WEBVTT - Coaches Show: Nagy, Helfrich on offensive development 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:11.399 The following is a presentation of the Chicago Bears Network No. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.080 One News Radio seven eighty and one oh five point 0:00:14.160 --> 0:00:17.560 nine FM. This is the Bears Coaches Show with Bears 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.000 Head Coach Matt and Aggie, the coaching staff and Bears management. 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.560 The Bears Coaches Show was brought to you by Whippley 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:28.120 CBA's and Consultants and sponsored by Advocate Healthcare, Hilton and 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.480 the Village of Bedford Park No. From hellas Hall. Here's 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.120 the Voice of the Bears w BBMS Jeff Joniac and 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.680 a pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into hallis Hall 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.760 at the facilities of PNC Studios. This is the Bears 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.480 Coaches Show. Jeff joniag with you and head Coach Matt 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.440 and Aggie rolling on in into eight o'clock tonight as 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.520 we get you set from Mark Helfrich at the bottom 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.600 of the hour. Good to be with you, everybody, and 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.519 thank you for listening. Were brought to you by a 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.120 Whippley Financial Advisor's coach. How you doing tonight? Good? How 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:59.680 are you doing? Fantastic? Frustrating but by no means demoralizing 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:01.680 at this early point in this season. I think that's 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.200 the best way to sum it up, Yeah it was. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.720 It was frustrating, but um, you know, you try to 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.920 learn from these and the guys battled, they played hard, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.760 not the outcome that we wanted, but again they they 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.880 they um they played to the final play. And we'll 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.920 just try to use it for teaching. What did you 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.000 like and what concerned you? Well, the part I liked 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.920 was um in that environment. UM just the way they 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.640 completely um played until the final play. No no one 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.319 gave up, no one quit um. And there were some 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.119 adversity throughout the game, uh for for really all three sides. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.000 And so we stuck together and we fought till the 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.360 very end. UM. You know. Offensively, to start we uh 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.240 by not scoring any points. That's tough. But the defense 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.520 then held them to seven points. So it felt felt 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.000 a lot worse than seven and nothing. But we came 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.320 in at halftime, had a good talk, the guys were positive, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.160 came back out, and then we went ahead and offensively 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.040 got back on track and scored three three quick touchdowns 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:03.800 in eight minutes and and um and and had a 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.800 nice little lead. And then going to the defensive side, 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.440 you know, we we uh, you know, we miss some 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.639 tackles and they had some big plays. And when when 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.239 you when you have big plays in this league, Uh, 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:17.560 and you have touchdowns off of those big plays, then um, 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:19.560 you know you gotta you gotta battle to the end. 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:24.720 And that's what happened. Any concerns that you see moving forward, no, no, 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.440 none at all. Now we're we're in a good place 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.560 right now where we have a team full of good, 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.280 good leaders, good guys. That's why why we believe in 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:35.880 the guys that we brought in here. Uh. Four times 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.200 like this. It's never it's never always rosy. It's it's 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.360 it's hard to have those Tampa Bay games every week. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.080 But um, again, you can learn from these situations and 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.280 that's what we'll do and we'll become better coaches, will 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:48.960 become better players and and um put it behind us 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.680 and get ready for doing it. You know you mentioned 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.560 the Tampa Bay weeks. Yes you can't. But uh, a 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.840 couple of touchdowns taking off the board by those red 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.480 zone takeaways, and they lead the league. I think they 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.520 have five now for the season. Miami does credit to them. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.160 But it would have been a high scoring game. It 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.839 would have been another explosive, high scoring game. It looks 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.880 like offensively. That must give you great hope and excitement 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.959 as well. Yeah, the guys are really starting to gel offensively. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.839 You can see Mitch's playing playing really well right now. 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:20.520 The trust level amongst him and the wide receivers, the 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.760 offensive line block and the guys running the ball. M 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.400 it's all there. And uh, you know, we gotta the 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.519 fellas notice, but the ball security is number one. We 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.280 gotta you gotta protect the football. You gotta respect the football. 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.040 And when that's the case and you win the turnover battle, 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.920 then you normally have a good chance of winning. And yesterday, offensively, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.280 we didn't do that. None of it was lack of effort. 