Speaker 1: Welcoming into another edition of the Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Nagie, brought to you by Whip the
Speaker 1: CPAs and consultants Jeff Joni Yack here until eight o'clock
Speaker 1: tonight with you Coach Naggie here into the bottom of
Speaker 1: the hour, and then offensive coordinator Bill Laser joins the
Speaker 1: program here at seven thirty give me Matt, how you
Speaker 1: holding up? And early morning arrival from Green Bay. After
Speaker 1: a promising start, that twenty four point second quarters certainly
Speaker 1: was an eye opener, only to have the Packtors get
Speaker 1: to win with a twenty four unanswered performance on their
Speaker 1: own to get the victory overall, you touched at it, Taylor,
Speaker 1: two halves, That's one part of the story. What else
Speaker 1: did you see on tape? Yeah, that was the biggest thing,
Speaker 1: Jeff is having to tail two halves. Our guys understanding
Speaker 1: the significance of coming out and starting to fasten that
Speaker 1: third quarter and then finishing in the fourth quarter. And
Speaker 1: you know we didn't do that. So against the good
Speaker 1: football team, they're gonna make you pay. They did that
Speaker 1: right away with the touchdown drive there and start the
Speaker 1: third the strip sack Phoeble that we had and then
Speaker 1: they came right back with the throat of the half
Speaker 1: back for the touchdown. So then we had to recover.
Speaker 1: And I felt like even in that point, you know, offensively,
Speaker 1: being able to kind of flip the field and if
Speaker 1: you do end up punning, you flip the field, and
Speaker 1: we just weren't able to do that, and we weren't
Speaker 1: able to get that ground game going into in the
Speaker 1: third and fourth quarter, and so we kind of became
Speaker 1: one dimension on That's where you got to be really
Speaker 1: really really really really good with those tackles on the edge.
Speaker 1: You got to help out with chips and slams and
Speaker 1: get guys open, and you know, it just we just
Speaker 1: didn't do enough in the end. Obviously. Yeah, we talk
Speaker 1: about all the time against great teams and certainly the
Speaker 1: one you're familiar with in Green Bay, about the you know,
Speaker 1: you really can't have many stubs of the toe, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Do you think that when it starts happening,
Speaker 1: even though there was success the first half, you go
Speaker 1: into the locker roo, I'm sure it was all jazzed
Speaker 1: up that once they start happening again, because these guys
Speaker 1: have touched the stove when it's hot and burned their finger.
Speaker 1: Do you think, oh God, here we go again. Is
Speaker 1: some of that sneak in at times to your team? Well,
Speaker 1: it's a good question if I answered that any other way.
Speaker 1: You say, well it did yesterday. It snucked in and
Speaker 1: we couldn't recover it, you know, so, but our guys,
Speaker 1: you could just sense it on the sideline that even
Speaker 1: though that was happening, there was guys that were trying
Speaker 1: to stay positive. You know, it wasn't pointing fingers, it
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to blame. Everyone was staying positive. They were
Speaker 1: trying to pick each other up, and somebody was trying
Speaker 1: to go out and make a play. And so you
Speaker 1: felt that effort to the final snap yesterday, it just
Speaker 1: was too much for us in the end. And that's
Speaker 1: something that Aaron and that team has been doing for
Speaker 1: a long time, and you know, we weren't able to
Speaker 1: change that yesterday. You rarely start with special teams in
Speaker 1: our conversations here, but we have to because it was
Speaker 1: a spectacular performance in any respect here. Both phases of
Speaker 1: the return game ninety seven for the touchdown, thirty four
Speaker 1: on punt return forty two, forty the kick return that
Speaker 1: would have been that's a forty yard or when it
Speaker 1: goes out of bounds, and there were other things that
Speaker 1: happened overall, summarize what went on in special teams because
Speaker 1: it gave you great feel position endpoints. Yeah, that was huge.
Speaker 1: It's almost like getting a turnover, you know. And so
Speaker 1: we talked about it all week long. Was we really
Speaker 1: felt like we could get big returns in the return game,
Speaker 1: be a kickoff or a punt return. And it's nice
Speaker 1: to have when when you talk about it all week
Speaker 1: and then it comes to fruition and the guys make
Speaker 1: it happen and they execute. It was beautiful to be
Speaker 1: able to see to be able to see seventeen have
Speaker 1: that ninety seven yard punt return, that's special. And what's
Speaker 1: special about that punt return is you could just feel it.
Speaker 1: It was one block after the other and then it
Speaker 1: was just speed down the sideline and finishing with the touchdown.
