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Speaker 1: Whippley Financial Advisor's coach. How you doing tonight? Good? How
Speaker 1: are you doing? Fantastic? Frustrating but by no means demoralizing
Speaker 1: at this early point in this season. I think that's
Speaker 1: the best way to sum it up, Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was frustrating, but um, you know, you try to
Speaker 1: learn from these and the guys battled, they played hard,
Speaker 1: not the outcome that we wanted, but again they they
Speaker 1: they um they played to the final play. And we'll
Speaker 1: just try to use it for teaching. What did you
Speaker 1: like and what concerned you? Well, the part I liked
Speaker 1: was um in that environment. UM just the way they
Speaker 1: completely um played until the final play. No no one
Speaker 1: gave up, no one quit um. And there were some
Speaker 1: adversity throughout the game, uh for for really all three sides.
Speaker 1: And so we stuck together and we fought till the
Speaker 1: very end. UM. You know. Offensively, to start we uh
Speaker 1: by not scoring any points. That's tough. But the defense
Speaker 1: then held them to seven points. So it felt felt
Speaker 1: a lot worse than seven and nothing. But we came
Speaker 1: in at halftime, had a good talk, the guys were positive,
Speaker 1: came back out, and then we went ahead and offensively
Speaker 1: got back on track and scored three three quick touchdowns
Speaker 1: in eight minutes and and um and and had a
Speaker 1: nice little lead. And then going to the defensive side,
Speaker 1: you know, we we uh, you know, we miss some
Speaker 1: tackles and they had some big plays. And when when
Speaker 1: you when you have big plays in this league, Uh,
Speaker 1: and you have touchdowns off of those big plays, then um,
Speaker 1: you know you gotta you gotta battle to the end.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened. Any concerns that you see moving forward, no, no,
Speaker 1: none at all. Now we're we're in a good place
Speaker 1: right now where we have a team full of good,
Speaker 1: good leaders, good guys. That's why why we believe in
Speaker 1: the guys that we brought in here. Uh. Four times
Speaker 1: like this. It's never it's never always rosy. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's hard to have those Tampa Bay games every week.
Speaker 1: But um, again, you can learn from these situations and
Speaker 1: that's what we'll do and we'll become better coaches, will
Speaker 1: become better players and and um put it behind us
Speaker 1: and get ready for doing it. You know you mentioned
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay weeks. Yes you can't. But uh, a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns taking off the board by those red
Speaker 1: zone takeaways, and they lead the league. I think they
Speaker 1: have five now for the season. Miami does credit to them.
Speaker 1: But it would have been a high scoring game. It
Speaker 1: would have been another explosive, high scoring game. It looks
Speaker 1: like offensively. That must give you great hope and excitement
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, the guys are really starting to gel offensively.
Speaker 1: You can see Mitch's playing playing really well right now.
Speaker 1: The trust level amongst him and the wide receivers, the
Speaker 1: offensive line block and the guys running the ball. M
Speaker 1: it's all there. And uh, you know, we gotta the
Speaker 1: fellas notice, but the ball security is number one. We
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta protect the football. You gotta respect the football.
Speaker 1: And when that's the case and you win the turnover battle,
Speaker 1: then you normally have a good chance of winning. And yesterday, offensively,
Speaker 1: we didn't do that. None of it was lack of effort.
