WEBVTT - Nagy, Campbell talk Thanksgiving vs Lions | Coaches Show 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.880 Welcome into the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Mattneggie, 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.680 brought to you by Whipplease cepa's end consultant Jeff Jonahack 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.600 with you into eight o'clock tonight here on news Radio 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.680 one oh five nine WBBM. Thanks for joining us, everybody. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:12.799 Coach Naggie here until the bottom of the hour, and 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:15.600 then Bears Vice president of player Engagement with Lamar Soup 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.360 Campbell joins the program as he will talk about his 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:22.120 role in the Bears family up here at Hotis Hall. Matt, 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:26.320 Good evening. It's been a long time since that emotional 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.600 twenty to nine win in Vegas on October tenth, and 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.120 I think you and I spoke at that time. You 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.239 felt it was going to be a landmark win for 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.560 a lot of reasons, and what has happened since can 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.320 be demoralizing to the entire building. A five game skid. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.080 You've been through this before, but every years different and unique. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.680 How are you and your staff attacking this one? And 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.600 with a game already on Thursday in Detroit? Yeah, Jeff, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.120 You're right, it's you know, it's obviously never fun. And 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.360 I did really feel like that point in that game 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.200 in the locker room after that win in Vegas was 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.800 definitely a special Momentum. All that said, you know, we 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.440 put ourselves in a position of being three and seven 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.840 and having two tough ended game losses like that. Um. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.040 But but what it does is it challenges UM. You know, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.000 each and every one of us in a lot of 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.720 different ways. UM. We all can handle it different ways. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.240 And so UM the only thing that that we're allowed 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:24.400 to do, or can do and want to do is, 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.960 uh is continue to just get after it as a 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.880 team and fight. And again, you know you've heard me 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.600 say it for for many times. Is it takes that 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.039 one win. And there's other teams right now that are 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.080 on win streaks, and there's a few other teams that 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:37.959 are on losing streaks. And it's how you handle that. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.280 And when you do get that one win, it can 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.280 jump start you for different reasons and you never know 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.520 how it goes. But you got to get that one win. 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.920 And the last two games we just haven't finished. Um. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.920 And UH, it's it's everybody. It's collectively. It's not just 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.240 the defense at the end, it's the offense at the beginning, 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.720 in the middle, in other places, and it's all of 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:59.080 us together, you know, special teams, coaches, everybody, and that's 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.120 where we got to recover and get that win. You know, 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.680 you make a good point about the beginning, the offense 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.200 at the beginning, because it seems like that's been the 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.160 struggle the offense and then they click in, but then 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:14.520 the defense loses. It's mustard, it's frustrating. I'm sure it's 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.600 frustrating to watch and see it unfold right before your eyes. Yeah, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.960 and you know you brought it up earlier, you talked 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.160 about Vegas. That was the difference of the Vegas game 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.360 was we had all three phases playing complimentary football the 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.639 last several weeks and during this losing streak, we haven't 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.760 had that, and it's it's difficult, you know, to be 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:37.000 able to match up with with all three phases and um, 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.840 you know, so any way you look at it across 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.840 the board for us is we talk about just do 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.639 your one eleventh right. Everybody says that we talked about 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.080 just make sure that you're doing what you can do 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.880 to help help the team win. Coaches, players, everybody. So 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.639 the one good thing for us is that it is 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.919 a quick turnaround. It is a short week and so 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.800 you're able to h The only thing you can do, Jeff, 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.000 is move on to the Thanksgiving Day game against Detroit 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:06.840 and a division opponent, and so our guys are going 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.000 to be right for that. That is the story of 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:12.360 the National Football League. I know, fans, and when you 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.919 get asked a lot of questions about where the team 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:17.600 is at, where you're at thinking, and you can't really, 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.840 you don't have the luxury to dwell on what's happened. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.040 You only can look forward to fix because you have 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.200 to stand before your team every week and we can 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.480 sit here and you can take hits on what happened. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.680 As a head coach, you can, you know, look at 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.760 things that went south at the worst possible times and 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.480 everything that went into it. And that's really the rub 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.240 of being a head coach and the CEO of the 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.160 football team on Sundays or in this case, Thursday's, isn't 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.960 it It is? And you know when the game ends 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:46.680 yesterday and you know you have a short week, you're 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.800 already kind of somewhat prepared with your staff of trying 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.720 to stay a little bit ahead. But you have to 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.800 be able to squeeze what you just squeeze. The video 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.880 in of what you just did on tape on yesterday's game. 0:03:58.200 --> 0:03:59.920 But then you got to also, the only thing you 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.720 can do in a short week is is move forward. