WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Pagano on Denver 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.960 Had a pleasant, good even everybody, and welcome to PANC Studio. 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:04.920 Here at Hollis Songs, we bring you the Bears Coaches 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.160 Show with head coach Mattneggie. It's brought to you by 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.320 Whippley CPAs and consultants. Jeff Joniak with you here into 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.280 eight o'clock tonight. Bears defensive coordinator Chuck Pugato to join 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.479 us later on in the hour. Good evening, How are 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.040 you doing good? How are you good? Good? Good? I 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.439 just spend your weekend good. You know, it's uh reflecting 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:24.800 a little bit on the game, and then you get 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.320 away and you start prepping for Denver, got some some 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.320 some family time, got to see my son's football game 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.839 real quick, and then back at it. Household probably was 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.560 a downer too right after the after the game. Yeah, yeah, 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.520 that boys, they did. They take that stuff hard. They do. Yeah, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.760 they do take it very hard. And they understand, they 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:44.760 know that they know how much work that we all 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.040 put into this, and the players, coaches, everybody and the 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.400 fans and so um. Obviously you want to come away 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.680 with to win. We didn't. So do they leave daddy 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.240 alone a little bit? Does Daddy need a little time alone. No, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.920 they understand, they get it. I think that one of 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.240 the cool parts that we have going on is that, um, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.400 there's no knee to be able to take it out 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.080 on them. I mean that one makes sense. You know, 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.240 these are my boys and they're there to support you, 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.319 so they care. And I think when you have people 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.160 that care in each type of situations inevitably that that's 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.520 that's what means the most. You know, I hate to 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:15.600 characterize losses because if if I recall in your in 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.319 your one of your preseason games last year, your steamed 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:23.119 that you lost the game. So that's just your nature, right, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.280 But this how would you characterize the sting of this 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:31.360 one versus others? Well, this one, you know it was 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.160 it counted, it was a regular season game versus the 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.920 preseason like you're discussing from last year, um and so, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:42.039 and then it's how how it's how it goes, you know, 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:44.840 it's it's uh, last year it was against them, they 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:46.720 came back and because it was a different type of loss, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:48.440 but they both stung the same. You know, the a 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.800 loss is a loss to me, it's all about how 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.680 do you react to it? What's the adversity and and uh, 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.080 we know what the adversity is. How do we respond? 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.600 And that's the challenge right now. And that's why I'm here, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:00.800 is to lead these guys to make sure that we 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.000 rally behind each other and move on. And you went 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.760 out to practice today and take your temperature of the team, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.640 would you would you think it was good? I mean, 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:10.960 it's it's a pretty neat deal when these guys realize 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.639 that they're sixteen games in the season and as as 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.000 um you know, as as quick as sometimes that season goes, 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.920 we have fifteen more games to play. The only one 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.600 that matters right now to us right now is playing 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.359 in Denver, and and so it's going to be here 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.520 before you know what. We want to fix the problems 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.120 that we had offensively, keep doing what we did defensively 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.040 in special teams and try to get that win. You know, 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.240 it feeds the bulldog a little bit though. That's a 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:36.200 popular term. And I guess in our industry, uh you 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.120 got you got ESPN on the front page after last 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:42.720 yesterday's games and they say this morning, which teams should 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:46.880 panic after week one? And it is a comical statement 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.800 when you break it all down, because sixteen teams are 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.520 gonna lose opening weeks. So you know, you can't just 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:54.240 shove it all the dirt and call it a day. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.200 I'll call it a season. So how do you fight that? 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.000 Even with your own guys a little bit? You know 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.560 what you do. It's called horse blinders and ear muffs. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.520 You don't listen to any of it means nothing. It 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.400 means absolutely no. I love you to death. I let 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.440 you love your media show and everything we got going on. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.560 But let me tell you, we don't care about any 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.400 of that. We care about what's going on inside this 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.799 building at House Hall. We got each other and that's 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.520 all that matters, all right. With some of the games yesterday, 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.919 did you take a look at some and M? Is 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.040 it fun to watch some games and see how other 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.360 things are unfolding around the league? Yeah, you get to see, 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:26.840 you know, what other guys are doing, what's going on? M. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.800 And I think there's for me in particular, there's situational 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.560 football that can occur. There's a lot of stuff that 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.280 happened yesterday in some of those games. Crazy at the 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.480 end of the games, and so um you use that. 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.080 We use it as a as a tool and a 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.480 resource to to what our players can use and so, uh, 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.560 you know, hey, we're we know that tonight that uh 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.560 you know, with the game going on with Denver and Oakland, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.640 that'll be able to watch that on TV as well. Right, 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.320 that'll be fun to watch later tonight, I think after 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.080 nine o'clock tonight. Uh. In terms of situational football, everybody 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.600 wants to talk about, you know, the fantasy stats of players, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.440 but situational football is what coaches make their money in 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.760 and how you guys plan for that. And it starts 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:11.600 obviously a line of scrimmage on both sides of the 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.800 ball football, but situational football separates wins and losses, doesn't that? Oh? Yeah, 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.200 without a doubt. We talk about it every day. We 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.480 give examples, we show video clips. There's so many different 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.440 situations that occur out there. And then there's decision making too, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.280 you know, and we had that in our game with 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.760 whether or not you kicked the fifty one yard field goal? 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:33.760 Do you challenge a possible past interference by Taylor Gabriel? 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.760 All that stuff goes on, and so we use experiences 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.920 as much as we can and try to be right 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.479 as much as you can. You brought it up. I 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.120 didn't think that was past interference. Tom disagree with me. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.680 It didn't seem like anything more than a love tap. 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.920 But I mean maybe that's enough when you extend your arms. Yeah, 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.240 and just by you saying that there with, you have 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.159 two people and one thinks it is and one thinks 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:58.599 it isn't it needs to be, you know, clear and 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.520 obvious and otherwise they're not going to overturn it. And 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.559 being we were losing at the time and every every 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:06.760 time out matters, UM, it can get you the ball 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.240 back for a possession, and we just felt like as 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.919 a staff that that outweighed the challenge of getting it 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.840 overturned in terms of mental errors for a week one. Uh, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.960 I saw a bunch in the league yesterday. Is that 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.080 a common probably? You know, just because it is week one. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:22.960 I don't think it has anything to do other other 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:25.919 than um, it is exactly that it's week one, and 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:30.040 so teams are learning different offenses, different defenses, um, and 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.920 and it's just a for for everybody to just realize 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:34.800 that you don't try to do that this week two, 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.599 Week three, Week four. All right, man Naggie, our guest 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.080 here on the Bears Coach You Show, brought to you 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.359 by Whippley, CPAs and consultants. UM. When you when you 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:47.360 talk about and Mitch talked about balance, when does what's 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.159 the impact of in balance? I guess, well, you want 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.320 to be able to if you're if we're speaking offensively, UM, 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:57.599 when you become one dimensional, UM, whether that's running the 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.920 ball all the time and then putting an eighth and 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:01.840 ninth guy in the box to stop the run, you 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.479 gotta be able to throw it and vice verse. If 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.039 you're throwing it all the time, now it's a disadvantage 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.080 to your offensive linement because the defensive lines peeling their 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.919 ears back and pinning their ears back and going after you. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.280 So to balance there makes a defensive coordinator guess what's 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.400 going on. So when we had sixty five plays and 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:21.840 not enough runs, so you know that that gives an 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.640 advantage to the defense, and we know we want to 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.440 improve that. You know, you often talk about convicted throws 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.760 and they're definitely what we're sung by Mitch. And is 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.320 that also a part of rhythm? There were points in 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.520 the game whether it was rhythm starting to brew. Yeah, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.960 that was one game where there just really wasn't much rhythm. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.960 We'd have a couple plays too at the most and 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.880 then all of a sudden there was a penalty where 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.880 there was a delay a game or a substitution issue. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.560 And so that that's the stuff that we feel like 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.320 we we everybody can be better at, and that we 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.080 just couldn't get into a rhythm. We weren't in a 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.640 red zone really much at all, I think one time, 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.080 and so when you don't get in a rhythm, it 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.760 just things are choppy, and then it it affects the 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.960 flow of the game for the quarterback and a play caller. 