WEBVTT - Coach Show: Nagy, Tabor on building momentum 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:09.080 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:15.680 now on news Radio seven eighty and one oh five 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.159 point nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches Show with 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:23.160 Bears Head coach Matt Maggie, the coaching staff and Bears management. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.040 The Bears Coaches Show is brought to you by Whippley's 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.880 CPAs and Consultants, Advocate Healthcare, Verizon and Miller Life. Now 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.920 from Hollis Hall, here's the Voice of the Bears w 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:39.360 BBMS Jeff Joniac. Happy Holidays, in a pleasant, good evening everybody. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.640 From PNC Studios here at HATTI Saw. This is the 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.559 Bears Coaches Show with Head Coach Matt Naggie. I'm Jeff Joniac. 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.320 Nice come from behind win at Detroit's Ford Field back 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:49.760 on Thursday twenty four, twenty over the Lions at three 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:51.320 and one. Start at the second half of the season 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:54.520 and you're fought back to five hundred. It's been quite 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.160 the fight too, first time since Week seven, and it 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:02.200 just is an interesting feeling about that. If I have it, 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.759 you guys certainly have it in that locker room. Yeah, 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.560 you could, you could feel it after the game. It 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.800 was it was just a feeling of guys. Um, they 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.040 earned it. You know, they fought hard to get to 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.480 that point, and uh, you know it was on a 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:19.160 short week. You put all that together, it's a tough 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.920 division game on the road, and uh it's a battle. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.360 And so here we are, like you said, we sit 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.759 at a point. The last four games. Now we've able 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.640 to go three and one, um and put ourselves in 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.839 a decent position. So we know we have our hands 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.679 full yet. But here we are this week against the Cowboys, 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.680 and it's important to get going. You already know you 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.240 got competitors. You know, you know you've talked about the 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.319 resilience of this team, and now you can look him 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.560 in the eye and say, hey, guys, look what we're at. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.760 I mean, yeah, you do need some help along the way, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:50.160 but only matters, What only matters is you taken care 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.800 of this each step at a time, right, And it's 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.080 it's just you look back at these moments and you 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.160 go through things for certain reasons, and um, you know, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.760 when when I talk as a leader, as a head coach, 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.120 they listen. But you also want to be able to 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.120 say you see what I'm saying, see what I told you, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.680 And they're proving me right right now in regards to 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.440 them being fighters and guys that care. Were a family 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:17.120 and what better way last week than than on Thanksgiving 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:19.600 Day to be able to have a big win together 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.440 as a family. And and and that's where it becomes powerful. 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.080 Those moments are ones that you don't forget wherever you're 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.800 at during the season, and who knows here as we 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.560 go forward, how it propels us. You know, no bigger 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.560 fighter right now, With all due respect to the other 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.079 fifty two guys on the team. Mitch Robiski, Yeah, yeah, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:41.160 it was. I mentioned it last week after the game that, um, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.720 it was. It was. It really was his day. And 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.239 I and I and I say that after going back 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.200 and watching the tape, you just you see the decisions 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.440 that he's making, the throws that he's making at certain times, um, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.320 which is huge for for our offense. And he's growing 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:01.520 as a leader. Uh, the players around him are stepping 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.080 up and creating holes for the in the run game 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.560 with the O line. The O line had a really 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.800 good game last week. I mean they protected Mitch, and 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:10.800 when you protect you're able to throw the football. They 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:12.960 created lanes in the run game. When you when you 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.760 create lanes, you're gonna average four point seven yards per 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.560 rush and then when the balls throw your way, wide 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.960 receivers are gonna make plays. And the other thing too 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.880 last week that that occurred, that that's kind of got 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:25.480 lost in the shuffles there. There was a lot of 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.040 drop eight by Detroit, so they'd rush three and drop 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:29.880 eight and there's not a lot of guys open. But Mitch, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:31.959 Mitch and the wide receivers did a really good job 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.600 of the scramble drill and there were some plays that 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.600 were made where, um, you know, it's hard to draw 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.360 plays for a drop eight, but they made play. It 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.120 was about the players. You know, you mentioned the offensive line, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.080 and there's a couple of double team blocks by Charles 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.320 Lenno Junior and James Daniels that just blew the defensive 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:53.560 linement off the line of scrimmage. What a great um again, 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.960 a great fundamental coaching tape for the rest of the season. Yeah, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.680 and those guys get to see that and they they 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.880 took ride in it, and uh, that's not an easy 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.440 front to to move. There's some big, big guys in there, 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.800 and um, I think you just you you were able 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.480 to feel it. You you understood that. I know again, 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.600 like I said, as a as a play caller, UM, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:16.040 when you look up and it's second and four, second 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:20.120 and five, those are friendly down the distances, Yes they 0:04:20.160 --> 0:04:26.040 are because you've had a whole uh catalog of plays 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.280 that you know, we're not that way this season so far. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.080 So you know that had to be a fun game 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:33.440 for you to call. Yeah, it was. It was the beginning. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.920 We started with the first well, well we started started 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.320 the game off with the with the touchdown drive. We 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.279 had had the ball around midfield after a great return 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.840 by by Corderyl uh and then ended it with a touchdown, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.880 which is what we've been talking about all week long 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.520 is let's get that touchdown that first drive. Then we 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:51.960 stalemate it for two drives and and then we had 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:56.799 the penalty fest where that that's those are tough to overcome. Uh. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:58.320 And then we were in two minute mode at the 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.039 end of the half, so before you know it, that 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:05.159 was that UM. Then the second half, UM, our guys 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.040 continue to battle, and then in the end we ended 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.599 it with a ninety yard ninety five yard drive to 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.039 win the game. And that's one we'll look back. Yeah. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.159 And you mentioned on Friday that that that that is 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.320 the drive that could tell the story of twenty nineteen. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.039 It could, it could and we and we don't know 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:22.839 that we'll see moving forward here. But that's certainly a 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.680 drive that I know that any way you look at it. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.479 It instills confidence in the players and end coaches in 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:33.320 the fact that two huge third down conversions, a great 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.360 throw to Anthony Miller in the corner route and then 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.680 another great throw down into the inside the five on 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:41.040 a on a go ball where he gave him a 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.240 chance and was able to make a play. So and 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:47.600 then again um throwing a touchdown pass to take the lead. 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.360 Um is just that's what we look for. Well, you 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.960 know after the interception he threw, Darius Slay picked off 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.560 ten of eleven. The drop in there, he would have 0:05:57.560 --> 0:05:59.679 been perfect, you know, it was one drop, ten of eleven, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.680 two downs. Yeah, that's the fight I'm talking about. And 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.000 remember last week I brought up, or maybe it was 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:08.240 in our pregame interview, there's something. There was something about 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.520 Mitch the last couple of weeks, his attitude, his presence 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:15.800 and how he's processing everything. It just felt different to me. Yeah, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.520 well he's maybe it is, Yeah, he's well, he's been 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.640 through a lot and and there's nothing wrong with that. 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.520 We've all been through. It's a good thing. I'm not 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.120 saying it is. You're right, it's it's he's That's what 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.920 I'm saying. He's he's handled it really well. And um, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.520 and as as we've said from the start, you know this, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.719 this kid wants to win for the city of Chicago 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.240 and for his teammates and family and for our organization 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.440 more than anybody. And I think you're seeing that the 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.359 last couple of weeks. You feel it, and however you 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.000 go ahead with with with finding how you do that. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.280 He's he's done that. Let's talk Anthony Miller. There were 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.800 a certain number of guys I circled before the season. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.880 He was certainly one of them that if the stars 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.760 played at their level on either side of the ball, 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.159 and then these certain group of guys, it was like 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.279 a half a dozen rose this this could be one 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:04.640 dangerous football team. And it's taken a bit, but Anthony 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.800 Miller seems like he's on his way. Now. Yeah, it's 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:09.080 it's about opportunities and you've seen that now the last 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.320 couple of weeks. And that trust word is so big 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.640 between a quarterback and a wide receiver. And it gets 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.520 built on doing things the right way. It's built on 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:24.120 timing and practice. And so Anthony's had more opportunities, he's 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.240 taken advantage of it. He knows he can continue to 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:29.920 grow in certain areas. But I just I love his fire, 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:31.880 I love his passion. I love is want for the ball. 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:35.800 And it's clearly from your discussions with the media. And 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.080 so he's a guy you kind of have to stay 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.640 on about being in the right place. Yeah, you do, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.960 and he knows that. And none of it is is 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.000 um because he doesn't have the ability to do that. 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:48.920 It's just there is a there's quite a bit in 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.760 this offense, and it takes a little bit of time. 