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Speaker 1: BBMS Jeff Joniac. Happy Holidays, in a pleasant, good evening everybody.
Speaker 1: From PNC Studios here at HATTI Saw. This is the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show with Head Coach Matt Naggie. I'm Jeff Joniac.
Speaker 1: Nice come from behind win at Detroit's Ford Field back
Speaker 1: on Thursday twenty four, twenty over the Lions at three
Speaker 1: and one. Start at the second half of the season
Speaker 1: and you're fought back to five hundred. It's been quite
Speaker 1: the fight too, first time since Week seven, and it
Speaker 1: just is an interesting feeling about that. If I have it,
Speaker 1: you guys certainly have it in that locker room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could, you could feel it after the game. It
Speaker 1: was it was just a feeling of guys. Um, they
Speaker 1: earned it. You know, they fought hard to get to
Speaker 1: that point, and uh, you know it was on a
Speaker 1: short week. You put all that together, it's a tough
Speaker 1: division game on the road, and uh it's a battle.
Speaker 1: And so here we are, like you said, we sit
Speaker 1: at a point. The last four games. Now we've able
Speaker 1: to go three and one, um and put ourselves in
Speaker 1: a decent position. So we know we have our hands
Speaker 1: full yet. But here we are this week against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and it's important to get going. You already know you
Speaker 1: got competitors. You know, you know you've talked about the
Speaker 1: resilience of this team, and now you can look him
Speaker 1: in the eye and say, hey, guys, look what we're at.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you do need some help along the way,
Speaker 1: but only matters, What only matters is you taken care
Speaker 1: of this each step at a time, right, And it's
Speaker 1: it's just you look back at these moments and you
Speaker 1: go through things for certain reasons, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: when when I talk as a leader, as a head coach,
Speaker 1: they listen. But you also want to be able to
Speaker 1: say you see what I'm saying, see what I told you,
Speaker 1: And they're proving me right right now in regards to
Speaker 1: them being fighters and guys that care. Were a family
Speaker 1: and what better way last week than than on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day to be able to have a big win together
Speaker 1: as a family. And and and that's where it becomes powerful.
Speaker 1: Those moments are ones that you don't forget wherever you're
Speaker 1: at during the season, and who knows here as we
Speaker 1: go forward, how it propels us. You know, no bigger
Speaker 1: fighter right now, With all due respect to the other
Speaker 1: fifty two guys on the team. Mitch Robiski, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. I mentioned it last week after the game that, um,
Speaker 1: it was. It was. It really was his day. And
Speaker 1: I and I and I say that after going back
Speaker 1: and watching the tape, you just you see the decisions
Speaker 1: that he's making, the throws that he's making at certain times, um,
Speaker 1: which is huge for for our offense. And he's growing
Speaker 1: as a leader. Uh, the players around him are stepping
Speaker 1: up and creating holes for the in the run game
Speaker 1: with the O line. The O line had a really
Speaker 1: good game last week. I mean they protected Mitch, and
Speaker 1: when you protect you're able to throw the football. They
Speaker 1: created lanes in the run game. When you when you
Speaker 1: create lanes, you're gonna average four point seven yards per
Speaker 1: rush and then when the balls throw your way, wide
Speaker 1: receivers are gonna make plays. And the other thing too
Speaker 1: last week that that occurred, that that's kind of got
Speaker 1: lost in the shuffles there. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: drop eight by Detroit, so they'd rush three and drop
Speaker 1: eight and there's not a lot of guys open. But Mitch,
Speaker 1: Mitch and the wide receivers did a really good job
Speaker 1: of the scramble drill and there were some plays that
Speaker 1: were made where, um, you know, it's hard to draw
Speaker 1: plays for a drop eight, but they made play. It
Speaker 1: was about the players. You know, you mentioned the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and there's a couple of double team blocks by Charles
Speaker 1: Lenno Junior and James Daniels that just blew the defensive
Speaker 1: linement off the line of scrimmage. What a great um again,
Speaker 1: a great fundamental coaching tape for the rest of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and those guys get to see that and they they
Speaker 1: took ride in it, and uh, that's not an easy
Speaker 1: front to to move. There's some big, big guys in there,
Speaker 1: and um, I think you just you you were able
Speaker 1: to feel it. You you understood that. I know again,
Speaker 1: like I said, as a as a play caller, UM,
Speaker 1: when you look up and it's second and four, second
Speaker 1: and five, those are friendly down the distances, Yes they
Speaker 1: are because you've had a whole uh catalog of plays
Speaker 1: that you know, we're not that way this season so far.
Speaker 1: So you know that had to be a fun game
Speaker 1: for you to call. Yeah, it was. It was the beginning.
