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Speaker 1: Bears head coach Matt Naggie, the coaching staff and Bears management.
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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Bears w BBMS. Jeff Joniac had
Speaker 1: a pleasure, good even everybody, and welcome to the panc
Speaker 1: studios here at HALLISA and welcome to the Bears Coaches
Speaker 1: Show with Head Coach Matt Nagam. Jeff Joniac with you
Speaker 1: into eight o'clock tonight and later joined in the program
Speaker 1: by Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. Hope everybody's doing well
Speaker 1: at home. I hope you had a great to come
Speaker 1: on to stay and a great bye week for Coach
Speaker 1: Naggie and the fellas. How you doing, Coach doing awesome? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. It was a refresher, not not necessarily a reset,
Speaker 1: but a refresher a little bit, uh and not just
Speaker 1: the physical aspect of it. I think most folks and
Speaker 1: fans would focus on they got to heal up, and
Speaker 1: you know, you're four weeks into the season and so forth,
Speaker 1: so that's not really the issue. It's mental also. It is,
Speaker 1: it is, and I think that one of the things
Speaker 1: that people need to understand is just how important it
Speaker 1: can be for all of us in regards to the
Speaker 1: physical and the mental side. And so, um, you know,
Speaker 1: guys were able to get back in here today and
Speaker 1: have a good, good, good practice. We were able to
Speaker 1: get outside and just kind of let them remember that
Speaker 1: it's football time now, so they get back. Well, we
Speaker 1: get all healed up, and mentally for the coaches somewhat
Speaker 1: for the players, and the physically for the players as well.
Speaker 1: And here we go, what about for the coaches, what's
Speaker 1: the I mean, you guys work long hours. Nobody's you know,
Speaker 1: feeling that that's an extraordinary thing in the national football
Speaker 1: that you guys do do that. But time with family
Speaker 1: and so forth, that's as important as anything. It is,
Speaker 1: and I believe at in that. I think that it's
Speaker 1: important to stay healthy that way. Um, just to make
Speaker 1: sure that we all understand you need to re energize
Speaker 1: a little bit, and for us as a team in
Speaker 1: particular um coming from a longer type training camp that
Speaker 1: extra week and where we were, it's good for us.
Speaker 1: And then the other part two is is for the
Speaker 1: players and coaches, the the your family in regards to
Speaker 1: them having you back in the house for a little
Speaker 1: bit and getting to see how things go. And but
Speaker 1: then by the end of it is dad and husband
Speaker 1: putting them put the foot down. Yeah, absolutely, and so
Speaker 1: there's the rules that I think should be uh, do
Speaker 1: not happen. But by the end of the week, they're
Speaker 1: ready to kick you out and let you get back
Speaker 1: to work. And that's where that's where we're at today.
Speaker 1: You mentioned when you had your weekly news conference with
Speaker 1: the media, you said the Bears, you're in a good
Speaker 1: place right now. You don't want to focus on the
Speaker 1: record and the standing where you're at in the division
Speaker 1: because there's a long way to go, but you still
Speaker 1: feel you're in a good place right now. Explain a
Speaker 1: little further. Why are you feeling more in a good
Speaker 1: place right now? Well, it really does. I mean, the
Speaker 1: records important, and I want our guys under I don't
Speaker 1: want to downplay that by any means, I think that
Speaker 1: we all understand that. But what's important right now for
Speaker 1: our first time being together, for us as coaches and
Speaker 1: for the players, is to really just understand of how
Speaker 1: long of a season that this is and it's going
Speaker 1: to be how we navigate through it. You know, do
Speaker 1: we are we content with being three and one, which
Speaker 1: I know we're not. But I got to remind those guys.
Speaker 1: I gotta remind everybody that this isn't you know, the
Speaker 1: ultimate goal. The ultimate goal for us is to right
Speaker 1: now currently just focus on the task at hand, and
Speaker 1: that's focusing on the Miami Dolphins, and everything else will
Speaker 1: take I promise it'll all take care of itself. And
Speaker 1: so if we just control we can control, and that's
Speaker 1: working week by week, then at the end when it
Speaker 1: really does matter, that all happen naturally. Yeah, I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta point out something because when you said it
Speaker 1: again right there, I promise you you say that a lot.
