Speaker 1: Welcome into the Bears Coaches Show with head coach Mett Naggie,
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Speaker 1: one h five nine WBBM. Coach Nagie with us until
Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour and then joined by Special
Speaker 1: Teams Coordinator Chris Tabor Matt rough to say the least
Speaker 1: Sunday in Cleveland, the Browns big winners by twenty over
Speaker 1: your Bears. How do you process this all? I know
Speaker 1: it's there's nothing easy about it. You've been around this
Speaker 1: block before, so I think you lean on your past
Speaker 1: and you look forward to the future here. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's what we have to do. And you know, you
Speaker 1: get through a game like that and you really you
Speaker 1: really dive into the film and you look at how
Speaker 1: it got to that point. And that's what we've done
Speaker 1: all day to day and I'm going to continue to
Speaker 1: do is figure out what we can do better and
Speaker 1: get the solutions and so but you know, when it
Speaker 1: was as bad as it was yesterday and it to be,
Speaker 1: it gets frustrating and we understand that. But the beauty
Speaker 1: of our players, the beauty of our coaches is that
Speaker 1: we've we've we know that we have each other's backs,
Speaker 1: and we're going to work hard to get back on
Speaker 1: track against a division opponent at home against Detroit this week. So,
Speaker 1: as you're pouring over the tape, are there any moments
Speaker 1: or like what are you doing? Kind of moments or
Speaker 1: I mean things that really you're scratching on your paper
Speaker 1: like okay, this, this is this is not what we
Speaker 1: intended to happen here, or you know, how do you
Speaker 1: how do you from from the late person that doesn't
Speaker 1: watch tape the way a coach does, in your position
Speaker 1: and your experience, how would you explain to Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say there's any wow moments or moments. It was
Speaker 1: just more of a collection of different times throughout the
Speaker 1: game just being off. And what happens is is, you know,
Speaker 1: for instance, if you have the first third and two
Speaker 1: of the game and we don't convert that, we take
Speaker 1: a field goal, Uh, we get a couple stops on
Speaker 1: defense on fourth down, and then we end up having
Speaker 1: at some point in a game there we have that
Speaker 1: third and one and we have a false start um
Speaker 1: just little simple things that we can't continue to just
Speaker 1: defeat ourselves. We got to make the opponent to it.
Speaker 1: And now there was also times in that game where
Speaker 1: the opponent did do that. That's a good Cleveland defense
Speaker 1: and a good football team and we got to give
Speaker 1: them credit to But we feel like we could have
Speaker 1: definitely uh coached and played better. And you know that
Speaker 1: that's probably the biggest thing that that we noticed. You'd
Speaker 1: like to think every game plan has answers to every
Speaker 1: question because of what the other guy is doing, and
Speaker 1: you adapt. You also, you know, evaluate what's going on,
Speaker 1: you make adjustments. Um, how did that process work yesterday
Speaker 1: based on what you thought they might do and then
Speaker 1: what they did. Yeah, probably the biggest thing was, you know,
Speaker 1: for them, just just somewhat understanding what their game plan
Speaker 1: was for justin and what they were going to do,
Speaker 1: and then us being able to, you know, try to
Speaker 1: take advantage of, like you said, adapting to doing some
Speaker 1: different schemes, which is what we did. They're really big picture.
Speaker 1: There was just one or two things that they did
Speaker 1: and that we had to go ahead and change how
Speaker 1: we were going to try to attack them, and without
Speaker 1: getting into a whole lot of scheme but I think
Speaker 1: you know the other part of this too is we
Speaker 1: just got to be able to get more plays by
Speaker 1: getting more first downs that we don't have seventeen plays
Speaker 1: in the first half of you know, forty six plays
Speaker 1: for the entire game, and by getting more first downs,
Speaker 1: I can keep our defense off the field and then
Speaker 1: they're not on the field as long. So just some
Speaker 1: little things here there that we're going to be looking
Speaker 1: at here these next couple of days before we start prepping.