Speaker 1: And these guys feel bad, you know. It stinks that
Speaker 1: that they lost the fall, you know, through an interception
Speaker 1: or lost to fumble um And so we got a
Speaker 1: rally behind him and support them. The heat was managed
Speaker 1: the best it could be. I've had people tell me
Speaker 1: it may have been the hottest game those who didn't
Speaker 1: play that David experienced on that sideline. I was only
Speaker 1: there on pregame, but I felt the heat even coming
Speaker 1: up from the grass and that's how that's how hot
Speaker 1: it was there. And that was a you know ten
Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, eleven thirty in the morning, So, um,
Speaker 1: was it one of them? And that we're not making
Speaker 1: an excuse here, it's just the reality. You're in the
Speaker 1: sun there in the shade, um the whole game. But
Speaker 1: was that one of the hottest games you ever experienced? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was? It was that was that was the hottest
Speaker 1: game that I was ever a part of. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure it was hot. But again, like you just said,
Speaker 1: that's no excuse. That's all part of the elements. And
Speaker 1: I said it last week. There's gonna be times when
Speaker 1: teams are coming to here, to our home and been
Speaker 1: playing in some pretty cold weather, So you use whatever
Speaker 1: to you. That's exactly right, and I do want to
Speaker 1: make sure that everyone understands that. Um, you know, we
Speaker 1: were our athletic trainers and our sports science the part
Speaker 1: every everyone there. They were. They were awesome and making
Speaker 1: sure everyone was hydrated and we didn't have any cramping
Speaker 1: issues considering I think it was a heat index of
Speaker 1: one hundred and seven and uh, you know, our guys
Speaker 1: to play five essentially. Um, they did a great job
Speaker 1: with that, and like you said, with the shade, we
Speaker 1: were able to have some man made shade build over there.
Speaker 1: But um, no excuses Miami Desert. They won the game,
Speaker 1: they fall hardy, they gave us a battle and and
Speaker 1: um then we lost. But we'll learn from it from
Speaker 1: your experience over the years dealing with warm weather games,
Speaker 1: and certainly this was in a cute situation. What do
Speaker 1: you do doing this week? Then it is it affect
Speaker 1: them anyway over the course of this week as far
Speaker 1: as the weather, Yeah, we're just there. Just their general Yeah,
Speaker 1: health and feeling after something like that, it's so draining,
Speaker 1: I would say, probably more so on on Monday, um today, tomorrow, Uh,
Speaker 1: it can start to you know, they'll they'll start get
Speaker 1: back to recovering. Um, just because of it was five
Speaker 1: quarters number one, no matter where you play, that's an
Speaker 1: extra quarter physically, and then because of the environment and
Speaker 1: the weather. So but but our guys will be fine. Uh,
Speaker 1: they they're you know, we're going into week six here
Speaker 1: and they understand how important it is to protect our
Speaker 1: home turf and and it's going to be a great
Speaker 1: challenge and a great opportunity for us to play Patriots.
Speaker 1: You mentioned tackles. It's been brought up obviously. The two
Speaker 1: big plays by Albert Wilson. Were incredible runs on his part.
Speaker 1: Give me a little daylight and boom, he's gone. Anyway,
Speaker 1: thirty one tackles, according to statistics by the defensive backs
Speaker 1: in the game as it was. Um. In terms of that,
Speaker 1: do you think some of the fatigue that may have
Speaker 1: kicked in is a part of that when you got
Speaker 1: a situation like that going on, I don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: it could be. Uh, I'm not I'm not really one
Speaker 1: to I guess answer that just because I don't know
Speaker 1: physically exactly where everybody was. I guess I'm dress a
Speaker 1: lot of tackles in the backfield. Yeah, well I'm dramming.
Speaker 1: It hasn't shown up at point this year. Sure that. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it could be. But um again, they had to
Speaker 1: tackle in that weather too, And so for for our guys, um,
Speaker 1: you know, they are our guys. Our players are harder
Speaker 1: than themselves and they care and that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And when we were flying back on the plane last night,
Speaker 1: you know, these guys were discussing, um, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: how we can get better and how we're going to
Speaker 1: get better. And when you see that and there's no
Speaker 1: um situation where guys are pointing fingers or or they're
Speaker 1: they're split at all. That we don't we don't have that,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what I'm proud about with this team
Speaker 1: and this organization, and so we gotta we gotta work
Speaker 1: through this. That's not even a fact. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not even a factor. You know, usually when things like
Speaker 1: that happen, that's over a couple of years of something
Speaker 1: that's not going right. I don't think you ever have
Speaker 1: to worry about that with this punch. No, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just that type of guy. So on the plane. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting thing. So our guys, were you going
Speaker 1: up to guys guys coming up, do you or you
Speaker 1: just get a sense of what's going on? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I like you guys put their headset out right bad
Speaker 1: and they go to sleep. No, there was, and trust me,
Speaker 1: there was a good amount of guys that were that
Speaker 1: were completely exhausted and tired and with which you can understand.