Speaker 1: And if you go back and I have looking through
Speaker 1: notes and whatnot, and and I'm sure players remember also
Speaker 1: from the time you got here, you've made a lot
Speaker 1: of statements that have proven to be exactly true what
Speaker 1: you expect and how it's all unfolded. How beneficial is
Speaker 1: that to you that you're that type of person that
Speaker 1: when you say something, this is how it is, and
Speaker 1: this is how you believe. Well, yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean you're ye your organization it is and you know
Speaker 1: sometimes and I don't I don't want to make too
Speaker 1: many promises, But at the same time, when you go through,
Speaker 1: when you go through UM, then you've had experience through
Speaker 1: different types of scenarios and whether that's a win streak,
Speaker 1: a losing streak. And I'm not just talking about one
Speaker 1: or two games. I'm talking about a lot of games, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: nine games. I've been on both ends of those, and
Speaker 1: so it can feel like, you know, like like the
Speaker 1: world's coming to an end when you're in one of
Speaker 1: those those six game losing streaks, and they can feel
Speaker 1: like the end of the season can't get here fast
Speaker 1: enough when you're on a nine game win streak, And
Speaker 1: so I just want to keep it in perspective for
Speaker 1: us to realize we're only four games into this thing. Now.
Speaker 1: I love where we're at. I think we have a
Speaker 1: great attitude as a team. We're creating an identity throughout Obviously,
Speaker 1: defense is flying around, they're they're great statistically, you know, individually,
Speaker 1: they're doing great. They're they're helping us win games offensively.
Speaker 1: Now we finally had that game, but how do we
Speaker 1: keep that thing going? And so that's what that's why
Speaker 1: we're here as coaches, is to make sure that we
Speaker 1: do keep it going. And that's the fun part. And
Speaker 1: so the first quarter of this season, we're three and one,
Speaker 1: But I just really truly want everybody in this building
Speaker 1: to focus on the Miami Dolphins and nothing more. Were
Speaker 1: you able to get any fresh perspectives from watching games
Speaker 1: and so forth, well, what you do get to see
Speaker 1: is a little bit of you know, are you heavy
Speaker 1: in one area or another in regards to tendencies? Is
Speaker 1: there something that maybe you know three weeks in a row,
Speaker 1: four weeks in a row, that you're seeing the same
Speaker 1: defense over and over again, the same offensive play over
Speaker 1: and over again, because they're seeing a weakness that you
Speaker 1: might have. And you want to ask questions. You want
Speaker 1: to you want to you want to be able to
Speaker 1: listen and listen not only from your coaches and what
Speaker 1: you think you need to learn more from your but
Speaker 1: also from the players. Get feedback from your own players, Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you think we could be doing more of?
Speaker 1: What should we be doing less of? And that collaboration
Speaker 1: of the communication I think is so important to helping
Speaker 1: us get better. And so we use last week to
Speaker 1: do some of that and now we're completely or were
Speaker 1: completely on it the Dolphins. Now, So how did you
Speaker 1: do that with the players? Is it you take a
Speaker 1: representative of each group? Do you go through the coaches?
Speaker 1: Do you you send your lieutenants out there and find
Speaker 1: out info? How do you how do you go back?
Speaker 1: You do a little bit of both. There's some players
Speaker 1: that you may bring in and you want to just
Speaker 1: sit down and talk to and get their opinions. There's
Speaker 1: others where you'll you know, your players will give your
Speaker 1: coaches feedback as to what they think, and then you
Speaker 1: got to go ahead and they're the middleman, so you
Speaker 1: pull it from them. And then others when you get
Speaker 1: a chance or you're at practice U or there might
Speaker 1: be a comment here there that's that's subtly said or
Speaker 1: mentioned to you that you use. And so we have
Speaker 1: a good group of guys that it's all for the
Speaker 1: positive and it's all constructive criticism and if there is
Speaker 1: any at all, so right now, we'll use it, and
Speaker 1: we'll use it to help us get better. I spend
Speaker 1: a little bit of time with Kyle Long today, just
Speaker 1: you know, recovering from all the multitude of aches and
Speaker 1: pains he had. It's more than aches and pains, obviously,
Speaker 1: but how he's able to come through that. And you
Speaker 1: mentioned today at your news conference about the medical staff
Speaker 1: and the physical training staff the job they've done, and
Speaker 1: they've done a great job with him in particular, a
Speaker 1: key figure on your offensive line at that interior right
Speaker 1: guard spot. He's benefited from a different way of thinking
Speaker 1: because of the influence and the decisions you guys have
Speaker 1: all had and how to keep him healthy, keep them fresh,
Speaker 1: keep them feeling good. Sure, And it's really when it
Speaker 1: comes down to it, it's not one person in this
Speaker 1: building that is making these decisions. We're all doing it together.
