
Speaker 1: it definitely helps the whole team when you can hold
Speaker 1: the other team down early in the game, especially if
Speaker 1: your offense isn't clicking, particularly on the road, to go
Speaker 1: out there and hold the fort for everybody, and our
Speaker 1: guys have come out ready to play most of the time.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the tackling yesterday when you
Speaker 1: knew going in you were going to need all eyes on,
Speaker 1: say Quon Barkley. You know, the tackling overall wasn't too bad.
Speaker 1: It's just that the ones we did miss came on
Speaker 1: his two of his bigger plays, so they stand out.
Speaker 1: But overall it wasn't too bad. I don't want to
Speaker 1: throw him too many bouquets, you know, even after the fact. Now,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be around a while. I heard players say,
Speaker 1: and if I'm not mistaken, that you thought he maybe
Speaker 1: looked a little bit like a Barry Sanders type of back.
Speaker 1: Mattee you was just on earlier in our program Tonight
Speaker 1: said he reminds him about Jackson. Dom Thayre says, he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of tenancies and qualities of a Walter Payton.
Speaker 1: Given how hard he runs the ball, where do you
Speaker 1: envision him becoming one day. He's a hard guy to
Speaker 1: compare to somebody because it runs like a back who's
Speaker 1: one hundred ninety five two hundred pounds with his speed
Speaker 1: and elusiveness. But yet he's two hundred and thirty pounds,
Speaker 1: so he has the power to go with that. So
Speaker 1: I really don't remember a back that combines all those
Speaker 1: qualities that he has right now. You know, in a
Speaker 1: time and place when everyone I only wants to talk
Speaker 1: about passing games, there's still there's still a home for
Speaker 1: a great running back to lead a football team, not
Speaker 1: only last week with the Giants, but now coming up
Speaker 1: with Todd Gurley as a defensive coordinator. Do backs scare
Speaker 1: you as much as great quarterbacks? Really great backs? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't mean to say anything scares you,
Speaker 1: but you know what I mean. The running backs are
Speaker 1: the easiest guys to get the ball to. You just
Speaker 1: have to turn and hand it off to him, or
Speaker 1: you can throw something short to them. So if they're
Speaker 1: really that good, like these couple guys we saw yesterday
Speaker 1: and going to see next week are it's easy for
Speaker 1: them to get the ball in their hands, so they
Speaker 1: are a problem. The goal line stand that nearly was
Speaker 1: complete at the end and not the end, but when
Speaker 1: Manning was hitting, he threw to wide open Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: The fight and the fire and the desire is this
Speaker 1: coming from you and your philosophy or you guys just
Speaker 1: guys that are going to lay it out out there
Speaker 1: every time every snap. Now that's a reflection of the players.
Speaker 1: Certainly we emphasize that, reinforce it, like it, try and
Speaker 1: coach it, but ultimately it comes down to the players.
Speaker 1: And that's just the type of guys we have. Because
Speaker 1: you know, even Mattie said, you know, some teams they
Speaker 1: just they just they're that close, they just they just
Speaker 1: give it up. You know. You guys don't give up
Speaker 1: an inch, try not to, you know. And we've got
Speaker 1: some big guys inside and Goldman and Hicks and the
Speaker 1: other defensive lineman, and you know we're gonna put up
Speaker 1: a fight until they get it in. Kyle Fuller's on
Speaker 1: fire too in terms of seeing the football as a
Speaker 1: as a member of the secondary sixth interception tie for
Speaker 1: the league lead right now. We've talked about him several
Speaker 1: weeks now, but is he really coming in his own
Speaker 1: right now as a corner at top flight cornerback in
Speaker 1: this league. I think so. He's been the beneficiary of
Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. He's committed himself to being
Speaker 1: the best he can be. You know, He's come through
Speaker 1: some tough times in the last few years ever since
Speaker 1: he's been here, really even his rookie year when when
Speaker 1: we weren't here. So it's good to see a guy
Speaker 1: come through all the adversity and reaping the benefits of
Speaker 1: a lot of good work. The Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of
Speaker 1: the Bears News Radio seven eighty and one oh five
Speaker 1: point nine FM w BBM Remaining Moments with Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: the Bears defensive coordinator, has the Bears get ready to
Speaker 1: meet the La Rams. Wow, they're balanced, Huh, they really
Speaker 1: are they you know, most people think they're best players.
Speaker 1: They're running back and they yet they throw the ball
Speaker 1: extremely well. They got two receivers that will get over
Speaker 1: a thousand yards if they're not already there. And girl's
Speaker 1: got about i don't know, sixteen or seventeen hundred yards
Speaker 1: from scrimmage right now. And yeah, the quarterbacks running it
Speaker 1: very efficiently, and and they do a great job. They
Speaker 1: got a great scheme. They do a great job calling it,
Speaker 1: and it's a huge challenge. What's the essence of their scheme?
Speaker 1: They they make everything look the same, both running past
Speaker 1: or I don't want to say old school, but they're
Speaker 1: under center more than any team in the league. Still,
Speaker 1: they don't go to the shotgun as much on the
Speaker 1: early downs, and they're an old fashioned run and play
Speaker 1: action pass and they do a good job of making
Speaker 1: it both look the same. Put the players into a
Speaker 1: buying you know, as far as determining run or pass,
Speaker 1: and and they're really good at it because so many
Speaker 1: teams are and gunned. Does it make a defensive player?
Speaker 1: Is it unusual almost to see a guy under center
Speaker 1: that much? Does it make them stop and think for that? Well,
Speaker 1: it is a little unusual, just in that. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe you'd say that, but yeah, there's
Speaker 1: it's not as many teams spending time under center as
Speaker 1: much as they are, and they're really good at it.
Speaker 1: I know he's not on your side of the ball.
Speaker 1: But do you admire the excellence of a player like
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald? Yeah, he's just such a great player. He's
Speaker 1: and I think the thing you admire the most, besides
Speaker 1: his extraordinary talent, is he's a relentless player and you're
Speaker 1: in for an all day sucker if you got to
Speaker 1: block him, and which makes him a great player, coupled
Speaker 1: with his tremendous talent. Girley versus somebody like Barkley types
Speaker 1: of player, any comparisons contrasts. They're similar in that they
Speaker 1: are very important to their offenses, and both from a
Speaker 1: obviously carrying the football in the running game and also
Speaker 1: receiving it in the passing game. So from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: they are very similar. Obviously, Matt is using some of
Speaker 1: your defensive personnel on offense. Do you get a kick
Speaker 1: out of it, especially when they do something like Hicks yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's good, you know, keeps things fresh,
Speaker 1: brings the team together more. I believe I'm still looking
Speaker 1: for somebody on offense that can maybe help us on defense,
Speaker 1: but yet to find that guy. Keep looking. I know
Speaker 1: you uncover every rock, so you can do it well.
Speaker 1: Good good luck on Sunday night. We really appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming out. You'd be a fun night, a fireworks show
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball for both teams. So
Speaker 1: good luck, Thank you. It's Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.
Speaker 1: All right, that's gonna wrap up our show tonight. Bears
Speaker 1: and Rams Sunday, four o'clock Free Game seven twenty kickoff
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