Speaker 1: The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network
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Speaker 1: Bears Head Coach Matt Nagge, the coaching staff and Bears management.
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Speaker 1: the Voice of the Bears w BBMS, Jeff Joniac and
Speaker 1: a very pleasant good even in the everybody, your manufactured
Speaker 1: Bears have clinched the NFC North Championship for the first
Speaker 1: time since the twenty tenth season, and a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement in the city of Chicago, a lot of excitement
Speaker 1: here in this building at Hollis Hall. Welcome into the program, everybody.
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Speaker 1: PNC Studios at allisaw We welcome in the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Bears, Matt Nagge. Congratulations again and as it
Speaker 1: settled in a little bit, yeah it has. You know,
Speaker 1: it was a great day yesterday, Lots of fun, lots
Speaker 1: of excitement, and there was need to see that, need
Speaker 1: to be a part of that. Everybody, the whole city,
Speaker 1: the fans, the coaches, the players, just everybody included. And
Speaker 1: it was a special day whilas remember and but as
Speaker 1: you know, how this thing goes. Um, it's time to
Speaker 1: move on and get ready for San fran Yes, that's
Speaker 1: next time. The agenda out west in the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: You know, I used to cover the Bulls during the
Speaker 1: Jordan era and Michael when he was at his peak
Speaker 1: and going to championships every year, he always seemed to
Speaker 1: love the new guys that came in to experience the
Speaker 1: championship ride, and he took great pride in seeing that,
Speaker 1: seeing that excitement. You know, you've been in that room
Speaker 1: when you have one division titles in Philadelphia and in
Speaker 1: Kansas City. So when you see what you saw yesterday,
Speaker 1: I mean, guys would have been on this roster and
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen they were nineteen and forty five entering
Speaker 1: the season, so they never experienced anything like this. Um.
Speaker 1: Is that a part of the joy of this, without
Speaker 1: a doubt, and for all of us included, I think
Speaker 1: that's what we as coaches have to focus in on
Speaker 1: is the fact that these guys, um some of them
Speaker 1: have been on teams where they've been good players, but
Speaker 1: they just haven't haven't won for whatever reason. And and
Speaker 1: we also told them too that the opportunity that was
Speaker 1: presented to us going into yesterday's game, you never know
Speaker 1: if you're ever going to get that shot again. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just look at a guy, for example, like Tony Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: You know, he played however many years it was in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and it wasn't until the very end, I
Speaker 1: want to say, sixteen to eighteen years that he played
Speaker 1: and never made the playoffs. And so just one of
Speaker 1: the guys to understand, are in a great situation to
Speaker 1: make the playoffs with a win, but don't put too
Speaker 1: much pressure on yourselves and just go out and play
Speaker 1: your game. And that's what we did. And now once
Speaker 1: we won the game and knew that we were gonna
Speaker 1: we clinched a spot. Now enjoy it and understand that
Speaker 1: it's okay to do that, and that's what we're going
Speaker 1: to do. But I also told them that when you
Speaker 1: get back in here into the building on Tuesday, that
Speaker 1: there's more to this and so that we, like I said,
Speaker 1: last night. You know, we can be happy, but we're
Speaker 1: not satisfied yet and we need to be able to
Speaker 1: to put that in perspective. And I think that's a
Speaker 1: big part of this. What's the buzz on the coaching staff, Well,
Speaker 1: it's again yesterday enjoying it, but today it's just it's
Speaker 1: usual business. Everyone's right back to it. Uh it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: I like that because we need to win. We need
Speaker 1: to continue winning and uh no, there's no complacency. And
Speaker 1: that's going to be the biggest message to the team,
Speaker 1: to the players and to all coaches is that, uh,
Speaker 1: we need we need more, and we need to understand that.
Speaker 1: We got to keep continuing to practice the way we've
Speaker 1: been practicing. Nothing's We accomplished one goal, but that's not
Speaker 1: the biggest goal and everybody knows what that is and
Speaker 1: there's more work to be done. This team is selfless,
Speaker 1: very easily because you you've mentioned and many many times,
Speaker 1: just strictly looking at the offense, it doesn't float through
Speaker 1: one guy. So you know, I bring I brought this
Speaker 1: up before, guy like Alan Robinson who had one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one targets in back to back years before
Speaker 1: his injury in twenty seventeen, and he was the man.
Speaker 1: Everything flowed through that that that's not the case here
Speaker 1: and under you, it looks like that won't be that way.