Speaker 1: But at the same time too, the guys are, you know,
Speaker 1: just coming coming off a battle on the field, and
Speaker 1: so I'd like to go back and just talk to
Speaker 1: the guys and just see how they're doing. I like
Speaker 1: number one, just check physically how are they and uh,
Speaker 1: and then mentally we're you at and then talk through it.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, you know, how can we get better?
Speaker 1: What can what can we do to get better? And
Speaker 1: communications huge in this building. And as long as we communicate,
Speaker 1: we're all honest and we figure out how to fix
Speaker 1: problems and issues. Um, then in the end, automately it's
Speaker 1: going to help us. And that's that's what we do
Speaker 1: and that's what I love about this team. The Bears
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Speaker 1: Gabriel's got it over the shoulder and brought down inside
Speaker 1: the twenty five. Taylor Gabriel preaches man deep his second
Speaker 1: big player of the day and it keep going after
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Speaker 1: hundred yard game as the Bears losing overtime in Miami,
Speaker 1: as they go to three and two, but still maintained
Speaker 1: first place in the NFC North. Welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: And I believe it was sixty one career games. He
Speaker 1: never had a one hundred yard games, and now he's
Speaker 1: got him back to back. So this new role for
Speaker 1: him in this career, he's really taking advantage of it.
Speaker 1: Taylor Gabriel, Yeah, he's doing well. And it's again when
Speaker 1: he first got here, coming from Atlanta, it was a
Speaker 1: different system, and now we're learning how he fits into
Speaker 1: a role here with our offense, and he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of confidence. He's playing well. He's doing a great job.
Speaker 1: And so you can see a guy like that that
Speaker 1: has speed, you can always take the top off of
Speaker 1: a defense. It opens up other guys as well, and
Speaker 1: so whenever we get an opportunity to throw it deep,
Speaker 1: we're going to and he's been they've been connecting with
Speaker 1: those deep balls. Must feel great that he you mentioned,
Speaker 1: I mean last week, I think to the media he
Speaker 1: didn't anymore. I want to be just labeled as a guy.
Speaker 1: He's just a gimmicky guy again. Yeah, He's the great
Speaker 1: part about Taylor is that you're able to use him
Speaker 1: as a gadget guy, and he's great at that, but
Speaker 1: defenses can't just look at him as that. And now
Speaker 1: what he's doing is he's going out there and he's
Speaker 1: playing outside, and he's playing a lot more plays than
Speaker 1: he's ever been used to, and he's fulfilling a role
Speaker 1: for us, which is great. He's really him and Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson right now collectively or just feeding off of each other.
Speaker 1: And Alan's just such a great mentor for all these
Speaker 1: guys and just does all the little things right all
Speaker 1: the time. And so anytime you have that, it helps
Speaker 1: everybody out. You know, you don't love numbers. Last week
Speaker 1: I thought I was one of the best quotes I've
Speaker 1: ever heard of coach say when you said, we don't
Speaker 1: care about numbers. We care about letters. And everybody knows
Speaker 1: what that means super Bowl letters. But Mitch, the last
Speaker 1: two weeks seven seventy nine touchdowns, one interception, one forty
Speaker 1: three rating, one hundred yards rushing on eleven carries. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a lot of math right there. Those
Speaker 1: are numbers that I'd like to talk about a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's that saying, one of those numbers telling
Speaker 1: Matt Nage, Well, it's starting to tell everybody that he's
Speaker 1: starting to feel really comfortable in this offense. And we
Speaker 1: are all together feeling that. You're seeing him throw the
Speaker 1: ball with a lot of conviction. You know, he's trusting
Speaker 1: his first read, he's seeing it better. Uh, he's feeling better.
Speaker 1: We're feeling better knowing what plays he likes uh in time.