Speaker 1: We started with the first well, well we started started
Speaker 1: the game off with the with the touchdown drive. We
Speaker 1: had had the ball around midfield after a great return
Speaker 1: by by Corderyl uh and then ended it with a touchdown,
Speaker 1: which is what we've been talking about all week long
Speaker 1: is let's get that touchdown that first drive. Then we
Speaker 1: stalemate it for two drives and and then we had
Speaker 1: the penalty fest where that that's those are tough to overcome. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then we were in two minute mode at the
Speaker 1: end of the half, so before you know it, that
Speaker 1: was that UM. Then the second half, UM, our guys
Speaker 1: continue to battle, and then in the end we ended
Speaker 1: it with a ninety yard ninety five yard drive to
Speaker 1: win the game. And that's one we'll look back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned on Friday that that that that is
Speaker 1: the drive that could tell the story of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: It could, it could and we and we don't know
Speaker 1: that we'll see moving forward here. But that's certainly a
Speaker 1: drive that I know that any way you look at it.
Speaker 1: It instills confidence in the players and end coaches in
Speaker 1: the fact that two huge third down conversions, a great
Speaker 1: throw to Anthony Miller in the corner route and then
Speaker 1: another great throw down into the inside the five on
Speaker 1: a on a go ball where he gave him a
Speaker 1: chance and was able to make a play. So and
Speaker 1: then again um throwing a touchdown pass to take the lead.
Speaker 1: Um is just that's what we look for. Well, you
Speaker 1: know after the interception he threw, Darius Slay picked off
Speaker 1: ten of eleven. The drop in there, he would have
Speaker 1: been perfect, you know, it was one drop, ten of eleven,
Speaker 1: two downs. Yeah, that's the fight I'm talking about. And
Speaker 1: remember last week I brought up, or maybe it was
Speaker 1: in our pregame interview, there's something. There was something about
Speaker 1: Mitch the last couple of weeks, his attitude, his presence
Speaker 1: and how he's processing everything. It just felt different to me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's maybe it is, Yeah, he's well, he's been
Speaker 1: through a lot and and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: We've all been through. It's a good thing. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it is. You're right, it's it's he's That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. He's he's handled it really well. And um,
Speaker 1: and as as we've said from the start, you know this,
Speaker 1: this kid wants to win for the city of Chicago
Speaker 1: and for his teammates and family and for our organization
Speaker 1: more than anybody. And I think you're seeing that the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. You feel it, and however you
Speaker 1: go ahead with with with finding how you do that.
Speaker 1: He's he's done that. Let's talk Anthony Miller. There were
Speaker 1: a certain number of guys I circled before the season.
Speaker 1: He was certainly one of them that if the stars
Speaker 1: played at their level on either side of the ball,
Speaker 1: and then these certain group of guys, it was like
Speaker 1: a half a dozen rose this this could be one
Speaker 1: dangerous football team. And it's taken a bit, but Anthony
Speaker 1: Miller seems like he's on his way. Now. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's about opportunities and you've seen that now the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. And that trust word is so big
Speaker 1: between a quarterback and a wide receiver. And it gets
Speaker 1: built on doing things the right way. It's built on
Speaker 1: timing and practice. And so Anthony's had more opportunities, he's
Speaker 1: taken advantage of it. He knows he can continue to
Speaker 1: grow in certain areas. But I just I love his fire,
Speaker 1: I love his passion. I love is want for the ball.
Speaker 1: And it's clearly from your discussions with the media. And
Speaker 1: so he's a guy you kind of have to stay
Speaker 1: on about being in the right place. Yeah, you do,
Speaker 1: and he knows that. And none of it is is
Speaker 1: um because he doesn't have the ability to do that.
Speaker 1: It's just there is a there's quite a bit in
Speaker 1: this offense, and it takes a little bit of time.
Speaker 1: And the one thing that I really love about Anthony
Speaker 1: Miller is and he made this statement to me before,
Speaker 1: is um, if he screws it up one time or
Speaker 1: messes it up one time, he won't do it again.
Speaker 1: And so there's gonna be that first time mess up.
Speaker 1: But and he's proved me right, so or he's proved
Speaker 1: himself right that he doesn't make the same mistake twice.
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Speaker 1: at P ANDC Studios at HADI saw Jeff Joniac and
Speaker 1: Matt Naggie. You heard the highlight, believe it or not,
Speaker 1: and I had to go back and double check to
Speaker 1: make sure I wasn't wrong. But I mentioned in the
Speaker 1: broadcast that with the first pass catching touchdown for David
Speaker 1: Montgomery all the way back to high school, they didn't
Speaker 1: have one. He cut seventy one balls, but no touches.
Speaker 1: Is that right, that's simbat We got meal now one. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: he did a good job and all things considered too,
Speaker 1: you know, that's a last week was a week where
Speaker 1: we weren't able to to do any uh live practice,
Speaker 1: you know, full speed. So everything was through mental reps.