Speaker 1: So it's an energy booster. You feel it. It picks
Speaker 1: you up on the sideline. I thought seventeen had to
Speaker 1: held a game. You were able to take advantage of
Speaker 1: some muffs. Two in the punt game, the kindle Vodor
Speaker 1: running out of bounds. Apparently that was on his own
Speaker 1: according to the referee after further review of it, Do
Speaker 1: you still maintain that happen there? Again, that's one of
Speaker 1: those calls that, in my opinion, is very very gray
Speaker 1: and happens, you know, throughout the league all the time,
Speaker 1: and so it's it's becomes you know, subjective, and he
Speaker 1: thought that that was what happens, and that's why he
Speaker 1: bought the flag. Could have been a real big moment though,
Speaker 1: no question about it for the Bears and the anside
Speaker 1: kick of beauty as well. He had the Herbert recovery
Speaker 1: and a guy that you know had ninety seven yards
Speaker 1: on the ground and his first meeting against the Packers
Speaker 1: getting it done in the kick return game. And he's
Speaker 1: willing to do just about anything, isn't he? Because he
Speaker 1: shows up some way somehow no matter what he's doing,
Speaker 1: he does. He's special. He's a special rookie. You can
Speaker 1: do a lot of different things. You love his mentality.
Speaker 1: A lot of yards after contact, and there was even
Speaker 1: some ones that he didn't have great or have a
Speaker 1: lot of huge production on the return, but yet you
Speaker 1: still felt it were broken tackles. He might get three
Speaker 1: or four or five extra yards. So he's a really
Speaker 1: good player and he's gonna have a bright future. Injuries
Speaker 1: piled up a little bit yesterday, Matt So tell us
Speaker 1: about DHC. Yeah, it's unfortunate. You know, he went in
Speaker 1: to make a tackle and you could see he got
Speaker 1: hit on his forearm, and so he does have the
Speaker 1: broken forearm and it's going to require surgery and he'll
Speaker 1: be put on ir But you know, you just you
Speaker 1: just love players like him that are so interval to
Speaker 1: the special teams to be able to do things on defense.
Speaker 1: And he's been here a long time and sometimes, uh,
Speaker 1: they're quote unquote role players, but he's a he's a
Speaker 1: phenomenal player, and you just love his effort and we
Speaker 1: wish him the best. Speaking of effort, so James Daniels
Speaker 1: makes it a great black, throws this guy down to
Speaker 1: the ground, punishes him a little bit, rolls up on
Speaker 1: Jason Peters and you saw that. You flinch because Peter's
Speaker 1: is stalemating his guy, and those things do happen. Unfortunately. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's probably had that more than a time or two
Speaker 1: in his seven thousand plus snaps in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, I'm sure it's happening a lot, and it
Speaker 1: is unfortunate because it's just, uh, it's part of being
Speaker 1: in the trenches there, and you know it's he ended
Speaker 1: up getting it rolled up on and he's a he's
Speaker 1: a tough dude, and he was on the sideline and um,
Speaker 1: I know he was in pain. But we'll continue to
Speaker 1: monitor that and see where he is at. Keeper fingers crossed,
Speaker 1: left hand contusion for Justin Fields. You're feeling optimistic about that?
Speaker 1: Are you optimistic as well for Roquan Smith? Or does
Speaker 1: another hamstring tug concern you here in a short time frame.
Speaker 1: I do feel optimistic about ro Quan, I think, um,
Speaker 1: but I but I also don't want to put, you know,
Speaker 1: anything on him without getting through the week and just
Speaker 1: kind of seeing where it's at. You know, those uh,
Speaker 1: those hamstrings and soft tissues you got to be real
Speaker 1: careful of. And that's kind of where where we're at
Speaker 1: with him. Others Kiris Tonga, Andy Dalton still working through
Speaker 1: some swelling and pain in his hand. A summary there.
Speaker 1: So with the injury, an opportunity opens up for Tevin Jenkins.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine a more challenging environment with very few
Speaker 1: snaps as a left tackle in his life, let alone
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, coming off back surgery at
Speaker 1: Lambeau in a in a really raucous environment and a
Speaker 1: raucous game because the Bears were clicking to go into
Speaker 1: the locker room with a halftime lead. Kind of summarize
Speaker 1: his day, Well, yeah, you're you're right, you know it's
Speaker 1: it's it's never easy, but I'm sure it's a game
Speaker 1: that for the rest of his career he'll always remember
Speaker 1: and know that he can get better from him and
Speaker 1: we need to be able to help him out as
Speaker 1: much as we can. He's a great kid, he cares
Speaker 1: immensely and he's very very talented. So, um, that's a
Speaker 1: part of life as a rookie. Defenses know that. So
Speaker 1: we as as coaches and as teammates got to help
Speaker 1: out when needed, and um, you know he's gonna learn
Speaker 1: from that. Harquez sends it in the air far start
Speaker 1: of the field. Jackem Grant retrieves at the two packs
Speaker 1: him up. He's in big trouble at the five her
Speaker 1: verses course gets blockers of the ten to the fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, thirty down to thirds eggs head away.