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.720 That's it, and you gotta worry about today. And so 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:10.320 you know today has been a busy day for our coaches, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.560 and you know here we are tonight and getting ready 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.600 for tomorrow already. So the same for the players. The 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.960 players have the physical game and lots of bumps and bruises, 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.919 and so we got to be able to now be 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:24.160 smart with how we handle these next forty eight hours 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.200 before we take off and get to Detroit. You're constantly 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.040 telling players to forget about what happened and move on 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.160 to the next play within the course of a game. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:37.240 I know as a football fan of significance and myself, 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.760 I'll lay in bed at night thinking about the what ifs. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.800 I have that luxury. You know, you go through everything 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.719 you do not have that luxury either, But you're human, 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.239 do you lay in bed thinking about the what ifs? 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.760 Because yes, two games you couldn't close could have been 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.360 a big difference at five and five going into this one, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:59.159 I'm thanksgiving against a winless ball club. But to what 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.760 extent do you play the what ifs in your mind. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.920 Yeah you uh, I mean as a specific moments, like 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.719 specific moments as as a coach you have you know, 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.800 we all we all have those you all go through 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.440 and we do it as well. And you think about 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:18.200 certain plays, um and some some somebody might think of 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.840 as completely different than somebody else. You know. The one 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.120 that I look at that uh I think would have 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.000 really changed the course of the game is was the 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.760 third and one deep ball to to Mooney that he 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:30.840 caught it just got his you know, just didn't get 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.520 those two feet and bounds and the ball kind of 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.200 drifted a little bit. So um, you know it's uh, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.760 that's that's not by no means the reason why we lost, obviously, 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.000 but that was a that was a play right there 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.560 where you just think, man if if we could have 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:46.719 ended up completing that, what a big gainer. That would 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.720 have been momentum shifter. And you know, instead we went 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.520 to to the fourth and one, etc. So I mean 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.520 that that's that's one play that that you think of. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.640 But there was a lot in that game for many 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.880 different reasons, and you got to give credit to Baltimork. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.120 You gotta feel for guys like Roquan Smith and obviously 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.480 Robert Quinn because they played their hearts out and then 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.960 they have been all years, nothing new, but ro Quan 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:16.800 played with a certain level of viciousness and Robert Quinn 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.640 continues to be a comeback player that you're candidate, just 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.839 exploding off the ball. He knew he could beat his 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:26.800 man repeatedly on the left side. No disrespect to Alejandro Vieneueva, 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.839 but that was a mismatch in favor of Robert Quinn, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.200 and you see the emotion they poured into it. Can 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.520 those two guys alone on tape and I don't even 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:38.960 know if you guys are gonna watch this tape with 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.720 any kind of detail, but can can the rest of 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.919 the teams say, Man, these guys are fighting. Man I 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.920 need to I need to do this absolutely. I mean 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.880 those guys you said that, there are guys that that 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.599 fight every day and the part of that is that 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.200 you see on game day is that they do it. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.640 They do it every day in practice, you know, and 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.960 they do it. Every single rap that they have in 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.160 practice is where you feel it and you see it, 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.440 and then it transforms over onto game day and then 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.920 they get results, they get production They are guys that 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.640 worry about play by play. They just try to be 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:20.480 impactful players. Their effort is, you know, a second to none, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.880 and it shows and are reflected in yesterday's game. Ravens 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:27.040 bringing the house pressure comes hit as he throws down 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.560 the field. He's got good one over the shoulder. Ten touchdowners. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.040 Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. It's brought to 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.640 you by a Whippley CPAs and Consultants, a proud partner 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:39.520 of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at Whippley dot com. 