Speaker 1: And so anytime that happens, you start seeing numbers like that.
Speaker 1: And I think he's done a really good job at
Speaker 1: being able to balance this touchdown to check down mentality.
Speaker 1: If it's there, the touchdown or the deep ball, he
Speaker 1: takes it. If it's not, then we check it down
Speaker 1: and and uh and let our our playmakers make plays.
Speaker 1: And so it's really neat for me to be able
Speaker 1: to see see Mitch grow. He appreciates the role he's in.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of respect for the role of
Speaker 1: rather respect for his teammates. And as I've said from
Speaker 1: day one, this thing will only get better each and
Speaker 1: every week, and there's gonna be still hiccups as we
Speaker 1: go but right now, from where we're at, where we've
Speaker 1: come to, I'm really proud of the guys. And he
Speaker 1: leads a charger. Yeah, And a couple of hiccups yesterday
Speaker 1: were early in the game, and boy, just think what
Speaker 1: happens if he hits Miller there on the deep one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and some of these things too, Just so people know
Speaker 1: it's it's not always just Mitch. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the routes are run right or whatever. We don't know
Speaker 1: that as as fans and observers. So you know that
Speaker 1: stuff though. Yeah, And there's uh, shoot, you can go
Speaker 1: back and look at a lot of tape from a
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks yesterday. And I know everyone likes to
Speaker 1: be hard on our quarterback here, and I get it,
Speaker 1: but I just want to make it real clear that
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football. We watch a lot
Speaker 1: of football, and trust me, there's a lot of miss
Speaker 1: miss throws by a lot of good quarterbacks in this league.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of good throws made too. And
Speaker 1: what our guys doing right now is he's making He's
Speaker 1: making a lot of good throws and so he's putting
Speaker 1: us in great situations and he'll be the first one
Speaker 1: to tell you that he wants the interception back and
Speaker 1: understands that, but he'll learn from it, wall grow and
Speaker 1: then uh in the end, Uh, this offense will will
Speaker 1: We'll get to that point to where we just really
Speaker 1: start humming and we feel good about everything. And um,
Speaker 1: but um, they're they're in a good spot, you know.
Speaker 1: Back to the plane, right, you talked to everybody. But
Speaker 1: do you spend a lot of time with Mitchell? Does
Speaker 1: he need time to decompress on the plane. No, We'll
Speaker 1: spend some time together and talk and uh, he wants to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's good. It's good that that that that you got
Speaker 1: to have that relationship. Um, this isn't just a deal
Speaker 1: where we're in the classroom, where we're on the football field.
Speaker 1: I think being able to have the human element involved
Speaker 1: in it and just um talk ball after everything too.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of emotions that are going on now
Speaker 1: on that plane. It's it's hard. You know, you're you're
Speaker 1: just getting over those guys are physically and mentally beat
Speaker 1: down when loser draw. Uh, and so it's it's it's
Speaker 1: nice to be able to talk through some things. Um.
Speaker 1: Generally I'll watch the game on the plane and then
Speaker 1: I'll go back and talk to him after I've seen
Speaker 1: seen it. The players will watch it too, so they
Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea, um the next day how
Speaker 1: they feel about things. And and then uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a daylight today, they come on in here, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it in the morning for a little bit, and
Speaker 1: then we put it aside and let's go. It's uh,
Speaker 1: even even after a win, it's it's it's time to
Speaker 1: move on. You don't have any wasted time here on
Speaker 1: on poutner or worrying about this or that. You fix
Speaker 1: your problems and you move on. How many times do
Speaker 1: you watch the game. I'll watch it maybe two or
Speaker 1: three times. And the first time I watch it, I
Speaker 1: watch him. No, I actually take my time each play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'll take my time, and I'll rewind it each play,
Speaker 1: probably watch each play four or five times from different
Speaker 1: angles and and understand every position and see it all. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then generally, um, and that's offense, defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: So that takes a little bit of time. Um, it'll
Speaker 1: take me carry me to this morning, and then the
Speaker 1: guys come in, you talk a little bit about it,
Speaker 1: and then right on to to new England. They hand
Speaker 1: it up out to the late. Here's Cohen loping gets
Speaker 1: oude of the pen. Fine, he's a touchdown touchdown, Bears
Speaker 1: twenty one yard run Terry Cohen and a celebration continues
Speaker 1: in Miami. Things we're really smoking there and Teri Cohen
Speaker 1: is a big part of this right now, coaching ague
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Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. His numbers also popping now two fourteen
Speaker 1: all purpose yards over the past two games. That has
Speaker 1: come by ground and by air. And he's in my perspective,
Speaker 1: hitting those plays with authority, running his routes with explosiveness.