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Speaker 1: A lightning. You know, it was shocking to us afterwards,
Speaker 1: given that Devin Hester and his excellence and hopefully a
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame career, that was the longest punt return
Speaker 1: in Bears history. I don't know if you knew that,
Speaker 1: but Kim Grant just heard the highlight, reverse course and
Speaker 1: went down the sideline. No, yeah, that's uh, it's interesting
Speaker 1: to hear that. And it's always fun watching him in
Speaker 1: practice when he catches all those footballs that are you know,
Speaker 1: hit to him and the ONNLC and you know, go
Speaker 1: back and forth with his movement, change in direction, and
Speaker 1: you know, to be able to put that into action
Speaker 1: against these guys, it was a huge spar for use.
Speaker 1: And again there was some great blocking two, which is great.
Speaker 1: He's been talking about it. He says he's gonna he
Speaker 1: was gonna do it somehow some way kick return if
Speaker 1: he had the opportunity or a punt return. He's been.
Speaker 1: His attitude is great. He's a guy who's hungry. Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur even called him a beast and certainly delivered in
Speaker 1: the passing game two on that shovel off of the
Speaker 1: jet sweep from my Justin Fields. Yeah, he's electric. You know,
Speaker 1: he's quick, he's fast. He can do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: So we're trying to, you know, give him the football
Speaker 1: more and let him do some things with football. And
Speaker 1: he felt that yesterday. I mean that that's game that
Speaker 1: he'll always remember. He was a big part of being
Speaker 1: able to help us score points and we got to
Speaker 1: keep that on stuck Justin Fields, he told us after
Speaker 1: the game he felt about ninety percent last night. Did
Speaker 1: take some hits. I think he was hitting nine times,
Speaker 1: but he avoided a bunch more that could have happened.
Speaker 1: He had a great day run of the football overall.
Speaker 1: How would you say his decision making was and what'd
Speaker 1: you think of his throws last night? Yeah? I thought
Speaker 1: it was pretty good. I thought that he made some
Speaker 1: really really really good throws, especially outside of the pocket
Speaker 1: on the run. His decision making when he was outside
Speaker 1: of the pocket was phenomenal. He knew when to tuck
Speaker 1: the ball, take off and run. He had the one
Speaker 1: bootleg where he did that with Mooney as a lee bocker,
Speaker 1: got up and out. He didn't take a lot of
Speaker 1: extra hits. I was proud of him for that. And
Speaker 1: then within the progression game, you know, in a drop
Speaker 1: back three step, five steps, seven step, there were some
Speaker 1: times where you know he had to move his feet,
Speaker 1: slide left, throw right, slide right, throw left, and he
Speaker 1: did a good job. So he's growing. Whenever you throw
Speaker 1: pick six, it's not easy to rebound from that, and
Speaker 1: he did it yesterday coming back at the touchdown task. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the first thing I set out of my mouth.
Speaker 1: What's what's the rebound going to be like? And I
Speaker 1: think he's already given us a pretty good sample size
Speaker 1: of what he is like in those situations. He is,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done it all these games that he's playing,
Speaker 1: and it's fun because it's consistent. You know, you just
Speaker 1: feel it. And we were talking to him in between
Speaker 1: right after the pick six in the next series, and
Speaker 1: guys are coming over to him and just you know,
Speaker 1: not overdoing it, but taking care of him. And he
Speaker 1: handled a grade and he showed what he's all about.
Speaker 1: You know, the throat of Mooney early first quarter, that's
Speaker 1: the one that you know, you know he's getting hit.
Speaker 1: He knows he's getting hit by Kingsley, Kiki, he's in
Speaker 1: his face. He fires it and as a reflection of that,
Speaker 1: NFL next Gen Stats said he was pressured on nineteen
Speaker 1: to thirty five dropbacks nine quarterback hits, but he was
Speaker 1: eight to seventeen for one twenty two plus the seven
Speaker 1: scrambles for seventy one yards and four first down. So
Speaker 1: even if the pressure was there with ribs in awe
Speaker 1: and at ninety percent, he still was able to be productive.
Speaker 1: And that was that was a killer throw right there.