Speaker 1: You know this is going to be a spread the
Speaker 1: wealth type of team. How do you get them to
Speaker 1: play selfless? How did you do that? So as you
Speaker 1: go through the process, and in particular, just using Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson as an example, you know, you reach into two
Speaker 1: who these guys are as people? And when you meet
Speaker 1: him and you talk to him and you see that,
Speaker 1: you get a feeling. You talk to other other coaches
Speaker 1: that I've coached them, and you get a feel for
Speaker 1: that as well. And and so I just think that
Speaker 1: once you explain your identity on offense and how it works,
Speaker 1: and that there might not always be fifteen targets for
Speaker 1: one wide receiver or he ends up with one hundred
Speaker 1: yards every game, but you lose, the guys are okay
Speaker 1: with that, and when you're winning, they're always okay with that.
Speaker 1: So are we have you just said it? We have
Speaker 1: a we have a selfless team that doesn't care about
Speaker 1: those numbers. They care about each other, They care about
Speaker 1: doing their job within that specific play. And then they
Speaker 1: get to rip the rewards for doing that, and so, um,
Speaker 1: we have a lot of those guys on this team,
Speaker 1: and that's what we want to continue to keep building.
Speaker 1: It was there ever a point in this season because
Speaker 1: you're the only team in the league has had a
Speaker 1: lead in every game in the second half, which is
Speaker 1: quite the accomplishment. You're in every game. No one's blowing
Speaker 1: a torch on you. Was there any point this season
Speaker 1: in a game, in a moment when your heart was
Speaker 1: racing where it could have turned the wrong way? No?
Speaker 1: Not really. Um, I think that's what's neat about this team.
Speaker 1: We got down early in the year to Arizone and
Speaker 1: Real Quick fourteen to nothing, and you could feel a
Speaker 1: sense of urgency from our team, and we were still
Speaker 1: young then. Yet we had the game in Miami that
Speaker 1: was it's just a strange game with going back and
Speaker 1: forth and then and then we get to lead and
Speaker 1: then they get and then recover this over time. And
Speaker 1: but for the most part, there's always from from day one,
Speaker 1: there's never been any doubt from our players between each other,
Speaker 1: and there's never been any blame. Uh, it's always been positive.
Speaker 1: It's it's I want to make the next play to
Speaker 1: help this team. Coaches, I want to make the next
Speaker 1: call and then when it happens, you can feel what
Speaker 1: it's just. It's so strong and powerful. You feel so
Speaker 1: good about it. And we've been winning, you know, with
Speaker 1: the in those type of games, and we have had
Speaker 1: a couple losses. We had the one loss at home
Speaker 1: to New England. That's a good team that we played.
Speaker 1: But we never we we alls we did. After New
Speaker 1: England was said, all right, it's time to get back
Speaker 1: on track and get and learn how to win again.
Speaker 1: And that's what we've done. In your quiet moments, did
Speaker 1: you ever have any deep introspective thinking about how you
Speaker 1: are managing the team and calling plays and designing the offense.
Speaker 1: I really haven't. I wish, I wish I could say
Speaker 1: I have, um, but this has been NonStop from the
Speaker 1: very beginning. Really, it's coming up on a year now
Speaker 1: since uh, since I was hired, and um and and
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. The time for me to reflect
Speaker 1: will be at the end of the season, and I
Speaker 1: don't want that to be for a little while. I
Speaker 1: just kind of rely on on just kind of doing
Speaker 1: what I've done this whole time, which is which is
Speaker 1: it's natural, and it's it's relying on your coaches, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's feedback from your players. Uh, it's a support
Speaker 1: staff that everybody communicates and we all just want to
Speaker 1: do what's right for each other. So I haven't had
Speaker 1: that time yet. Well here's what's interesting. You're used to winning. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: and and and that's a good thing. Uh, but I've
Speaker 1: also been on a few teams where it's gone the
Speaker 1: other way. And so when we were a few yeah,
Speaker 1: when we were about halfway into the season, I told
Speaker 1: I told the team in one of our team meetings,
Speaker 1: this is the point right now where you're going to
Speaker 1: start seeing a lot of teams in this league either
Speaker 1: gonna start going south, or they're gonna start getting a
Speaker 1: lot better and going north, or it's one of two
Speaker 1: ways that they're going to start going. And we have
Speaker 1: we're at that crossroad right now. And I forget exactly
Speaker 1: which game it was, but we won that week, and
Speaker 1: we just continue to keep winning. It was during that
Speaker 1: win streak that we had and that's when you start
Speaker 1: separating and you feel it and you say, okay, this
Speaker 1: is this is real. And then and then I really
Speaker 1: believe I look back to the Vikings game on Sunday night,
Speaker 1: I think that's when. That's when to everybody we felt like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: certain you don't have time to be searching off that stuff.
Speaker 1: But Club Dub is like unlike anything in the league
Speaker 1: right now, and it's reached you know, fever pitch as
Speaker 1: we expected it would once the boss starter rolling. Have you?
