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Speaker 1: Bears Head coach Matt Maggie, the coaching staff and Bears management.
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Speaker 1: from Hallis Hall, here's the Voice of the Bears w
Speaker 1: BBMS Jeff Joniac and a pleasant, good evening everybody, and
Speaker 1: welcome at a PANC Studios here at Hallis On. Welcome
Speaker 1: to another edition of The Bears Coaches Show with Head
Speaker 1: Coach Matt Naggie. Jeff Jonyak with you into eight o'clock tonight,
Speaker 1: also joined by defensive coordinator Chuck Pogano coming up later
Speaker 1: in the program. Good evening, How are you, Jeff? I
Speaker 1: hear you. You emptied the tank today up at Hollis Hall.
Speaker 1: I did, Yeah, you have to tank. That's how almost
Speaker 1: a thirty minute news conference, that's what they said. You know, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's a let everybody know kind of where we're at.
Speaker 1: I think it's only fair and that's that's how it
Speaker 1: went before we get into the details. What makes you
Speaker 1: so willing to engage at that depth and that level,
Speaker 1: And you have been this way your whole time here
Speaker 1: with the Bears because it's it can be a tenuous process,
Speaker 1: it could be frustrating at times for both parties involved,
Speaker 1: media and you as a head coach, But you seem
Speaker 1: to be very open about making sure you get your
Speaker 1: point across. And maybe it's for future situations that come
Speaker 1: up in years to come, situational down and distance, decision
Speaker 1: making and so forth. Right, Well, I believe in honesty.
Speaker 1: I believe in open communication. I believe that's how it
Speaker 1: should be. I know there's all everywhere you go, there's
Speaker 1: going to be criticism. If you can't accept that, then
Speaker 1: you're you're not made for this position. And I can
Speaker 1: accept it. But at the same time, we're allowed to
Speaker 1: have stances on what we believe and and and how
Speaker 1: we believe. Have conviction, Right, we talk about with our
Speaker 1: with our players and in particular our quarterback with Mitch
Speaker 1: make conviction throw as well. I'm making fiction statements. I
Speaker 1: believe that, and um that's yeah, I'm being myself. I'm
Speaker 1: not changing for anybody that's who I am, that's why
Speaker 1: I'm here. And so it's as simple as that. I
Speaker 1: respect every everybody's uh uh, you know, whatever they have
Speaker 1: to say or opinion, that's more than fine. But I
Speaker 1: think our team feels that they understand that I want
Speaker 1: that from our team, and just that's just the way
Speaker 1: it's going. Well. The other thing, and you may or
Speaker 1: may not admit this, but in many cases you're talking
Speaker 1: directly to the locker room every time you take the microphone. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: you feel that's the case, because if you start changing
Speaker 1: messages in there versus out here, and some things are
Speaker 1: going to remain private behind closed doors. There's certain messages
Speaker 1: you want just for your your player's ears. But I
Speaker 1: think the public and maybe to a lesser extent, the
Speaker 1: media forget that sometimes, right and and there is you
Speaker 1: you have to be able to protect UM for the
Speaker 1: for the you know, the sportsmanship part of the game,
Speaker 1: for your own players, just you know, so there's no
Speaker 1: advantages given away for whatever reason. So you've got to
Speaker 1: be able to explain as much as you can to
Speaker 1: UM the outsiders that aren't necessarily into building each day,
Speaker 1: but also let your players know that this is how
Speaker 1: you feel, and whenever you when you're honest and you
Speaker 1: talk to people and you and you you're real about
Speaker 1: everything that you say, it's really not that hard because
Speaker 1: you're saying the same thing. It's just how much are
Speaker 1: you saying? So, without belaboring any of the topics of
Speaker 1: discussion of all the questions you heard last night, yesterday
Speaker 1: after the loss, and then your thirty minute news conference today,
Speaker 1: if you could kind of capsualize, because we don't have
Speaker 1: time to do at all, just what types of questions
Speaker 1: do you feel that you needed to explain yourself more
Speaker 1: so than others. Everyone wants to know in regards to
Speaker 1: the goal to ghost stuff with not scoring and the
Speaker 1: obviously at the end of the game with the you know,
Speaker 1: with the QB neil. So it's for me again. I
Speaker 1: could go on and on about that. I told I told,
Speaker 1: I told you, and I told everybody how I feel.
Speaker 1: And that's that's not going to change. So um, the
Speaker 1: fact the matter is either make to field goal or
Speaker 1: you don't. That's where we were and I wouldn't change
Speaker 1: it again. Where is the burden of a three game
Speaker 1: losing streak, because in this league that's a magic number
Speaker 1: because of the length of the season. It is what
Speaker 1: it is. Three game losing streaks, people start to get
Speaker 1: a little nuts. Yeah, yeah, because every week that goes by, it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you get closer and closer to the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And these games all matter, every one of them. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know three and three, you're you're in a position
Speaker 1: right now where the only thing that you can possibly
Speaker 1: do is beat Philadelphia. You can't win two games by
Speaker 1: winning one. You gotta win the first one. And we've
Speaker 1: been truly tested in a lot of different ways. Uh,
Speaker 1: this team has. And so we'll see our We'll see
Speaker 1: how we respond, what our characters like, how guys are
Speaker 1: in practice. I already know how they're going to be.
Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of us pulling together. The
Speaker 1: interesting thing because also the way the division's playing, you
Speaker 1: can't you know, we're all human though it's players too.
Speaker 1: They if if the losses their mounting as they are
Speaker 1: the last three and you start looking at everybody else,
Speaker 1: that that could be a tricky thing for you to
Speaker 1: negotiate as a coach with your team, right right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean you look at a team like the
Speaker 1: Colts last year. You have a team that was one
Speaker 1: in five and ended up making the playoffs, and a
Speaker 1: what a way to go into the playoffs on a high.
Speaker 1: But uh we ran five Dallas, right, sure, you know.
Speaker 1: So the odds get more and more difficult every week
Speaker 1: that goes by. But I really think we're in Our
Speaker 1: players are at a point right now where it's just
Speaker 1: we don't need to sit here and talk about what
Speaker 1: we want to do or how we got to do it.
Speaker 1: I think we just need to get out there and
Speaker 1: just play ball, have a couple breaks for us, you know,
Speaker 1: and then once you get that one win. I've been
Speaker 1: a part of it, You get that first win, and
Speaker 1: the second win comes in a third win, and you
Speaker 1: start getting that swag back. I hear it, hear it
Speaker 1: last night in the locker room, my interviews after the game,
Speaker 1: hear it from you almost every day. Everybody does about
Speaker 1: sticking together. You know these guys better than we do,
Speaker 1: and the character in the room and so forth. Why
Speaker 1: does it need to be talked about all the time.
Speaker 1: I guess the stick together part well, because you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's adversity. So in life and general like, bad
Speaker 1: stuff happens and you don't you know, and for us,
Speaker 1: bad stuff happening is losing a game, and then that
Speaker 1: happens three times in a row, people start searching, and
Speaker 1: then everybody wants to go ahead and point the finger.
Speaker 1: A lot of people do, right, well, our team doesn't
Speaker 1: do that. Our team they talk about our players talk
Speaker 1: about point to thumb right and and point to yourself
Speaker 1: and say, hey, what can I do better? And a
Speaker 1: lot of that's cliche, but really, when when the players
Speaker 1: follow through with that, and the coaches follow through with that,
Speaker 1: and they realize we're all in this thing together and
Speaker 1: just trust the process, it'll it'll and don't change, don't
Speaker 1: get crazy and start changing and doing anything there. Just
Speaker 1: stick with it and the wind will come. All right,
Speaker 1: let's let's start talking fun stuff. The excess and because
Speaker 1: the offense really did play very representative of many games
Speaker 1: last season where the ball was touched by multiple targets,
Speaker 1: I think eight or nine. In the passing game, five
Speaker 1: different guys ran the ball, Mitch picked up a first
Speaker 1: down with his legs. Three eighty eight guys of offense
Speaker 1: own the clock a lot of snaps. So is that
Speaker 1: a great place to build from? Now? It is? And
Speaker 1: that when you're going through these rough patches, you got
Speaker 1: to pull on the good stuff. And that's what I
Speaker 1: think our coaches have done a good job of doing
Speaker 1: is making sure that we that we understand that we
Speaker 1: got better in a lot of different areas. We controlled
Speaker 1: the football. Um, we made a lot of plays when
Speaker 1: we needed to we made we missed a lot. We
Speaker 1: missed some plays in goal to go where if if
Speaker 1: we shoot out of out of those four possessions goal
Speaker 1: to go, if you get two touchdowns, right, not even four,
Speaker 1: you get two touchdowns, you're in great shape. Um, so
Speaker 1: we're we're We're just we got to match it up.
Speaker 1: It's the problem. The problem before was we weren't getting
Speaker 1: to the We were number one in the NFL and
Speaker 1: goal to go eight for eight, number one going into yesterday.
Speaker 1: The problem was we weren't getting there. We were twenty
Speaker 1: ninth and getting there yesterday. We get there a lot
Speaker 1: and we don't. We don't produce. So some is some
Speaker 1: of it a function of just not being there enough
Speaker 1: to get used to that kind of performance. And yet
Speaker 1: thirty nine snaps in the red zone prior to yesterday. Yeah, crazy,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. So there's a little bit of all that
Speaker 1: going on, and you know, we gotta it'll drive us
Speaker 1: now to make sure that when we do get down there,
Speaker 1: we execute better. That's right up your alley to come
Speaker 1: up with The Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt
Speaker 1: Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues, snap takes, some turns,
Speaker 1: give it a Montgomery. Montgomery to his right to the
Speaker 1: end zone for the touchdown. Touchdown, Bears first of the day,
Speaker 1: and that was a purpose punch by Matt Maggie predominantly
Speaker 1: running the ball from the twenty five into the end zone.