Speaker 1: It was and again throughout that game, you know, and
Speaker 1: that's the NFL. There's not a lot of times where
Speaker 1: you have a really pretty clean pocket. But for him
Speaker 1: as a rookie to be able to see that and
Speaker 1: make these throws that he's making, in particular too, when
Speaker 1: you're down multiple scores and they know you're one dimensional. Um,
Speaker 1: he wasn't forcing throws. I mean he had to pick
Speaker 1: six to the flat and he give me a good
Speaker 1: play and then the last pick of the game, you're
Speaker 1: in kind of desperation mode and um, you know, he
Speaker 1: again he had to kind of get some stuff around
Speaker 1: his feet, so he kind of had to throw through
Speaker 1: some guys. But I really thought that he was productive
Speaker 1: and he played a really good game on the player
Speaker 1: Jalen Johnson. Over the course of the night, he played
Speaker 1: a physical game with DeVante Adams, a guy who can
Speaker 1: be a physical receiver. He lines up everywhere. I believe
Speaker 1: when he was closest to him two or five only
Speaker 1: nineteen yards. So, uh, would you overall think of Jalen
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a second time around now with Davante.
Speaker 1: At times you gotta get him in the slot and
Speaker 1: Jalen you know knows that's an adjustment too. But overall,
Speaker 1: would you think of the second year play? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know he's Jalen is really he's growing a lot and
Speaker 1: he's getting to see that. You know, when you have
Speaker 1: these I mean that you're when we're talking about Davonte Adams,
Speaker 1: we're talking about one of the best receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna get challenged and he's gonna get catches.
Speaker 1: I thought Jalen in the first game did an excellent
Speaker 1: job garden him. You know, he had that one play
Speaker 1: at the very end. We had a big play and
Speaker 1: then yesterday too, and that's that's going to continue to
Speaker 1: happen with Jalen. You know, he's a he's a good
Speaker 1: corner and he's gonna continue to grow. And um, we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep wanting him to be matched up at times
Speaker 1: with their best receiver. And so you're gonna win something,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose something. But you gotta have a short
Speaker 1: memory as a dB. And he has that poor man
Speaker 1: a Russia snap back Rogers looking at throw. They keep
Speaker 1: him in the pocket. Pressure coming. Hey, daddy goes sect again.
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Speaker 1: with Bears head coach Matt Naggie. Just heard another Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn's sack. Looks like they credit him with two for
Speaker 1: the game we keep talking about every week. He's just
Speaker 1: stacking games in terms of getting pressure on the past
Speaker 1: or fourteen now and thirteen games. An incredible season continues
Speaker 1: for this veteran player at outside linebacker. Yeah, he's having
Speaker 1: a heck of a year. And I just appreciate and
Speaker 1: love it because he comes to practice every day and
Speaker 1: practices the same. What you guys see on game day
Speaker 1: is what he does in practice. Every snap he's out there.
Speaker 1: I always got to yell at him and tell him
Speaker 1: to stay away from the quarterback because he's always trying
Speaker 1: to get so close. And I appreciate that about him.
Speaker 1: But it's nice to see him get rewarded and he's
Speaker 1: helping our defense help pressure was really getting there. Second half,
Speaker 1: they start out, they start pounding AJ Dillon and and
Speaker 1: that's something you knew they were going to do at
Speaker 1: some point in that game. Did that take away some
Speaker 1: of the starts out of the rush. Yeah, And again
Speaker 1: they really have been getting him going lately last several games.
Speaker 1: And he's a he's a big running back that when
Speaker 1: he hits when he's going down the hill man he
Speaker 1: stopped to bring down. And so they got that going
Speaker 1: and went down there and scored that that touchdown and
Speaker 1: We're going to continue to do that until you stop it.
Speaker 1: And then when you want to stop it, then you've
Speaker 1: got to stop Davante in that passing game and then
Speaker 1: the way they take shots, so you know they got
Speaker 1: him going as a credit to them, all right, some
Speaker 1: degradation at the nickel position because of injuries over the
Speaker 1: course of the season. So Zavier Crawford had his struggles
Speaker 1: last night. You put dhc he gets hurt. Both guys
Speaker 1: got hurt, actually, and then Eddie Jackson forced to move
Speaker 1: into the slot. Obviously has experience at that in his
Speaker 1: college career, if I'm not mistaken, So what do you do?
Speaker 1: What do you do at this point now at that position,
Speaker 1: because it's it's a challenge when these teams are mostly
Speaker 1: at the time put you in that nickel situation, and yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt, yeah, we you know it's it's a part
Speaker 1: of this game. You get guys injured and banged up,
Speaker 1: and you know it's other guys have to step in
Speaker 1: the roles. And that's what Eddie Jackson did yesterday. I
Speaker 1: think that's a credit to him that he's able to
Speaker 1: do that. And again, when you have to do that
Speaker 1: against DeVante Adams, it's not very easy, you know. But
Speaker 1: Eddie was able to come in and play some of
Speaker 1: the nickel a little bit in that game. And and
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to continue to be creative with
Speaker 1: how we you know, work through that and see where
Speaker 1: we're at. But um, that's probably not a team that
Speaker 1: you want that to happen. Well, And you know that
Speaker 1: five yards slant he hit it twice inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line, the quick slant one he hit with Lazard
Speaker 1: on the fourth down, the other to Davante Adams. You
Speaker 1: as an offensive mind, that's a play that i'd imagine
Speaker 1: extremely difficult to defend no matter who's throwing the ball.
