WEBVTT - All Access: Bill Lazor on offensive staff 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.080 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:08.119 and Chicago Bears dot Com. Download the Chicago Bears official 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:11.120 mobile app for up to the minute Bears content every 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:15.800 day and now welcome to Bears All Access. You're All 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:20.560 Access passing to Chicago Bears football. Bears All Access is 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.560 brought to you by IGS Energy and sponsored by Athletical 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:29.960 Physical Therapy and Art Van Furniture in Mattress Well. Good 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.800 Wednesday evening, everybody, and welcome into this week's edition of 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:37.199 Bears All Access, presented by IGS Energy. I'm Jeff Joning Alcoholom, 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:39.320 a broadcast partner from News Radio seven eighty and one 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.320 oh five point NFM WBBM. Mister Tom safely tough away 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.720 in Chicago. Tom, I'm still in South Florida, so I 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.680 decided to take a little time after the super Bowl coverage. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.000 You okay with that? Well, Jeff, your life is one 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.120 big long vacation. I understand that you feel that you 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.840 work harder than anybody else. I'm sure that the three 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.000 hours of watching your really well played super Bowl held 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.320 your interest. And then you know from then on it's 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.240 speedos and suntan right exactly. You call it a big 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.319 time one thing, and I know I talked to you 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.840 about this. There is no way you could be in 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.600 my position and covering an entire Super Bowl week, eight 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:22.080 days in South Florida, traffic parts unknown, going from one 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.720 place to the next, a lot of ubers, a lot 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.760 of driving, and a lot of traffic jams. You might 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.520 pull out every last stitch of hair you have on 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.280 your head. Well, you know, the travel to get back 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.880 and forth to any Super Bowl area, from Atlanta to 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.440 New Orleans and Miami, it's always going to be congested. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.000 I think that, you know, in the stuff that you 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:46.480 listen to during the week, your reports and everything, you know, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.400 you get a chance to run into a lot of people. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:50.960 You know a lot of people that are super Bowl specific. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.800 And I think in the time since we are presented 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.720 our Super Bowl rings, I think the only time I 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.520 ever wore my Super Bowl ring is when we went 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.120 to Miami for the Bears Indianapolis Super Bowl. So I 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.600 think there's a spout, you know, when I even when 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.680 I looked at pictures of Belichick, you know, as you know, 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.640 as you know Cantakers, as he can be. He's the 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.680 guy that wore a couple of Super Bowl rings at 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.600 the hundred introduction before the game, So, you know, believe 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:17.960 it or not, for those of us who've had an 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:19.960 opportunity to go to the Super Bowl during the Super 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.160 Bowl ring, it's really special to wear your ring and 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:25.760 to represent Yeah, that was to me was one of 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.160 the most impressive things, the one hundred introductions and the 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.079 way they did it by position group and coaching and 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:37.200 impact players and of course Devin Esther among them. He 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.200 was down in the stadium. I know, our good friend 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.400 from Fox, Luke Canalis, ran into him. He was down 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.239 down in the lower part of the Stadimore. He was 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.440 not supposed to be, but he somehow got video of 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.320 Brady and Montana and all the great quarterbacks far talking 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:54.120 and then he Devin came up game ma hug and said, Hey, 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.520 where's Joniac? And uh, you know the thing is, you know, 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.720 he and I it's just a weird connection because of 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:05.800 how we called his big plays. And it was very cool. 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.400 I cannot lie. It was very cool to get a 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.760 big kick out of hearing Devin Hester you are ridiculous. 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.480 I mean it was pretty pretty impressive. Well, you know 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:18.239 what the thing about it, you and Devin are always 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.760 going to be intertwined, because I don't think anybody that 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.400 meets Devin Hester for the very first time says, Devin 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.480 you are ridiculous, and so it is a phrase that 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.200 will stick with him for life. But I think when 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.560 you I believe that was an ad lib when you 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.240 pull that out the first time you said it about him. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:41.160 His accomplishments for those types of lengths of plays, they 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.720 were ridiculous, they were so impressive. And you know, Doug Colletti, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.240 our statistician, tells us all the time how the punt 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.240 and the you know, the punt and the kickoff can 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.800 be two of the biggest plays in the game. And 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.960 each time that he did touch the football there, you know, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:58.440 there was high alert and concern by the opponent. All Right, 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.400 we're gonna have Jim Miller on board as well. Let 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.800 me know when he's there, fellas, and then we will 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.200 be joined by Bill Laser, the Bears new offensive coordinator 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.520 coming back into the fold in the National Football League. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.320 Has been at many stops. We'll have a nice conversation 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.400 with him. I'll come it up next here on Bears 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:19.080 All Access on Chicago Sports Radio six. Semity who score, Hey, 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.400 welcome back, to Bears. All access brought to you by 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:25.720 IGS Energy, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears, providing electricity, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.559 natural gas at home warranty products to over one million 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.680 customers across the country. Learn more about IGS Energy at 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.520 igs dot com. Jeff Joni Act, Tom Fair, Jim Miller 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.400 now joining us as well, and the new offensive coordinator 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.160 of the Chicago Bears. Here in twenty twenty. Let's welcome 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.000 to the city and to the program, Bill Laser. Bill, 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.440 good evening. How you doing, buddy, I'm doing great. Thanks 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.000 for having me. Good to have you. And a long, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.159 decorated career with a lot of different franchises, and you know, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.600 just going back through the coaches that you worked for 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.680 over the certainly the beginning part of your career, you know, 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.960 dary names like Dan Reeves and Joe Gibbs and Mike 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.280 Holmgren and Marvin Lewis for a long time, Jim Moore, 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.599 Junior Chip, all kinds of names, all different kinds of backgrounds. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.040 Do you feel you got a little bit of everybody 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.160 in there as you bring that to the Chicago Bears? Now? Oh, 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.160 I think so, I think I think as you go 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.280 through it's like with anyone as you go through your career. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:25.640 You know, I was very fortunate in the guys I've 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:27.360 I've had a chance to work for. But I think 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.560 you go through and you try to do a great 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.120 job of learning from everyone. And I think even with 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.560 the great ones, you probably learned some things that you say, 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.640 you know what, that's him, but that wouldn't be me. 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.680 So there's some things that maybe they would do that 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.560 you wouldn't do, you know, But but hopefully you pick 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.600 up a whole lot more that you'd like to have 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.320 as part of you. And then over time when you 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.760 get to the point where you get to apply it, right, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.080 because at some point you're a young assistant and you're 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.920 you're helping guys, you're drawn pictures and doing making copies 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.560 and all that stuff, and then you get to point 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.600 where you're coaching the quarterback, and then you get to 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.040 point where you're calling the plays, and that's when I 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.200 think you really start to formulate what you believe in. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.960 And I think I could probably go through the list 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.479 and pick things from each one of the guys that 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.760 I worked for that that I'd say, yeah, that's not 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.320 that's not part of me. Bill and one of your 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.240 interviews I was watching, you talked about how every season 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.320 is different, and Matt's even said that before in the past. 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.880 Since you're playing days, it's there is the quarterback position. 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.360 Is there a beginning to your teaching process every year 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.680 because each season is a new year? I think so. 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:40.480 And obviously you adjusted a little bit based on the 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:45.560 guy you're coaching because you know what his history is. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:51.560 So for example, if you're new with someone or you 0:06:51.760 --> 0:06:57.440 have a younger player, then instead of breezing through the 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.039 terminology and the defense, well, we really have to make 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.320 sure that we have this part down. So there's an adjustment, 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.760 But that doesn't mean you don't touch on defense when 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:11.360 you're dealing with the older quarterback. You still start at 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.880 a and you work your way through and then you 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.920 look at your team and how much time do we 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.400 need to spend on each of these things? I think. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.920 I think right now for us at the Bears, it's 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:27.320 it's kind of a neat situation because there is so 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.760 much that's new. I mean, we're just talking about right now. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.600 When we go in the staff room and close the 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.480 door and put the video on or get on the 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.680 board and start talking. You know, it's still coach Naggie, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.560 and it's still still Matt's offense. But there's so many 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.920 of us in the room who are new veteran coaches 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.600 that he's brought in and some of the younger coaches 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.360 who've kind of moved around in different roles, that it 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.200 is kind of a new exciting feel in our room. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.840 I think, Bill, Jim Miller here, welcome to Chicago. Good 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:56.360 to have you. And I remember I talked to you 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.360 a couple of years ago when you were taking over 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.560 Cincinnati as EOC and just Andy Dalton how you're gonna 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.440 bring him along and introduce the things, and just how 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.840 you were gonna structure the offense. And gotta believe, you know, 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:12.000 even for a young quarterback like Mitchell Trubisky had a grade, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:13.920 you had a perception to him when he came out 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.240 of out of North Carolina. And you know, I'm sure 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.000 Bears fans and I'm curious as well, would like to 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.160 hear your take because he's got a ton of ability, 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.480 but he's just a young player and learning the ropes 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:27.160 of playing quarterback in the NFL. Well, first of all, Jimmy, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:32.120 are you really making me nervous? I don't know. I mean, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.920 I'd like to behalf of the yes that Paul Alexander 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.280 is for you on your others job. He's tremendous. I 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.599 love having Paul. He is first of all, he is unbelievable. 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.160 I have obviously I worked with Paul and Cincinnati and 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.440 when you have him on. I told Paul this after 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.240 I had listened one time when I was driving in 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.800 the car and I said, gosh, when are you on again? 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.560 He told me, and so I was able to listen 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.040 on the app. But he does such a great job 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:02.280 of making it like digestible for the fans and for 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.760 people who aren't maybe into the details of the business, 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.360 but he's still true to what it is for people anyway. 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.480 I just think Paul does a great job. You guys 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.400 always do, but he does a great job when he's 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:15.480 on with you. So now, I mean, that's hard for 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.079 me to live up to that talking to you. Well, 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.880 I'll tell you real quick, Jim, Jim, real quick. Just 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.640 so everybody knows Paul Alexander from the offensive line coach 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.840 of the Bengals, and you know what, Bill, he's really 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.240 good on Twitter two breaking down plays just you know, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.440 oh my gosh, I learned a lot. He does a 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.720 good job. But don't tell him. Don't tell him. I'll 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.719 tell you what coaches head's exploding now he's growing on 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:47.000 social well, I know, I know, I'm just I will answer. 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.520 I will answer your question. I'll get back your questions. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.959 First of all, I first met Mitch Trubisky. I had 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:57.960 coached nine years in college, and I coached seven years 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.760 in the NFL. That was for Dan Reeves at the 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:05.319 Atlanta Falcons, for Joe Gibbs at the Washington Redskins, for 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.840 Mike Homegren at the Seahawks, and then Jimore at the Seahawks. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.720 And then after those seven years, I went back to college. 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.120 I coached at the University of Virginia for three years, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.880 which was a whole lot of fun. And while I 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:22.440 was at University of Virginia, I visited one particular little 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.400 high school up there east to Cleveland to see some 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.560 young sophomore or junior quarterback named mister Trubisky. So I 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.840 actually went to his high school when he was in 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:34.400 high school. He might I can't remember if he was 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:38.120 a sophomore or junior at the time, so he might 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.040 have been one of those guys that then later years 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:41.560 later when he came out in the draft and I 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.360 called him just to kind of get to know him 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.840 a little bit as a quarterback coach or a coordinator 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.000 getting ready to scout him. That when I called him 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.240 on the phone, my name popped up on his phone, 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.760 you know, the Laser University of Virginia, so he remembered me. 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.280 You know, It's just kind of funny, how you know, 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:01.280 it can become a small world. Obviously, at this time 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.520 of year, will only allowed a little bit of contact, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.160 you know, just general. Obviously I've I've called them and 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.480 talk to him and have seen him around the building 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.040 a little bit. We can't talk football or anything right now, 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:17.520 but I'm excited. I think the immediate feeling you get 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:22.199 for him is how enthusiastic he is and how important 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:24.840 it is for him to be great, you know, And 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.400 that's that's let's face it with any learner, right if 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.360 if you consider yourself a teacher, as a coach, that's 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.280 one of the most critical things you look for as 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.160 a guy who really is motivated to be great. So 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.280 if we can if if if that's true, which I 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.760 think it is, and we can start there, then then 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:44.080 I feel like, you know, it's going to be a 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:46.360 great future and we're just going to keep keep going. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.400 Bill Laser, our guest here on in Chicago Sports Radio 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.880 six seventy to score. This is Bears All Access, Jeff 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:55.120 Tom and Jim Miller with the coach, the offensive coordinator 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.800 of the Bears. A year off so to speak, spent 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.000 as a as a consultant or some sort of role 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.760 with Penn State last year. What did that do for 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.920 you in terms of a reset or just how you 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.480 looked at the game from a different lens. Maybe, Well, 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:14.840 I would say when you when you're in coaching and 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.240 you know the carousel turns and then and then it 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.800 stops you, you always nervous when it's time to move 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:21.920 and can I get one? And I always would have 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.560 dreaded a year where I did. I wasn't on a 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.440 team so to speak, you know, working and in a 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.320 lot of ways, it was a great year. I think 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:31.959 my family would tell you it was a great year. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:36.360 I got a lot of fishing done, but football wise, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.040 it was a great year. I got to visit more places, 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.839 both NFL and college. I started in the spring and 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:48.680 went to a bunch of college spring practices um and 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.680 then I got into some NFL ots. I mean, I 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.480 had some NFL one coach who really didn't know me. 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.880 I had a mutual friend call a guy I respect 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.480 if I didn't know the guy, and he's gasped, I 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.640 don't know. You know, you might be coaching against us 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.280 next year, you know, somewhere, but okay, I'll let you in. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.160 He let me in and let me sit in. Some 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.959 of the staff mean's of course, now I feel bad 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.520 because they are on our schedule this year. So he 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.600 was right, But you know, I didn't. I don't think 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.520 I learned any secrets. Anyway. I've known James Franklin a 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.000 long time. I did visit them in the spring. James 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.920 asked me to have a role with them, and we 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.079 kind of went around and around on what the best 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.240 role would be, and so I guess we would just 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:34.560 say volunteer consultant. I spent a good amount of time 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:40.880 at various times there. The offensive coordinator from Penn State 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.800 last year, Ricky Ronnie, played quarterback for me in college. 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.320 So obviously this is a guy I'm very familiar with. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.720 So it was a really easy relationship for me to 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:52.680 be able to help them. It gave me. One of 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.920 the things that I thought it would help with is 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.160 just to see a lot of college football. So all 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.560 of the advanced work and the studies that I did 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.760 for them, I just got to see a lot of 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.760 football on tape. Study people, how are people attacking? You know, 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:09.160 there's some things in the URPO world and such that 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.199 colleges can do that the NFL can't. But I thought 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:18.040 it was a fun way to kind of get rebooted 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.560 a little bit and what are the trends that are 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:23.320 happening in the college football world. And the role that 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:25.560 I was able to take with him didn't have me 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.400 there every day, and so that allowed me then to 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.440 have other parts of my time to study what was 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.720 happening in the NFL this season, which was, you know, 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:37.360 again something you don't normally have the time to do 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.880 that when you're when you're when you're stuck in it, 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.200 you know, with your head buried in your office. So 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.040 I think I'm you know, I'm not telling people that, hey, yeah, 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.480 you want to be out for a year, but if 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.280 you are, I can tell you what to do and 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.320 you'll feel pretty good about it. Hey, Bill, you just 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.560 used the word attack and I was watching a piece 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.960 when you were miked up and you're standing behind your 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.360 offense and you were saying attack, attack, attack. What do 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.480 you mean by that? Is there a definition to it 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:08.640 or is it just more aggressive tempo and practice. Yeah, 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.800 I don't think. I mean maybe maybe at the time 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.720 it was a theme that we were talking about. So 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.360 I wouldn't say today there's a theme or a definition 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:22.320 that is overarching for the offense. I think sometimes sometimes 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:29.160 you have to encourage them to maintain an aggressive offensive mentality. Right. 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:36.760 We all see so many times across the NFL ' 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.000 let's talk about the NFL. We see these pictures where 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.800 people want to stand up at the line of scrimmage 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.720 or fake audible enhancing and do all this stuff. And 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.640 some guys have been very successful at it. Not everyone 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.280 is built for that number one. Number two. You have 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.040 to be careful. If you start doing that every play 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.440 and letting the defense dictate to you what the best 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:02.000 plays run, then you never feel like, hey, let's dictate 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.760 to them sometimes, you know. So, I think there's a 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.360 balance between that, right, and so I think you have 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.720 to keep that mentality for your players. Sometimes it may 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.600 have to do with the tempo that you playing. When 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.080 I say tempo, I mean how fast are we get 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.640 in the next play? Run? You know, I worked when 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.080 I worked for Coach Homegren. Matt Hasselback was our quarterback, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.320 and I came in Matt had worked played for him 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:27.240 for years. You know, in Green Bay is a backup 0:16:27.280 --> 0:16:31.120 and then in Seattle. So one of those situations where 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:32.960 you come in as a quarterback coach with Matt knew 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.480 a whole lot more about what Coach Homegren wanted than 