Speaker 1: And that's a pretty crucial situation right there that those
Speaker 1: guys are in and uh, Mitch made a great decision
Speaker 1: he made he finished his route and then they made
Speaker 1: a play. Yeah, and that was third progression. Yeah, their progression,
Speaker 1: which is part of the play. But at the same
Speaker 1: time that he uh, hey, they made a good decision.
Speaker 1: Bab placement poised Mitch. To everybody in the game, from
Speaker 1: a rob to Jasper horse Dead's touchdown catch, how would
Speaker 1: you evaluate, Yeah, that that touchdown catch there by Jasper, Uh,
Speaker 1: that throw to start really uh, it puts a smile
Speaker 1: on your face. Yeah, it does, just because that that's
Speaker 1: uh you don't always talk about that being a throw
Speaker 1: on that play, but they players made the play and
Speaker 1: those are the ones that you really look back on
Speaker 1: and and and appreciate. And um, Mitch put it exactly
Speaker 1: where it needed to be and then it it was
Speaker 1: not an easy catch to come down and then land
Speaker 1: on the ground and stick, you know, catch the ball
Speaker 1: in between your your helmet and your arm and et cetera.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty good first touchdown catch for him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's flip to the defense. We gotta talk
Speaker 1: real quin I gotta talk real quin Smith. His star
Speaker 1: is shining right now. He was all over the place,
Speaker 1: triggering instinctive, a couple of sacks. It's clear he could
Speaker 1: be a very good blitzing linebacker and get to the
Speaker 1: quarterback and put him down to the ground. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what that's what we saw. That's what we knew we
Speaker 1: had with him. And you see it and you just
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. You love, you love when you when
Speaker 1: you put on the game tape after the game and
Speaker 1: you see him flying around everywhere. It was an unfortunate call,
Speaker 1: um or you know, it's all effort for the out
Speaker 1: of bounds late hit there, but he made up for
Speaker 1: it with the big sacks. So, um, he's playing at
Speaker 1: a high level right now. You can see it, you
Speaker 1: sense it, and it's it's good. Well, and you know
Speaker 1: he and he's a perfect example because you know, you
Speaker 1: talk about Mitch and clearly real Quine has been through
Speaker 1: something this season two and so you don't you don't
Speaker 1: stop watching the movie halfway through. It's a full sixteen
Speaker 1: game season. So all these guys are are these guys
Speaker 1: we talk about Anthony Miller, the nine for one forty
Speaker 1: career high. You talk about Mitchell Trubisky, you talk about
Speaker 1: Roe Kwan, talking about James Daniels moving over to guard
Speaker 1: and making some big blocks yesterday. Are they taking guys
Speaker 1: with them? Are our guys coming with these guys now?
Speaker 1: Is everybody coming together here at the right time? Because
Speaker 1: you talk to the New England Patriots, I bring this
Speaker 1: up all the time. They start talking about Granted, you
Speaker 1: don't want to dig a hole, which the Bears did
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, and you start playing
Speaker 1: your best ball late November into December. It may seem
Speaker 1: ridiculous because you take each quarter of the season the
Speaker 1: way it is, but it is that important to peak now.
Speaker 1: It's very important to peak now. And then there's also
Speaker 1: there's a silver lining as you go through the season
Speaker 1: for for several different reasons. But sometimes it's to find
Speaker 1: a player you never know that you have on the roster.
Speaker 1: Other times it's for whatever reason, just just like that
Speaker 1: as is, somebody gets hurt, another guy has a chance.
Speaker 1: But then others go through certain things throughout the year,
Speaker 1: whether it's on the field or off the field. And
Speaker 1: now we all get to work together and show how
Speaker 1: tight of a family you are to pull through it
Speaker 1: and to persevere. And that's kind of where we're at
Speaker 1: right now. We know we still have several games left
Speaker 1: for sure, and the only thing we can do is
Speaker 1: focus on this week against the Cowboys. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what's so cool in this moment right now, is
Speaker 1: that we're back to a point of six and six,
Speaker 1: we're still alive and we want to put this thing together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the strangest sport when you think about it, because
Speaker 1: there's three hundred and sixty five days in the year
Speaker 1: and you're asking everybody on sixteen particular days to be mentally, physically,
Speaker 1: emotionally ready and to do your job. And every game
Speaker 1: is a little different, every single one. They're all different.
Speaker 1: So I mean, we can go back to the first
Speaker 1: game of the year, to the fourth game to the seventh.
Speaker 1: Every one of them have a different flavor to them.