Speaker 1: Have you seen some of these videos that the team
Speaker 1: has put up and what your thought is about it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen a few of them, and I know the
Speaker 1: goysler they're having fun with it. I gave them the
Speaker 1: ability to h if they wanted to for yesterday to
Speaker 1: have their own phone out and video. That was a
Speaker 1: good time for him to do that, and they did it.
Speaker 1: They took advantage of it. But they got some some
Speaker 1: pretty good dances that they're creating right now, and they're
Speaker 1: they're they're celebrating and they're trying to get more more
Speaker 1: people involved. It's getting bigger and bigger. Um. But you know,
Speaker 1: as we as we see, uh, we'll see how it
Speaker 1: goes here. Maybe maybe we'll get some some coaches on
Speaker 1: in there. Um, I don't know. I don't know about that,
Speaker 1: but I'll pay you stage dance. We got we gotta
Speaker 1: get him in there. And they got the guys will
Speaker 1: lose it. But it's so neat, it's it's neat to
Speaker 1: see that is catching on. And um, I just that's
Speaker 1: the personality who we are. That's our team, that's what
Speaker 1: we're about. Um, we're gonna have fun and everything that
Speaker 1: we do. And as long as you're you're earning it,
Speaker 1: and then you deserve to you you deserve to have fun,
Speaker 1: and our guys are doing it. This town embraces teams
Speaker 1: like that. There have been teams like that, and this
Speaker 1: this city's great sports history, you know, all the way
Speaker 1: back to the sixty three Bears. But we're talking bulls,
Speaker 1: we're talking I mean, there have been some really fun
Speaker 1: teams that have won championships or we're knocking on championships
Speaker 1: doorm any times. So it kind of fits the city's
Speaker 1: you know spirit, so to speak. Was that a mission
Speaker 1: for you to do? Uh? Well, how how great a
Speaker 1: sports town this is? Yeah? Absolutely? Your personality. No, it's both,
Speaker 1: there's it's a combination of both. Uh. I think everybody
Speaker 1: likes I mean when when you're when you're winning, um, uh,
Speaker 1: enjoy it, have fun. Let let your personality show. And
Speaker 1: and so you can see the fans are enjoying it.
Speaker 1: Uh Uh, the players obviously love it. They're housing great
Speaker 1: schools today they were doing is that right? Yeah, honestly
Speaker 1: it is catching. Uh So yeah, we're we Uh. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's some go ones out there. I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: continue to see more of them. But why why not
Speaker 1: have fun? And you are busy today working the radio
Speaker 1: waves and spreading the wealth around town a little bit
Speaker 1: and deservedly so to talk about it's it's a major
Speaker 1: accomplishment to win a division title. It's not that it's
Speaker 1: not simple to do. Um. And then I understand you
Speaker 1: got a little podcast coming up with coach k I
Speaker 1: know he does one. Mike Chevsky was a pretty cool Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really really neat and you know, for me,
Speaker 1: so obviously coach k Uh is a is a big
Speaker 1: Bears fan and uh growing up uh downtown in the
Speaker 1: city and and so uh just being able to talk
Speaker 1: to him uh throughout his podcast for me, you know,
Speaker 1: growing up and just knowing, um, just how how great
Speaker 1: of a coach he is and and it's just it's
Speaker 1: an amazing accomplishment to think of all the players that
Speaker 1: he's coached and um, how they've gone on to either
Speaker 1: the NBA or they've all become coaches themselves, and and
Speaker 1: uh and and and high quality, high character type guys.
Speaker 1: And I just really respect that. It was it was
Speaker 1: really cool to be able to talk to him. And
Speaker 1: then let me tell you something he was in He
Speaker 1: knew every player, he knew about every play of yesterday's game.
Speaker 1: He was detailing it up. Um he he even you know,
Speaker 1: he was talking about Threek Cohen and how much he
Speaker 1: likes him, and I told him he'd be a pretty
Speaker 1: good point guard for him, and and uh but he
Speaker 1: he uh uh he just was talking about how he
Speaker 1: ran out of bounds there before the fourth, you know,
Speaker 1: and third and made it fourth and one and just
Speaker 1: the details and impressed me. It was really cool. And
Speaker 1: that play too, It was we hadn't even talked about
Speaker 1: the game yet. You talked to Tarika about that? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well we've we uh well, that the one we talked
Speaker 1: about to Tarik is we always talk to our players
Speaker 1: in regards to reaching across the goal line. If it's that,
Speaker 1: then it was that when that he was talking about
Speaker 1: where you see at times where that ball when you
Speaker 1: go to reach across the goal line, that ball sports
Speaker 1: out and now all of a sudden, instead of having
Speaker 1: the ball to you know, half yard line, now it's
Speaker 1: a touchback with the other team. But Cunning him, yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, so he uh, but you heard what he
Speaker 1: said yesterday. You know, he felt pretty confident in reaching
Speaker 1: it across and ended up being a big play. Um.