Speaker 1: There's no thinking going on. He's just playing. That's what
Speaker 1: we like right now is these guys are starting to
Speaker 1: get to that point where they're not thinking. And when
Speaker 1: you when you don't think, the game slows down a lot.
Speaker 1: And that's starting to happen now with these guys on offense,
Speaker 1: and uh Ter's a big part of that. We're able
Speaker 1: to do different things with him. He had that nice
Speaker 1: touchdown run yesterday, made a safety miss one on one
Speaker 1: in air and guys did an excellent job blocking the
Speaker 1: scheme and that was a big play in the game.
Speaker 1: And then of course being able to U to catch
Speaker 1: the ball out of the battlefield and do different things
Speaker 1: with them. Uh, what was really great? Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: this has always kind of been interesting for me being
Speaker 1: on these coaches shows over the years because everybody likes
Speaker 1: to be a head coach and they have all the
Speaker 1: game situations in their head. And you answer those questions
Speaker 1: today about different things. What did you learn from your
Speaker 1: playing career as a coach or as a player rather
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, as a quarterback more importantly, and from
Speaker 1: coach read over the years about handling criticism, whether it
Speaker 1: be inside or outside of building. Yeah, well, and it's
Speaker 1: serving you know, yeah, yeah, it comes with the territory.
Speaker 1: So nobody in this role, um would be in this
Speaker 1: seat or take this job if they couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1: And um, so a lot of times there's credit given
Speaker 1: to the head coach when it shouldn't be. And and
Speaker 1: then there's times when when there's criticism that goes when
Speaker 1: there should be you know as well, So I get it,
Speaker 1: I understand it. And the part that that I don't
Speaker 1: that I always keep in perspective is that again I
Speaker 1: say this all the time, is that it's only because
Speaker 1: people care. You know, they want they want they want
Speaker 1: to win, and I get that. So uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I always go back to trust me. We're doing everything
Speaker 1: we can to, uh to to to make sure that
Speaker 1: we have an a good opportunity to win. And so
Speaker 1: anytime you have situations where you can learn as a
Speaker 1: coach specifically UM and whatever it is, you you remind
Speaker 1: yourself of what they are and then you ask yourself
Speaker 1: the question, would you do it the same? Would you
Speaker 1: do it different? Throughout the game in all different situations.
Speaker 1: So with with this being my my fifth game as
Speaker 1: a head coach, uh, there's every game, there's always something
Speaker 1: that that, um, I like to think about and decide
Speaker 1: and it'll only help make me better in the long run. Well,
Speaker 1: you're also relying on your past experiences to to make
Speaker 1: sure these decisions. There is a philosophy that you have
Speaker 1: put together that you will tweak throughout the rest of
Speaker 1: your career. Yeah. Yeah, and and and at times it
Speaker 1: will change, uh you know, uh, for for our guys,
Speaker 1: whether it's a fourth down call, whether it's like yesterday,
Speaker 1: where you know we're in a position to kick a
Speaker 1: longer fifty three yard field goal, Um, do you throw
Speaker 1: the ball? And third down and try to get closer?
Speaker 1: All valid questions. I totally understand that. Uh. And so
Speaker 1: when we're in those situations again, depending on the on
Speaker 1: the weather, depending on uh, you know, the running back,
Speaker 1: the lineman, the wide receivers, maybe you do throw it.