Speaker 1: So it's all about how you handle them. It's how
Speaker 1: you stick together, and then how you prepare and how
Speaker 1: mentally strong are you. You know, we've been mentally tested,
Speaker 1: We've been tested mentally and uh um, so far. I
Speaker 1: appreciate that where where we're at and now we just
Speaker 1: got to finish it. Third play of the game, right,
Speaker 1: Prince Mukamara not third third play for them, but on
Speaker 1: David Blast play he dak could stick in a guy's
Speaker 1: head for the rest of the game. Did you worry
Speaker 1: about it? No? I did. And and it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: they it's a nice little play that they ran where
Speaker 1: um down a distance wise, Prince was just kind of
Speaker 1: sitting on the sticks and the kid uh ran a
Speaker 1: little dagger and go, um, so you gotta have some
Speaker 1: protection to do that he made he got him and um,
Speaker 1: sometimes you live by the sword, you die by the sword,
Speaker 1: and that was one of those plays. But I had
Speaker 1: no doubt that Prince would come back and play well
Speaker 1: as a quarterback guy just observing blood. Would you come
Speaker 1: away with just somebody that uh darts around and there
Speaker 1: within the pocket? Yeah, he had he had good good
Speaker 1: uh good vision within the pocket, could understand where things
Speaker 1: were at and um, you know, coached Daryl Bevill, their
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, was able to put them in good positions
Speaker 1: and but uh, you know, in the end, our defense
Speaker 1: was good enough to finish it out. No more of
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Speaker 1: Jeff Jonik and Matteggie. They're the highlight. We talked about
Speaker 1: it in an earlier segment, But jessper Horstead. Every day
Speaker 1: must be like a huge classroom in the mind for
Speaker 1: jessper Horstead. But when you get the opportunity like he
Speaker 1: did and you make that kind of play. What's the
Speaker 1: bounce for him going into the future, going into this week.
Speaker 1: There's a change a young man's perspective on the game.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it does. And you have you make such
Speaker 1: a big play, it's a scoring play, and um, it
Speaker 1: has to be able to bring your confidence up in
Speaker 1: many different ways. And so, uh, that's what's been neat
Speaker 1: throughout some of this, and we talked about it earlier,
Speaker 1: is when you have these type of situations that pop up,
Speaker 1: it gives other people opportunities. And he's taken the most
Speaker 1: of it. And and you know, you got to give
Speaker 1: credit to Ryan Pace and and uh the personnel side
Speaker 1: for um being able to find a guy like like
Speaker 1: jessper and and now here you are Sometimes you're you're
Speaker 1: you go into training camp and you're at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the roster and you're trying to make that that
Speaker 1: that ninety man roster, cut it down the three and
Speaker 1: where are you at in the practice squad, et cetera.
Speaker 1: And now here's a guy that gets an opportunity. And
Speaker 1: so it's a it's a great story. We want to
Speaker 1: keep growing with it. And he's he's done a good
Speaker 1: job so far. Yeah, I want to go back to
Speaker 1: the Anthony Miller and a Rob you know, and third downs.
Speaker 1: Those two big catches on the final drive, but uh
Speaker 1: my math had at five of the six receptions on
Speaker 1: third down went for first downs, So a that equals
Speaker 1: a lot of extra plays. And entering the ending the
Speaker 1: game that was only like a forty six point three
Speaker 1: conversion rate on though, so you were thirty first in
Speaker 1: the league. If that continues, do you sense that you'll
Speaker 1: be able to get those sixty to seventy five plays
Speaker 1: a game. Yeah, that's that's what we need to do.
Speaker 1: And the end score part is just as big. You know,
Speaker 1: we want to be able to convert on third down
Speaker 1: and uh uh we were fifty percent. Um, So I
Speaker 1: just think that for us to be able to roll
Speaker 1: through it and get better is very important. Hey hey
Speaker 1: again against the Giants, when when Miller his first down
Speaker 1: catches got you third team more plays in ten points? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's the game, the third down situational. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you want to be it extends drives and so
Speaker 1: as a play caller you can get in a rhythm. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're able to make sure that now you can balance
Speaker 1: more of the run game the pass game, the screens,
Speaker 1: et cetera. And so the other thing too, is it
Speaker 1: gives you confidence when you convert these third downs as
Speaker 1: you're able to hum to get the first downs and
Speaker 1: then get into the red zone, and now you got
Speaker 1: to be efficient in the red zone. Your defense has
Speaker 1: been put in some interesting situations, and some of it
Speaker 1: is their own doing overall, but the resiliency and the
Speaker 1: ability to bend and not break over the course of
Speaker 1: especially two minute situations has been one of the trademarks
Speaker 1: of the defense. I think I brought it up to
Speaker 1: you on Thursday. Only three points allowed in those situations
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, that I shouldn't Redskins down a fuel.