Speaker 1: Had a four yard run for David and Montgomery. Bears
Speaker 1: half the lead. Fifteen seven. Welcome back to the Bears
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Speaker 1: P ANDC Studios, Jeff Joniac and Matt and Maggie heard
Speaker 1: the touchdown call of David Montgomery. Having been in Iowa
Speaker 1: State grad and I've talked about it enough that everybody
Speaker 1: knows that I watched so many of his games last
Speaker 1: year and I felt he's a really good inside the five, back,
Speaker 1: inside the red zone, back I don't know how you
Speaker 1: evaluated him in that regard, but I think he does
Speaker 1: have a nose for the end zone if you do
Speaker 1: get down there a lot. And you know, things really
Speaker 1: blacked well yesterday for him. Yeah, it was. It was
Speaker 1: fun to see him get going. And that's the type
Speaker 1: of guy that he is. You know, he gets the
Speaker 1: ball and as many backs, quarterbacks, wide receivers, and the
Speaker 1: more touches you get, the better you are. So you
Speaker 1: saw that yesterday. He broke that nice long run and
Speaker 1: then had that touchdown run there to start the third. Um.
Speaker 1: That's who he is. We appreciate how hard he works.
Speaker 1: And then the lineman did a heck of a job
Speaker 1: opening the wholes for him. I formation was back in
Speaker 1: vogue and it is a part of the West Coast
Speaker 1: offense and you pull out chapters of it when you
Speaker 1: need it. And that was always you know when you
Speaker 1: got here. It's like you you work with what you
Speaker 1: have and then you make it work. That's your mindset
Speaker 1: as an offensive coach and as an offensive play caller
Speaker 1: and whatnot. So it worked yesterday, didn't it? Why was
Speaker 1: it working so well against that Charger defense, especially J
Speaker 1: P Holtz leading the way in those icehole blacks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did a great job. And uh, you know, with
Speaker 1: Lucas coming in and playing tight end a little bit,
Speaker 1: he paved the way. So all in all, I just
Speaker 1: really liked the way the offensive line approach. Their mindset
Speaker 1: yesterday was really sharp. They were focused in on the
Speaker 1: task that we challenged them on is getting better in
Speaker 1: the run game. They showed it yesterday and hopefully they
Speaker 1: they got to trust from me and seeing that I'm
Speaker 1: calling more than seven runs in a game. But we'll,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll, we'll feed off of that. We'll understand
Speaker 1: that I as as we said you know earlier today,
Speaker 1: you know, eight point six yards per play or per
Speaker 1: rush in that formation. It's pretty good. So we'll we'll,
Speaker 1: we'll continue to grow and we'll see where it takes us.
Speaker 1: Could you not rule out anything at this point, including
Speaker 1: that becoming potentially a part of what you're trying to
Speaker 1: get as the philosophy and the identity of a team
Speaker 1: is to put it on the shoulders of your offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: And a secondary question of that, did they ask you
Speaker 1: for it? Yeah? They were. They We were all in
Speaker 1: it together and knowing that hey, it's we need to
Speaker 1: be better in the run game. We can't be so
Speaker 1: one dimensional. And it's it's we just all got to
Speaker 1: do our jobs better, coaches and players. Um. And so
Speaker 1: I don't know where it'll end up taking us without
Speaker 1: giving away too much, you know, but there's a lot
Speaker 1: of there was a lot of good there. Um. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, we all we have a lot
Speaker 1: of other good players as well that can that are
Speaker 1: off the field in that formation. So you just it's
Speaker 1: a balance when when's too much, when's not enough, and
Speaker 1: how do you mesh it together so that it makes
Speaker 1: it advantageous to the offense and hard for the defense.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's talk Mitch. Uh. Other than those two turnovers,
Speaker 1: obviously he'd like both of them back. He explained him
Speaker 1: in detail about how it all went down. He was
Speaker 1: very forthright about it. Uh. There were steps taken in
Speaker 1: the positive direction. As you said, there were plenty of
Speaker 1: conviction throws, and there were explosives that you can muscle
Speaker 1: build on. There were he made some uh, he made
Speaker 1: some some really good throws in that game yesterday. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and again it's it's always, uh, it's never as
Speaker 1: good as you think it is. And it's never as
Speaker 1: bad as you think it is. That that is an
Speaker 1: old adage that always holds up in you saw throws
Speaker 1: that he made in the middle of the field. Footwork
Speaker 1: was much better, nice rhythm with his feet when he
Speaker 1: made strong throws. It just comes down. You know, everyone
Speaker 1: remembers the intercept because their turnovers and they're crucial. They're critical,
Speaker 1: you know, and he knows that. So we're just trying
Speaker 1: to get him to the point of when, hey, in
Speaker 1: that situation, young quarterback, in that situation, just dump it
Speaker 1: down to to you know, to the wide receiver there,
Speaker 1: second and eight and he'll learn from that. I promise
Speaker 1: you who will. And that's that. In the fumble, he said,
Speaker 1: two hands on the ball. Okay, that sounds easy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not so easy when you're under hate. Yeah. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of big boys in their flying around doing
Speaker 1: different things, and that was one that just ended up
Speaker 1: getting them. Anthony Miller he wants to be a major
Speaker 1: part of this. Was that another giant step in the
Speaker 1: right direction for Anthony. It was he brings a lot
Speaker 1: of energy, passion to the game. He always knows and
Speaker 1: feels he's gonna win everyone on one battle I love
Speaker 1: that about him. It's just a matter of hone in
Speaker 1: his details within the system, and he's done that. He's
Speaker 1: he's proving that. And that's credit to Mike Ferry for
Speaker 1: really pushing those guys. And I really love the way
Speaker 1: those wide receivers are playing all r let's flip it
Speaker 1: over to the defensive side of the ball. They got
Speaker 1: him some rest forty two snaps and other than a
Speaker 1: couple of big plays obviously on the one scoring guy
Speaker 1: the shot going drive, but against the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: quarterback like that, you know you're gonna get something like that.