Speaker 1: But Rogers, so decisive and quick with his wrist, can
Speaker 1: flick it in there. Is that a challenging play for anybody?
Speaker 1: It is. It's hard because you got to protect for
Speaker 1: the fade too. They can give you the same move
Speaker 1: and you can go ahead and they can throw the
Speaker 1: fade up to you, which they've done a lot as well.
Speaker 1: So you got to be able to to really be
Speaker 1: ready for whether it is the key route or the
Speaker 1: slant route or the fade. And they were able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. All right, What do you feel
Speaker 1: you can be in the final four games as a
Speaker 1: football team. Well, we need to win and there are guys,
Speaker 1: um that's what that's why you do. What you do
Speaker 1: is to go out there and win. And that's why
Speaker 1: the first half, those first two quarters, we were out
Speaker 1: there just cutting loose, playing having fun. You could feel it,
Speaker 1: you felt the energy on the sideline. That's what that's
Speaker 1: what we need to do is just keep it simple
Speaker 1: and you know, play for each other. We're out there,
Speaker 1: cut it loose, don't hold back everybody and just see
Speaker 1: what happens. And then another thing on Tevin Jenkins, because
Speaker 1: your first worry is, okay, how do you make sure
Speaker 1: that that guy does not lose confidence right away? I
Speaker 1: know Justin talked about it with us after the game
Speaker 1: because he is a little down and he told them, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's your first go around. What we
Speaker 1: got you. I mean, how do you approach it then?
Speaker 1: As a head coach, Yeah, it's the same way. I mean,
Speaker 1: these are these young guys, you know there you have
Speaker 1: some games where it can just be like wow, you
Speaker 1: know this is the NFL. But at the same point
Speaker 1: in time, these are the games that you'll remember for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life, because it'll keep you juiced up,
Speaker 1: it'll keep you going to want to get better and
Speaker 1: to understand the speed of the game. This is a
Speaker 1: fast game. It's super fast, and so when you have
Speaker 1: guys like Kevin and Justin that are really dedicated to
Speaker 1: their art and trying to be great, they'll bounce back,
Speaker 1: you know, and they'll understand that's not easy. We try
Speaker 1: to get them as many reps as we can in practice,
Speaker 1: but sometimes when you're the backup, you don't get as many.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, the lights come on and
Speaker 1: you're thrown in there. That's different. So that's why you know,
Speaker 1: I really have a lot of trust in him. And
Speaker 1: you're open for an alignment discussion with your offensive line coach, right, yeah, yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll work through all that. You know, there's there's just
Speaker 1: so many little variables that go through, whether it's the
Speaker 1: health of a player. The different guys that we have
Speaker 1: on our roster were extremely deep at our offensive line.
Speaker 1: So we'll go ahead this week and talk through all
Speaker 1: that and decide what's best for us. Mondner extra day
Speaker 1: back in prime time thoughts. Yeah again, division opponent, you know,
Speaker 1: another football team, that this will be the first time
Speaker 1: we play them this year, this late in the season,
Speaker 1: for the first time. You know. The one thing about them,
Speaker 1: Jeff is every game they play has been coming down
Speaker 1: in the last play of the game, so they're well
Speaker 1: prepared for that. And we got to have a great
Speaker 1: week of practice and during we tend to get to win.
Speaker 1: All right, man, enjoy your preparation this week. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to you next week. All right, Thanks, Jeff sa Fields
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Speaker 1: for more information. Back on the Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: our guests this week. Bears offensive coordinator Bill Laser just
Speaker 1: heard the jackiem Grant touchdown off the fly. Sweep the
Speaker 1: shovel ahead from your quarterback. Justin Fields really really becoming
Speaker 1: a big part of this offense right now. It certainly
Speaker 1: matched up with what he did in the punt return game,
Speaker 1: a huge day for number seventeen. Yeah, I think Jackiems
Speaker 1: has proven that that he can be electric out there.
Speaker 1: He's you know, and the thing that strikes you on
Speaker 1: game days he goes. He plays with a ton of confidence,
Speaker 1: you know. And obviously I get to I get from
Speaker 1: from the box. I get to watch him feel the
Speaker 1: punts and play with great confidence. But even when we
Speaker 1: get the ball in his hands on offense, he just
Speaker 1: brings not only explosiveness but great confidence. So we're really
Speaker 1: glad we have him. Love his passion for the game.