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.520 And the one thing that I really love about Anthony 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.640 Miller is and he made this statement to me before, 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.840 is um, if he screws it up one time or 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.000 messes it up one time, he won't do it again. 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:03.160 And so there's gonna be that first time mess up. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.240 But and he's proved me right, so or he's proved 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.880 himself right that he doesn't make the same mistake twice. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.360 This is the Bears Coaches Show brought to you by 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.960 Whippley CPAs and Consultants. The Bears Coaches Show with head 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:19.080 coach Matt Naggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues snap 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.880 back to Chubisky looking to throw over the meadow in 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.440 zone touchdown and uncovered David Montgomery for six. The Bears 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:31.040 have delayed a three hour toss. With two seventeen left, 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:33.760 Bears are back in front twenty three twenty Welcome back 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.680 to the Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.160 Financial Advisors, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. Here 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.360 at P ANDC Studios at HADI saw Jeff Joniac and 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.800 Matt Naggie. You heard the highlight, believe it or not, 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:44.560 and I had to go back and double check to 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.679 make sure I wasn't wrong. But I mentioned in the 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:50.320 broadcast that with the first pass catching touchdown for David 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.920 Montgomery all the way back to high school, they didn't 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.400 have one. He cut seventy one balls, but no touches. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:09:00.480 Is that right, that's simbat We got meal now one. Yeah, Well, 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.840 he did a good job and all things considered too, 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:05.840 you know, that's a last week was a week where 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:09.560 we weren't able to to do any uh live practice, 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.200 you know, full speed. So everything was through mental reps. 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.680 And that's a pretty crucial situation right there that those 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.080 guys are in and uh, Mitch made a great decision 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.040 he made he finished his route and then they made 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.720 a play. Yeah, and that was third progression. Yeah, their progression, 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.040 which is part of the play. But at the same 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.280 time that he uh, hey, they made a good decision. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.360 Bab placement poised Mitch. To everybody in the game, from 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.200 a rob to Jasper horse Dead's touchdown catch, how would 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.439 you evaluate, Yeah, that that touchdown catch there by Jasper, Uh, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.320 that throw to start really uh, it puts a smile 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.560 on your face. Yeah, it does, just because that that's 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.800 uh you don't always talk about that being a throw 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:52.559 on that play, but they players made the play and 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:54.679 those are the ones that you really look back on 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.560 and and and appreciate. And um, Mitch put it exactly 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.200 where it needed to be and then it it was 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.760 not an easy catch to come down and then land 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.520 on the ground and stick, you know, catch the ball 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:08.760 in between your your helmet and your arm and et cetera. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.679 So that's a pretty good first touchdown catch for him. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.360 All right, let's flip to the defense. We gotta talk 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.600 real quin I gotta talk real quin Smith. His star 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:17.679 is shining right now. He was all over the place, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:22.240 triggering instinctive, a couple of sacks. It's clear he could 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.480 be a very good blitzing linebacker and get to the 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.640 quarterback and put him down to the ground. Yeah, that's 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.680 what that's what we saw. That's what we knew we 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.240 had with him. And you see it and you just 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.040 really appreciate it. You love, you love when you when 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.720 you put on the game tape after the game and 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.840 you see him flying around everywhere. It was an unfortunate call, 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.640 um or you know, it's all effort for the out 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:43.360 of bounds late hit there, but he made up for 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.800 it with the big sacks. So, um, he's playing at 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.480 a high level right now. You can see it, you 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.800 sense it, and it's it's good. Well, and you know 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.360 he and he's a perfect example because you know, you 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.160 talk about Mitch and clearly real Quine has been through 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.439 something this season two and so you don't you don't 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.520 stop watching the movie halfway through. It's a full sixteen 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.040 game season. So all these guys are are these guys 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.640 we talk about Anthony Miller, the nine for one forty 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.120 career high. You talk about Mitchell Trubisky, you talk about 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.040 Roe Kwan, talking about James Daniels moving over to guard 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:17.160 and making some big blocks yesterday. Are they taking guys 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.440 with them? Are our guys coming with these guys now? 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.560 Is everybody coming together here at the right time? Because 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.120 you talk to the New England Patriots, I bring this 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.400 up all the time. They start talking about Granted, you 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.160 don't want to dig a hole, which the Bears did 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.040 over the course of the season, and you start playing 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.800 your best ball late November into December. It may seem 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.120 ridiculous because you take each quarter of the season the 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.679 way it is, but it is that important to peak now. 