Speaker 1: I guess the biggest outcry from analysts and fans, which
Speaker 1: you know is obviously secondary to what you have to
Speaker 1: worry about in your own building, but they had this
Speaker 1: image in their mind of what they saw in justin
Speaker 1: fields in preseason and at Ohio State, what he's good at,
Speaker 1: but not a lot of that was apparently put on
Speaker 1: put on display. How do you answer that one? Yeah, no, Well,
Speaker 1: that mean it's completely real and we all we all
Speaker 1: have great expectations, and you know, we've seen what he
Speaker 1: what he's done in college, we've seen what he's done
Speaker 1: in the preseason, and we also know that it's not
Speaker 1: going to be like that every play, every snap. But
Speaker 1: at the same point in time, Uh, you know, to
Speaker 1: to come out of that game like we did statistically. Um,
Speaker 1: that's the part there that we know it is probably
Speaker 1: the biggest issue is just okay, Um, that's obviously not
Speaker 1: close to where we want to be. And you want
Speaker 1: to be able to make sure that when he's out there,
Speaker 1: he's able to play his game and not get sacked
Speaker 1: nine times. And but but at the same point in time,
Speaker 1: look at all those sacks and see why they happen
Speaker 1: and and learn from that. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: Justin's greatest strength is is being able to accept criticism
Speaker 1: when he needs to. But he's also a great leader,
Speaker 1: and uh, and I think he'll he'll really do well
Speaker 1: with that and improve. I know you spoken to him
Speaker 1: and you'll get him in the building tomorrow. And uh,
Speaker 1: what type of guy is he in terms of that
Speaker 1: to your knowledge so far, what you've learned, I mean,
Speaker 1: does he speak his mind to you or is he
Speaker 1: more of a listener? Because you know, I'm listening to
Speaker 1: him in his news conference and we had him on
Speaker 1: the radio for a short time and just this uh,
Speaker 1: this quiet resilience, like you know, like he want another
Speaker 1: bite at the apple right away. He would like to
Speaker 1: have probably played a game an hour later to prove that,
Speaker 1: you know what I got this. That's who he is
Speaker 1: and that's what we all love about him. Again, during
Speaker 1: the game, you know, with the way that game was
Speaker 1: going and some of the struggles we were having, probably
Speaker 1: one of the most impressive parts of it all was
Speaker 1: his resiliency and his positivity on the sideline. And it
Speaker 1: can be easy to get frustrated. He never did that,
Speaker 1: and he just worried about the next snap, and to
Speaker 1: have that mentality is going to be critical for his
Speaker 1: success moving forward. All right, So you've had many rookies
Speaker 1: in your coaching career, and you know, like he said,
Speaker 1: I'm not used to this. A lot of these college guys,
Speaker 1: regardless of his, are not used to what they encounter,
Speaker 1: and it is hard to win one game, let alone
Speaker 1: one snap in the National Football League. So what is
Speaker 1: your experience with young guys and how you approach that.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing is being able to have them understand that,
Speaker 1: you know, we all do this thing together. And when
Speaker 1: when I say that, you know, not not just as
Speaker 1: an offense, but but really all three phases. But we
Speaker 1: all pick each other up. And that's the beauty of
Speaker 1: this sport is that you have eleven players on one
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and if ten of the eleven
Speaker 1: are good and one's not, and just struggles, that can
Speaker 1: affect a play. And so we all got to understand
Speaker 1: and that could be that could be a coach too, right,
Speaker 1: that could be a play call, It could be a
Speaker 1: lot of different things. But you all got to be
Speaker 1: on the same path. And when you do that, a
Speaker 1: lot of good things can happen. And so when we
Speaker 1: have what happened yes yesterday, he'll understand that he's going
Speaker 1: to have a lot more chances. And if it would
Speaker 1: have been flipped the other way and it was the
Speaker 1: best game in the history of football, we would have
Speaker 1: had to temperate and understand that's not going to happen either.
Speaker 1: So we gotta just stay nice and and focused on
Speaker 1: Detroit this coming week, and I think he'll do that.
Speaker 1: Chomped it on back Mayfield, understand our take space, setting
Speaker 1: up pressure, coming back, Chase it down, Mayfield head down up,
Speaker 1: had a big one, hot fork down. Welcome back to
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Speaker 1: clail Max Sacks leave left the game shortly for a
Speaker 1: second quarter with a sore foot, came back to play.
Speaker 1: That says a lot right there, Matt Naggi. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: really did a good job. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: trying to create pressure and the last couple of games
Speaker 1: you really have felt him and again for him to
Speaker 1: be able to come back in the game and shows
Speaker 1: that what his commitment is to his defense, and he's
Speaker 1: done a really good job and we need to keep
Speaker 1: that going moving forward. And the same story for Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn and really the front seven. You know, despite whatever
Speaker 1: happened offensively and the inability to keep going in that direction,
Speaker 1: as anemic as it was, it was a seven point
Speaker 1: game in the second half, and you have to give
Speaker 1: it to the defense as a reason why. And it
Speaker 1: really was. I mean you look at the start of
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and so I think that's a valid
Speaker 1: point for these guys as they played a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps and they were able to make big stops on
Speaker 1: fourth down. So we want to continue to build off
Speaker 1: of that, and that's what we got to do. According
Speaker 1: to Pro Football Focus, eighteen pressures, six sacks, and the
Speaker 1: Browns had one point three yards before contact, which is
Speaker 1: not something those running backs are used to. So there
Speaker 1: was penetration from your guys up front. I want to
Speaker 1: focus a little bit here on the less known guys
Speaker 1: like Kiris Tonga, who's starting to get more snaps, Angelo Blackson,
Speaker 1: and the return of Mario Edwards Junior. How did you
Speaker 1: think that impacted all that math right there just throughout. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like the way they played. I think Tonga is
Speaker 1: continuing to grow. Blacksman has been a great valuable addition
Speaker 1: to this defense. Of Mario Edwards getting him back. He
Speaker 1: had a great sack one on one, beating at the
Speaker 1: offensive about guard, and so all of those guys bringing
Speaker 1: presence to that defensive line along with Galau and our team.