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:42.720 Jeff Joniac and Mattneggie here on Bears Coaches Show. You 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.760 heard the Andy Dalton, the Marquis Goodwin touchdown. Break it 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.160 all down for us from the fourth and eleven decision 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.760 and just that play in general. Well, you know, you 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.760 gotta give a ton of credit to the offensive line, 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.360 to the tight ends and are running back to be 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.880 able to create protection. So Andy has enough time. I 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.960 mean that comes down to a split second to where 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.840 you have to be able to get that throw off 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.400 there and cover zero. Their their defensive back was about 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.480 ten yards off and he knows that the ball's got 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.280 to come out. And I thought that Marquise did a 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.440 great job of setting him up, acting like he was 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.240 going to kind of stop there at ten yards and 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.320 then took off and Marquise is so fast and he 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.120 put it up at just the right time with enough 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.680 air and I'm sure that ball felt like it was 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:25.880 in the air forever to Marquise, but he made a 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.440 great catch, took it in for the score. And again, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:33.800 that's a that's a defense that we were prepared for. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.040 UM and I and the guys were, you know, awesome 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.640 at executing it. That's his fifteen forty plus yard touchdown 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.720 in his career. He's not been it's a seven year career. 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.480 So that's a that's a lot of math right there. 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.280 Big plays and maybe more ahead from Marquise good Win 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.000 with that Olympic speed. The difference on that one, he's 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.960 tracking that ball. The Demere bird shot down the field. 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.160 He's got to get to that spot. It was thrown 0:08:58.200 --> 0:08:59.960 to a Spidery's guy to go chase that ball down. 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.679 What's harder for a receiver, the tracking or the chasing. 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:07.959 They're both they're probably equivalent. You know. The first one, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.000 the Demere it was just just a little long with 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.439 the throw and Demere pride wishes he's had just a 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.720 little bit more. But I mean those are the ones 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.960 where you know, you stay up at night the night 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.200 before the game hoping to get that opportunity. And you know, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.640 I think we all felt it, oh man, you know again, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.040 knowing that they might go covers zero there and that 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.240 the guys made a great job of you know, a 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.240 throw and catch and it just missed it, so that 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.640 luckily we had a second chance and on a big 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.520 time play, like you said on fourth and eleven, to 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.520 be able to take the lead. Your job is to 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.960 win games, and your job is developing justin fields for 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:43.559 now and in the future. So Andy Dutton comes on 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.520 our postgame showing WBBM, and I said, man, you've been 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.760 through a lot. How do you process at all? And 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.199 he said this, I'm in a great place. And what 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.760 a thing to say for a veteran. We know, I mean, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.880 he's competitive. We know he cannot feel great about the 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.719 position he was put in coming here and how it's 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.240 all transpired. But he goes out there and gets the 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.160 team on the board, puts him a position to win 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:11.199 on a moment's notice. You expect that from a better 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.680 and that's why he's here. But you've got to know 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.400 him better than we have. I guess you're not surprised 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.560 by that answer. No, not at all. And I mean, 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:22.840 if there's there's h for all of everybody, you know, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.480 all of us, myself included, and just for for everybody 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.319 to be able to see in this business and um 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:32.319 really just in life in general. The positivity that someone 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.400 like Andy brings um to his position, to his role, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.600 him as a person. He's authentic, he's real when he 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.559 says that, he means every bit of it. He isn't 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:46.200 a great position, he's he understands, um why things happen 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.240 and and everything. And then I think you know that 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:53.200 when you handle things the right way, you do things 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:55.880 the right way, you always talk about, you know, great 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.640 things happen to great people. And yesterday it's unfortunate we 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.360 didn't come out with a win, because Andy be the 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.400 first to tell you that's the only thing that matters. 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.040 At the same point in time, he really helped us 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.920 and gave us a chance there in that situation to 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:11.280 help us win that game. And and so um, you 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.720 know that's why we're fortunate to have him on this team. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:15.880 And I just have a ton of respect for him. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.000 He may very well start for you on Thursday. We'll 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.880 know more probably tomorrow. What's the status right now this 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.760 evening of Justin Fields. Yeah, you know, you're right, it's 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.360 it's it's getting an understanding of where he's at and 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.640 you know he's definitely in some pain, and said, well, 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:34.319 we'll continue to work through you know, how he feels, 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.880 what the deal is that's going on with him from 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.760 the injury standpoint with the ribs, and then really every 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:45.199 every hour, every day that passes, we got to decide, Okay, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.760 where are you and that includes him, that includes us, 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.160 that includes the doctors and trainers, and and decide what's 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.560 best for him and for us. Have you ever had 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.760 a rib injury as a player? I have not. I 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.480 just had shoulder injuries, but I never did have talked 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.160 to people that I've had it. And I know, you know, 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.599 just like I said this morning, it's sometimes the simplicities 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.520 of life that can hurt you, just with breathing and 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.200 laying down and sleeping and those type of deals. So 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.560 it sounds like it's never fun. Bang bang boom, boom. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:18.000 Two catches Jimmy Graham and then the bubble screen out 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.880 to Darnell Mooney. Break that play down as well for 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.360 Andy Dalton, because that really got the sideline jump and 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:27.200 in emotion and Jimmy Graham's emotion was felt right away 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:29.960 after that catch. That's what he brings. Your two veterans 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:32.319 brought what they're supposed to bring in that situation without 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.760 a doubt. I think it was interesting because you have 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.920 that first play on first and ten where Andy comes 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.160 back his first play and throws a nice ball to 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.000 Jimmy who was physical at the top of the route, 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.520 caught the ball, took a nice hit, protected the football, 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.400 and then showed his emotion and his passion right that 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.800 got the sideline going. Very next play, we come back 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.040 on the RPL and we hit Mooney. But the best 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.600 part of that play, other than Mooney's decisive running and speed, 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.400 was the absolute perfect execution of the blocking. The tight 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.840 ends out there are being able to do that, you know, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.840 just as we asked him to do, and that's what happens, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.839 you know, really really neat to see, and then for 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.079 Mooney to score like that, we just felt like, you know, okay, great, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.040 we got a long play, not a twelve play drive, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.199 a two play series that went. However, many are sevent 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.719 some yards. It was just really nice to have. You 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.600 can feel the emotion on the sideline. Play clock to six, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.720 low snap, Huntley looking to throw steps up hit as 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:30.120 these delivers pickups, click from behind, Hey brings him down 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:31.959 in almost time. I hawk that ball out of there. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.600 Download the Chicago Bears app to play our new predictor 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:36.560 game Risk It brought to you by Bette Rivers, for 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.280 your chance to win two hundred and fifty dollars in 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.679 free bets at a custom Bears jersey with Bears head 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.360 coach Matt Naggie. Jeff jonah akerd one of the three 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.040 and a half sacks of Robert Quinn. Heck of a job. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.960 Now leaning into the prep for the Detroit Lions Thursday 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.600 at Ford Field. I had an opportunity to do a 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.640 one on one interview with him for our Bears Game 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:58.000 Day Live show, revealing just what he's all about. He's 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:03.360 a simple country boy from North Carolina, but with great passion. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.000 He's lived through a lot, a near death experience with 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:09.920 a tumor that he's played with his entire career and 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.200 still emotional about that. I think it put a different 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.400 spin on just because because of COVID, we haven't had 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.560 a chance, fans haven't had a chance to get to 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:22.760 know some of these players like you brought in. But boy, 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:27.080 you have and Robert Quinn is certainly bouncing back in 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.200 a very dramatic way with ten sacks and ten weeks 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.160 of the season. He is and it's it's a really 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.200 special story for him. It's great for him to be 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.720 able to come back and show what he's all about. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.720 I know, you know last year was a frustrating year 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:42.000 for him, but he's really really taking charge this year. 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.400 And you know, he's just playing at such a high level. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.640 Like you said, he's he's a person that every day 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.480 you walk by and you ask him how he's doing, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.880 he always just says, I'm breathing. You know, two word, 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.200 I'm breathing. And he keeps life very simple, he keeps 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.840 in his in perspective and I just have a ton 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.120 of respect for how he yourself as a person in 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.240 a player. All right, let's talk secondary because a time 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.440 or two this season there have been communication breakdowns. You 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:11.200 don't want them, I don't know, you don't expect them. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.080 I guess in clutch situations, but there were some more yesterday. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:17.680 Where's the fix on that? Especially on bunch sets. Bunch sets, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:21.480 everybody's got to know the responsibility from the jump. That's 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.400 a difficult one in this league, and teams do a 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:26.120 lot of damage on bunch sets as you know. Yeah, 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.120 you're right, you know that's those are ways to take 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.160 advantage of different coverages, and especially in that moment in 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.520 the game, you want to make sure your communications spot 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.640 on and that there's definitely no one that that's that 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:41.120 wide open. So we gotta you know that that starts 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.960 with me and making sure that these guys all understand 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.760 the mentality of the communication process and then and then 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.400 the execution part of it. So just just too big 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.360 of a play there at that moment, put them down there, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.160 too close to be able to go ahead and get 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.520 that touchdown. It's not in your DNA to just throw 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.600 your hands up in the air and say, oh, well, well, 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:02.640 I don't know, I don't know how we're gonna fix this. 