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.000 It's very important to peak now. And then there's also 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.440 there's a silver lining as you go through the season 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.760 for for several different reasons. But sometimes it's to find 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.320 a player you never know that you have on the roster. 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.839 Other times it's for whatever reason, just just like that 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.880 as is, somebody gets hurt, another guy has a chance. 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:05.200 But then others go through certain things throughout the year, 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.520 whether it's on the field or off the field. And 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:11.520 now we all get to work together and show how 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.360 tight of a family you are to pull through it 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.480 and to persevere. And that's kind of where we're at 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.800 right now. We know we still have several games left 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.200 for sure, and the only thing we can do is 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.200 focus on this week against the Cowboys. And I think 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.240 that's what's so cool in this moment right now, is 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.520 that we're back to a point of six and six, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.120 we're still alive and we want to put this thing together. Yeah, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.199 it's the strangest sport when you think about it, because 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:34.959 there's three hundred and sixty five days in the year 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:40.840 and you're asking everybody on sixteen particular days to be mentally, physically, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.640 emotionally ready and to do your job. And every game 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.400 is a little different, every single one. They're all different. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.400 So I mean, we can go back to the first 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.800 game of the year, to the fourth game to the seventh. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.439 Every one of them have a different flavor to them. 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:58.360 So it's all about how you handle them. It's how 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.120 you stick together, and then how you prepare and how 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.480 mentally strong are you. You know, we've been mentally tested, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.000 We've been tested mentally and uh um, so far. I 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.160 appreciate that where where we're at and now we just 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.040 got to finish it. Third play of the game, right, 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.199 Prince Mukamara not third third play for them, but on 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.439 David Blast play he dak could stick in a guy's 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.760 head for the rest of the game. Did you worry 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.560 about it? No? I did. And and it's uh, you know, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.360 they it's a nice little play that they ran where 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.040 um down a distance wise, Prince was just kind of 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.120 sitting on the sticks and the kid uh ran a 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.080 little dagger and go, um, so you gotta have some 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.920 protection to do that he made he got him and um, 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.000 sometimes you live by the sword, you die by the sword, 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.000 and that was one of those plays. But I had 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.040 no doubt that Prince would come back and play well 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:47.400 as a quarterback guy just observing blood. Would you come 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.439 away with just somebody that uh darts around and there 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.760 within the pocket? Yeah, he had he had good good 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:57.400 uh good vision within the pocket, could understand where things 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.720 were at and um, you know, coached Daryl Bevill, their 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.559 offensive coordinator, was able to put them in good positions 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:07.640 and but uh, you know, in the end, our defense 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.240 was good enough to finish it out. No more of 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.319 the Bears Coaches show with head coach Matt Naggie on 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:18.280 Newsway Too seven eighty and one oh five point nine 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.880 FM WBBS. The Tousta Cohen loves at the horse dead 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:28.920 over the shoulder catch for the touchdown touchdown, Bears beautifully 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.480 executed play call, and the rookie the Ivory Leaker with 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.000 his first NFL touchdown. Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.400 Shredded cheese beans, however you make them. Share your Bears 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:41.800 game to Nacho Recipe at Tostitos Bears dot Com for 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.520 a chance to win a Bears viptail getting experience and 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.320 tickets At the December twenty second game against Kansas City 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.040 made the best Nacho's win. Bears coming off their third 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.560 win and four. This is the Bears Coaches Show. Bronti 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.040 by Whippley, CPAs and consultants from Hallisau at P ANDC Studios, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.200 Jeff Jonik and Matteggie. They're the highlight. We talked about 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:04.720 it in an earlier segment, But jessper Horstead. Every day 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.120 must be like a huge classroom in the mind for 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.400 jessper Horstead. But when you get the opportunity like he 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.040 did and you make that kind of play. What's the 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.880 bounce for him going into the future, going into this week. 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:22.120 There's a change a young man's perspective on the game. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.120 I'm sure it does. And you have you make such 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.280 a big play, it's a scoring play, and um, it 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.200 has to be able to bring your confidence up in 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.360 many different ways. And so, uh, that's what's been neat 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.400 throughout some of this, and we talked about it earlier, 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.960 is when you have these type of situations that pop up, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.680 it gives other people opportunities. And he's taken the most 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:42.760 of it. And and you know, you got to give 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.800 credit to Ryan Pace and and uh the personnel side 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.600 for um being able to find a guy like like 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:53.560 jessper and and now here you are Sometimes you're you're 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.920 you go into training camp and you're at the bottom 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:58.120 of the roster and you're trying to make that that 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.520 that ninety man roster, cut it down the three and 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.720 where are you at in the practice squad, et cetera. 