Speaker 1: And so when you put those guys out there, that's
Speaker 1: been a depth strength of ours and yesterday you got
Speaker 1: to see a little bit of that. I thought it
Speaker 1: was impressive listening to why I interviewed Jalen Johnson before
Speaker 1: the game last week and brought up ob J and that, yeah,
Speaker 1: he'd been following him throughout the offseason, gauging where he
Speaker 1: was at medically and just checking in on him, so
Speaker 1: to speak. The way you do that, I guess for
Speaker 1: the young folks these days is social media and what's
Speaker 1: being said. But he was already investigating that knowing at
Speaker 1: some point he's going to face him here in the
Speaker 1: first quarter of the season. So you traveled him yesterday.
Speaker 1: That was the plan for Sean to say. Wherever he went,
Speaker 1: that's where where Jayleen went for the most part, So
Speaker 1: that was an interest interesting a decision there, but also
Speaker 1: a tip to the cap for the guys, who is
Speaker 1: your CB one right now? Yeah, No, he's done a
Speaker 1: great job. I think he's had a really good start
Speaker 1: to the season. And when you're able to have a
Speaker 1: guy like that that can move around and travel if
Speaker 1: you need to, or play zone if you need to,
Speaker 1: it's a benefit. And I think he's got to continue
Speaker 1: to keep growing as a leader as a player, and
Speaker 1: he definitely puts in the extra extra work after practice two,
Speaker 1: which is very all right. Let's let's go back to
Speaker 1: the offense and what you've had to say to the
Speaker 1: media earlier this morning that you're going to be looking
Speaker 1: at things as as losses like this because of how
Speaker 1: it transpired with the offense. You know, it's it's time
Speaker 1: for self analysis and where are you at on that
Speaker 1: and what have you arrived at exactly what I said,
Speaker 1: which is you know, really, Jeff, at a point where
Speaker 1: you just look at, okay, the three games, where we're at,
Speaker 1: and just the identity is something that you always want
Speaker 1: to talk about and figure out as soon as you can,
Speaker 1: the soon or the better. And then you get into
Speaker 1: the the reasons asked to the way a certain play went. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, when you called it, how you called it,
Speaker 1: how was it executed, and all that, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. So we'll get together as a staff and
Speaker 1: we'll talk through where we think we can improve in
Speaker 1: every area. And you know, that's that's where I think
Speaker 1: the communication part, the honesty, this huge between all of
Speaker 1: us players and coaches, coaches and coaches, players and players
Speaker 1: and to come up with solutions ultimately. You know, over
Speaker 1: the time you've been calling plays, do you feel ever
Speaker 1: that you know, and I've talked to many offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: about this, you feel good, But there's always in the
Speaker 1: back of your mind something that you know, you're always
Speaker 1: worried about. When you put together that game plan, and
Speaker 1: with justin being the first time starter in this particular situation,
Speaker 1: in a very difficult place to play, did you have
Speaker 1: any of that worry in the back of your mind.
Speaker 1: You're a positive guy, but I mean, we're all human. Well, no,
Speaker 1: I would say, I wouldn't use the word worry, Jeff.
Speaker 1: But what I would say is like, there's the unknown, right,
Speaker 1: So as you go through this, you got to figure out, Okay,
Speaker 1: what are some things that you're going to do well
Speaker 1: as an offense with him a quarterback, what are some
Speaker 1: plays that he likes? So we know that going into it.
Speaker 1: As we create the game plan it's built around him,
Speaker 1: then you're going to have to have some adjustments based
Speaker 1: off of what the defense gives you and whatever that is. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: what I felt like was our biggest deal was again
Speaker 1: that word rhythm. We just unlike LA. We were in LA.
Speaker 1: We were in a rhythm. We were getting first downs,
Speaker 1: we were moving the ball, we were in a rhythm.
Speaker 1: Yesterday we never got in that rhythm. You know, to
Speaker 1: have ten plays before five minutes to go in the
Speaker 1: second quarter, seventeen total plays, you just you know, you
Speaker 1: don't get in a rhythm. So we got to figure
Speaker 1: out ways to get first down, to get in a rhythm,
Speaker 1: and then you have more experience. And when I say that,
Speaker 1: Justin will have more experience having more plays. And we
Speaker 1: just never got to that point yesterday. And again, like
Speaker 1: I said yesterday, that starts and ends with me steps
Speaker 1: back on third down for Mayfield, big pressure by Quinn.