Speaker 1: That's unbelievable. Yeah, and you feel it, and you can
Speaker 1: you can feel the defense the way that they're playing
Speaker 1: in those type of situations. And I thought that, uh,
Speaker 1: last week's game that they were able to do that.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously that that sack that occur with Roquan
Speaker 1: and knock him back that far and then for Eddie
Speaker 1: Jackson to end it with the with the interception. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, we get tested in those situations and
Speaker 1: our Chuck has done a great job at being able
Speaker 1: to stay aggressive in those moments, and then our guys
Speaker 1: have been resilient. You know. Funny thing, if you thought,
Speaker 1: if I asked you on a week one you're gonna
Speaker 1: have your tight ends would be Jessper Horstead, Bradley Saw
Speaker 1: and a guy named JP Holts you're gonna pick up
Speaker 1: from a team you would have never believed it, and
Speaker 1: all factored in the last few wins. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: really something. Yeah, and you're right, Um. But with all
Speaker 1: that said, what I think is pretty neat is that
Speaker 1: those three guys that you just mentioned, um, are very
Speaker 1: very important to where we're at right now. And JP
Speaker 1: Holtz is a guy that has really just come in here,
Speaker 1: doesn't say much, just does his job head down. Yea
Speaker 1: head down guy, and but is very very important to
Speaker 1: to what we're doing right now. Bradley sal is somebody
Speaker 1: that uh, you know obviously last last week on the
Speaker 1: sweep the Sheds Award for things that he does on
Speaker 1: end off the field, and that just speaks to who
Speaker 1: he is. And uh, and now Jasper coming in here
Speaker 1: and and doing what he did last week I think
Speaker 1: is uh is a credit to them who they are.
Speaker 1: And that's where we're at right now. So that's that's uh,
Speaker 1: you want to you want to see these field good
Speaker 1: stories with these type of guys. It's a Thursday to Thursday,
Speaker 1: so today's really Wednesday on this Monday night show. I
Speaker 1: know it's NFL language. People always get confused about that,
Speaker 1: but it is the case. So you got a normal
Speaker 1: week and a cowboy team coming in limp in three
Speaker 1: or four in the lost department, but loaded with talent.
Speaker 1: Offensively obviously, where do you begin here? And you look
Speaker 1: at them, yeah, well and you just said, you know, offensively,
Speaker 1: but you look at these guys, I mean across the board. Um,
Speaker 1: their their offense is putting up points and um they
Speaker 1: got playmakers everywhere and then on defense too, they just
Speaker 1: they fly around that front four is some is you know,
Speaker 1: a group of guys that you have to know. Um
Speaker 1: that the different things that they do with all the
Speaker 1: stunts and the games that they have on the front
Speaker 1: line are we'll certainly have our hands full, but they're
Speaker 1: they're in a similar position as us and both of
Speaker 1: us being six and six. It'll be an interesting week
Speaker 1: this week. Tom and I have been talking about this
Speaker 1: could be the La Rams game of twenty eighteen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one way or another. Yeah, it could and it's exciting
Speaker 1: to be able to, uh to do it at home.
Speaker 1: And so we'll see where our guys are stepping up
Speaker 1: to the challenge. I'm feeling them ready to go. Mat Names,
Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of your week in your preparation. Thank
Speaker 1: you very much, Thanks Jeff. The Bears Coaches Show with
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Speaker 1: BBMS Jeff Joey a prater this time puts a little
Speaker 1: more air under it and this drives him back further
Speaker 1: than the ends on eight yards out. He's coming out
Speaker 1: left angling to the five to the ten, gets a
Speaker 1: block on the outside to the twenty other block to
Speaker 1: the thirty to thirty forty and knocked out of islands
Speaker 1: on the far side of the field. Bears are gonna
Speaker 1: start this drive in Lions territory. Some terrific blocking along
Speaker 1: the way, I'm money makes the stop for the Lions
Speaker 1: and the Bears will have a plus territory start to
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Speaker 1: Never let a friend lose his swagger. That's a good
Speaker 1: way to bring in the man with a lot of swag.
Speaker 1: Chris Taylor, the Bears special team's coordinator, Right, how about
Speaker 1: that's perfect. That's Taylor made for you. I don't stay here.
Speaker 1: You know you got some of that going on. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you a guy who does that. Highlight here, Cordell
Speaker 1: Patterson nine yards deep comes out on that second kickoff
Speaker 1: to start the game for the Bears offense, setting up
Speaker 1: a drive that was six plays and get you on
Speaker 1: the board for the first time since Week four in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. No, that was great by him and
Speaker 1: the guys blocking. I mean, obviously, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, it's hard to cover two kicks in a row,
Speaker 1: especially when you have a returner like we do, where
Speaker 1: they're emphasizing it all week, making sure that we're staying
Speaker 1: in our lanes. And it's the opening kickoff and they're
Speaker 1: geared up and they go down and then have to
Speaker 1: redo it again. There was no doubt if I mean,
Speaker 1: it had to go out of the back of the
Speaker 1: end zone for us not to bring it out. And
Speaker 1: he did a great job and the guys did a
Speaker 1: great job. And that's our job. We either want to
Speaker 1: score or we say set up the score, and that's
Speaker 1: the deal. All right, Let's talk about the first one.
Speaker 1: Because he quick made a veer left plan or his decision.