Speaker 1: We're listening, we're talking, we're asking questions, and it's for
Speaker 1: the best better fit of the player. And so in turn,
Speaker 1: when that happens, the player appreciates that. They understand that
Speaker 1: you're looking out for them, but yet you're also doing
Speaker 1: it for what's best for the team and I think
Speaker 1: that's what Ryan's done such a great job at is
Speaker 1: is really bringing in great people that are experts at
Speaker 1: their position. And so when you do that and then
Speaker 1: you communicate and you talk through, you know, certain issues
Speaker 1: like we do once a week, it's awesome and it
Speaker 1: helps out and you never take it for granted. I
Speaker 1: think it's too important and inevitably in the end, you
Speaker 1: want to be the healthiest team in the NFL, because
Speaker 1: that's going to mean that your guys are on the field.
Speaker 1: And we believe wholeheartedly in our players and our coaches
Speaker 1: and our staff or you know, everybody in organization, and
Speaker 1: so it's just a credit to them for doing such
Speaker 1: a great job. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joey at continues, I
Speaker 1: mean this is what we expected, you know, every time
Speaker 1: we go out there on Sunday, we expected about there
Speaker 1: in a week, you know, And that's been the standard
Speaker 1: since day one, you know, since the first time we
Speaker 1: step in this in this facility was first week of April.
Speaker 1: The standard was set and that was a coming here
Speaker 1: and win games. That is Alan Robinson from earlier today
Speaker 1: Bears open the locker room after practice today, Bears get
Speaker 1: a get everybody back together and COACHINGEGGI, that's the perfect
Speaker 1: answer you want your players to talk about, you know,
Speaker 1: because people are hey, aw, you're surprised where you're at.
Speaker 1: Are you surprised where you're at in the division? And
Speaker 1: his answer was one I would hope to hear from
Speaker 1: every player. No, we're not surprised. You know, we expected
Speaker 1: to win from the time you got in front of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that we delivered that message, sure, And that was the
Speaker 1: mindset and the way we've attacked this thing is to
Speaker 1: have that mindset. If you're not if you don't have
Speaker 1: that mindset, then we're all not in this for the
Speaker 1: right reasons. And I think that our guys have done
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job at listening to the message and then
Speaker 1: following through with it. And it changes every day, it
Speaker 1: changes every week, and it's changing every month right now.
Speaker 1: So our first year here going together on this ride, Um,
Speaker 1: we're learning and and uh, I think my biggest message
Speaker 1: to them has always been that it's never going to
Speaker 1: be easy, and there's going to be adversity inevitably. They've
Speaker 1: done a great job as young players. We have a
Speaker 1: nice balance of veterans and rookies, and they've done a
Speaker 1: really good job at at listening to that message and
Speaker 1: being able to accept it and learn from stuff. So
Speaker 1: you see, it changes every week. So is this week
Speaker 1: just worried about Miami? That's it. It's it's it's really simple.
Speaker 1: And you know, um, for us, if you start looking
Speaker 1: down the road or you start thinking, um, if we
Speaker 1: get to this point at that point in our record,
Speaker 1: is this or that you're you're that, that's you cannot
Speaker 1: do that. And so I'm gonna probably overdo it with
Speaker 1: the players, but they're gonna understand that as long as
Speaker 1: they um do that win loser draw, they know that
Speaker 1: they we all went about it the right way, and
Speaker 1: so I cannot let them do that. And I have
Speaker 1: full trust and I know that they'll when we get
Speaker 1: back out there on Wednesday, they'll they'll be focusing on Miami,
Speaker 1: whatever we need to do to win that game and
Speaker 1: nothing else. You know. Also, one of the things that
Speaker 1: you know, I've been asked to cizillion times on shows
Speaker 1: that I've had to do as well. You know, you said,
Speaker 1: what the offense is designed to be from the moment
Speaker 1: you got here. So there's really shouldn't be any surprises
Speaker 1: about it. Not one target is going to be the
Speaker 1: name of the game for every single week. It's going
Speaker 1: to spread it around. There's one ball, and you have
Speaker 1: many many types of weapons, including at the running back position.
Speaker 1: So you had a lot of questions today about Jordan Howard.
Speaker 1: He was asking a locker room about it if he's frustrated.
Speaker 1: He said he isn't because he didn't speak after the
Speaker 1: game against Tampa. That was the assumption that everybody made.
Speaker 1: But that being said, your players understand that, right They
Speaker 1: understand that this is the way the Bears offense is
Speaker 1: going to be. They don't care at all. They really don't.
Speaker 1: And so when you talk to these guys and you
Speaker 1: understand it's funny. Sometimes Marking myself will go over and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to some of our guys, help Chroc, We'll
Speaker 1: go over and we'll we'll say, hey, you know, we
Speaker 1: may discuss a certain route or a certain concept that
Speaker 1: we think is good for us, and it's a benefit
Speaker 1: to that player because it's going to them. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you the amount of times that our players have said, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you know that's fine, that's great. I don't care though.