Speaker 1: But no, he's uh, you know, Coach k was just
Speaker 1: we had a great conversation today and it was really
Speaker 1: really special time to talk to him. Coaches no matter
Speaker 1: the sport, love X and os and the motivation and
Speaker 1: the thinking behind a lot of things. For sure, the
Speaker 1: sports cross over and made different ways. No more of
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Speaker 1: nine FM WBB. They staggered the line of Scrimmatrick Glitzers.
Speaker 1: They're all coming Trubisky to throw SIPs it up there
Speaker 1: cock by Cohon at the eleven runs right to the five,
Speaker 1: darting for the pilot. Will they give it to a
Speaker 1: minsiber one? Are they gonna say step down? Do they
Speaker 1: say touchdown? Touchdown Bears And the celebration begins with the
Speaker 1: dark end zone. First Tech got six twelve yards to Cohen.
Speaker 1: He hit the accelerator and turned the corner. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a great run by three Coo. We're just talking
Speaker 1: about it with Matt Neeggie, the Bear's head coach, as
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Speaker 1: All right, let's do some quick bullet points about the
Speaker 1: game yesterday and our remaining moments with you and our
Speaker 1: segment coming up next. Well of offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich,
Speaker 1: Let's start with Mitch Trubisky going back over it today again.
Speaker 1: You did obviously a lot. I went back to it
Speaker 1: at Manny. I can't find one thing wrong with yesterday's game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he played really well, and I think that, uh again,
Speaker 1: I'll get into some of the you know, I could
Speaker 1: sit here and talk to you for hours in regards
Speaker 1: to you know, play by play and tell you what
Speaker 1: he did right, what he did wrong. But yesterday, progression wise,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was really on fire in regards to
Speaker 1: making quick decisions, making strong throws with conviction, um and
Speaker 1: and really and then there was a couple of plays too,
Speaker 1: where he was just was checking the ball down and
Speaker 1: teams want to go ahead and play soft and off
Speaker 1: and not let you get any downfield throws. And you
Speaker 1: check it down to your running back and you get
Speaker 1: a ten yard game. And so he had a really
Speaker 1: good game yesterday, and I was proud of them for it.
Speaker 1: Throw it a Bellamie, throw it a Burton in the
Speaker 1: end zone. Rifles, there was some rifle throws, Yester. Yeah,
Speaker 1: his footwork was was really good. So those are all
Speaker 1: a lot of these throws in this offense are based
Speaker 1: off of timing and whether it's a three plant throw,
Speaker 1: a three hits throw, a five plant throw, a five
Speaker 1: hits throw. And he was on time with the throws yesterday.
Speaker 1: The wide receivers ran good routes and then there were
Speaker 1: some contested Bellamy's catch there to the right, that was
Speaker 1: a that was a tough catch. It was contested. He
Speaker 1: had a guy in his back and made strong hands catch.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite plays. And he was outstanding in
Speaker 1: getting away from trouble just in the nick of time,
Speaker 1: but spinning away from all those you know, they were
Speaker 1: running diamond plus what do you call when they have
Speaker 1: sevent dbs on the field. I don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: but I mean they were blitz in and coming at
Speaker 1: him from every angle. He twists away and he fires
Speaker 1: a throw to Sheheen, you know, a can't miss target.
Speaker 1: I think that's a confidence builder too for Shaheen that
Speaker 1: he's going to be more involved. Here was his clock
Speaker 1: ticking a different way with pressure yesterday. Well, he had
Speaker 1: good vision, good pocket awareness in there. I think his
Speaker 1: clock was ticking. It always does. He always has a
Speaker 1: good feel for that. The more he's in this offense
Speaker 1: and he understands the concepts of what we do, his
Speaker 1: clock is going to get better. And you see these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are in these offenses for a long time.
Speaker 1: They sit in that pocket and they know when they
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. They know when they have
Speaker 1: time and when they don't. And yesterday Mike Petton did
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator did a good job of mixing different
Speaker 1: pressures and dropping guys and bringing guys and um. So
Speaker 1: that was a good challenge for our whole offense. And
Speaker 1: but Mitch did a great job of scrambling out making
Speaker 1: a nice play there. Shahin you win a division and
Speaker 1: yet today that you're you're being asked about you know,
Speaker 1: or you always say, hey, we're you know, this is
Speaker 1: just the beginning one on one or two oh one offense.
Speaker 1: You know, when you break it down into a college
Speaker 1: type program and you're saying, hey, you know, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: are five oh one right now. Um wow, I mean
Speaker 1: that's how much growth's coming. Well, we that and that
Speaker 1: that's what we hope for. Uh. Yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 1: there's a lot more room for improvement with with our
Speaker 1: offense and um, but that's what's exciting is the guys
Speaker 1: know that and they see that, and then we're trying
Speaker 1: to fit in and and mold this offense into the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears offense. We want to make this is our offense.