Speaker 1: It almost felt a little bit like Week one. Guys
Speaker 1: had Aaron Rodgers and those guys back on their heels, boom,
Speaker 1: one big play. Right, That's how it is. It is,
Speaker 1: it really is. And you look at they had ten
Speaker 1: ten drives yesterday the Chargers did. And of those ten drives,
Speaker 1: they only had one drive that was more than four plays.
Speaker 1: There was a bunch of three and outs, they had
Speaker 1: a four team play drive, uh you know where they
Speaker 1: ended up getting that field goal to start to third
Speaker 1: and then they also they had that quick strike with
Speaker 1: the four play touchdown with the big play. So but
Speaker 1: all in all, I really liked the way our defense played.
Speaker 1: Um they they I thought they got it back from
Speaker 1: the previous two weeks. So that combination, along with our offense,
Speaker 1: we didn't get to win, but we felt like we
Speaker 1: got we improved. No more of the Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: Back with Coach Naggie. Did you have fun call and
Speaker 1: plays again yesterday I did. Yeah, And it's always a
Speaker 1: lot better when you're getting first downs. I didn't have
Speaker 1: fun here in the uh in the in the red
Speaker 1: zone just because we weren't. You know that that's who
Speaker 1: we are. We know we can be better than that.
Speaker 1: Uh And so I'm excited to get back at it
Speaker 1: with our guys. I know they're going to be hungry
Speaker 1: and want to get back down in that red zone
Speaker 1: and that goal to go against so that we can
Speaker 1: strike a ton of attention paid to it every practice week, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys put a lot of time in it,
Speaker 1: so that that's that's where the money's made. The green
Speaker 1: zone and some paw the red zone. Yeah, just getting
Speaker 1: closed when when you're down there, especially after a sudden
Speaker 1: change a turnover, you gotta get a touchdown. That's as
Speaker 1: simple as that. We understand that we were not oblivious
Speaker 1: to it. We're not we don't want field goals. That's
Speaker 1: not what we're shooting for. H and so touchdown's not
Speaker 1: field goals. All right back to the defensive minute, because
Speaker 1: in particular, I felt this was going to be a
Speaker 1: big game. On the linebackers. You could say every game.
Speaker 1: But just because of the versatility that they have there
Speaker 1: with Austin Eckler for one, and Rivers being very content
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to one area and expect somebody
Speaker 1: to be there, did they step up? I thought real
Speaker 1: Quin played a very outwardly emotional game. Rocom was flying around.
Speaker 1: That was so good to see. Danny was moving around
Speaker 1: really well too, so that that's such an intergral part
Speaker 1: of our defense, being able to let our guys up
Speaker 1: front break down the line of scrimmage and then they
Speaker 1: can fly around second level and make tackles and do
Speaker 1: different things. And you just really felt it. You saw it.
Speaker 1: Some of that too, Jeff, as you know, goes to
Speaker 1: the fact that the offense was able to keep the
Speaker 1: defense rested. The defense isn't out there for seventy eighty plays,
Speaker 1: they're out there for half of that, so that that's
Speaker 1: a that's a recipe for us to to understand. And
Speaker 1: I just really liked the way that whole defense in general,
Speaker 1: that they played really fast. They did their part two
Speaker 1: and they I mean five straight third down and outs,
Speaker 1: you know, so he had had really difficult time trying
Speaker 1: to convert on third down that the Chargers did, so
Speaker 1: that that is really what this defense is all about.