Speaker 1: And and but I but I said it this morning,
Speaker 1: and I feel it that I felt very confident in
Speaker 1: the kick yesterday at fifty three yards and I still
Speaker 1: I still till today, I still feel the same way.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean that it will play out the
Speaker 1: same way. And we may give them, you know, we
Speaker 1: may do call different play who knows. But I have
Speaker 1: a lot of confidence in Cody Parkey. And plus there's
Speaker 1: the weather turns things changing, Yeah, exactly, you know for
Speaker 1: sure we're getting close to that. The weather is changing
Speaker 1: here very rapidly, all right, in our remaining moments here
Speaker 1: A little sneak peak at the Patriots. Obviously you you
Speaker 1: took them last year in Kansas City and did a number.
Speaker 1: I mean, not that that matters this year, but there
Speaker 1: is some knowledge and Tom Brady. This game is huge,
Speaker 1: It's huge for fans. He's only been here one other time. Um,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a great vibe. There's gonna be a
Speaker 1: great vibe in that in that building. And what's your
Speaker 1: respect level for what this man has accomplished with that
Speaker 1: head coach? Well, the ultimate respect and and you know
Speaker 1: he's one of, if not the greatest quarterback to ever
Speaker 1: play the game. And then obviously with coach Belichick is
Speaker 1: the same stature. Uh so uh, this is this is
Speaker 1: a team that has been there, done that so many times.
Speaker 1: They know how to win, they know how to take
Speaker 1: it to the top. And I think it's a great
Speaker 1: challenge for our guys. What better way than to have
Speaker 1: a team that's hot right now, come on in here
Speaker 1: to Soldier Field. We always talk about protecting our home turf,
Speaker 1: and our guys will be ready, they'll be excited. It'll
Speaker 1: be an awesome challenge and that's what you want. If
Speaker 1: you're looking for anything less than that, than you're in
Speaker 1: the wrong business. And so, um, it'll be our job
Speaker 1: to have a great week of practice. Respect our opponent,
Speaker 1: but by all means, give him everything we got. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll be looking forward to it. We'll talk to you
Speaker 1: throughout the course of the week. Thank you, Thanks Cheff.
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Speaker 1: who was left, takes the snap, Mitch gonna throw, protection,
Speaker 1: holds throwing Middlezo touchdown, touchdown, Bears for the lead. Helena Robinson,
Speaker 1: great route and Mitch he knew exactly what he was doing.
Speaker 1: He guns it in there, Bears up thirteen seven. All right.
Speaker 1: Mark Helfridge, Bears offensive coordinator, joins the program. Now, good evening.
Speaker 1: And on that throw he did, he just he knew
Speaker 1: and he later ripped and he had velocity on them ball. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And you were dead on in your in your descript
Speaker 1: you're good at what you do. Because that and that's
Speaker 1: thank you. That's what we need to do more of,
Speaker 1: is to just get get get dialed in a one
Speaker 1: hundred percent you know. It's unfortunately I've been on the
Speaker 1: show this my second time, and a bunch of missed
Speaker 1: opportunities have been characterized in both and a tough loss,
Speaker 1: you know, great a great rebound, you know, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll get more into it. Uh just from a
Speaker 1: you know, really every aspect of our offense. We had
Speaker 1: a bunch of chances in the first half and didn't
Speaker 1: make it happen. The second half, I thought, responded really well.