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't whatever has happened with this offensive
Speaker 1: scheme in years past. Um, we got to figure out
Speaker 1: how it works for us now. And we're in that
Speaker 1: kind of laboratory right now figuring it out. We're doing
Speaker 1: it in games, but that's the only way we can
Speaker 1: do it. So uh, once this season ends, then we'll
Speaker 1: come back and next year we'll be two two. So
Speaker 1: could he could he advance even to the three or
Speaker 1: four hundred level by next year or is this a process?
Speaker 1: It could, but I would say it's more of a process. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, just for for anybody that you talked to
Speaker 1: in the in the old school West Coast offense will
Speaker 1: tell you it's a good two three years until you
Speaker 1: feel really comfortable and you're and you're going and um
Speaker 1: and and nowadays you you know a lot of these
Speaker 1: teams you just don't have that luxury so um for
Speaker 1: everything that we're throwing at this at this at these
Speaker 1: guys on offense, I really feel comfortable where we're at.
Speaker 1: I like how they're handling it. I'm really surprised, and uh,
Speaker 1: we'll just keep growing. Earlier today you said Eddie Jackson
Speaker 1: and Aaron Lynch likely not seeing any ankle and elbow injuries.
Speaker 1: So we'll leave it at that as you as you
Speaker 1: go through the week. That's very very good news. I
Speaker 1: was sick to my stomach when I saw Eddie go down,
Speaker 1: but he looks like it'll it'll be okay. Uh. The
Speaker 1: defense in general, dominance not even the word. Right now.
Speaker 1: They are playing at a at a level that, uh
Speaker 1: that some of the best defenses ever have played. I mean,
Speaker 1: have you ever been around a defense like this, I
Speaker 1: have not. No, I've been. I've been around some pretty
Speaker 1: good defenses. Uh. This defense right now, with the way
Speaker 1: that we're playing, um is is what I said yesterday
Speaker 1: is completely relentless. It's just one play after the next.
Speaker 1: So so if somebody has a certain play, then I'll
Speaker 1: play number two. The next guys got to play number three.
Speaker 1: The next guy's got it, and then okay, back to
Speaker 1: play you know, the next player. And it's just one
Speaker 1: after the other. And when you put all those guys together, uh,
Speaker 1: it can make your the the opponents quarterbacks clock tick
Speaker 1: a lot faster, the offensive linemen have to you know, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, set back a lot quicker. Everything is just
Speaker 1: a little bit off kilter. And so uh, let's let's
Speaker 1: keep it going. And the coaches are doing a great job.
Speaker 1: So I mean, get a chance to talk about Leonard
Speaker 1: Floyd we Arrow has been going up steady climbs, climbing
Speaker 1: the mountain, and man, he may have had his best
Speaker 1: game yesterday, I'd agree. Okay, San Francisco, So back to
Speaker 1: the messaging laboratory this week for you, obviously, it's it's
Speaker 1: continuing on and keeps going in the process, no period
Speaker 1: at the end of the sentence. But um, I think
Speaker 1: you got their attention. I don't think you have to
Speaker 1: worry about that. I think you know that right now
Speaker 1: about how they're playing or why they're playing the way
Speaker 1: they are. Um quick ten seconds, fifteen seconds out the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, though, What do they got going? Who
Speaker 1: is Nick Mullins? Yeah, yeah, well, well he's he's getting
Speaker 1: more and more experienced the last several games now, and
Speaker 1: he's getting more of a library in that offense. And
Speaker 1: they got they got good skill players with Brita and
Speaker 1: and and there's wide receivers that they have a great
Speaker 1: tight end and Kittle and then defensively they played some
Speaker 1: different guys on the back end, but the front end
Speaker 1: they have a they have a big time game wrecker
Speaker 1: in DeForrest Buckner. So he's a he's a special player.
Speaker 1: And we'll grab our hands full with him. All right.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you throughout the course of the week.
Speaker 1: Appreciates his always congratulations again Bears Nations Flipping Hour at
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Speaker 1: Now he moves in motion to the right. Trey Burton
Speaker 1: hand down tight end. So three receivers to the right,
Speaker 1: snap his back. Three man of rush day drop e Tripisky,
Speaker 1: person that Burton's got it for the touchdown. Touchdown Bears,
Speaker 1: they're back in front. Twenty to fourteen ten to sixteen
Speaker 1: left fair of the fourth quarter at Soldier Field, thirteen yards.
Speaker 1: Trabisky to Burton had some really good protection there and
Speaker 1: that's why I want to start with Mark Helfridge. Thanks
Speaker 1: for being here in congratulations to you on the rest
Speaker 1: of the staff. Well, appreciate it. Appreciate it very much.