Speaker 1: It's built in in the return and utilizing his skill
Speaker 1: set that he has there. So they had a tendency
Speaker 1: and they did it in the first game also, and
Speaker 1: we bounced one on him here at Soldier, but it
Speaker 1: was really number forty four maybe has a really good
Speaker 1: football player, aggressive to the ball, and he likes to
Speaker 1: take off pretty fast to try to get in the mix,
Speaker 1: and you know that opens some things up on the
Speaker 1: back side. Okay, And on the second one, Now, if
Speaker 1: in that situation, do you reprogram and say, hey, we're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna make a change now in the second
Speaker 1: one because maybe they or what do you do which
Speaker 1: changed it? Okay, we changed the call. They're based off
Speaker 1: what we saw in the first time. Okay, after watching
Speaker 1: the tape, how close was it to be in a
Speaker 1: six pointer? It's close, Yeah, it's close. And he had
Speaker 1: another opportunity later on in the game. Also ninety yards
Speaker 1: and those two. Yeah, no, then he's h I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously he's big, strong, and fast, obviously all great qualities.
Speaker 1: But the guys are doing a great job blocking for him,
Speaker 1: and they take a lot of pride in U in
Speaker 1: getting him going, and as does he so U it's
Speaker 1: it's it's good combination. He leads the league, and you
Speaker 1: got to give credit to your blockers as well. Guys,
Speaker 1: they're picking guys off. He's the only guy in the
Speaker 1: league with he leads in one hundred yard days. We
Speaker 1: only look at backs and receivers, but I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start looking at returners because there are not many opportunities
Speaker 1: for a lot of these guys. But one hundred yard
Speaker 1: return days I did not know that. Yeah, yeah, number
Speaker 1: one in the league. Hopefully we can keep that going.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously with the weather changing, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: there's gonna be more times to do that. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, we're gonna have to always be prepared.
Speaker 1: As they hit the squib and it and it hit us.
Speaker 1: I got to talk about that. So it was a
Speaker 1: debate in the booth. Okay, the first one that hit them,
Speaker 1: bush Ye planned as an on side kick or do
Speaker 1: you think it was just one in a million shot
Speaker 1: to hit the guy in the shin and you're recover
Speaker 1: the football and it was going to be a squib
Speaker 1: talked to Prater and I saw his quotes in the paper. Okay,
Speaker 1: and you could tell on the field that it was
Speaker 1: going to be a squib kick because it was on
Speaker 1: the field. It was going one hundred miles an hour. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and uh and obviously those things can happen. So can
Speaker 1: you target a guy and wish was that just perfect execution?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if I don't, Like I said,
Speaker 1: he was trying to squib it through and if he
Speaker 1: hits a guy, great, Yeah, some guys I've seen kickers. Actually,
Speaker 1: Phil Dawson in Cleveland, we used to practice it all
Speaker 1: time where we would just practice hitting the goal post
Speaker 1: and line drying the line drive the goalpost, just to
Speaker 1: see if we could do it on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: And he was. He was able to do it. But
Speaker 1: it's a it's a hard skill. I've I've been on
Speaker 1: the other side of that where I've asked a guy
Speaker 1: to We had a punter had to kick off one time.
Speaker 1: And ask him to squib it and he did the
Speaker 1: exact same thing and hit their guy, but they recovered
Speaker 1: the ball, so right, because you're giving them a lot
Speaker 1: of fields, you give up a block field position there,
Speaker 1: and it's obviously it's something that we always will have
Speaker 1: to learn from and uh, we'll always have to adjust
Speaker 1: just because of who our guy is back there. And
Speaker 1: that's that I always tell the guys that's a good thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so well we gotta go actually in this segment, but
Speaker 1: we'll pick it up on the other side because I
Speaker 1: do have a what's the teaching point for Dion in
Speaker 1: that situation? Because if it comes on you're that quick
Speaker 1: and hit you in the lower leg. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a bouncing ball. It's it's like a ping
Speaker 1: pong boss. So, well, you're the coach, you have the
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Speaker 1: today here with Bears special teams coordinator Chris Taber. When
Speaker 1: we were talking before the break, what are the teaching
Speaker 1: points on a squib that could come up on you
Speaker 1: and bounce crazy? I mean, obviously you're trying to avoid
Speaker 1: it at all costs. The tough spot where Dion Bush
Speaker 1: and actually dhc are lined up at they're in charge
Speaker 1: of a surprise on side if it comes up the middle.
Speaker 1: And at the same time, obviously they're closer to the football,
Speaker 1: so being able to adjust and move and see that.
Speaker 1: You got to have an agile guy, and Prader did
Speaker 1: a good job of I mean he got us on
Speaker 1: that one. I mean he hit his ankle and obviously
Speaker 1: we didn't recover it. Fortunately they didn't get any points
Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, and that's kind of in our world.