Speaker 1: But then we have to close the deal. We have
Speaker 1: to be able to close the deal. So let's let's
Speaker 1: take it in chunks a little bit, not to go
Speaker 1: over everything, but that first one hundred and thirty one
Speaker 1: yards on the or thirty one plays and one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four yards or something like that, that was
Speaker 1: that was it for the first thirty one plays during
Speaker 1: that period of time. What were you trying to do
Speaker 1: there to get everything going in the right direction, because
Speaker 1: then we know what happened in the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the first three plays, and
Speaker 1: we probably had we had two guys, two guys with
Speaker 1: opportunities for for eighty eight yard touchdowns in the first
Speaker 1: two plays. And so when you look at that, uh,
Speaker 1: and and luckily and to his credit, we came back
Speaker 1: to similar schemes later and and Mitch hit him. You know,
Speaker 1: guys made plays and and and so it's just again
Speaker 1: you just can't get enough repetitions at quarterback and and
Speaker 1: and again it wasn't his quote unquote fault on ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent of it, but uh, you know, again he
Speaker 1: responded well, came back and played more just just urgent,
Speaker 1: more confidently, and again your description of just being just
Speaker 1: just more just focused and laser focused progression wise and
Speaker 1: everything he did. And he did a nice job when
Speaker 1: you say, you know, the similar concept. What does that
Speaker 1: say about him though? That he was able to go
Speaker 1: back to it and deliver a lot a lot And
Speaker 1: you know, Anthony Miller's touchdown was was basically the same
Speaker 1: play as the first third down of the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so again for him to recognize it was actually
Speaker 1: a little bit different pressure that they brought and it
Speaker 1: was a different coverage, but it kind of played out
Speaker 1: the same for the quarterback. And so that that's something
Speaker 1: that that you just again, those are things that nobody
Speaker 1: when we certainly don't want to, you know, go back
Speaker 1: on that thing of experience and reps and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But that's what it has to be at the at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, but even at the receiver position. So
Speaker 1: you know, their routes have to be run precise. They
Speaker 1: got to get to the area where and so I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's all accurate either. So those are
Speaker 1: things that all are are going to be ironed out
Speaker 1: over time. Absolutely, And we had a couple of plays,
Speaker 1: you know, and and going back to it takes it
Speaker 1: takes a village, It takes all eleven of you know,
Speaker 1: we had a couple of plays where where Mitch was correct,
Speaker 1: the route was correct, and our protection broke down. And
Speaker 1: you know, buying larger guys have done a great job
Speaker 1: up front and they will continue to you know, compete
Speaker 1: their tails off and improve. Everybody will from this um
Speaker 1: and and you know everybody, everybody kind of took their
Speaker 1: their their responsibility and took their took their turn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the hardest part of the day probably is taking points
Speaker 1: off the board. You know, you know you're gonna get
Speaker 1: something and buy galley. It didn't happen. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: huge turn of events. I mean that that um, you know,
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Yeah, I don't want to get
Speaker 1: you in trouble. Yeah. The point is though it's a
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be well, it looks like it's
Speaker 1: a subjective thing. I don't know, but it's you know,
Speaker 1: like Matt said, he did everything he was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: He did everything to do, he did everything. He was
Speaker 1: one of those things and and all this very generally
Speaker 1: officials look for things or anticipate things, and and and
Speaker 1: that's issue. And you have to see it, you know,
Speaker 1: you have to see it happen to throw a flag
Speaker 1: in that situation. Uh, and not I think something must
Speaker 1: have happened here, you know, a type of mentality. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, I'm not saying that happen, right,
Speaker 1: but you know, very proud of how those guys executed there.
Speaker 1: But then again, we have to treat that that that's
Speaker 1: another learning experience for you, right it is in the
Speaker 1: next play again, we we we've got an answer. We've
Speaker 1: got to we've got to be right, uh with with
Speaker 1: a little route route part of it. And and you know,
Speaker 1: a quarterback, we've got to be right. We got to
Speaker 1: respond better to another kind of you know, piece of adversity.
Speaker 1: The Bears coaches show with offensive coordinator Mark Helfridge and
Speaker 1: w bbm's Jeff Joniac continue. Mitch in the gun back
Speaker 1: to his right. Seebert top of the field too near side.
Speaker 1: Mitch got to shovel inside. Here is track Burnet. He
Speaker 1: goes her but for the doll line. He is in
Speaker 1: for the touchdown. Touchdown Bears and at seven six and
Speaker 1: he throws the ball into the Hends on the way
Speaker 1: picked our fan as trade Bert gets into the Bears
Speaker 1: finally get on the board. Yeah, first touchdown, but it's
Speaker 1: third of the season, second out of shovel pass. And
Speaker 1: my broadcast partner Mark Helfritch always used to say the
Speaker 1: bootleg was the play of the nineties, ending his shovel
Speaker 1: passes now the play of this decade. It's it's popping
Speaker 1: up everywhere. But how effective? Why does why do those
Speaker 1: plays work? Question? Near the goal line? Yeah, it has
Speaker 1: a couple couple there's a couple of elements too. There's
Speaker 1: a perimeter element, you know, whether it's a toss or
Speaker 1: a handoff to somebody running to the to the perimeter.