Speaker 1: A great description. Once again, although that was a nine man,
Speaker 1: nine man drop on that one, they it was really
Speaker 1: really good protection. They didn't have me on my toes
Speaker 1: because there were times I was counting up the DV
Speaker 1: numbers and there were seventybs and they're blitzing from all over.
Speaker 1: So um so yeah, but the protection overall, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think in the last two weeks at least from
Speaker 1: my perspective, maybe i've understold how good they've been, you know,
Speaker 1: against the Rams and the Packers and really all steady
Speaker 1: all year. It has been steady all year, and had
Speaker 1: a couple really uncharacteristic guys getting beat. You know. We
Speaker 1: had Charles Leno on a mist assignment one time and
Speaker 1: Bobby Massey on a on really just thought out got beat,
Speaker 1: which that shocks you, you know, and that's a good
Speaker 1: thing when it's when it's shocking, when you're your your edge,
Speaker 1: guys get you know, get some pressure on them. But overall,
Speaker 1: I thought our guys managed yesterday, Mike Petting, their their
Speaker 1: defense coord did a great job of of of changing
Speaker 1: up a bunch of stuff, mixing up looks, like you said,
Speaker 1: from from several different personnel groups that they hadn't they
Speaker 1: hadn't really shown before. And so our guys handled that
Speaker 1: and whether to you know, kind of a similar storm
Speaker 1: to that first game where the comeback came and and
Speaker 1: we looked at right in the eye this time this
Speaker 1: time and Finn, Yeah, we talked a little bit with
Speaker 1: Matt about it. We didn't really break down the game
Speaker 1: that much, so we'll give you that opportunity. Just overall footwork, fundamentals, eyes, comfort, calmness.
Speaker 1: That pretty much described Mitch ter Bisky yesterday. He did
Speaker 1: he did a great job. You know, a couple of
Speaker 1: those plays early on that the five yard throw that
Speaker 1: Arab breaks attack him becomes a big play, the the
Speaker 1: you know check check check, come to your checkdown where
Speaker 1: Jordan created you know some yards. Those got the day
Speaker 1: kind of rolling of of We just wanted some completions
Speaker 1: early to get him, get him rolling. And I thought
Speaker 1: one of kind of his best his best sequence was
Speaker 1: we had three just stone cold drops in the second half,
Speaker 1: and that's where as a guy who listens to other
Speaker 1: people and a guy who lets that stuff get in
Speaker 1: his head, that that could have showed up. And I thought,
Speaker 1: not only him, but the other guys just battled through
Speaker 1: that and finished the deal. So in general, this team
Speaker 1: has proven to be resilient, even though I know some
Speaker 1: people might say, well, you know how, they're ten and
Speaker 1: four and they've had the lead in every game in
Speaker 1: the second half this season, which no other team has.
Speaker 1: But there's moments in a season there's moments in a
Speaker 1: game where they have been extremely resilient. And let's just
Speaker 1: focus on the offensive side of that. Where where have
Speaker 1: you seen that resilience he come to fruition with this
Speaker 1: team in terms of the offense. Well, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a short show, right. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of areas where where guys have not
Speaker 1: only individually but collectively just improved. You know, again, yesterday
Speaker 1: not our you know, best day by any by any
Speaker 1: stretch running the ball, but had a couple of big
Speaker 1: time plays. You know, Jordan's untouched on a ten yard run. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, guys executing all over the place, um protection,
Speaker 1: as you said, the communication part of it, and then
Speaker 1: just a fortitude. You know a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: haven't been in this moment and been the guy on
Speaker 1: a team in this moment. Trey Burton, you know, finishes
Speaker 1: the deal. He's been on a super Bowl team but
Speaker 1: not been quote unquote the guy and had a couple
Speaker 1: of drops. You know, he's one of those guys with
Speaker 1: those those drops to persevere through that. His huge looking
Speaker 1: down the barrel of a guy who's been there, done
Speaker 1: that and coming back on you you know, everybody's little
Speaker 1: The stadium was a little uneasy there for a couple
Speaker 1: of minutes. But but you know, the finishing that in
Speaker 1: that fashion against that quarterback, against that team, we know
Speaker 1: what that means to the people around here. The Bears
Speaker 1: coaches show with offensive coordinator Mark Hilfridge and w bbm's
Speaker 1: Jeff Joniac continues snap back. They're bringing a blitzer. He's free.