Speaker 1: They were one of the best in the league last
Speaker 1: year at it, so that started to add up quite
Speaker 1: a bit. Um and then the play of the special
Speaker 1: team's unit overall, you know, other than Eddie, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of what happened in there, but you know,
Speaker 1: he eat made a comment after the game. Is it
Speaker 1: something that you will have to think about as a
Speaker 1: coach too? And with Chris Tabreys, I gotta beat the
Speaker 1: wind because the wind is always play tricks with any
Speaker 1: kids that comes in here. Yeah, No, that's that's certainly
Speaker 1: a part of it. They know that, and that's why
Speaker 1: they go down to the field and practice as well,
Speaker 1: to get that practice in there and understand the way
Speaker 1: that wind swirls. Um. You know, as far as the
Speaker 1: confidence goes with where we're at as a team and
Speaker 1: as a as a family, we we uh, none of
Speaker 1: that has wavered out. All with Eddie, he's a great
Speaker 1: kid that that is going to nail the next one
Speaker 1: we get. Let's talk Eagles a playoff rematch with your
Speaker 1: buddy Doug Peterson. Look at the grinner Eddy All in
Speaker 1: the family here, right, Yeah, yeah, no, family, it's it's
Speaker 1: a they're coming off a big win on the road
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Um, you know, running the ball a lot
Speaker 1: they did, and uh so it's it'll be a that's
Speaker 1: always a difficult place to play in Lincoln Financial Field
Speaker 1: is always a challenge. They'll be loud and they of
Speaker 1: their team and but no, they gotta they gotta right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Wentz is playing really well in the red
Speaker 1: zone and on third down he's playing really well. Uh
Speaker 1: And you know with de Sean Jackson being out the
Speaker 1: last couple of times, our last couple of games, Uh,
Speaker 1: you can see you know, al Sean and angle aar
Speaker 1: and their old line is they got their tight ends back.
Speaker 1: So they're I mean, they're just they're well round and
Speaker 1: Doug does a great job on offense. Defensively, they fly around,
Speaker 1: you know, Fletcher Cox on the inside, Brandon Graham on
Speaker 1: the outside there on the edge. Uh that they were
Speaker 1: they're a handful their backers move around pretty good. And
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be a big challenge on the road.
Speaker 1: We gotta be sharp and be really focused in with
Speaker 1: that devil tight end package that they have. It's it's
Speaker 1: a go to, isn't it. With those two guys. It is, yeah,
Speaker 1: they they have. It's a nice combo that they have
Speaker 1: in regards to a U tight end in ERTs and
Speaker 1: then and got a Y tight end and that I
Speaker 1: think they're number one in the NFL. And Tiger twelve
Speaker 1: personnel or Tiger personnel. Those two guys, those two tight ends,
Speaker 1: the two wide receivers and the one running back. That's
Speaker 1: the that's what they do a lot of and they're
Speaker 1: good at it. They compliment each other well. Their run
Speaker 1: game has really gotten a lot better with God back
Speaker 1: in at tight end, So it'll it'll certainly be a
Speaker 1: big time challenge for us. And then going back home, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is. You never those don't get old right going No,
Speaker 1: they never do. And there's a lot of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: being from the East coast, Uh, it's it's always brings
Speaker 1: back a lot of memories. And then for me coaching
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia as well, that's where I got started, that
Speaker 1: was my first coaching position, So there'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of friends and family there. I just they better be
Speaker 1: rooting for the right team, that's right, Navy Blue and Orange.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. What will be your message this week
Speaker 1: as well? Wrap up, We've got thirty seconds with you.
Speaker 1: Just stay the course, stay the course, keep grinding, stay
Speaker 1: the course. We talked last week about the trust and
Speaker 1: being together. Nothing changes there. Let's just uh let let's
Speaker 1: just uh play loose, play, have fun, just like you
Speaker 1: did when you're eight years old you started playing football.
Speaker 1: Just go back to everybody having fun and cut it loose.
Speaker 1: All right, man, Good luck with your preparation this week.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Thanks Jesse. Coming up next, we've got Chuck Pogano,
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Speaker 1: Highlight there Kyle Fuller's eighteenth career interception. I think he's
Speaker 1: second in the NFC since he got in the league
Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen or one of the tops in the league.
Speaker 1: And interceptions, and boy, they just keep growing and growing
Speaker 1: and growing. And when a guy gets interset options, he
Speaker 1: keeps growing and growing in confidence over time. Not that
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that confidence, but really when he got
Speaker 1: here in his rookie year, he started swiping the ball
Speaker 1: and I remember a game against the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: he had two picks and they just continued to mount.
Speaker 1: But break down that play a little bit when he
Speaker 1: when he swiped a chuck. Yeah, we talked going into
Speaker 1: that game that, you know, to get after Philip Rivers,
Speaker 1: who's obviously going to be a first ballot Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer future, but uh, you know it was gonna be
Speaker 1: rush coverage, you know, and disguise, and the guys did
Speaker 1: a great job all day and on that play, you know,
Speaker 1: we had we had a pressure called and you know,
Speaker 1: we got great pressure. We got a guy free up
Speaker 1: the middle, and uh, Philip Rivers had to throw off schedule.
Speaker 1: Um did he wasn't allowed to step up, and Kyle
Speaker 1: made a great break on the on the ball and
Speaker 1: uh again, those guys do a great job. The coaches
Speaker 1: do a great job with him. They do a great
Speaker 1: job of preparing. He recognized the formation, he recognized the
Speaker 1: stem to split all those things and stepped right in
Speaker 1: front and made a great play. You know, with Philip,
Speaker 1: he's gonna test you no matter what. He trusts everything
Speaker 1: about his arm. He trusts the area where the receiver
Speaker 1: is expected to be at. And so it shouldn't come
Speaker 1: as any surprise that at any point in the game
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna try you deep, he's gonna try something.