Speaker 1: You kind of look at the big picture that no harm,
Speaker 1: no file, right, and you just flush it and you
Speaker 1: move on and say, okay, let's keep playing football. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk about eighty pine. The leg was booming, man,
Speaker 1: you didn't you have anybody a chance? No, he really,
Speaker 1: he really kicked off well and on a short week,
Speaker 1: on a Thursday game, those are those are critical factors
Speaker 1: because obviously some guys' bodies aren't as recovered as what
Speaker 1: they're normally are, and for him to be able to
Speaker 1: kind of handle that force that was great. And then
Speaker 1: the last kick after the penalty, where we kick off
Speaker 1: from the fifty and to be able to bloop it
Speaker 1: and be aggressive with that and put it right on
Speaker 1: the goal line to get him inside the twenty is
Speaker 1: obviously what we were looking for and we accomplished that goal.
Speaker 1: So I was real proud of him. I thought he
Speaker 1: had a nice day and you know, hopefully we can
Speaker 1: just kind of keep building on it. It was his
Speaker 1: first indoor game, so I don't know if he kicked
Speaker 1: any indoors in college at all, but you know, I
Speaker 1: know the Lions put this out there. I think they're
Speaker 1: opposing kickers were sixty two point three percent since eighteen
Speaker 1: in there, and I was shocked at the number. It's
Speaker 1: indoor football with no conditions. What's your familiarity with that?
Speaker 1: And why at Ford Field are these guys have in
Speaker 1: trouble or is it just who's kicking there? I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it just happens. I do think there's a
Speaker 1: major stereotype of well, since we're indoors, we should be
Speaker 1: able to kick long field goals and everything should be
Speaker 1: accentuated even more on you know, on Thanksgiving Day, you're
Speaker 1: you watch the other games. There were six miss kicks
Speaker 1: in three games and they were all inside. So it's
Speaker 1: I think that I think people look at that. I
Speaker 1: think that's just kind of silly in my opinion, to
Speaker 1: look at it like that. I understand it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you could understand because there's no win. No, there's no win,
Speaker 1: there's nothing. I mean, you hit your ball and you
Speaker 1: and you go to work. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think people you still have to play field position football,
Speaker 1: and what gives you the best chance. You just can't um,
Speaker 1: you know, start shooting at the him and say, just
Speaker 1: because we're inside, let's just start launching really long field
Speaker 1: goals because let's give it a shot. I mean, you
Speaker 1: still you still got a handlefield position. Yeah, So is
Speaker 1: there a mental component that you address because is there
Speaker 1: a natural like relaxation. I'm indoors, I don't have to
Speaker 1: factor in the wind or you just know, we keep
Speaker 1: it out of the conversation. No, we talked about it.
Speaker 1: We talked. What we talked about was is stay true
Speaker 1: to the process, because let's learn from the LA game.
Speaker 1: And the LA game was was nice conditions, slight breeze.
Speaker 1: Let's call it no breeze though, all right, a slight breeze.
Speaker 1: And guys when they get in those those environments want
Speaker 1: to kill the football because they think I'm going to
Speaker 1: have a huge day and then they don't play how
Speaker 1: they're supposed to play. And I said, let's let's learn
Speaker 1: from that. All right. Yes, we're going indoors. We're gonna
Speaker 1: stay true to our process, and we're not gonna think,
Speaker 1: hey boy, I'm going to swing for the fences because
Speaker 1: this is all perfect in here. No, we're gonna hit
Speaker 1: our ball and we're gonna work. So I was pleased
Speaker 1: how he grew in that in that area right there,
Speaker 1: you know, back to the bloop, because you could easily,
Speaker 1: you know, you'd love to take advantage of their mental
Speaker 1: mistake of committing a penalty that gives you a fifty
Speaker 1: yard kickoff and just boom it out of there. But
Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of that to keep pointing
Speaker 1: the game, keep him get him a long feel with
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback playing in its first game. So how
Speaker 1: tedious is that that kick. It's a tough kick. It's
Speaker 1: obviously probably actually easier outside because there are win conditions
Speaker 1: and then you can kind of kick it into the
Speaker 1: wind where the win's holding it up for you and
Speaker 1: buying you some more hang time. Now you're inside and
Speaker 1: there's none of those conditions for him to be able
Speaker 1: to drop it right there at the goal line. We said, hey,
Speaker 1: be aggressive because even if the ball goes out of bounds,
Speaker 1: they get the ball at the twenty five, just as
Speaker 1: if they were to touchback. So take a chance, take it,
Speaker 1: take a chance, be aggressive. And we have confidence in
Speaker 1: our in our kickoff team that we can get down
Speaker 1: there and cover these guys. So let we say, let
Speaker 1: the guys go have some fun. And he did that.