Speaker 1: Trabisky trying to avoid it, breaks the tackle, spins to
Speaker 1: his near site, lust it down the near side to
Speaker 1: Shad had the packer forty five some Mitch magic in
Speaker 1: the pocket there forty the blitzer who came in untouched
Speaker 1: and lift the place put away to the near side
Speaker 1: at Shaheen. You can't miss the target twenty three yards
Speaker 1: and the Bears first out. The one thing about that
Speaker 1: the eyes never left looking, you know, to sense the
Speaker 1: spin and the blitzer come to it. His eyes kept
Speaker 1: down field. Was that the key to that. That was
Speaker 1: a big time play. That that feel, that escape of
Speaker 1: how he did that his textbook, you know you drilled
Speaker 1: that constantly, but that's that's in a you know, to
Speaker 1: have that that sixth sense of kind of the space
Speaker 1: of not on where the defenders coming from, but the
Speaker 1: safe spot of where you're going and then to keep
Speaker 1: his eyes up and finished. That was was huge. And
Speaker 1: you know, again Adam Sheheen is a huge target that
Speaker 1: that we're excited that to have back and healthy. And
Speaker 1: he did some really good stuff yesterday. I mean it
Speaker 1: could become a huge weapon right now. And he's feeling good.
Speaker 1: And again you can't miss him. I mean, but when
Speaker 1: you throw that little route, you know, he picks up
Speaker 1: nine yards ten yards at I mean, he's like a
Speaker 1: bull in a china shop. Yeah, no question. We had
Speaker 1: a little little little short post action to him there
Speaker 1: and and uh again, he has so many things, including
Speaker 1: on that the big conversion that we're talking about, the
Speaker 1: mistackle completion. He kind of had a little bustet assignment
Speaker 1: on the beginning of that play. Uh So again his
Speaker 1: best football is I had of him, no question. You know,
Speaker 1: when you talk about assignments, you know Emmy's or at
Speaker 1: the mental airs, have they shrunk as the season's gone on,
Speaker 1: or do they crop up a faremont just because you're
Speaker 1: trying to you're putting out a new show every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean those things are going to happen. And that's
Speaker 1: that's what you want, you know, everybody. You want everybody
Speaker 1: on the same page, one hundred percent, right, eleven guys
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. That sounds simple, but you know
Speaker 1: it isn't always the case. From the route concept, the
Speaker 1: protection concept, how how we're redirecting protection maybe uh, and
Speaker 1: then you have to execute it technically and somewhere in
Speaker 1: there something's you know, not perfect, and that's what we're
Speaker 1: gonna We're gonna always try to, you know, strive for that.
Speaker 1: And our guys have always come back when looser draw,
Speaker 1: you know, with a great attitude to improve. And that's
Speaker 1: that's all we can ask. You know, this is your
Speaker 1: first year here, but for these guys who have had
Speaker 1: to deal You mentioned that quarterback in the last segment.
Speaker 1: That quarterback is Aaron Rodgers, and he gives you an
Speaker 1: upset stomach as a fan, as a broadcaster, because with
Speaker 1: a ball in his hands at the end of a game,
Speaker 1: I don't care how much times on the clock until
Speaker 1: you put him away. He's a threat. In some sense.
Speaker 1: You get from being here in this building that that,
Speaker 1: in many regards, was a necessary hurdle to clear for
Speaker 1: this football team. Mentally for the guys that have endured
Speaker 1: his last second heroics and ways of beating the Bears.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you you can get a feel
Speaker 1: for that or not. Yeah, I mean, I know the
Speaker 1: history of football. I know certainly the history of the
Speaker 1: two franchises absolutely. You know, there's a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of blood on both sides of that deal. And
Speaker 1: they've had a ton of success recently and and you know,
Speaker 1: all we know is this year, in this game and today,
Speaker 1: and that's all that matters, right of of how we're
Speaker 1: going forward and getting ready for the next thing. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean that's that's something that that you
Speaker 1: put in your memory bank of good stuff. You still
Speaker 1: improve on the stuff that wasn't perfect. Uh, and you
Speaker 1: move on and and uh, you know, excited about the
Speaker 1: direction we're headed. And uh. Again, everybody has had a
Speaker 1: great attitude. Winning helps that, no question, But the fashion
Speaker 1: that they've in which they've handled success, it has been
Speaker 1: has been good to this point. Tarik Cohen when he
Speaker 1: hits the accelerator and gets room to go when he
Speaker 1: hits north and south, Uh, I dare say he's one
Speaker 1: of the best, you know in the league in terms
Speaker 1: of where he's going with the football and whatnot. Um
Speaker 1: is he playing faster now? And would you? I mean,
Speaker 1: I know he loves going sideways too, but you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. But when he's getting vertical
Speaker 1: on somebody look out, I think that's what he's done
Speaker 1: the best, you know, so far, these are not so
Speaker 1: far these last couple of weeks, uh, Coach London has
Speaker 1: done a great job of just again harnessing a guy hate,
Speaker 1: get him pointed in the right direction, get his first
Speaker 1: step right, get his get his target, his aiming, point
Speaker 1: his eyes right, and good things are going to happen.