Speaker 1: And you guys really did a heck of a job
Speaker 1: keeping that to a minimum. Yeah, you know, especially early
Speaker 1: on he got us, you know there at uh you know,
Speaker 1: the end of the first half there he got us
Speaker 1: on a double move and it's one of those balls
Speaker 1: that goes up in the air and you just know
Speaker 1: that thirty nine is going to go intercept that thing,
Speaker 1: and Williams number eighty one for the for the Chargers
Speaker 1: went up and made a heck of a play and
Speaker 1: and uh but you know, other than that, we had
Speaker 1: a few over routes that that got away from us.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, generally speaking, the guys did a
Speaker 1: really good job against a really good outfit and really
Speaker 1: good on third down. There were some makeable third downs
Speaker 1: in terms of down and distance, uh, conversions that they've
Speaker 1: been good at. And you guys sniffed it out in
Speaker 1: the first five, first five attempts. Actually, that was big
Speaker 1: in the game, kind of set the tone for owning
Speaker 1: the clock. Yeah, no, it was huge. And you look
Speaker 1: at the time of possession at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: and we had the ball thirty eight minutes. And again
Speaker 1: that's a byproduct where we've struggled as we haven't been
Speaker 1: able to get off the field on third down. And
Speaker 1: that team coming in was highly highly ranked, you know,
Speaker 1: on third down conversions. And again I just I credit
Speaker 1: our our coaches and put a great plan together. They
Speaker 1: implemented that plan and the guys went out and executed.
Speaker 1: How much did your defense need that to just not
Speaker 1: have to be on the field that long? No, it's
Speaker 1: huge and you know, you'd like to you know, take
Speaker 1: the ball away, you know, like we did, and you
Speaker 1: gotta get you know, you gotta you know, get off
Speaker 1: the field and you got to get the ball back
Speaker 1: to your offense. But uh, you know, from a confidence standpoint,
Speaker 1: to be able to go out and start the way
Speaker 1: that we started, you know, three and out, three and
Speaker 1: out four, I mean they were all three or four
Speaker 1: and outs. You know, I think we had one, you
Speaker 1: know in those first three or four drives, I think
Speaker 1: they had one earned first down on a first you
Speaker 1: know possession and ten pass play. Uh. So it built
Speaker 1: you know, builds great confidence and and uh, you know
Speaker 1: now and now it turns into we gotta we got
Speaker 1: to find a way to create some short fields. It's
Speaker 1: interesting and I never really thought about this till you
Speaker 1: just answer the question that way is important for a
Speaker 1: defense to finance rhythm early in the game as it
Speaker 1: is offensively. You just assume, yeah, for sure, offensively, but
Speaker 1: is that the case also for defense? Sure, it's it's
Speaker 1: blood and the water type of mentality. And so anytime
Speaker 1: you can have that kind of success, especially coming off
Speaker 1: the last last couple of games where we haven't played
Speaker 1: as well, or executed as well as we as we
Speaker 1: can to be able to do that. You know, series
Speaker 1: after series after series. It only gives you great confidence
Speaker 1: going back out, you know, as you might expect. Khalil
Speaker 1: Mack after the game saying, we got to stop allowing points.
Speaker 1: I mean just you know, even though you guys were
Speaker 1: in sudden change situations, you made you made some great stops.
Speaker 1: That's a lot to ask of a defense. No, but
Speaker 1: you love the mindset. You know, we gave up too
Speaker 1: many points. And he said it perfectly, you know, and
Speaker 1: we can't do that based on how the game was going. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just what our job is. And so
Speaker 1: I love their I love their mentality. I loved his quote.
Speaker 1: I loved where they're all coming from because they're all
Speaker 1: they're all wired the same way. That way and that
Speaker 1: moving forward, that only gives you a a great, great hope.
Speaker 1: Chuck Poganto on The Bears Coaches Show, We'll have another
Speaker 1: segment with coach The Bears Coaches Show with defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Chuck Pogano and w BBMS Jeff Jodiac continued, he takes
Speaker 1: gonna throw rivers back to throw, take trouble, pick up
Speaker 1: a hard hit down. He goes sacked at the nine
Speaker 1: by back, big sack by Khalil Mac. They're getting you
Speaker 1: a chance for the ball to come back to the
Speaker 1: Bears and have a game winning drive. Unfortunately, that did
Speaker 1: not finish the way that they had hoped, but the
Speaker 1: play itself was big back on the Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with Chuck pagano Um and getting that sack when it
Speaker 1: happened really changed the whole complexion of what might happen
Speaker 1: at the end of the game. Yeah, and I go
Speaker 1: back to that. I think there was you know, they
Speaker 1: started that drive with two or four left in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and you know, Sean Decide does the two
Speaker 1: minute breakdown for us, and he called down on the
Speaker 1: headset and he said, coach, you know, with time left
Speaker 1: on the clock and they know that they have the
Speaker 1: two minute warning coming up. This has been their in
Speaker 1: their history going back, this has been typically a shot
Speaker 1: down for them. So you know, we put a call
Speaker 1: in there that that gave us depth in the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, a four man rush and lo and behold
Speaker 1: they tried to, you know, go down the field and
Speaker 1: take a shot, and the guys executed the coverage. You know, perfectly.