Speaker 1: Given the time in a week, normal week, but not
Speaker 1: a short week. How often you practice that kick? That's
Speaker 1: part of his routine on the I guess normal that
Speaker 1: would be a Wednesday practice. After we kick our field
Speaker 1: goals and you know, we do our kickoff work and
Speaker 1: then that's the last part we like, we like to
Speaker 1: work on that kick. Yeah, and the coverage. Okay, you
Speaker 1: didn't have Sheriff McManus, and I don't know what the
Speaker 1: situation is. We'll pick that up on the other segment.
Speaker 1: Talk about some of these other guys that are stepping
Speaker 1: up and having good years on special teams for Chris
Speaker 1: Tabor's crew. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt
Speaker 1: Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears News
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Speaker 1: w BBM. Here with Bears Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor,
Speaker 1: breaking down the Bears went over the lines and looking
Speaker 1: ahead to the Cowboys. Here in a moment before the
Speaker 1: break on, I want to talk about some guys that
Speaker 1: are stepping up, and Kevin Pierre Lewis is one of them. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran and starter grade linebacker in this league.
Speaker 1: Joel Ea, Booney Way, Josh Wood. Some of these guys
Speaker 1: it stepping in and and really closing the door on
Speaker 1: Danny Amondola in that game on Thursday. No, the guys
Speaker 1: we needed to step up from the previous week because
Speaker 1: we had one get out on us UH in the
Speaker 1: Giants game. So that was a point of emphast. This
Speaker 1: guys did a great job. Been real pleased with with
Speaker 1: how we're growing. And because we're you know, Woods is
Speaker 1: now playing more and improving each week. Ryan Nall isn't
Speaker 1: a guy that's now getting his shot and he's he's
Speaker 1: playing well. But you know, it's led by guys like
Speaker 1: KPL and DHC and and I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to I could name so many guys. It's I will
Speaker 1: say this about the room, and and I love him
Speaker 1: to death because it is a close room and they
Speaker 1: take they do take pride in it. The thing that
Speaker 1: I'm so really proud about him is just like in
Speaker 1: the kick return game, we had to make an adjustment
Speaker 1: right there during the game in the huddle on the sideline,
Speaker 1: and they all just shook their head like, yes, coach,
Speaker 1: we got it. Let's go, let's go to work. And
Speaker 1: that's that's where we're growing behind the scenes. And I've
Speaker 1: just been real pleased with that. You know, a man
Speaker 1: you call the pony Corderold Patterson because of how he
Speaker 1: plays on coverage as well he's in is that endearing
Speaker 1: himself to the entire roster, let alone your own room. Um,
Speaker 1: And maybe guys want to pay it forward a little
Speaker 1: bit when he's on the other end of it returning
Speaker 1: the kid, no question. I mean, the pony plays well.
Speaker 1: He's a He's a guy that the other day just
Speaker 1: once again comes down, beats a double team, balls kicked
Speaker 1: across the field, beats a double team comes across. They
Speaker 1: want to try to bring it back across to him,
Speaker 1: and there there he is, and he and he stops
Speaker 1: it and turns it right back into everybody else. He's
Speaker 1: a he's a really good football player. And people have
Speaker 1: asked me who you know he He does remind me
Speaker 1: of a Josh Cribbs. He really does, because that was
Speaker 1: a guy that could cover and return and and your
Speaker 1: version he is he is. He's a just a good
Speaker 1: football player. What are the Cowboys like Special Team twice? Well,
Speaker 1: the good I mean, they have they have some weapons
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, obviously in our world, anything can happen,
Speaker 1: So we're just trying to dot all the eyes and
Speaker 1: cross the t's. But anywhere from Randall Cobb to Tavon Austin,
Speaker 1: I mean, and they got the Pollard kid as the returner.
Speaker 1: They have some guys that definitely have our attention. So
Speaker 1: we need to we need to play well and what
Speaker 1: is there? What's your history with their special teams coordinator?
Speaker 1: And this will be my first matchup with him, he
Speaker 1: was this is his second year down in Dallas, and
Speaker 1: he does a good job. They play awfully hard. That's
Speaker 1: what when I wash the tape, that's what sticks out
Speaker 1: to me, just how they keep coming after you. And
Speaker 1: and uh so we we need to have our a
Speaker 1: game for Thursday night. Much like Matt talked about the
Speaker 1: resiliency of this football team now looking back at what
Speaker 1: you feel like you see in light at the end
Speaker 1: of the time, at your six and six. You got
Speaker 1: some really impressive games coming up. But does it feel
Speaker 1: good to be where you're at right now to dictate
Speaker 1: some of your own Uh it's a future. Well, it's
Speaker 1: always good to win. But I you know, you look
Speaker 1: at him. I mean, we're heading into the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the season, and it's you know, it's really to me,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a one game season, you know, And
Speaker 1: and and I think maybe maybe when it's all said
Speaker 1: and done, you you you know, you look at and
Speaker 1: review it and all that, but right now, just your
Speaker 1: head's buried in the stand. Let's get let's get the
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