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.120 And these guys feel bad, you know. It stinks that 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.119 that they lost the fall, you know, through an interception 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.560 or lost to fumble um And so we got a 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:53.119 rally behind him and support them. The heat was managed 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.560 the best it could be. I've had people tell me 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:58.520 it may have been the hottest game those who didn't 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.560 play that David experienced on that sideline. I was only 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.200 there on pregame, but I felt the heat even coming 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.560 up from the grass and that's how that's how hot 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.440 it was there. And that was a you know ten 0:04:09.560 --> 0:04:12.360 thirty in the morning, eleven thirty in the morning, So, um, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.320 was it one of them? And that we're not making 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.320 an excuse here, it's just the reality. You're in the 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.279 sun there in the shade, um the whole game. But 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.120 was that one of the hottest games you ever experienced? Yeah? 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.440 It was? It was that was that was the hottest 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.360 game that I was ever a part of. Um, yeah, 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.200 for sure it was hot. But again, like you just said, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.280 that's no excuse. That's all part of the elements. And 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.640 I said it last week. There's gonna be times when 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.120 teams are coming to here, to our home and been 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:38.960 playing in some pretty cold weather, So you use whatever 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.040 to you. That's exactly right, and I do want to 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.120 make sure that everyone understands that. Um, you know, we 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:49.400 were our athletic trainers and our sports science the part 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.479 every everyone there. They were. They were awesome and making 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.560 sure everyone was hydrated and we didn't have any cramping 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.800 issues considering I think it was a heat index of 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.640 one hundred and seven and uh, you know, our guys 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:02.920 to play five essentially. Um, they did a great job 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:04.640 with that, and like you said, with the shade, we 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.440 were able to have some man made shade build over there. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:11.000 But um, no excuses Miami Desert. They won the game, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.360 they fall hardy, they gave us a battle and and 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.480 um then we lost. But we'll learn from it from 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.839 your experience over the years dealing with warm weather games, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.840 and certainly this was in a cute situation. What do 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.679 you do doing this week? Then it is it affect 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.080 them anyway over the course of this week as far 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.760 as the weather, Yeah, we're just there. Just their general Yeah, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.440 health and feeling after something like that, it's so draining, 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:40.960 I would say, probably more so on on Monday, um today, tomorrow, Uh, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.560 it can start to you know, they'll they'll start get 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.800 back to recovering. Um, just because of it was five 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.200 quarters number one, no matter where you play, that's an 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.520 extra quarter physically, and then because of the environment and 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.599 the weather. So but but our guys will be fine. Uh, 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.600 they they're you know, we're going into week six here 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.880 and they understand how important it is to protect our 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.440 home turf and and it's going to be a great 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.640 challenge and a great opportunity for us to play Patriots. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.920 You mentioned tackles. It's been brought up obviously. The two 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.960 big plays by Albert Wilson. Were incredible runs on his part. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.520 Give me a little daylight and boom, he's gone. Anyway, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.440 thirty one tackles, according to statistics by the defensive backs 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.760 in the game as it was. Um. In terms of that, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.960 do you think some of the fatigue that may have 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.240 kicked in is a part of that when you got 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.120 a situation like that going on, I don't know, you know, 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.320 it could be. Uh, I'm not I'm not really one 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.479 to I guess answer that just because I don't know 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:40.960 physically exactly where everybody was. I guess I'm dress a 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.160 lot of tackles in the backfield. Yeah, well I'm dramming. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.080 It hasn't shown up at point this year. Sure that. No, Yeah, 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.599 so it could be. But um again, they had to 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.599 tackle in that weather too, And so for for our guys, um, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.440 you know, they are our guys. Our players are harder 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.760 than themselves and they care and that's a good thing. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.000 And when we were flying back on the plane last night, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:05.560 you know, these guys were discussing, um, uh, you know, 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.800 how we can get better and how we're going to 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.160 get better. And when you see that and there's no 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:13.800 um situation where guys are pointing fingers or or they're 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.720 they're split at all. That we don't we don't have that, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:18.320 and that's that's what I'm proud about with this team 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.560 and this organization, and so we gotta we gotta work 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.680 through this. That's not even a fact. I mean, that's 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.960 not even a factor. You know, usually when things like 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.560 that happen, that's over a couple of years of something 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.800 that's not going right. I don't think you ever have 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:33.320 to worry about that with this punch. No, you know, 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.920 they're just that type of guy. So on the plane. So, yeah, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.560 that's an interesting thing. So our guys, were you going 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.680 up to guys guys coming up, do you or you 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.160 just get a sense of what's going on? Yeah, no, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:45.360 I like you guys put their headset out right bad 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:47.160 and they go to sleep. No, there was, and trust me, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.760 there was a good amount of guys that were that 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.440 were completely exhausted and tired and with which you can understand. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.600 But at the same time too, the guys are, you know, 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.080 just coming coming off a battle on the field, and 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.360 so I'd like to go back and just talk to 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:03.040 the guys and just see how they're doing. I like 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.880 number one, just check physically how are they and uh, 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.520 and then mentally we're you at and then talk through it. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.240 You know, hey, you know, how can we get better? 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.360 What can what can we do to get better? And 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.280 communications huge in this building. And as long as we communicate, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.480 we're all honest and we figure out how to fix 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.720 problems and issues. Um, then in the end, automately it's 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.400 going to help us. And that's that's what we do 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.640 and that's what I love about this team. The Bears 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:30.200 Coaches Show with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:33.120 Jeff joni Ac continues. Gabriel traps out to the left 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.680 side beyond the numbers slot right Troy Burton and outside 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.439 of aim Aden Robinson. Jrmisky takes the snap, got to 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.640 Formta rush loft the fast down the right side, going deep. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.840 Gabriel's got it over the shoulder and brought down inside 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:51.680 the twenty five. Taylor Gabriel preaches man deep his second 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.840 big player of the day and it keep going after 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:58.520 this corner Tory mctire and as Taylor Gabriel's second one 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.640 hundred yard game as the Bears losing overtime in Miami, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.440 as they go to three and two, but still maintained 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:07.480 first place in the NFC North. Welcome back to the 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:08.960 Bears Coach. The show brought to you by a whip 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.720 Fleet Financial Advisors, a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.000 And I believe it was sixty one career games. He 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:16.480 never had a one hundred yard games, and now he's 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.960 got him back to back. So this new role for 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.719 him in this career, he's really taking advantage of it. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.640 Taylor Gabriel, Yeah, he's doing well. And it's again when 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.760 he first got here, coming from Atlanta, it was a 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.080 different system, and now we're learning how he fits into 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.599 a role here with our offense, and he's got a 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:40.000 lot of confidence. He's playing well. He's doing a great job. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.800 And so you can see a guy like that that 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.920 has speed, you can always take the top off of 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.720 a defense. It opens up other guys as well, and 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.679 so whenever we get an opportunity to throw it deep, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.959 we're going to and he's been they've been connecting with 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.160 those deep balls. Must feel great that he you mentioned, 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.360 I mean last week, I think to the media he 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.920 didn't anymore. I want to be just labeled as a guy. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:06.040 He's just a gimmicky guy again. Yeah, He's the great 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.360 part about Taylor is that you're able to use him 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.839 as a gadget guy, and he's great at that, but 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.520 defenses can't just look at him as that. And now 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.160 what he's doing is he's going out there and he's 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.720 playing outside, and he's playing a lot more plays than 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.280 he's ever been used to, and he's fulfilling a role 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.440 for us, which is great. He's really him and Alan 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:28.120 Robinson right now collectively or just feeding off of each other. 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.480 And Alan's just such a great mentor for all these 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.959 guys and just does all the little things right all 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.640 the time. And so anytime you have that, it helps 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.200 everybody out. You know, you don't love numbers. Last week 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:39.800 I thought I was one of the best quotes I've 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.319 ever heard of coach say when you said, we don't 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.520 care about numbers. We care about letters. And everybody knows 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.880 what that means super Bowl letters. But Mitch, the last 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:54.160 two weeks seven seventy nine touchdowns, one interception, one forty 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.560 three rating, one hundred yards rushing on eleven carries. Wow, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:10:59.480 that's a that's a lot of math right there. Those 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.040 are numbers that I'd like to talk about a little bit. 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.079 I mean, what's that saying, one of those numbers telling 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.839 Matt Nage, Well, it's starting to tell everybody that he's 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:10.480 starting to feel really comfortable in this offense. And we 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.560 are all together feeling that. You're seeing him throw the 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.280 ball with a lot of conviction. You know, he's trusting 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.600 his first read, he's seeing it better. Uh, he's feeling better. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.840 We're feeling better knowing what plays he likes uh in time. 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.000 And so anytime that happens, you start seeing numbers like that. 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.839 And I think he's done a really good job at 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.640 being able to balance this touchdown to check down mentality. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.040 If it's there, the touchdown or the deep ball, he 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.120 takes it. If it's not, then we check it down 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.960 and and uh and let our our playmakers make plays. 