Speaker 1: Number one, just getting you know him on a couple
Speaker 1: of lengthy interviews and a feature we did on him,
Speaker 1: smile on his face, loves being here. I think he
Speaker 1: just loves knowing that what he thought was going to
Speaker 1: be offensive opportunity in Miami this year, it was not
Speaker 1: going to materialize that way. And I just think he's
Speaker 1: thankful and he's repaying you guys in a big way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll keep well, well, he can keep the payments coming.
Speaker 1: You like it, all right? Tell us the tailor two halves.
Speaker 1: That's that seems to be the theme of this one,
Speaker 1: with this one with the Packers. Yeah, I thought, excuse me,
Speaker 1: I thought we were able to We were able to
Speaker 1: keep them off balance and keep things moving around in
Speaker 1: the first half. Uh you know, mix up and running
Speaker 1: the past, and obviously this came out at halftime and
Speaker 1: in and uh I had those three and outnce we
Speaker 1: weren't able to weren't able to turn some of the
Speaker 1: things that we thought maybe could be big plays into
Speaker 1: big plays. Um. You know, if it was obviously we
Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on this morning on it,
Speaker 1: and if it was one thing, it would be easy
Speaker 1: to fix. But we've got to do a great job
Speaker 1: as coaches just being focused on as far as I
Speaker 1: was the gaming one of the best things to uh
Speaker 1: uh to come back with. And obviously, you know, execution
Speaker 1: is the key. What did the first half tell you
Speaker 1: about what the offense is capable of? Oh, I think
Speaker 1: I think it was nice to get some some big
Speaker 1: plays out of some short throws, you know, and so
Speaker 1: so guys were I think are excited about that because
Speaker 1: you know, creating big plays is one thing we talk about,
Speaker 1: and I think we were able to get our run
Speaker 1: production uh, kind of with with with a number of
Speaker 1: varied schemes, and so that was good to um get
Speaker 1: some some different kind of runs, help us get some production.
Speaker 1: UM So, I think I think guys played with toughness.
Speaker 1: I think they played with confidence in that first half,
Speaker 1: and we have to kind of recapture that as we
Speaker 1: start the game next week again it will be on
Speaker 1: another big stage and be in the primetime game. And
Speaker 1: then uh, you know, obviously the you know what, we're
Speaker 1: all pros players and coaches, and it was what we
Speaker 1: have to make sure we do is maintain it and
Speaker 1: just keep it throughout the throughout the game. Now, Justin
Speaker 1: said he was about ninety percent. We just touched on
Speaker 1: that with Mattuh. He says he feels it on every throw.
Speaker 1: Did you get any sense of that watching from up top? No,
Speaker 1: I that's not not not something that that struck me.
Speaker 1: I think once the game went, I think we were
Speaker 1: very aware of what his situation was physically, So we
Speaker 1: wanted to be careful, you know in the run game
Speaker 1: of of of not overdoing it and you know, keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on him. And we also understand the way
Speaker 1: he plays that some passes are going to turn into
Speaker 1: runs and that of course proved to be the case.
Speaker 1: And also, you know in an NFL game, you're usually
Speaker 1: going to get hit in the pocket throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the game, so we just we just had to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that. But you know, even as
Speaker 1: as we've gone through practice and he was working his
Speaker 1: way back from the injury, he looked good throwing for
Speaker 1: a while, So I don't think it's the kind of
Speaker 1: thing that you can you're gonna see and notice back
Speaker 1: to throw fields, tight pocket over the middle, caught back
Speaker 1: to bear bird and away he goes thirty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: Bill Laser, I guest here on the Bears Coaches Show,
Speaker 1: just heard the Fields throw to demere bird outstanding bang
Speaker 1: bang play. Break it down for us how it all
Speaker 1: worked out well. I thought it was a good example. Obviously,
Speaker 1: when you have a play like that, a lot of
Speaker 1: things go right in the protection it was. It was
Speaker 1: a third down playoff thought we protected well and get
Speaker 1: addressed in time. And with the mirror running that route
Speaker 1: from the backfield, and we had a few times of
Speaker 1: the game we wanted to want to receiver up in
Speaker 1: the backfield. It gave him space to run the route
Speaker 1: against the defensive back, their dime dB who he was facing,
Speaker 1: and so it gave him space releasing from the backfield
Speaker 1: so I couldn't get their hands on him. I thought,
Speaker 1: what two things really stood out in that execution. Number
Speaker 1: one was the speed that Demir ran the route. He
Speaker 1: got up the field, he closed the cushion on the dB,
Speaker 1: and when he stuck his right foot in the ground
Speaker 1: and broke, he didn't slow down, he didn't turn his
Speaker 1: numbers back to the quarterback he broke. He kept full speed.