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.160 Yeah right, I mean you even admitted the other day 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.920 it was a weird kind of game. It was. And 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.200 who knows how when you're gonna get sucked into those scenarios, right, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.640 And we had a couple third and one opportunities that 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.440 we didn't convert on, and those hurt because now it's 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.440 fourth and one, you usually have to pump the ball 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.880 and whereas if you get that first down, now you 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:23.720 get a little bit of rhythm. You extend to drive, 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.320 you give your defensive break man, Naggie, our guest here 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:28.280 on the Bears coach you show, brought to you by Whipplease, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.760 CPAs and Consultants, time to step away from WBBM's traffic 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.040 and weather together on the eights. Here's Abby Ryan I 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.080 could grab by David Montgomery as the Bears get back 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.720 to work here earlier today at Hallis Hall with a 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.640 ten ten ten practice that Matt has put together over 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.720 his first two years here as we welcome in back 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.040 to the Bears Coaches Show at P ANDC Studios at 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.119 Hollis Hall. Joined the season ticket Priority list for the future. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.840 Opportunity to become a season ticket holder, visit Chicago Bears 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.920 dot com slash tickets to join. Now, that was a 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.440 heck of a catch. Had to whip his head all 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.440 the way around and maintain and hanging out of the football. Yeah, 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.880 it was. He did a great job there finding that seam. 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.480 They were in a one high safety look and Mitch 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:09.160 made a great throw. So again, those are the type 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:10.840 of plays that you wish you would have had more of, 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.840 and that's that's really what we want to do here 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.520 going forward. It does accentuate his ability to catch the football. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.760 Though not a body catcher by any means, that was 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.800 a total hands catch and again that contact balance which 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:24.120 he's known for in the run game, came to fruition 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.960 there in the past game as well. Is that exciting 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.080 for you? Yeah? We we We always knew that he 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.160 had great hands, and then you put him in a route. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:32.720 He's catching the ball twenty to twenty five yards downfield. 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:34.760 He has good vision, he has a good field for zones, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:36.800 and if teams want to play man too, he can 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.120 win the one on one matchups. All right, So how 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.200 do you approach Mitch this week? Just keep you know, hey, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.839 we understand, not just for Mitch but for all of 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.520 us that that was a rough game. You know, we 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.800 just uh, we didn't we didn't have it going on. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.439 But let's put that behind us. It's time to move on. 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.360 And how do we attack Denver? What do we do? 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.480 What do we like? That's all part of the scheming 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.800 and and uh, you know, it's it's everybody. It's not 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.240 just the quarterback, it's the offensive lineman and running backs, 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.160 so wide receivers, the tight ends into coaching. Yeah, you 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.120 talked a lot about green grass, and that's that wasn't 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.040 always available and sometimes it's not going to be available. 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.360 That is also part of the growth process, right. The 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.760 big key of this whole thing the season, no matter 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.080 how it's going to go is growth is a major 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:23.280 part of twenty nineteen, right for everybody. Yeah, and everybody 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.000 knows that it starts at the quarterback position. That's where 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:29.480 everybody wants to look at. And and you get all 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:30.959 the credit when you win, and you get a lot 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.440 of the blame when you lose. But that's how it goes. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.600 And so we want to all just keep working in 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:37.839 unison and figuring out how we can get better, and 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.480 we think we'll do that. Versus Denver against the Packers, 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.360 both teams committed a lot of penalties. Is that part 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:48.199 of the sloppiness also of just week one? Probably you 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:52.119 do not want to just give that as something as 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:54.920 absolving that. Well, I think if you look, if you 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.160 look at yesterday's games too, there was I mean, shoot, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.480 there were some teams there that eighteen penalties in one game. 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.480 So I'm sure that's a byproduct of some of it, 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.000 you know, with with with who these players are and 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.520 the teams and everything. But some of it's just the 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.679 course of the game the way it goes for whatever reason. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.440 And um, so penalties, you don't want that those are 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.280 negative plays that they they you know, they stopped the 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:16.920 rhythm of the game, and you want to try to 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:20.520 keep that to a minimum. Defense made some really impressive 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.720 plays throughout the course of the game that that first 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:27.400 three series in concert with the crowd, it was vicious. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.360 It was awesome football. Right from your perspective on the sidelines. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.160 What was it like? It was? Yeah, they they did 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.080 a great job. They stopped the run all game long. 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.640 I think they averaged three point seven yards per carry 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.360 in the run game, um or excuse me, three point 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.520 seven yards per player play in the game and forty 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.719 two to forty three yards total rushing, which is when 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.959 you stop the run, you're doing things the right way. 