Speaker 1: We're good at you you know, we're let's just keep going.
Speaker 1: Let's just keep you know, doing what we do conceptually,
Speaker 1: and that means a lot to us as coaches. And
Speaker 1: so they're understanding that each and every single week, it's
Speaker 1: could be someone different. And I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: this offense effective and it makes it work because you
Speaker 1: can't just single out one guy and take one guy away,
Speaker 1: and now the offense doesn't work. And so that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I was raised on, and coach reads West
Speaker 1: Coast offense was. I mean, you look back in the
Speaker 1: in the two thousands and there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: wide receivers other than Terrell Owens that that many people
Speaker 1: can name in that Eagles offense. But they won a
Speaker 1: lot of games and they produced a lot of great
Speaker 1: offensive numbers. Since then, the offense has evolved in Kansas
Speaker 1: City with some of the players that we had there,
Speaker 1: and now it's kind of taken a life of its own.
Speaker 1: And so what I think is so neat is you
Speaker 1: might see Tarik Coe and get a bunch of catches
Speaker 1: and have a bunch of yards, and the next week
Speaker 1: you may end up seeing you know, Alan Robinson or
Speaker 1: Trey Burton or Taylor Gabriel or Anthony Miller. The list
Speaker 1: goes on and on. Jordan Howard, you know, our tight
Speaker 1: ends down. So when you have that, you can just
Speaker 1: start calling plays and know that as long as the
Speaker 1: quarterback makes the right decision, gods will be open to
Speaker 1: make plays. And that's what we're striving for right now. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's inevitable, No, as a as a competitor, somebody does
Speaker 1: start getting a lot. And then if it feels back
Speaker 1: that they want that hunger, but you want that hunger too, yeah,
Speaker 1: you do want it. And then the other thing that's
Speaker 1: that's crucial here to understand is that inevitably, in the end,
Speaker 1: who cares about numbers? Right, we want those letters. And
Speaker 1: so as long as we're winning, no matter how we
Speaker 1: do it, as long as we have one more point
Speaker 1: than that other team, I don't care how we did it.
Speaker 1: And so far four games, defense has has really held
Speaker 1: up their end of the stick and they've helped out
Speaker 1: now for the offense. Last week they did a good
Speaker 1: job of being able to do that to work there.
Speaker 1: And well, there's a lot more games left and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be different ways to win, but our message to
Speaker 1: the team is as long as we get that win
Speaker 1: than I don't think really anybody cares. And that's what's
Speaker 1: special about this team. No more of the Bears Coaches
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Speaker 1: eighty and one oh five point nine FM w BBM.
Speaker 1: I feel like, well, we're hitting a groove. You saw
Speaker 1: a last game, so I was getting in the right
Speaker 1: path right now. Yeah, that's Jordan Howard offense. Love what
Speaker 1: they did against Tampa Bay and now it sounded in
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, says. The Bears get ready for Week
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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us down at the Bears Coaches Show.
Speaker 1: Mattneggie here for a more segment. We're with you until
Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight. Weather since we're focusing in Miami. You
Speaker 1: got a gift today, warm and humid, which is the
Speaker 1: expectation at the end of the week. My broadcast partner
Speaker 1: Tom Thayer Uh played there and he is He was
Speaker 1: a sweater back in those you know, that's what he
Speaker 1: always was, worried about the weather. But nowadays there's so
Speaker 1: much attention paid to hydration and so forth. You got
Speaker 1: that in their in their head already right about staying hydrated.
Speaker 1: That the Jen Gibsons of the world are going to
Speaker 1: make sure that that's the case. Yeah, they will, and
Speaker 1: it is very important. It's a different um, it's a
Speaker 1: different feel down there, and like you said, today it
Speaker 1: was a little humid and we were in the mid eighties,
Speaker 1: which will be similar to what it is down in Miami.
Speaker 1: So it's important. I want our guys to know that.
Speaker 1: But I don't want to overdo it either, you know,
Speaker 1: so that they can just continue to play and but
Speaker 1: hopefully it's a nice sunny day, a little humid and
Speaker 1: get to sweat, you know, sweat sweat a little bit
Speaker 1: and go play some football. James Daniels Eric Kush was
Speaker 1: brought up again today about the left guard position you're
Speaker 1: evaluating that on a daily basis, aside from the obvious
Speaker 1: and how they played with James is doing day to
Speaker 1: day in the practice field. And I'm always curious to
Speaker 1: know because some coaches don't necessarily think this way, but
Speaker 1: what you do on the practice field is extremely important
Speaker 1: to get you to Sunday. It is, and he doing that.
Speaker 1: He's doing a great job, and he's getting mental reps
Speaker 1: and then coach Harry does a great job of getting
Speaker 1: them in there for some for some physical reps as well.