Speaker 1: They get to the quarterback again and he down, he goes,
Speaker 1: Robert Quinn racing the edge. Mario Edwards Junior in there
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Speaker 1: Let's talk Robert Quinn just heard the sack there. He's
Speaker 1: starting to put things back to back and really looks explosive.
Speaker 1: Had his best game. Some analysis has him at six
Speaker 1: pressures and two sacks yesterday and with heen Quinn now,
Speaker 1: excuse me, He and Max six combined sacks so far
Speaker 1: this season through the first three weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: So it looks like a different player circuit to twenty
Speaker 1: one here. You agree, Yeah, without a doubt. And I
Speaker 1: feel that too. I think Robert's done a great job.
Speaker 1: He played a lot of snaps yesterday and you know,
Speaker 1: he did a really good job of being able to
Speaker 1: come in and he felt his presence and his motor.
Speaker 1: He's doing a good job in the run game. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had you know, like you said and talked about
Speaker 1: having uh, you know, a sack one and a half
Speaker 1: sacks and had a couple of others that he just missed.
Speaker 1: So we need that to keep going. Him. Him and
Speaker 1: Khalil on the edges is very very important along with
Speaker 1: that defensive line. And how about to play overall in
Speaker 1: terms of that running game, because boy is it it's dynamic,
Speaker 1: just like you said, and watching I was extremely impressed
Speaker 1: with the way Kareem Hunt runs the football with as
Speaker 1: Sean Desai indicated a lot of anger and violence and
Speaker 1: you know him better than we do. Boy that that
Speaker 1: that guy is something else. But in terms of how
Speaker 1: you in that position with the defense out of the
Speaker 1: field for forty minutes, I mean, that's that's gonna wear
Speaker 1: it down, you know, playing guys like that Chubb In
Speaker 1: and Kareem Hunt, Yeah, they're built for that. Four minutem
Speaker 1: when they have the lead, they're just getting their big
Speaker 1: tight ends and they run the ball right at you
Speaker 1: with their counter roa schemes and their downhill rubs, and
Speaker 1: so I think, you know, we got in a situation
Speaker 1: where the defense was able to play the way they
Speaker 1: played for three three, three and a half quarters, and
Speaker 1: then you get into that four minute against that offense.
Speaker 1: It's difficult for any defense. So, uh, you know, we
Speaker 1: just got to continue to just stay sharp with or
Speaker 1: fundamental than our tackling. You know, we had the touchdown
Speaker 1: run that he had, We just had a couple of
Speaker 1: mis tackles on that and our guys need to be
Speaker 1: better there, but they will. And I think overall just
Speaker 1: understanding being able to get off the field as much
Speaker 1: as you can as soon as we can. You're not
Speaker 1: prepared to name a quarterback just yet. We cast to
Speaker 1: work itself out some injury concerns and just see where
Speaker 1: everything goes. But in terms of what Justin learned about
Speaker 1: where pass rush comes from, where you know how the
Speaker 1: protections are, and what he can do to help alleviate
Speaker 1: some of that, was this going to grad school on Sunday, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I think there's a lot of different ways
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of things that he's going to
Speaker 1: learn from that we're going to learn from, and it'll
Speaker 1: it'll help make him us better. Uh that's where if
Speaker 1: you if you use this thing the right way and
Speaker 1: you use what happened as an experience, which you know,
Speaker 1: again talking to Justin, he's already doing and I think
Speaker 1: that's a big strength of his is to be able
Speaker 1: to see the positives or at least take the negatives
Speaker 1: in turn them into positives. So that's the only thing
Speaker 1: we can do that that's how he's wired. And there
Speaker 1: we'll do that. How do you feel about the old
Speaker 1: line right now? Yeah, well, you know, I have a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of trust in them, and they
Speaker 1: had you know, it was one of those games yesterday
Speaker 1: where um, you know, they got us a couple of
Speaker 1: time on the edge and a couple of times up
Speaker 1: the middle. But again, the belief that we have and
Speaker 1: Coach Woncasto and Donnie and that these players pulling together,
Speaker 1: these guys they know that they can play better and
Speaker 1: they will play better. And that's why we're fortunate here
Speaker 1: to be able to get a chance to do it
Speaker 1: against Detroit Lions. All right, let's start talking about the
Speaker 1: Lions division opponent, and that's I think you've alluded to it.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great place in the schedule to
Speaker 1: get a division opponent right here. And now, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know they're coming off that tough loss there to the
Speaker 1: Ravens on that six to six yard field goal, and
Speaker 1: but there there, they know it's a division game too.