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.079 And so it's really neat for me to be able 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.880 to see see Mitch grow. He appreciates the role he's in. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.079 He has a lot of respect for the role of 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.559 rather respect for his teammates. And as I've said from 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.240 day one, this thing will only get better each and 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.760 every week, and there's gonna be still hiccups as we 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.680 go but right now, from where we're at, where we've 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.680 come to, I'm really proud of the guys. And he 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.520 leads a charger. Yeah, And a couple of hiccups yesterday 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.600 were early in the game, and boy, just think what 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.199 happens if he hits Miller there on the deep one. Yeah, 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.880 and some of these things too, Just so people know 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:20.480 it's it's not always just Mitch. I don't know if 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.240 the routes are run right or whatever. We don't know 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.520 that as as fans and observers. So you know that 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.240 stuff though. Yeah, And there's uh, shoot, you can go 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.120 back and look at a lot of tape from a 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.840 lot of quarterbacks yesterday. And I know everyone likes to 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.840 be hard on our quarterback here, and I get it, 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.920 but I just want to make it real clear that 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:39.840 I watch a lot of football. We watch a lot 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.920 of football, and trust me, there's a lot of miss 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.760 miss throws by a lot of good quarterbacks in this league. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.400 But there's a lot of good throws made too. And 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.400 what our guys doing right now is he's making He's 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.160 making a lot of good throws and so he's putting 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.480 us in great situations and he'll be the first one 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.200 to tell you that he wants the interception back and 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.160 understands that, but he'll learn from it, wall grow and 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.520 then uh in the end, Uh, this offense will will 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.160 We'll get to that point to where we just really 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.840 start humming and we feel good about everything. And um, 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.240 but um, they're they're in a good spot, you know. 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.880 Back to the plane, right, you talked to everybody. But 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.920 do you spend a lot of time with Mitchell? Does 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.040 he need time to decompress on the plane. No, We'll 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:22.680 spend some time together and talk and uh, he wants to. Yeah, 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:24.959 it's good. It's good that that that that you got 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.000 to have that relationship. Um, this isn't just a deal 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.880 where we're in the classroom, where we're on the football field. 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:33.120 I think being able to have the human element involved 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:37.040 in it and just um talk ball after everything too. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:38.840 There's a lot of emotions that are going on now 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.400 on that plane. It's it's hard. You know, you're you're 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.960 just getting over those guys are physically and mentally beat 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.280 down when loser draw. Uh, and so it's it's it's 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.400 nice to be able to talk through some things. Um. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.760 Generally I'll watch the game on the plane and then 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.080 I'll go back and talk to him after I've seen 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.520 seen it. The players will watch it too, so they 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.839 have a pretty good idea, um the next day how 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.520 they feel about things. And and then uh, you know, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.719 a daylight today, they come on in here, we'll talk 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.719 about it in the morning for a little bit, and 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.839 then we put it aside and let's go. It's uh, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.080 even even after a win, it's it's it's time to 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.839 move on. You don't have any wasted time here on 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.960 on poutner or worrying about this or that. You fix 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:17.960 your problems and you move on. How many times do 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.160 you watch the game. I'll watch it maybe two or 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.400 three times. And the first time I watch it, I 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:27.280 watch him. No, I actually take my time each play. Yeah, 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.160 and I'll take my time, and I'll rewind it each play, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.160 probably watch each play four or five times from different 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.720 angles and and understand every position and see it all. Uh. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.320 And then generally, um, and that's offense, defense and special teams. 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.520 So that takes a little bit of time. Um, it'll 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.000 take me carry me to this morning, and then the 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:46.640 guys come in, you talk a little bit about it, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:48.880 and then right on to to new England. They hand 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.880 it up out to the late. Here's Cohen loping gets 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:56.320 oude of the pen. Fine, he's a touchdown touchdown, Bears 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:01.240 twenty one yard run Terry Cohen and a celebration continues 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.840 in Miami. Things we're really smoking there and Teri Cohen 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.240 is a big part of this right now, coaching ague 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.160 with us in this Sunday's game against the Patriots, brought 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.280 to you by Advocate Healthcare, the official healthcare provider of 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:16.440 the Chicago Bears. His numbers also popping now two fourteen 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 all purpose yards over the past two games. That has 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.800 come by ground and by air. And he's in my perspective, 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:28.000 hitting those plays with authority, running his routes with explosiveness. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.920 There's no thinking going on. He's just playing. That's what 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:32.480 we like right now is these guys are starting to 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.800 get to that point where they're not thinking. And when 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.960 you when you don't think, the game slows down a lot. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.080 And that's starting to happen now with these guys on offense, 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:45.040 and uh Ter's a big part of that. We're able 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.320 to do different things with him. He had that nice 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.200 touchdown run yesterday, made a safety miss one on one 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.520 in air and guys did an excellent job blocking the 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.320 scheme and that was a big play in the game. 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.640 And then of course being able to U to catch 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:00.480 the ball out of the battlefield and do different things 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.440 with them. Uh, what was really great? Uh. You know, 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.440 this has always kind of been interesting for me being 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:10.920 on these coaches shows over the years because everybody likes 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:13.720 to be a head coach and they have all the 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.240 game situations in their head. And you answer those questions 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.400 today about different things. What did you learn from your 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.720 playing career as a coach or as a player rather 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:25.400 as a quarterback, as a quarterback more importantly, and from 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.040 coach read over the years about handling criticism, whether it 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.200 be inside or outside of building. Yeah, well, and it's 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.760 serving you know, yeah, yeah, it comes with the territory. 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:39.000 So nobody in this role, um would be in this 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.240 seat or take this job if they couldn't handle it. 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.840 And um, so a lot of times there's credit given 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.080 to the head coach when it shouldn't be. And and 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.760 then there's times when when there's criticism that goes when 0:16:51.800 --> 0:16:54.560 there should be you know as well, So I get it, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:57.560 I understand it. And the part that that I don't 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.760 that I always keep in perspective is that again I 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.560 say this all the time, is that it's only because 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.120 people care. You know, they want they want they want 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.280 to win, and I get that. So uh, you know, 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.280 I always go back to trust me. We're doing everything 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:12.760 we can to, uh to to to make sure that 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.840 we have an a good opportunity to win. And so 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.080 anytime you have situations where you can learn as a 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:24.639 coach specifically UM and whatever it is, you you remind 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.840 yourself of what they are and then you ask yourself 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:28.359 the question, would you do it the same? Would you 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:30.760 do it different? Throughout the game in all different situations. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.240 So with with this being my my fifth game as 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:37.159 a head coach, uh, there's every game, there's always something 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.439 that that, um, I like to think about and decide 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.480 and it'll only help make me better in the long run. Well, 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.160 you're also relying on your past experiences to to make 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:48.280 sure these decisions. There is a philosophy that you have 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:51.320 put together that you will tweak throughout the rest of 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.840 your career. Yeah. Yeah, and and and at times it 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:58.120 will change, uh you know, uh, for for our guys, 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:02.480 whether it's a fourth down call, whether it's like yesterday, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.960 where you know we're in a position to kick a 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.320 longer fifty three yard field goal, Um, do you throw 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.160 the ball? And third down and try to get closer? 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.680 All valid questions. I totally understand that. Uh. And so 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:18.600 when we're in those situations again, depending on the on 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:22.240 the weather, depending on uh, you know, the running back, 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.880 the lineman, the wide receivers, maybe you do throw it. 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.320 And and but I but I said it this morning, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:31.320 and I feel it that I felt very confident in 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:34.320 the kick yesterday at fifty three yards and I still 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.920 I still till today, I still feel the same way. 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.040 And it doesn't mean that it will play out the 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.679 same way. And we may give them, you know, we 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.080 may do call different play who knows. But I have 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.120 a lot of confidence in Cody Parkey. And plus there's 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.240 the weather turns things changing, Yeah, exactly, you know for 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.840 sure we're getting close to that. The weather is changing 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.920 here very rapidly, all right, in our remaining moments here 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.080 A little sneak peak at the Patriots. Obviously you you 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.760 took them last year in Kansas City and did a number. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.840 I mean, not that that matters this year, but there 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.359 is some knowledge and Tom Brady. This game is huge, 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.840 It's huge for fans. He's only been here one other time. Um, 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:11.760 there's gonna be a great vibe. There's gonna be a 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.400 great vibe in that in that building. And what's your 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.879 respect level for what this man has accomplished with that 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.080 head coach? Well, the ultimate respect and and you know 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:23.600 he's one of, if not the greatest quarterback to ever 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.760