Speaker 1: And so Kush has done has done a really good
Speaker 1: job at you know, understanding where we're at, where he's at,
Speaker 1: where James is at, and they're working together. And when
Speaker 1: you have that um on your team and you have
Speaker 1: selfless players that just care about getting, you know, doing
Speaker 1: whatever they can to make this offense go as best
Speaker 1: as it can, you're in a good place. And so
Speaker 1: we have that, and James are going to continue to
Speaker 1: keep working hard, keep listening, keep listening to what coach
Speaker 1: Harry has to say, and then Kush is going to
Speaker 1: do the same thing you mentioned in our last segment
Speaker 1: about we're talking about spreading the ball around and stuff.
Speaker 1: So Trey Burton, he's getting touches the other tight ends.
Speaker 1: Those days have yet to come yet, but does it
Speaker 1: feel good what you see on the practice field from
Speaker 1: the d n Sims, the Ben Bronickers, Daniel Brown's. You
Speaker 1: will be getting Adam Schehen back at some point here
Speaker 1: in somewhat the near future. It is, And it's a
Speaker 1: good problem for us to have. Is those tight ends
Speaker 1: did such a great job in the preseason and it
Speaker 1: was good work for them, and so they're continuing to
Speaker 1: work hard in practice. They're learning, they're learning about this
Speaker 1: system and how we do things, and so for us
Speaker 1: it just gives it gives us an advantage to be
Speaker 1: able to scheme different players, different personnel groupings, formations, etc.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, they don't really care. They know
Speaker 1: that whatever we ask them to do, they'll do it,
Speaker 1: whether it's one play or fifty ways, they're there and
Speaker 1: we believe in those guys. This is one of the
Speaker 1: rare days. I have to think back that no questions
Speaker 1: about Khalil mac and we haven't talked. He was named
Speaker 1: defensive player the month. That certainly was an expectation given
Speaker 1: the unique numbers I ran in him. Today, I mean
Speaker 1: every day He's like a ray of sunshine. He's happy,
Speaker 1: go lucky, just loving it, loving it here, he said, Man,
Speaker 1: but it is moving fast. It's already week six, and
Speaker 1: for him it must feel different than everybody else because
Speaker 1: of being dropped in like this. Yeah, it has to
Speaker 1: be a complete whirlwind for him, and and then for
Speaker 1: him to play as well as he's been playing, for
Speaker 1: him to elevate the players on our team as much
Speaker 1: as he has. Again, there's so many other things that
Speaker 1: go into, you know, a move and a transition. He's
Speaker 1: done it all and he's played lights out and so
Speaker 1: we're lucky. We're happy that we have him. The other
Speaker 1: part with Khalil's that he understands he's he's played, you know,
Speaker 1: every year he's play he's plays sixteen games, and so
Speaker 1: he understands the grueling part of the season how to
Speaker 1: take care of your body, so he can he not
Speaker 1: only does that, but he'll teach these guys how to
Speaker 1: take care of your body. You know, really understand. You know,
Speaker 1: this is what you got to do when you're in practice,
Speaker 1: you go hard. Now, they also rely on coaches to
Speaker 1: pull back reps a little bit as well, so that
Speaker 1: we're not you know, crushing them with the amount of
Speaker 1: reps in practice. And so he's a good teacher in
Speaker 1: regards to that, and he's had experience so with with
Speaker 1: a group like we have, that'll help him out and
Speaker 1: help all those guys. Clearly a voice already being for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, one quick sneak peak of the Dolphins. What
Speaker 1: do you have for us? Well, this is a team
Speaker 1: here where they're going to be coming off a tough
Speaker 1: loss for him. Now they've lost two in a row,
Speaker 1: but they'll be ready to go. They they had a
Speaker 1: seventeen to nothing lead at halftime, had a couple defensive
Speaker 1: touchdowns that that um that they gave up to Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and so they'll be ready to go. They they understand
Speaker 1: that they're still in first place or tie with Patriots
Speaker 1: three and two. Their offense is productive. They got a
Speaker 1: good quarterback with some weapons out there at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: and then of course they they're running. They got two
Speaker 1: good running backs as well, so there and then defensively,
Speaker 1: they fly around. They got some some guys that move
Speaker 1: around do good things, and so we'll be tested swiping
Speaker 1: the ball. I think they have ten ten interceptions the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, We'll let you go. Thank you as always,
Speaker 1: appreciate your time. You any questions for Vic Fangio for me?
Speaker 1: Not yet? All right, He's got them all, all the answers.
Speaker 1: He's coming up next The Bears Coaches Show with Head
Speaker 1: coach Med Maggie and this hour featuring defensive coordinator Vick Bengio.