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.080 I don't know what we're going to do. But coaches 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:10.320 have to have answers two very difficult questions. Um, do 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.720 you have some in your well you're gonna reach into 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.400 to find a way here. Yeah, well, I mean it's 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.880 it's been you know when you go through these these uh, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.360 when you when you go through losses like this, the 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.240 only thing you can do is fight. You said, it's 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:25.200 in your DNA. You either have or you don't. And 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.160 if you have it, it's easy because you just keep fighting, 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.920 you know, until one lands and one lands then then 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:32.760 you try to hit you you haven't a second one 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.200 that lands. And so if you don't have it and 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.160 you quit, um, you know, you know who I am, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:39.600 and you know who our team is, and you know 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.320 how we work as coaches and players, and um that 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.080 that's what we will do. Uh and and that's the 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.480 only thing, that's the only choice we have. So I'm 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.400 you know, it is a quick turnaround and we're right 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.760 back at and you know how to walk through today, 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:56.000 have another short walk through tomorrow before you know, we're 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.520 on the plane of Detroit. How do you handle team 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.760 wide frustration? You could see it in your face, their 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.119 faces when you stand before them team meetings. How do 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.960 you especially with young guys, they could easily drift and veterans. 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.600 Veterans can make business decisions, sure right, you just you 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.480 just stay honest with every one of them. You're very honest. 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.000 He's key. Um, that's the only that's the only thing 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.720 that you know. These players they understand. They all know 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.280 how hard they work. Um, we as coaches know and 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.800 see how hard everybody works. And so when you're honest 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.479 with them and you don't point fingers, you don't blame. Uh, 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:33.959 it's it's a lot easier to go out to practice. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:35.679 It's a lot easier to go out during game day 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:37.359 and give it all you have. And that's what our 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.200 guys have done. All right, let's talk Lions. They are 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.800 a tough team. They have a coach that you got 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.680 to know in the first meeting. They've had four games, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.240 they've held teams under twenty points, held the Browns at thirteen. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.080 They have a running back that's hot, they got a 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:53.520 tight end. Don't know who the quarterback is going to be. 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:55.040 What do you know about Tim Boyle? What do you 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.399 know about the Lions right now? Yeah? Well, you're right. 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.120 I mean, they're they're a team that you know. They 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.480 play Cleveland yesterday and um and held them to a 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.040 low amount of points. I think it's you know, with 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.920 thirteen points, and so we understand that they're they're fighters. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.080 You know that from from coach Campbell and what he's 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.360 all about. And he's teaching the same message. And it's 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.560 not easy, you know, when you're when you're losing like that. 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.719 But you watch their games and you see, I mean, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:21.600 you take the Steelers into overtime in a sloppy game 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.520 and with rain and everything, but that's who they are 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.159 and it doesn't matter, you know. In the NFL. You 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:30.800 look yesterday and you see the Texans beat the Titans, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:32.760 you know, and it does not matter. So what we 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.560 got to do is make sure we're locked in and 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.600 we grow out there and just give it our all, 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.439 all right, appreciate it, matco luck with the prep, Thanks Jefe. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.439 Single game Bears tickets aren't available. Cheer on the Monsters 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.640 of the Midway live at Soldier Field this season. Visit 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:49.000 Chicago Bears dot com slash tickets for more information. Welcome 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.120 back to the Bears coaches showing. Because of the short week, 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:54.360 no coordinator this week, but we got a great man 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.000 in his own right, Lamar Soup. Campbell guy, I've gotten 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.920 to know well over the years, the man we call Sup. 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.480 You're still good with that now that you're a vice president. Yeah, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:07.200 I promised I would never change no matter how how 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.320 much I had an opportunity to rise. So yeah, feel 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.359 free to call me Jeff, and always good to be 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.000 with you. Yeah, it's good to see you. And you 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.520 did get a new title as vice president of Player Engagement. 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.240