Speaker 1: We'd like to say, and you gotta at your breakpoint,
Speaker 1: you gotta get kept get separation and keep separation. And
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great example of demere of
Speaker 1: sticking his foot in the ground, breaking away from the dB,
Speaker 1: and then accelerating rather than trying to be careful to
Speaker 1: make sure he had the catch. You know, it really
Speaker 1: looked like a pro doing that. And then the number
Speaker 1: two was Justin had have been stride, you know, which
Speaker 1: which when you talk about run after the cats, yards
Speaker 1: after the catch, which in the NFL is a is
Speaker 1: a big is a big deal leading to success. But
Speaker 1: those are the things you need. A guy who could
Speaker 1: get separation and keep separation out of his break and
Speaker 1: then hit him in stride with the ball. And so
Speaker 1: when those two things came together, it gave you an opportunity.
Speaker 1: And it came after the pick six, so and it
Speaker 1: was quick, boom, get out there. That has to really
Speaker 1: help flush all that sickness in the moments of a
Speaker 1: guy taking your past the other way for six. Well,
Speaker 1: that might be human nature, but the nature of a
Speaker 1: quarterback is a short memory. Move on. So I think
Speaker 1: Justin proved he can do that. All right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Tevin Jenkins being put in that position. Obviously he
Speaker 1: was put in that position because you guys had him
Speaker 1: ready and dialed in, ready to go. What are you
Speaker 1: what are your takeaways and your conversations with a rookie
Speaker 1: that experienced that kind of baptism in the National Football League. Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's not feel bad for Tevin Jenkins. Right he was.
Speaker 1: He was a draft pick for a reason for Louis
Speaker 1: believin his ability and has proven him production on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, he obviously you know, we don't make excuses here,
Speaker 1: and it's it's pretty clear with the injury stuff that
Speaker 1: he's he's behind the you know, behind a little bit
Speaker 1: as far as you know, practice reps in that, but
Speaker 1: that that doesn't change the fact that we have really
Speaker 1: high expectations for him. And if you're suited up on
Speaker 1: game day ready to go, then when you step in,
Speaker 1: we expect you to get the job done. And I
Speaker 1: don't say that to be to be to be mean.
Speaker 1: I say it because that's the expectations we have the Tevin,
Speaker 1: and I think that's how Teban's gonna play. I think
Speaker 1: I think we're all gonna be very happy that we
Speaker 1: have them, and he'll get he'll get better from what happened.
Speaker 1: But probably the best, the best, uh, I think I
Speaker 1: could do for Tevin is keep the expectations high because
Speaker 1: he deserves it. And that bunch set where he's lined up,
Speaker 1: he's got a black um block a dB I think
Speaker 1: it was Shannon Sullivan and he got he got called
Speaker 1: for a hold there. What's the teaching point. What's the
Speaker 1: coaching point? It just it comes down to the fundamentals
Speaker 1: and just understanding, you know, hand placement and positioning. Once
Speaker 1: the defender gets in a certain position, it's it's it
Speaker 1: happens all the time on plays. Now, when you're in
Speaker 1: the in the scrum, in the middle of the line,
Speaker 1: it doesn't get seen as easily. But when guys get
Speaker 1: into a certain position, you can't grab him anymore. You
Speaker 1: got for a home or push him and just finish
Speaker 1: the block a different way. So I think he knows
Speaker 1: U and I'm sure he'll learn from what happened in
Speaker 1: that moment and it won't hopefully happen again. You know,
Speaker 1: it just shows you how athletic the guy is. We
Speaker 1: can put them out there in space on a dbat
Speaker 1: and gets hands on him. Yeah, what what motivated you
Speaker 1: to do that that very point? The athleticism of this
Speaker 1: particular offensive lineman. Yeah, I think we have. We feel
Speaker 1: really good about our offensive tackles athleticism. So a few
Speaker 1: times in the games, or a couple of times in
Speaker 1: the game, we put them on linement out there wide
Speaker 1: and just just finding a little different way to put
Speaker 1: pressure around the defense by formation and putting them in
Speaker 1: a bind as far as having to having to cover
Speaker 1: the whole field, continue to go to that wildcat. Are
Speaker 1: you happy with what you're getting out of the Wildcat
Speaker 1: and what it's doing to the defense. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we're just fortunate that in David Montgomery, we have a
Speaker 1: guy that is one hundred percent completely trustworthy, not only
Speaker 1: with whatever cadency's going to use or taking the snap
Speaker 1: and handling the ball in the backfield like a quarterback,
Speaker 1: but also when there are plays where he has reads
Speaker 1: to make on defensive players, give or pull reads, just
Speaker 1: unbelievably trustworthy to make those reads. So again, it's it's
Speaker 1: just another way for us to put pressure on the defense,
Speaker 1: make them defend the whole field. And the bonus to
Speaker 1: it is that on a lot of those plays, it
Speaker 1: puts the ball in David Montgomery's hands. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaching Show Final moments a Bears offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Bill Laser. After the loss up in Green Big, you
Speaker 1: had Alan Robinson back on the field for the first
Speaker 1: time in several weeks. Uh, and he and Darnell Mooney, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, didn't have a ton of opportunity for a
Speaker 1: variety of different reasons, from your play calling to maybe
Speaker 1: what the Packers were doing. But do you feel good
Speaker 1: about getting him back out there to help balance out
Speaker 1: the offense a little bit, just given you another top weapon. Well,
Speaker 1: I feel great about having him back. And U, if
Speaker 1: you follow the injury reporter in the weeks, it's it's uh.