Speaker 1: They get to come to Soldier Field and it's going
Speaker 1: to be important for us to start fast. And we
Speaker 1: always talk every year about winning your home games and
Speaker 1: winning all your division games, and if you do that,
Speaker 1: a lot of good digits will happen. So this will
Speaker 1: be our second home game and it will be our
Speaker 1: first division game and very important for us to get
Speaker 1: off to a fast start. A lot of familiarity obviously
Speaker 1: with Jared Goff, So what is he doing there? That
Speaker 1: looks a little different than he did in LA And
Speaker 1: you know, there hasn't been much of a consistent run
Speaker 1: game for the Lions, but it looks like that Williams
Speaker 1: and Swift have come together and that could be a
Speaker 1: due you're gonna have to shut down. Yeah, that's something
Speaker 1: that I know they want to hang their hat on
Speaker 1: with their scheme and then with those players and Jared
Speaker 1: Goff obviously coming over from from the Rams, and some
Speaker 1: of the play action stuff and the movements that they
Speaker 1: did and the nakeds and bootlegs. So we'll have to
Speaker 1: be aware for that. We'll get onto the tape and
Speaker 1: see really what they're all about. But again, they're a
Speaker 1: strappy team that's gonna fight hard and play. They've had
Speaker 1: some dude games here and we're going to have our
Speaker 1: hands full. We're essentially looking at a potential New Orleans
Speaker 1: style defense given the Aaron Glenn is there. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: coach Glenn has done a great job when he is
Speaker 1: in New Orleans and now bring it to Detroit. You
Speaker 1: can see a little bit of a flavor there with that,
Speaker 1: and so, you know, I got a lot of respect
Speaker 1: for him. I think he's done a great job in
Speaker 1: the coaching world and he's doing a good job there
Speaker 1: in Detroit. All right, Matt, we'll get him back to
Speaker 1: work week and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks to you.
Speaker 1: Snapping placement made kick us up Kiro Santos from forty
Speaker 1: seven yards. It's good. Yeah. Sunday's game against the Detroit
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Speaker 1: Bears Coaching Show with our guest, Bears Special Teams coordinator
Speaker 1: Chris Tabor. Good to have you alongside my friend. Let's
Speaker 1: talk Kiro Santos because I just heard the highlight of
Speaker 1: his forty seven yard field goal. That record streak of
Speaker 1: consecutive field goals continues. I know a guy like yourself,
Speaker 1: whatever happened in the past is irrelevant to the future
Speaker 1: other than what you learn in terms of success rate.
Speaker 1: That's always a new day dawning. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's thirty one in a row now, and that's a
Speaker 1: significant number in league circles, certainly a franchise record. You
Speaker 1: throw on the playoff game, that's thirty two in a row.
Speaker 1: His consistency is really forgive the pun kicking into gear here, No,
Speaker 1: And he's doing it. He's doing a nice job. He's
Speaker 1: taking advantage of his opportunities and striking the ball really well.
Speaker 1: But I think what makes them so special is, and
Speaker 1: people don't see it, is the daily grind of the process.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get what we do on Wednesday, what we
Speaker 1: do on Thursday, what his routine is on Friday. I
Speaker 1: think that all leads up to give him a chance
Speaker 1: to be successful make kicks. They come in all shapes
Speaker 1: and sizes. And the reason I bring this up, I'm
Speaker 1: barely five to seven and a half, all right, and
Speaker 1: I met Cairo on the sideline before yesterday his game
Speaker 1: social distance. Of course, however I didn't I'd never met
Speaker 1: him face to face. I didn't realize how short of
Speaker 1: a guy he is. But it doesn't matter. There are
Speaker 1: big legs no matter what size. How does a guy
Speaker 1: on the shorter side generate the kind of power needed
Speaker 1: to drive the football? But probably obviously his soccer background
Speaker 1: growing up, obviously that helps. He's already has a muscle
Speaker 1: memory how to kick a ball. But you know, he's
Speaker 1: a really good ball striker. And just the is you know,
Speaker 1: the foot placement, bringing the heel through the target, all
Speaker 1: the core tenants that we always talk about being a
Speaker 1: good ball striker. He has those attributes and I think
Speaker 1: that's why he's been able to He's figuring out when
Speaker 1: and has done a nice job there. I mean it
Speaker 1: was windy yesterday there at first, energy and when you
Speaker 1: kick towards the dog pound that that's a tough end
Speaker 1: to kick. And we didn't have any kicks going that way,
Speaker 1: but in pregameh he actually had to go back out
Speaker 1: and hit some more down that in because it is tricky.