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Speaker 1: again the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff joniac
Speaker 1: I felt good, you know, having fresh legs going through
Speaker 1: everything quickly, you know, just saying, you know, the energy
Speaker 1: from the game carried over now it was Tree Cohen
Speaker 1: from earlier today after Bears returned to practice as the
Speaker 1: bye week ends and everybody excited to get back to work.
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Speaker 1: a big Fangio And how the fellas look today, you know,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure that's always in your head, like, oh well,
Speaker 1: they gonna look like they looked fine. You know, it's
Speaker 1: only four days or well, I guess it was more
Speaker 1: than that. But I think they looked good and they
Speaker 1: were happy to get back to work. Believe it or not. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I do believe it. And here's why I believe it.
Speaker 1: I think they really enjoy each other. Yeah, they do.
Speaker 1: Winning can do that for you, but I think that
Speaker 1: started before the winning started. So hopefully that gets contagious
Speaker 1: and just keeps growing, particularly on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Or most of my conversations have been with
Speaker 1: the guys that have been here a bit, but Danny
Speaker 1: Trevathan was telling me, I mean they've been doing a
Speaker 1: lot together off the field, to getting to know each
Speaker 1: other's families, just trying to do things at a different level.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's organic or if you've recommended
Speaker 1: it or but they they have fun with each other,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure it shows on the practice field for you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they do. And it shows in the meeting rooms also,
Speaker 1: And it's always good that you have a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that like each other and get along and socialize.
Speaker 1: I guess outside the building and it seems to have
Speaker 1: a good carry over effect. Yeah, and they happen to
Speaker 1: like a guy named Khalil Mack too. So and he's
Speaker 1: been and I was just talking with coach Nagie about
Speaker 1: this before you got here. Just a big smile on
Speaker 1: his face in the locker room. He's just jovial, very
Speaker 1: fun loving guy and just doing a lot in many
Speaker 1: different ways that go beyond his performance. Yeah, he's brought, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a really good attitude besides his production. And
Speaker 1: I think the guys enjoyed being around him. I know
Speaker 1: the coaches enjoyed being around him. And anytime you can
Speaker 1: have a guy like that to the team with the
Speaker 1: production that's come along with it, you know, it can
Speaker 1: do nothing but help you. And this is not a
Speaker 1: ten year VET. He's a VET. He's been he's an
Speaker 1: established Vetti. He is not missed a game knockout Wood
Speaker 1: in his NFL career. So Matt was talking about that.
Speaker 1: He's giving advice to players on how to deal with
Speaker 1: the grind and what to spect. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a young team. There are veterans on your defense, but
Speaker 1: it is a young team. It's good advice probably, well,
Speaker 1: any anything that any crumb that you can get anybody
Speaker 1: that helps get you through the NFL season and all
Speaker 1: the things that go with it, helps that in that
Speaker 1: vein What what do you tell guys how do you
Speaker 1: get through it? Especially the guys who have never been
Speaker 1: through it, like your rookie real Quint Smith, you know
Speaker 1: below Nichols, What what is your standard go to? Would
Speaker 1: you tell guys about how to get through a season
Speaker 1: like this? Well? Do you have anything? Yeah? I think UM.
Speaker 1: In the past people used to talk about rookies hitting
Speaker 1: the rookie wall at some point in the season, you know,
Speaker 1: in November or December, But I don't think that really
Speaker 1: applies much anymore since UM training camp has been adjusted
Speaker 1: the way it's been. You know, in years past, when
Speaker 1: training camp was a lot of two days, UM coaches
Speaker 1: would wear out rookies to a degree in training camp
Speaker 1: because they were under the heat to get them ready,
Speaker 1: get them a lot of practice two days, a lot
Speaker 1: of reps, etc. And then they would maybe by late
Speaker 1: November early December, be worn down a little bit. But
Speaker 1: with the new rules and training camp, I don't think
Speaker 1: that happens anymore. But like the first snow, when they
Speaker 1: send reporters out to cover the first know you will
Speaker 1: get questions about the rookie wall had Ron November. You
Speaker 1: know you will. Yeah, but I don't believe in it anymore.