Speaker 1: In the past game and the run game. You know,
Speaker 1: he and Mitch are on the same page that the
Speaker 1: touchdown to the to the right was a was a
Speaker 1: kind of a hot route situation where they had to
Speaker 1: be on the same page. Get the ball out and
Speaker 1: you know he did his best Joni I compression on
Speaker 1: the on the extension and the touchdown. But but and
Speaker 1: then putting his foot in the ground and getting some
Speaker 1: big games in the run game has been you know,
Speaker 1: obviously a very a very big deal here these last
Speaker 1: couple of games. The Bears coaches show with head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears
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Speaker 1: of the Chicago Bears. Players have said they've been on
Speaker 1: record of saying it they've never had more fun in
Speaker 1: their respective careers individually. For you, you've had great success
Speaker 1: of the college game, but on the fun meter, where
Speaker 1: you at in your football playing life and football coaching
Speaker 1: life right now with this bunch, well, no, we're definitely
Speaker 1: blessed in that way of our guys get it right
Speaker 1: now and again. Winning. Winning cares a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of you know, ills and covers a lot of
Speaker 1: things up. But our guys get that it takes a
Speaker 1: lot of hard work, a lot a lot a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work to cut it loose and to just
Speaker 1: be able to play aston free and have fun. And
Speaker 1: and you know, Nags has done a great job just
Speaker 1: to the whole bu thing and and and selling that
Speaker 1: and believe in it and living it really uh and
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's a lot of fun moments, and then
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times where you're going, Okay, if
Speaker 1: fun returns this kickoff, we're back. You know, you're you're
Speaker 1: thinking of the next thing, and and uh, you're absolutely
Speaker 1: relish in what happened yesterday. But then at the same time,
Speaker 1: you're looking ahead to you know, a great challenge, a
Speaker 1: great challenge on the inside of this defense coming up.
Speaker 1: So uh no, very very very lucky, very lucky to
Speaker 1: be where I am and where we are. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: as you've alluded to, this is a great place to
Speaker 1: be in a great time to be here. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a little bit like the devil on the shoulder right
Speaker 1: when you're trying to embrace the moment. But yet you
Speaker 1: gotta play what if, right, you gotta play the downside kick,
Speaker 1: you gotta play all those things that are coming up.
Speaker 1: You really can't ever ever, I mean, can you enjoy
Speaker 1: and live in the moment. It's different. I mean you're
Speaker 1: you savor it, you know, kind of as a as
Speaker 1: a competitor, you relish that part of it. But you
Speaker 1: can't sit there and think about that at that time,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Afterwards, you know we joke,
Speaker 1: hey man, that would that would have been a great
Speaker 1: game to watching a bar. But you're not thinking that
Speaker 1: during the game, you know, type of type of deal. Um,
Speaker 1: but no, uh, excited, you know, excited about our guys.
Speaker 1: As a coach also, and you've been a head coach too,
Speaker 1: when you go home and you hear, ay, great job. Wait,
Speaker 1: are you able to accept that or you just yeah,
Speaker 1: you know it's nice, but it's nice, but you know
Speaker 1: that's the same thing. And no, no offense to anyone.
Speaker 1: But if that's the same person that's going to walk
Speaker 1: around the corner and go that guy's you know, an
Speaker 1: adiot and the next week if we lose, you know,
Speaker 1: type type of deal, or the previous week of or
Speaker 1: even your wife. Well, my wife is always right, that's
Speaker 1: that's you know, I'm happily married. Well, at least I
Speaker 1: am happy. I'm not sure if she's happy. I've been
Speaker 1: gone a lot right now since I'm very happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, quick snapshot. Look at the forty nine ers defense.
Speaker 1: What are you looking at? Well, a couple of guys
Speaker 1: that did very I'm very familiar with coach that are
Speaker 1: working like the force. Buckner and Eric Armstead are too
Speaker 1: unbelievably talent to guys, relentless guys, uh inside super long, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're you know, six seven plus two ninety three
Speaker 1: hundred type guys and you know, athletic and relentless, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of uh like our front. You know, in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways you combine maybe the you know the
Speaker 1: best aspects of all those guys in the way kind
Speaker 1: of if you combined uh Khalil with Leonard and and
Speaker 1: a team and you know, spit them out. So tremendous challenge.
Speaker 1: But we have you know, best defensive league to prepare
Speaker 1: uh with and against, and a lot of experience doing that.
Speaker 1: So again, excited to prepare for them, Matteggie, thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to everybody for Mark Helfritz, Dan BURRELLI, Eddie Gersher,
Speaker 1: Rob Hard, I'm Jeff Joniac. It's Bears and forty nine
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