Speaker 1: But that's I think that's where I've really been proud
Speaker 1: of him, is he's mastering being what I call a
Speaker 1: cold weather kicker. Yeah, it was interesting when we did
Speaker 1: our weather conditions in the twenty one mile per hour
Speaker 1: wind on there, and you know, Tom Tom Thayer said, wow,
Speaker 1: I can't really tell where it's coming from. And I said, well,
Speaker 1: let's just assume it's swirling. Uh, what was it? You
Speaker 1: know it was if you're looking at our bench, it was.
Speaker 1: It was blowing. It was blowing towards our tunnel, but
Speaker 1: towards their bench, and it stayed. It did stay pretty
Speaker 1: consistent to the day. I was actually shocked when their
Speaker 1: their kid hit a couple of touchbacks towards the dog
Speaker 1: pound in because when he was kicking off in pregame,
Speaker 1: his ball was going to about the five yard line.
Speaker 1: So I was really shocked when he stole a couple
Speaker 1: of touchbacks there going that way. But no it's a
Speaker 1: tough place to kick. It's just like our place. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you got to figure it out and each
Speaker 1: day is different, and so that's what's kind of that's
Speaker 1: kind of the fun part about being a Windy City
Speaker 1: type kicker. He had Chase McLaughlin out of you have.
Speaker 1: I had a very good day yesterday in the Browns win.
Speaker 1: With that being said, let's talk Khalil Herbert on some
Speaker 1: of those kicks because this is where the education comes in.
Speaker 1: Because you were surprised that he hit a couple of
Speaker 1: touchbacks and I was assuming this was strategic for the
Speaker 1: ball to land inside the two or three yard line
Speaker 1: and force the blocking up front, and maybe because the
Speaker 1: hang time seemed very very good. I'm McLaughlin's kicks kickoffs. No,
Speaker 1: they started off early and I think they wanted to
Speaker 1: test us to see if they could pennis down in there.
Speaker 1: And you know, we had the first return. I think
Speaker 1: we only got it out, so maybe the twenty three,
Speaker 1: but you can see that we had a chance. And
Speaker 1: then the one right before halftime where he knocks it
Speaker 1: out to the forty yard line. Unfortunately, we had a
Speaker 1: little bit of a touching penalty and an illegal wedge
Speaker 1: in the back end that they called. But you can
Speaker 1: start seeing on film on the iPad on the side
Speaker 1: that we were handling them, and I felt good about that.
Speaker 1: Herbert kid, he's getting better and better, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully we can keep him on an upward trajectory. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Bears Coaches Show, joining US Special teams
Speaker 1: coordinator Chris Tabor. The booming punts of Patrick O'Donnell on
Speaker 1: yesterday's Cleveland turf seven punts wow, three hundred ninety seven
Speaker 1: yards fifty six point seven average, the net forty two,
Speaker 1: but he had a couple to sixty one yarders. I
Speaker 1: think he had four sixty plush yard punts. What the
Speaker 1: heck was? Uh? What do eat for breakfast? Pat punted well,
Speaker 1: I mean it was he needed. We had to try
Speaker 1: to flip field position. You're going to give up some
Speaker 1: return yards when you when you kicked the ball that far,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. You know, you got to have confidence
Speaker 1: and your guy's going down. But he did a nice
Speaker 1: job with the hang in the location. I was real
Speaker 1: proud of him. He's getting better and better each week,
Speaker 1: and he's another guy that's uh, you know, I always say,
Speaker 1: it's very cliches. He's a pros pro but Pat really
Speaker 1: stepped up well yesterday and I was real proud of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you really don't have to concern yourself with guys like him,
Speaker 1: Patrick Scales and what you've told us about Cairo Santos
Speaker 1: investing the time to get better. Uh, they're they're all
Speaker 1: true pros, every one of them. No, they really are.
Speaker 1: And the what's special about they all know how each
Speaker 1: other work, and uh, you know, we could be out
Speaker 1: of practice and Scales throws a long snap and before
Speaker 1: he even looks back or even asked me, he'll go
Speaker 1: all that one was low and and Pat puns the
Speaker 1: ball and he'll turn out, hey, sorry about that. I'll
Speaker 1: get that fixed. They just know each other inside now,
Speaker 1: and that's what makes them a good battery. All right.
Speaker 1: We touched on it in the previous session here about
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert before the break. Let's let's dig in a
Speaker 1: little deeper because he's he's been very consistent. I think
Speaker 1: you would agree. I mean, and he's got that patience
Speaker 1: back there. Does he have the you know, the big
Speaker 1: lightning speed? Uh? No, it's good, very good. But the
Speaker 1: patience and the vision it. It is just like a
Speaker 1: running play when he when he gets his wheels moving
Speaker 1: in the right direction and then starts, you know, filing
Speaker 1: your blocking assignment, no, no question, And you know that's
Speaker 1: he has natural obviously being a running back. His natural
Speaker 1: running back attributes come into play in our kick return game.