Speaker 1: That's good to know because you know, for some players,
Speaker 1: and I'm not suggesting that's ever been the case, but
Speaker 1: if things aren't going, they could use that as an
Speaker 1: excuse very easily when they get asked questions about it,
Speaker 1: because it's such a cliche almost now, the rookie wall. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the rookie is on our defense this year, in particular,
Speaker 1: you know, Roquan Mismost of training camp, so he's got
Speaker 1: no rookie wall that he can claim. And Bellows playing,
Speaker 1: you know, a few snaps every game whom ilse somebody
Speaker 1: missing here on defense rookie wise. So I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think we have that issue. Kevin Tolliver. Kevin Tolliver,
Speaker 1: he missed a lot of time, he played sparingly. That
Speaker 1: should not be an issue. You know. It's interesting on
Speaker 1: our TV show last night on Fox, just running through
Speaker 1: the first month of the season and seeing all of
Speaker 1: the highlights. I mean, my gosh, it's if you have
Speaker 1: to you have to stop and think about like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that play and I remember that play, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if you look at it that way,
Speaker 1: but this team has been making a lot of plays,
Speaker 1: even in just one month's time. Do you show those
Speaker 1: plays over and over again the guys Sometimes, Hey, this
Speaker 1: is what we're capable of, and it spreads like wildfire.
Speaker 1: Sometimes if you feel you need to show him plays
Speaker 1: from what's happening around the league, you know, good and bad,
Speaker 1: you know, to learn from. But if we need to,
Speaker 1: we always can go back to some of the good
Speaker 1: plays we've had so far. The Bears coaches show with
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Vic Bengio and w bbm's Jeff Jodiac continues,
Speaker 1: I thought you went really well. You know, again, everybody
Speaker 1: came out here. We had a fast practice, there's no complete,
Speaker 1: a lot of passes, you know, didn't really a little
Speaker 1: rusted or anything at all. I mean, but again that's
Speaker 1: what that's what's expected from this group. And we got
Speaker 1: a group that comes out here each and every day
Speaker 1: and trying to get better. I mean, that's the most
Speaker 1: important thing. It wasn't, you know. I Mean, if there's
Speaker 1: any any type of locker room that I would expect
Speaker 1: the bouncer to just come in from a boy. We
Speaker 1: cannot really miss it beat. It would be this locker
Speaker 1: rooms Alan Robinson Bears wide receiver with a figure on
Speaker 1: the pulse of the team in that locker room as
Speaker 1: they get back to work today, as they get ready
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. Vic Fangio, our guest here on
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show, stopped by the Middle of Light
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Speaker 1: enter and we'll be open two hours before through one
Speaker 1: hour after every Bears regular season home game. We touched
Speaker 1: on it, but what he had to say, they're about
Speaker 1: team in general. You agree with that assessment about this
Speaker 1: is a team that he would expect to come back
Speaker 1: to work and go at it. I think so. You know,
Speaker 1: it had a pretty good start to the season. Guys
Speaker 1: are excited. I think they feel the excitement from the
Speaker 1: Bears fans around town, and you know, and they want
Speaker 1: to get back back to work and continue on. You're
Speaker 1: a veteran coach. You've been around a long time at
Speaker 1: various levels and various teams long coaching career. Do you
Speaker 1: need a bye week? No? But but I've never had
Speaker 1: a bad bye week because you took out the sticks
Speaker 1: and enjoyed a little round around or two. He slept
Speaker 1: in about three of the days past ten o'clock and
Speaker 1: got a couple rounds of golf in locally here at
Speaker 1: Glenn Floor and Skulky Country Club, And so I enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Had you hit him not bad? Forgot it hadn't played
Speaker 1: since July. Nice. I know, I can't picture you sleep
Speaker 1: in past ten. Sorry, I just don't see it. I
Speaker 1: think you're This is my impression. You're a very regimented,
Speaker 1: very disciplined guy. True or false. Once I get up,
Speaker 1: the hardest thing for me every day is just get
Speaker 1: out of Really what time do you typically oh, during
Speaker 1: the season, yeah, I'm usually here by Yeah. But so
Speaker 1: you're not the did John Gruden esque kind of crazy
Speaker 1: you know, at four o'clock in the morning or whatever
Speaker 1: it is. I forgot the exact number he gets up at.
Speaker 1: But those guys like that and Gruden included, you know,
Speaker 1: go to bed a lot earlier than most. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. So they don't like to tell the whole story.
Speaker 1: That's funny. All right, Bears getting ready for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: We'll break them down in a minute. But um, as
Speaker 1: we talk about this Dolphin team, UM, I want to
Speaker 1: bring up Danny Trevathan because in my a lot of attention.
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm Mac deservely so, Hicks deservedly so. But you
Speaker 1: get an inside linebacker with your first round pick, you
Speaker 1: got play of the secondary, and he right now, he
Speaker 1: is flying around. I think he's getting kind of lost
Speaker 1: in the shuffle in terms of noticed by by folks.