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:04.560 And now here's a guy that gets an opportunity. And 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.360 so it's a it's a great story. We want to 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.720 keep growing with it. And he's he's done a good 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:11.280 job so far. Yeah, I want to go back to 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.880 the Anthony Miller and a Rob you know, and third downs. 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.960 Those two big catches on the final drive, but uh 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.520 my math had at five of the six receptions on 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:24.080 third down went for first downs, So a that equals 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:27.640 a lot of extra plays. And entering the ending the 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.280 game that was only like a forty six point three 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.400 conversion rate on though, so you were thirty first in 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.040 the league. If that continues, do you sense that you'll 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.320 be able to get those sixty to seventy five plays 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.080 a game. Yeah, that's that's what we need to do. 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.160 And the end score part is just as big. You know, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.520 we want to be able to convert on third down 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:48.440 and uh uh we were fifty percent. Um, So I 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.720 just think that for us to be able to roll 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.000 through it and get better is very important. Hey hey 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.440 again against the Giants, when when Miller his first down 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.320 catches got you third team more plays in ten points? Yeah, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.840 I mean, it's it's the game, the third down situational. Yeah, 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.280 if you want to be it extends drives and so 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.600 as a play caller you can get in a rhythm. Uh, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.479 you're able to make sure that now you can balance 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.479 more of the run game the pass game, the screens, 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.240 et cetera. And so the other thing too, is it 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.800 gives you confidence when you convert these third downs as 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:24.159 you're able to hum to get the first downs and 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.800 then get into the red zone, and now you got 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.119 to be efficient in the red zone. Your defense has 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.600 been put in some interesting situations, and some of it 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:33.560 is their own doing overall, but the resiliency and the 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:36.760 ability to bend and not break over the course of 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.440 especially two minute situations has been one of the trademarks 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:41.800 of the defense. I think I brought it up to 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:45.200 you on Thursday. Only three points allowed in those situations 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.320 this year. Yeah, that I shouldn't Redskins down a fuel. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.720 That's unbelievable. Yeah, and you feel it, and you can 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.280 you can feel the defense the way that they're playing 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.719 in those type of situations. And I thought that, uh, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.040 last week's game that they were able to do that. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.199 I mean, obviously that that sack that occur with Roquan 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.600 and knock him back that far and then for Eddie 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.960 Jackson to end it with the with the interception. Um. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.320 But you know, we get tested in those situations and 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.680 our Chuck has done a great job at being able 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.639 to stay aggressive in those moments, and then our guys 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.359 have been resilient. You know. Funny thing, if you thought, 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.280 if I asked you on a week one you're gonna 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.920 have your tight ends would be Jessper Horstead, Bradley Saw 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.479 and a guy named JP Holts you're gonna pick up 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:31.679 from a team you would have never believed it, and 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:35.680 all factored in the last few wins. Yeah, it's it's 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:39.360 really something. Yeah, and you're right, Um. But with all 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.479 that said, what I think is pretty neat is that 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.680 those three guys that you just mentioned, um, are very 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.280 very important to where we're at right now. And JP 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.880 Holtz is a guy that has really just come in here, 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.159 doesn't say much, just does his job head down. Yea 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.480 head down guy, and but is very very important to 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.240 to what we're doing right now. Bradley sal is somebody 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.679 that uh, you know obviously last last week on the 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:07.399 sweep the Sheds Award for things that he does on 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.640 end off the field, and that just speaks to who 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.840 he is. And uh, and now Jasper coming in here 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:14.919 and and doing what he did last week I think 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.760 is uh is a credit to them who they are. 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.640 And that's where we're at right now. So that's that's uh, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:22.800 you want to you want to see these field good 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.120 stories with these type of guys. It's a Thursday to Thursday, 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:28.359 so today's really Wednesday on this Monday night show. I 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.840 know it's NFL language. People always get confused about that, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:32.520