Speaker 1: And he's doing he's getting more confident, and he's doing
Speaker 1: a better job of learning kickers, how they set up
Speaker 1: where they're trying to kick the ball. He's understanding when
Speaker 1: he's been a real good student of the game. I'm
Speaker 1: also proud of him because he's covering kicks and he's
Speaker 1: getting better in that area. I mean, there's a kid
Speaker 1: that you know didn't cover a lot of kicks in
Speaker 1: college and now you're doing it in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: But he's he's I'll tell you what. That whole running
Speaker 1: back room and David and d Dubs and all those guys,
Speaker 1: they've really helped raise them. And Coach Petrie does a
Speaker 1: great job with him too. And he's the kid sits
Speaker 1: in the front row, takes notes and special teams and
Speaker 1: ask good questions and takes a lot of pride in
Speaker 1: his craft. He understands his role and I'm real proud
Speaker 1: of him because he just he wants to be a
Speaker 1: star in his role and I appreciate that. Who else
Speaker 1: is a front row guy, I'll tell you what they are,
Speaker 1: you know, with with with COVID, we like to have
Speaker 1: a little a little little seating, a little spacey. But no,
Speaker 1: you know, our core guys they do they sit, they
Speaker 1: sit up front, and they all have their certain spots.
Speaker 1: It's just like any classroom. I think if you if
Speaker 1: you walked into an elementary school or high school, everyone
Speaker 1: has their assigned seat where they feel comfortable. And you know,
Speaker 1: our room is no different in terms of the coverage units.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a big difference because Cordell Patterson in
Speaker 1: McManus such a big part of that the last few years.
Speaker 1: McManus for a long time. How have you formed a
Speaker 1: material plan for that and how has that been working
Speaker 1: out in terms of new bodies in those particular spots,
Speaker 1: And then just in general, I would say we're still
Speaker 1: obviously a work in progress, and we have some we
Speaker 1: have some guys. I'm there. They're getting better each week,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, and we still have a lot more
Speaker 1: room to grow. But I'm you know, I'm excited about
Speaker 1: where we can get him too. And it's just it's
Speaker 1: and how that happens. It's it's reps, it's game reps.
Speaker 1: Every rep you learn something, and when you play, for example,
Speaker 1: you play out the gunner spot and you get doubled
Speaker 1: over and over again. Early on. It's been my history.
Speaker 1: Players are going to lose at the beginning. Then they
Speaker 1: begin to figure it out and then they start working
Speaker 1: their craft and they get different moves and they get better.
Speaker 1: So we still got to improve there, but we'll get there.
Speaker 1: Did this Simba Webster hit look as good on tape
Speaker 1: as it looked from up above? And what was your
Speaker 1: perspective on that on coverage? Was really proud of him
Speaker 1: because early on in the game he was having a
Speaker 1: tough time and to his credit, he just kept fighting
Speaker 1: and plugging away and it was it was a beautiful tackle,
Speaker 1: great form tackle, and that was good for him. It's
Speaker 1: kind of what I just, you know, talked about a
Speaker 1: little bit there. I mean, you kind of get worked
Speaker 1: early in the game, but you begin to figure it
Speaker 1: out and you go and you go, and then you
Speaker 1: make a play like that that can that can only
Speaker 1: ringboard player. And I hope that does for him. Any
Speaker 1: any other guys that you'd like to throw on the
Speaker 1: table there that have started to make some move Oh,
Speaker 1: you know, you know Jonesy, we call him cheese because
Speaker 1: he's always smiling all the time. But he's he's playing
Speaker 1: at a high level for us and all the guys.
Speaker 1: You know, we had an injury yesterday and Ovaltree had
Speaker 1: to jump in there. He's playing obviously starting on defense,
Speaker 1: and what a pro he is. He jumped right in
Speaker 1: there on the punt team and we didn't miss a beat,
Speaker 1: and so I was really pleased with him. But you know,
Speaker 1: dhc is I've always said he's been the straw that
Speaker 1: stirs the drink and he sets us in motion, and
Speaker 1: he's playing at a high level. So we just got
Speaker 1: to keep getting better. And you know, I got a
Speaker 1: young rookie and the Caleb Johnson kid who's improving, and
Speaker 1: I'm excited about him. He's kick or returning yesterday is
Speaker 1: probably the best he's blocked and and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he stays after practice and works the fundamentals of it
Speaker 1: and it's just time on task. He's getting better. So
Speaker 1: I'm excited about that. Welcome back, to the Bears Coaching
Speaker 1: Show with Special teams coordinator Chris Tabor. Let's talk about
Speaker 1: Caleb Johnson because they saw him working out before the
Speaker 1: game with no pads on, and man, you could see
Speaker 1: the athleticism oozing out of his pores. This is like
Speaker 1: a piece of clay, isn't it for you? It really is?