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.079 So we had five sacks, only gave up ten points. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.800 So for sure they they I think that's one of 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.439 the things that we can hang our hat on is 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.160 every all the questions about how they were going to 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.120 do under coach Pagano. I was really excited about that. Yeah, 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.600 two point one four yards of rush, You're gonna win 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.679 a lot of games that way. You know, stop on 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.120 the run like that. Along with eleven negative plays overall, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.240 you know there's development going on. Even guys that are 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.440 in the rotation and I look at Roy Robertson Harris 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:16.000 and I can't. I've watched it a lot, just the 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.959 way he manhandled the front on a couple of rushes 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:23.240 because of his length and long arm and getting guys 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.520 off balance and using his length. Is this still a 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.360 player that has all high ceiling? I heard so I 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.080 hope so he really you're right, you hit a right 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:32.880 on the head. I mean he he had. He had 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.240 a really really good game. He won and dominated his 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.199 one on one matchups, and he is such a long 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.080 level guy. I mean the one play he just bulldozed 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.120 the right guard and or there there they're a left 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.040 guard and then you know, sacked Aaron Rodgers just by 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.920 with one hand. I mean it was just a special play. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.120 So just talking to him this morning, he even made 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.240 mention to me that he left more plays out there. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.560 So to know that, to hear that that he wants 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.360 to do even better, we need that. That's great. I 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.560 believe that's the type of team you have, though a 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.400 lot of guys are gonna be talking like that way 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.560 it is and that's why you know, um, that's the 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.600 great part is right now, our our defense and they 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.280 did it last year too when we were working through 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:15.280 our offense. They support our guys, they know that this 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:17.040 is a wee thing. We're all in this thing together. 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.599 There's gonna be hey, there's no shock. There's gonna be 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.400 a time this year where our defense gives up a 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.280 touchdown or they give up some points and we gotta 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.160 on offense pick them up. And that's the beauty of 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:30.120 of a of a of a team, a team sport 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.559 where it's not just an individual thing. I mean, they 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.600 all need to work together. And so rough game, rough 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:39.520 game for the offense. Defense played well, and now, um, 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:41.000 you know, we just want to be able to work 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:42.880 off of each other and however we get it, let's 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.840 get that win. Time for another break here with the 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.520 Bears coaches showing Matt Naggie in a check of WBBM's 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.400 traffic and whether you're gonna be on the eight. Here's 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.800 Debbie Ryan bro Quan Smith five tackles for solo and 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.680 a good day at the at the office for the 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.800 Bears defense and the loss of the Green Bay Packers. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.959 Getting now ready for the Denver Broncos. Uh, we touchdown 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.559 a ro Quan earlier, but you know you gotta throwing 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.640 Danny Trevethan as a pair. What those two guys are 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.240 gonna be able to do to um benefit from what's 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:12.720 being done up front and then in turn helping out 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.240 the coverage. It's just a seamless unit. In my opinion, 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:17.720 it is. They're working well. And you got Danny Trevathan, who's, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.840 you know, a savvy vet. He understands, um, you know, 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.520 how to attack lanes and leverage, et cetera from the defense, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.520 and he's teaching Roquan how to how to how to practice, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.880 how to play, and Roquan just flying around. UM. So 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.839 those two guys together, when you have guys up front, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.679 UM on the front line that are you know, taking 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.840 up to double teams. Now we have guys on the 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.640 second line here in in Roquan and Danny that are 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.520 that are making plays. Are you still doing this year 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:47.360 like you did last year? From no mistaken you have 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.000 certain guys, you have like a committee of guys that 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:52.520 come and talk to you. Yes, yeah, And have you 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.720 do do that every week? Do you do it throughout 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.480 the season? Do you do it during training camp? How 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.240 does that work? What we do know? We just do 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.480 it during the regular season and we do on our 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.040 quote unquote Wednesday practice. So a normal week when we 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.520 play Sunday, We have them come in at eight o'clock 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:08.080 in the morning on a Wednesday and we just kind 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.640 of talk through things that may have just occurred the 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.200 previous week, how we can make things better. What it 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.040 might be travel, It might be a lot of the 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.920 guys always wanting to try to get you know, first 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.520 class seats on the plane to the next away game. Um, 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.280 it might be parking. There's there's little things that go on, 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:25.360 um that are uh, you know, first world problems. And 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.960 I think that for for for them though, it's it's uh, 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.240 it's it's a good way for us to communicate sometimes. 