Speaker 1: You go through the week, you don't always know on Monday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Thursday who you're gonna have. But but having Allan back
Speaker 1: is huge for us. Well, I would say one of
Speaker 1: the things when you come out of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: as a coaching staff, you you look at uh statistically,
Speaker 1: you know where did the ball go? We did a plan?
Speaker 1: Go the way we planned it would. I mean, when
Speaker 1: you call a run play, you can be pretty sure
Speaker 1: who's getting the ball. When you call a pass play,
Speaker 1: you have your main target in mind, you have a
Speaker 1: reason you're calling it, but the defense can almost always
Speaker 1: take you off target if if necessary. And so we
Speaker 1: end up in the plan setting so much up where
Speaker 1: we say that Darnell Mooney or Alan Robinson is the
Speaker 1: number one target, the number one read in this play.
Speaker 1: But you know in the past. Some of it's going
Speaker 1: to come down to the defense that they're in. And
Speaker 1: you know, even the first time we played them, they
Speaker 1: did roll their coverage and put a safety over the
Speaker 1: top of Alan on third down, so we knew that
Speaker 1: that was a possibility. So a lot of it's going
Speaker 1: to be depending on how the quarterback sees it. You know,
Speaker 1: Justin's got decisions to make out there, and you know
Speaker 1: in the past game you also rely on the protection
Speaker 1: holding up at on that particular play, and you know,
Speaker 1: just a number of things. So we come out of
Speaker 1: the game and we know we're better as a team
Speaker 1: in an offense when Darnel and Alan get the ball,
Speaker 1: and it's not because we're trying to make them happy
Speaker 1: or anything else. It's because we're better when they get
Speaker 1: the ball and we've gotten the ball in their hands.
Speaker 1: Are now it's time to look ahead. Brought to you
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Speaker 1: take a look at the Minnesota Vikings by the way
Speaker 1: Delvin Cook from an offensive point of view. For them
Speaker 1: two old five and two touchdowns on twenty seven carries
Speaker 1: last week against the Steelers, But what are they looking like?
Speaker 1: Defensively right now. So they've got some big names in
Speaker 1: there and Kendricks and obviously Harrison Smith and some big
Speaker 1: guys up from Well, they have a system on defense
Speaker 1: that we know very well, and we know how extensive
Speaker 1: it is. You know, they have a lot of blitz answers.
Speaker 1: We know it's a very sound system. We know what
Speaker 1: what what makes it really go in our opinion, is
Speaker 1: when they have veteran players in there that really know
Speaker 1: the system. And that's what they have. You know, some
Speaker 1: of these guys have been have been in the system,
Speaker 1: so they know all the adjustments. They probably know a
Speaker 1: lot of our calls, you know, and do a lot
Speaker 1: of things based off what they hear at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. It you know, when you get in your division,
Speaker 1: sometimes you get that cat and mouse game going back
Speaker 1: and forth. But it's a it's a system that can
Speaker 1: be sound by lining up and just playing defense, or
Speaker 1: they also can decide to put preser on you with
Speaker 1: with their many varied blitz packages, and it's well coordinated.
Speaker 1: They don't make a lot of mistakes and you can
Speaker 1: see those veteran players help get the younger players that
Speaker 1: they've added up to speed so I think they they
Speaker 1: are going to prove to be to be quite an adversary,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we know them. You know, you
Speaker 1: get to the point where you feel like you know
Speaker 1: them real well, and I'm sure they feel the same
Speaker 1: about us. So it'll be one of those classic division
Speaker 1: battles on the big stage Monday Night football, Soldier Field.
Speaker 1: We'll see you there. Sounds great. That's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for tonight's program. I want to thank our producers Dan Really,
Speaker 1: Jordan tread Up, and Keith Johnson on the board, and
Speaker 1: for coach Naggie and offensive coordinator Bill Laziers take on
Speaker 1: the Vikings at Soldier Field on Monday night. Our pregame
Speaker 1: coverage at four to twenty, kickoff at seven fifteen from
Speaker 1: Soldier Field. That I'll do it tonight. Thanks for listening, everybody.
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