Speaker 1: I credit Sean you know, for giving me that heads
Speaker 1: up and and uh he had to hold the ball,
Speaker 1: you know, And and and Khalil made a you know,
Speaker 1: did a great job. And it's just always one extra
Speaker 1: hitch or two and it gives your pass rush, you know,
Speaker 1: a chance to get to the quarterback. And then you
Speaker 1: got a second and long and a third and long,
Speaker 1: and a guy's executed on third down and what a
Speaker 1: tackle you know, Kyle, you know, and and Buster made
Speaker 1: and then Prince coming up and finishing off because we've
Speaker 1: seen time and time again where you're a foot short,
Speaker 1: you know, and the guy falls forward that when they
Speaker 1: step in front and they you know, they give him
Speaker 1: the line to game crunched him. No, it was, it was,
Speaker 1: it was. It was obviously huge, big point in that
Speaker 1: game to give a ball back to the offense, give
Speaker 1: him a chance on that. Max I sounded surprised that
Speaker 1: they went back to throw, and so Tom thairm my
Speaker 1: broadcast paring you sounded really surprised. I go, I am,
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. But again that's why I'm not a coach,
Speaker 1: and that's why the research and the and the analytics
Speaker 1: are so important. Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. They were great at it coming in.
Speaker 1: And how did you feel that you guys did because
Speaker 1: I didn't see a lot of yards after contact, yards
Speaker 1: after the catch, finishing at the point where you're you know,
Speaker 1: just like that Hunter Henry tackle there, it was so
Speaker 1: important you just explained. Yeah, I think the guys did
Speaker 1: a great job because you know, coming in we talked
Speaker 1: especially about Eckler, you know he had he was leading
Speaker 1: the league and yack yards and things like that. So
Speaker 1: I thought the guys and the undercoverage when they did
Speaker 1: check it down, um, we stay put those guys to
Speaker 1: the ground. H If they did hit an over route,
Speaker 1: you know it was hit, it was tackled, it was
Speaker 1: staple to the ground. So I thought, you know, for
Speaker 1: the you know, better part of that game and most
Speaker 1: of that game, that we did a good job. That's
Speaker 1: a very descriptive way to talk about finishing stap You
Speaker 1: can visually staple to the ground means that's it done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no extra effort. I like that. Have you always
Speaker 1: referred to stuff like that and plays like that, Staple
Speaker 1: to the time. He always talk about defensive. These guys
Speaker 1: are staple him to the ground. We just say, hey,
Speaker 1: tackle him not to the ground, but through the ground.
Speaker 1: But now you've got to be careful because of you know,
Speaker 1: the player's safety stuff. So yeah, I like it though.
Speaker 1: That's a very visual way of describing a tackle. For sure.
Speaker 1: I want to talk a Roal quant Smith. Uh, he
Speaker 1: really had outward emotion. I brought it up with coach
Speaker 1: prior to you arriving here tonight on the show. H
Speaker 1: just a real emphatic performance from him in terms of
Speaker 1: his emotion and everything. Um, it felt likely he just
Speaker 1: let it, let it loose. Yeah, but what's your perspective, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt about it, because you know, you know
Speaker 1: everybody's you know what's wrong fifty what's wrong with there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong. Sometimes you just you this is a tough game,
Speaker 1: and we all understand what we signed up for is
Speaker 1: playing and coaching. And he went out there and he
Speaker 1: played his tale off and there was no hesitancy in
Speaker 1: his game. He was not tentative, you know. And we
Speaker 1: told all those guys all week long, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a simple plan, you know, We're gonna let you guys play,
Speaker 1: play hard and play fast. And there is you can't
Speaker 1: make a mistake today. There's you cannot make a mistake today,
Speaker 1: Get lined up, communicate, get on the same page, and
Speaker 1: when the play presents itself, pull the trigger. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what he did and he played a whale of game.
Speaker 1: Is that sometimes difficult for a coach, especially a veteran
Speaker 1: coach like yourself or any coordinator that you want to
Speaker 1: add maybe something to the game plan that you know
Speaker 1: it is not so simple, and you try it out,
Speaker 1: you do it, and but it's is simple. Always better
Speaker 1: do simple better. Ye, that's the thing. If you if
Speaker 1: you tackle better, you know, then your opponent you get
Speaker 1: off blocks better, and you and you communicate better, good
Speaker 1: things are going to happen to you. So we always
Speaker 1: go in and you want to have a wrinkler or two,
Speaker 1: but you can't. You can't cross that line, you know,
Speaker 1: to where your ankle waiting. These guys and they can't
Speaker 1: play fast. And we got we got great players and
Speaker 1: if we just let them do that, um, we're going
Speaker 1: to be successful. Yeah. The part was stopping the run.