Speaker 1: And he's another guy now he actually sits in the
Speaker 1: second row and he takes notes and uh just wants
Speaker 1: to get better. He he already told me after the game,
Speaker 1: he said, coach this week, this is what I want
Speaker 1: to concentrate on. And so he has a plan and
Speaker 1: I really I really respect that from him, and he's
Speaker 1: he is, he's getting better. So we just got to
Speaker 1: keep him on that trajectory. What's the mental impact of
Speaker 1: a game like yesterday because of what happened in the end. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's it's a loss or a win every single week.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a fifty fifty bet. But do you
Speaker 1: even play a role in keeping your guys in a
Speaker 1: good place mentally? I you know, I don't get too
Speaker 1: high and I don't get too low. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a long it's a long season. But you
Speaker 1: know what we talk about in our room is I mean,
Speaker 1: we don't have the advantage of first, second, and third down.
Speaker 1: If something goes bad, we are one play. So even
Speaker 1: yesterday when things weren't going our way, we would just say, hey,
Speaker 1: let's win this one play. I don't care what happened
Speaker 1: has happened in the game. Let's win this one play
Speaker 1: because we don't get any duovers. And that's the mentality
Speaker 1: that we want to have so that we can give
Speaker 1: ourselves a chance to be a good unit. Now it's
Speaker 1: time to look ahead. Brought to you by Bette Rivers,
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Speaker 1: will host the Lions on Sunday, Detroit, coming off a
Speaker 1: stunning nineteen to seventeen lost to the Ravens. Justin Tucker
Speaker 1: ended the game with an NFL record sixty six yard
Speaker 1: field goal as time expired, and the Lions are oh
Speaker 1: and three. We'll touch on that in a moment, but
Speaker 1: I'll look ahead to the new Lions punter Jack Fox
Speaker 1: has been there. They've had Austin Siebert and Ryan Santoso yesterday,
Speaker 1: King Siebert on COVID list and Cliff Raymond the return guy.
Speaker 1: Just give us a quick thumbnail and what you're seeing
Speaker 1: and what you know about Dave Phipp, the special teams
Speaker 1: coordinator up there, Well just start just starting the process now.
Speaker 1: And coach Fhipp does a great job. He was in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia for many years and his units have always been
Speaker 1: really good. They got a good battery. I mean, all
Speaker 1: the you know, the kicker, potter, long snapper are really
Speaker 1: good along with the returner. You know, it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's very cliches again, but it's another NFL football team.
Speaker 1: These are NFL football players. They're good and they you know,
Speaker 1: they're athletic, and they're obviously trying to give an identity themselves,
Speaker 1: and so we'll expect the best for him and we
Speaker 1: need to play. Well, what do you think of the
Speaker 1: field goal? Because he crow hopped and I've never seen that,
Speaker 1: and maybe you have maybe to get the extra momentum.
Speaker 1: This guy is something else yet I have not. It
Speaker 1: wasn't that it was amazing. I mean, I mean, what
Speaker 1: there's really that's there's not really not much to say.
Speaker 1: We're talking a sixty six yard field goal. Sixty six yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: some guys can't even kick off that far let alone
Speaker 1: make a field goal. Well, and the crazy thing he's
Speaker 1: made fifty straight field goals in the fourth quarter or
Speaker 1: overtime and twenty one have been forty plus. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: he is arguably, you know, the best, He's arguably one
Speaker 1: of the best of all time. Yeah so, And as
Speaker 1: a special teams coordinator and a guy who's cut his
Speaker 1: teeth in this phase of the game, you gotta respect that, right,
Speaker 1: no no questions. He's been a great player a long time,
Speaker 1: even when you know, when I was in Cleveland, we
Speaker 1: faced them all the time, so I've seen him up
Speaker 1: close and personal for a long time. And him making
Speaker 1: a six or six shot or yes, that's very shocking,
Speaker 1: but them attempting it is not shocking, you know, because
Speaker 1: he is He's something else, all right, Chris, appreciate a
Speaker 1: time as always, and we'll talk to you down the road.
Speaker 1: That's gonna wrap up our program for the night. Thanks
Speaker 1: as always to Bears head coach Matt Neeggie and our
Speaker 1: special guest Chris Tabor, the Bear special teams coordinator. Thanks
Speaker 1: to Jim Treda and Dan Burrelly are producers and along
Speaker 1: with Keith Johnson, we'll have the Bears and Lions from
Speaker 1: Soldier Field nine. I am pregame noon kickoff right here.
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Speaker 1: Good night, everybody,