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.960 It's hey, coach, when we pull them back to reps 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.400 right as we get in the middle of the season, 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:36.880 end of the season, when when are we taking the 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.720 pads off and pull back the amount of reps And 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.440 so it's for them to have a voice. And and 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.400 it's just us, it's just myself and them and then 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.200 uh um, then I take it back to the committee, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:48.960 which is kind of made up, and I decide whether 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.800 or not we do it or not. There's a committee one, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.080 yeah exactly, yeah, committee of one. But there are things 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.760 you ask of them as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.160 and it's it's a give and take, you know, And 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.440 and it can't be something to where I let them 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:04.800 have a voice and then they don't, you know, they 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.840 don't see anything happen because of it. Well, in turn, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.320 if we're gonna pull back reps, for instance, in practice, 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.480 we're gonna pull back the amount of reps, then the 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.360 quality reps that we get better quality and that you 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.640 can't you can't cut back your reps and not have 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.760 good fast reps. And so they get that, and then 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.280 I just feel it out and if I feel like 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.960 they're doing that for us, we pull back reps. All right, 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.080 You're gonna watch Denver tonight. Let's take a snapshot. Look 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.840 the big smile on your face, because you know, everybody 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.880 loved Vick Fanjio, So everybody's happy for him getting his 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.120 head coaching jam. But he's not putting the pads on 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.760 or a helmet or cleats on Sunday in Denver? Is he? 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.040 That's right? No? And we do. We all had so 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.280 much for me and that the one year that we 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.040 were together, I learned so much just what a what 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.120 a good guy is, but great coach. And I know 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.600 that his players are loving them there in Denver right now. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.960 So it'll be it'll be fun next week when we're 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.840 going against each other and there won't be much texting 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.960 or phone calling at all throughout the week between us, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.480 but once once the game's over, we'll have a lot 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.520 of mutual respect for each other. If there was something 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:07.520 anecdotal that you recall, just what you what did you 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.600 learn from being around him? Probably the biggest thing is 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:15.400 that um not changing. You know, it's Vick's a big 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.760 time competitor and sometimes you know, if there's a game 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:19.840 where he felt like he could have done better, but 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.080 I thought he did really well, he'll beat himself up 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.440 and but he doesn't change, you know. He he gets 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.120 over it twenty four hours and he gets over it 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.720 and he just goes back to doing what he knows 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:31.160 and doing what his players know. And so you don't 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.720 need to really change and try to um recreate the 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.560 wheel you just sticked and doing what you what you 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.400 do and um and then you know, probably the other 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.440 thing too is that he can act like he's a 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.560 real serious guy and doesn't, but deep down the side, 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:46.120 he's he's a he's a jokester and likes to have fun. 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.720 And he's a good, good hearted guy. What's not fun? 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.200 It's trying to black Von Miller and Bradley Chubb, is it. No, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.080 they're they're dominant players. They're they're players that you have 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.360 to know on every single play where they're at. Um, 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.840 you can help your guys out. Uh And and that's 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.600 a secret. Everybody understands that. The nice thing is that 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.840 we get to practice against a guy by number fifty 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.520 two and another guy on ninety four on those edges. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.600 So for between Floyd and mac our tackles are getting 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:15.440 some pretty good practice, well seasoned. Indeed, offensively, Joe Flacco 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.760 moves over to be the quarterback. Philip Lindsay an undrafted 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.200 running back who really came out of nowhere and had 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:24.280 a great season for them last year. But it's a 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.719 it's a Rick Skan s Gangrello, right, I say that, right, 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.360 it's his type of offense. So forty nine h Yes, Yeah, 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.320 they'll you know, they'll talk, you know with Vic. You know, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.600 they'll be into the run game a little bit with that, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:40.119 you know, with him being a uh, you know, a 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.400 defensive guy. But uh, they'll do they do some good things. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.399 They'll do some good things that'll be some forty nine 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.359 are based stuff. I'm sure he'll put his own twist 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.159 on it. But they got talented players over there, and 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.400 we'll have are handsful, all right. Well, enjoy the preparation. 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.800