Speaker 1: You can't kind of take it for granted a little
Speaker 1: bit what he's doing. He's your quarterback on defense. How
Speaker 1: would you evalue and what did you come to appreciate
Speaker 1: by what he's doing for you right now? He's had
Speaker 1: an excellent season up to this point, and I think
Speaker 1: Dan he's finally been the beneficiary of practicing a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, his first two years here he had clumps
Speaker 1: of times where he wasn't able to practice because of injuries.
Speaker 1: He's had a really good offseason with US training camp
Speaker 1: and he's enjoying the fruits of that labor. Right now.
Speaker 1: He understands our defense better than he ever has, to
Speaker 1: the point where he has he can help others. He
Speaker 1: is the quarterback of the defense, gets the signals, you know,
Speaker 1: through his headphone in his helmet. And I think he's
Speaker 1: really enjoying himself playing and he's caught the fever from
Speaker 1: everybody else and he's given the fever to others. And
Speaker 1: you know, he's playing his best football. And if he
Speaker 1: can continue it, you know, I think he'll be, you know,
Speaker 1: should be considered for a lot of post season honors.
Speaker 1: Satisfying is it for you to see that? Especially Gay
Speaker 1: now you've been around several years. Oh, it's always satisfying,
Speaker 1: especially for a guy that for like Danny, that's passionate
Speaker 1: about football, loves football, loves to play the game, you know,
Speaker 1: all aspects of it. And I'm you know, it's very
Speaker 1: pleasing to see him experience success at a high level.
Speaker 1: Not everybody loves playing football, even if they do play football.
Speaker 1: Can you coach a guy that doesn't love football? Um,
Speaker 1: there's different degrees of that, but everybody's not perfect, you know.
Speaker 1: In this world, you've got to be able to coach
Speaker 1: all kinds to survive. So yes, are you enjoying some
Speaker 1: of the young bloods too? I am, you know, And
Speaker 1: you know, when you say young, it doesn't necessarily mean rookies.
Speaker 1: But you know, Eddie Jackson's the second year guy. Enjoy
Speaker 1: being around him a lot, you know, just my second
Speaker 1: year around Prince although he's not you know, he's more
Speaker 1: of a veteran player, but enjoy being around him. Now.
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed being around these guys. I've said that
Speaker 1: before last year. The highlight of my day is being
Speaker 1: up in front of those guys and coaching and these
Speaker 1: It's an enjoyable group to be around. And the few
Speaker 1: guys that we've had it we haven't had a you know,
Speaker 1: boatload of new guys, but the guys we've had it
Speaker 1: m fit right in and are great guys and enjoy them. Also,
Speaker 1: The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie continues
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Speaker 1: And welcome back to the program Our final Moments with
Speaker 1: Bears defensive coordinator Vic Banjio joined me, Tom There and
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Speaker 1: So from some familiarity as you going with obviously Adam
Speaker 1: Gase Dala Loggins, any of that help you, You're you'll
Speaker 1: get asked this this week, I'm sure too. But just
Speaker 1: knowing how they saw him practice every day, does that
Speaker 1: help at all to know what they're thinking? At a minimum?
Speaker 1: Nowhere near as much as people might think it does?
Speaker 1: You know? And then it goes the same way that
Speaker 1: you know, they know a little bit more about me
Speaker 1: than most people do. So I don't, you know, all
Speaker 1: worked up over that stuff. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: the biggest mistakes somebody can make is whether it be
Speaker 1: them changing what they do because they think I might
Speaker 1: know a little bit more than the next guy about
Speaker 1: their offense, or for me to change what we do
Speaker 1: because I think they might know a little bit. You know,
Speaker 1: you just just put that aside and play. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been personally burned by thinking like that? I can't
Speaker 1: think of a major one, because I'm at the under
Speaker 1: end of the spectrum. There are a lot of guys
Speaker 1: if they think they can get so called inside knowledge
Speaker 1: or hid bits, they go to the extreme. I'm kind
Speaker 1: of the other way where I really don't want them
Speaker 1: unless I really think they could be of some value,
Speaker 1: so I don't go hunting for it. Ryan Tannehill, as
Speaker 1: we wrap up here with you, very athletic quarterback. They're
Speaker 1: doing a lot of the RPO stuff that you see
Speaker 1: our offense doing a lot of the guns one read
Speaker 1: stuff that you've seeds become popular. And he's been a
Speaker 1: successful quarterback for these guys. I think, you know, somebody
Speaker 1: told me today that he's eleven and three or something
Speaker 1: like that and his last fourteen starts for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: so they obviously have a good feel for him and
Speaker 1: how he best fits to run that team. And you know,
Speaker 1: and he's athletic with a big arm and expect to
Speaker 1: get his best. All right, Vic, always a pleasure. Thank
Speaker 1: you for taking the time to join us. All Right,
Speaker 1: you're welcome. That'll do it. Everybody, have a great night.
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