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.200 I did. You know that when you just start working 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.160 for him. But Matt explained, he said, well, when coach 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.120 says he wants tempo, what he means is I'm first 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.920 down in second down. These are plays we can pretty 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:50.960 much kind of go and run for the most part, 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.520 unless there's something crazy has happened. So he wants me 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:55.880 to get out of the huddle, get up to the line, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.880 start my cadence and go and put pressure on the 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:01.120 defense to get lined up and go. He said. Then 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.400 all of a sudden, third down comes up, I'm going 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:05.560 to break the huddle. I'm gonna get up and now 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.159 all of the defense is scrambling to get lined up, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.320 and now I can see what they're doing. So then 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:13.880 if I have to check the play, I can check 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.679 the play. You know, Matt was just a master, you know, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.440 of how to play the game with the defense. And 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.520 but but if you don't have those first plays where 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.320 the defense is kind of feeling you come at them, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:30.360 then you never forced them to show their hand anyway. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.840 That's that's one example of it. But I think it's 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:37.359 a mentality. It's a mentality. Well, it's a symbiotic relationship, coach, 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.040 And you know, I'm glad you brought up Paul Alexander 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.120 because and how it goes hand in hand with one 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.359 I'm castile who we talk to a couple of weeks ago, 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.280 And you know, it kind of is for a quarterback. 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.520 The offensive line is the symbol of, you know, the 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.240 circle of life. You know, almost like the movie can Value, 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.720 That's how you're going to survive. And you know, to 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.640 work hand in hand with one another. So really just 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:01.600 that relationship with the run game call and go plays 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.840 like you said, maybe first and second down where you 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.000 can get after it and come downhill and get some 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.520 positive yards for a good third down result or a 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:13.000 third medium what we call stayed on schedule or hopefully 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.520 never get to third down. Let's have a couple of 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.080 those days, right. Actually, I just I just had to 0:18:18.160 --> 0:18:20.840 kick I just had to Yeah, I just had to 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.680 kick one out of my office. He was trying to 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.280 explain to me how he was going to present the 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.880 run game to me, but I said, I got hey, 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.119 I gotta call the guys here one just give me 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.639 a minute. But uh no, we're looking forward to it. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.080 I mean, you're talking about a veteran line coach, you know, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:39.640 who understands and all of us I think who've been 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:43.040 added to the staff here are guys. We've been in 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.800 a bunch of different systems, done at some places where 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.240 you've thrown up more, Somewhere you've run up more. You know, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.680 we've all had some stops at some places where you've 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.000 been really really good statistically, you know, with some numbers, 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.680 and you know, you just try to draw in and 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:01.919 as we sit in the staff room and I just 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.639 see what coaching Aggie's doing. You know, Matt's just bringing 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.320 this in and drawing in all those experiences. But then 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:09.879 you have to make it work. You know, you have 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.560 to have guys right now, you talk about building a team, 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.080 That's what we're doing in our staff room, you know, 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:18.920 really and getting to know each other and watching the 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.600 film and you know, debating through plays, and that's how 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.280 we become a team first. And then when the players 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.359 come in, you know how it is. I mean, they 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.879 can feel when you're together. And so we're to me, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.639 you know when again, coaching Aggie runs the offense, right, 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.400 Coaching Aggie calls a place. So what's what's the role 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:41.720 of the offensive coordinator. Well, one of the roles is 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:43.640 when we go in that room and shut the door, 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:49.800 help create that that atmosphere in that room for the 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.640 staff first. You know, that's to me, that's a fun 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.639 part of building the team is let's start with the staff. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.080 Let's bang out all the issues, let's talk through it, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:00.720 let's see what and then it's gonna it's gonna grow 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:02.840 and moreph a little bit, and we're going to start 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.200 turning into what we're going to be. And then if 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.120 we do a great job now, then when the players 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.720 walk in the door again, for them, there's gonna be 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.480 a lot of new voices in the room. There's gonna 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.480 be a lot of new voices out on the practice field. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:20.400 So I think they'll feel something different. Wow, we could 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.200 talk to you for the full hour, Big Bill, no 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:27.400 question about it. Very interesting, very very diverse background. Indeed, Scranton, 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:32.160 Pennsylvania born and raised, played, so it's that Northeast Ohio 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.040