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't run it that much, they didn't
Speaker 1: have that many snaps, but they could have easily had
Speaker 1: some you know, they have Melvin Gordon. He hasn't had
Speaker 1: found his rhythm yet since holding out, and so I
Speaker 1: think that slowed down the train a little bit. But
Speaker 1: you didn't want that train to start rebbing up, you don't.
Speaker 1: You don't want that. So was that pounded in their head? No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: that's that's every week, you know, And you got to
Speaker 1: make every team that you play one dimensional. Our guys
Speaker 1: did a great job of that. You know, after the
Speaker 1: big pass play, you know, we gave up the nineteen
Speaker 1: yard TV run um. We just didn't execute and fit
Speaker 1: that thing up right, and uh, you know, so that
Speaker 1: was really uh, you know, thirty three yards rushing and
Speaker 1: nineteen came on one place. So our front seven did
Speaker 1: a great job. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Maggie continues exclusively on the Home of the Bears
Speaker 1: Neil's Radio seven eighty and one oh five point nine
Speaker 1: FM WBBM. Back with Check Flagano, Bears defensive coordinator, as
Speaker 1: they prepared for the Philadelphia Eagles. We'll touch on that
Speaker 1: in a moment. I want to talk about because every
Speaker 1: coach offensively wants explosives. Bears had a bunch of explosives
Speaker 1: yesterday felt good to get those. You don't want explosives,
Speaker 1: and I believe I just saw stat you guys are
Speaker 1: sixth fewest explosives allowed in the NFL. So, no matter
Speaker 1: what's happened so far defensively, is that encouraging for you
Speaker 1: to hear that? Yeah? You know. Again, you go back
Speaker 1: and you do you do drive studies, and one thing
Speaker 1: we always talk about is the sin self inflicted negatives.
Speaker 1: So don't penalize yourself. Try to eliminate you know, mental errors,
Speaker 1: critical errors, those type of things in explosive place. And
Speaker 1: you go back and you look at every drive that
Speaker 1: we've defended this year. If there's been a penalty, you're
Speaker 1: an explosive one or the other or both. Uh. Usually
Speaker 1: leads to points you know by your opponents. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we had the two explosives back to back,
Speaker 1: you know, and gave up a touchdown. Um, we had
Speaker 1: another situation, you know, the second sudden change there in
Speaker 1: the second half where we went out, Um, got a
Speaker 1: penalty I think a first down stop and then you know, uh,
Speaker 1: Leonard makes a great play in the open field and
Speaker 1: it's it's an aggressive you know, he's not trying to
Speaker 1: do what happened on the face mask deal. It's an aggressive,
Speaker 1: you know type of deal that happened sometimes, and that's unfortune.
Speaker 1: It's unfortunate because then they get first and goal at
Speaker 1: to ten and then I didn't put them in a
Speaker 1: great spot on that down. I take, you know, blame
Speaker 1: for that on a poor play call on my part
Speaker 1: and they end up getting another touchdown there. So, um,
Speaker 1: you have to limit the explosive because you know, offenses
Speaker 1: generally they don't have the patience you know, to go
Speaker 1: the long, hard way and keep shipping away at it.
Speaker 1: And so they're going to try to get those and
Speaker 1: if you if you make them do that, eventually gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna mess it up and turn the ball over
Speaker 1: and make a mistake. All Right, you're starting to prepare
Speaker 1: for Carson Wentz. Bears did not face him in the
Speaker 1: playoffs last year to his injury, so Nick Foles was
Speaker 1: the guy. But you know, even just watching him warm
Speaker 1: up when the Bears played him a couple of years
Speaker 1: ago before a game, man he he puts in some
Speaker 1: serious works. He does very much like Peyton Manning did.
Speaker 1: And what are you facing with Carson Wentz? Right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you said, he's he's very cerebral. Um. He understands
Speaker 1: and knows the game. From a talent standpoint, The arm
Speaker 1: talents off the charts, it's elite. And then what makes
Speaker 1: him really really special is that, you know, his escapability,
Speaker 1: his mobility is a ability to create, you know, in
Speaker 1: extend plays is off the charts. And he's a tough
Speaker 1: guy to get down in the pocket, and he's a
Speaker 1: tough guy to handle outside the pocket. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do a great job. We're just you know,
Speaker 1: obviously in the beginning stages of breaking these guys down.
Speaker 1: But this guy's a talented, talented guy, and they've got
Speaker 1: a lot of talent around him, so there's a lot
Speaker 1: of weapons. So it'll be a huge challenge. It's a
Speaker 1: unique situation it happens. But you know, these guys all
Speaker 1: love Jordan Howard. Now he's going to be carrying the
Speaker 1: rock for the Eagles. What do you, as a defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator tell you guys about that, if anything, Well, they
Speaker 1: obviously know who he is and what type of runner
Speaker 1: he is. We know he's going to come in with
Speaker 1: extra motivation. You can't focus on that it's do your job,
Speaker 1: you know, get lined up, communicate, you know, beat the
Speaker 1: man in front of you, and if he shows up,
Speaker 1: tear off a block and make the tackle. But we
Speaker 1: can't focus on that big chuck. As we wrap up
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