Speaker 1: And then there's an interior element to it too, you know,
Speaker 1: basically a power play. Uh that that version I'm talking
Speaker 1: talking about the ones specifically we did yesterday, and so
Speaker 1: there's there's some some gray area for a defense that
Speaker 1: has to attack. They have to respond to one of
Speaker 1: those two elements and hopefully you're you know, throwing it
Speaker 1: or pitching it to the other. So a little bit
Speaker 1: of a triple option kind of kind of aspect to it,
Speaker 1: I guess makes it, makes it difficult, and quarterbacks love
Speaker 1: it because it's a it's a touchdown pass exactly. The
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, ever, can't get any easier than that, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. But that's a good combination right there. Indeed, Um,
Speaker 1: let's let's talk more about what you guys were aiming
Speaker 1: to do against this particular defense that that secondary obviously
Speaker 1: was making a lot of turnovers. They're very stingy in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Think they have now five takeaways in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Um, what were they doing well yesterday
Speaker 1: that that you anticipated they do well? And how are
Speaker 1: you're going to combat it? Well, you know, we always
Speaker 1: like to at least think we have the child class
Speaker 1: in our mind and we have the ball in our hand,
Speaker 1: and so we'll make it right type of mentality. And
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the two the two biggest plays
Speaker 1: of the game obviously, the or the the turnover inside
Speaker 1: the inside the one really and then and then the
Speaker 1: red zone pick after the tough we'll just call it
Speaker 1: a tough call. Uh. And so those those two things,
Speaker 1: you know, again can happen, and they were really self
Speaker 1: inflicted that you know, we kind of ran into our
Speaker 1: own guy almost after tripping on our own you know.
Speaker 1: It was just one of those weird plays where you're
Speaker 1: you're you're Jordan kind of got tripped up and then
Speaker 1: he kind of lost his ball securities as he was
Speaker 1: falling to the ground. And that's something you drill constantly,
Speaker 1: is falling down without protecting yourself. That's a very unnatural
Speaker 1: thing to do. And and unfortunately it happened in the
Speaker 1: worst possible situation. Uh. And then you know, the number
Speaker 1: one thing, the number one thing at quarterback he can't
Speaker 1: do is turn the ball over in the red zone
Speaker 1: and and unfortunately we did that. So we have to
Speaker 1: coach those situations better, and we can and will and
Speaker 1: we'll respond to them the right way. How's it going
Speaker 1: with the cushion? Daniel's alternating series is there's a lot
Speaker 1: of benefits here, I think. So, you know, those guys
Speaker 1: both um. They did things well, they did things that
Speaker 1: they'll watch on film and go ahead. I could you know,
Speaker 1: I could do. I could polish up a couple of
Speaker 1: things here and there as we again we all can.
Speaker 1: But liked I thought, I thought them. They each brought
Speaker 1: their own element to it. H Cush did a great
Speaker 1: job on Trey's touchdown. As a matter of fact, they're
Speaker 1: on that that shovel. You just played a great block.
Speaker 1: I had a couple of their key blocks and then
Speaker 1: and then you know, JDS is just a guy again
Speaker 1: that just needs to play it is. He needs every
Speaker 1: rep that that he can get as well. I noticed
Speaker 1: last night on our TV show Bears Game Night Live
Speaker 1: on Fox, I had a breakdown Cohen's plays in the
Speaker 1: open field and in space, and it just turned out,
Speaker 1: I know, three of them were on second down and
Speaker 1: one was on third down that we broke down. But
Speaker 1: something fascinating there with second down with him after you get,
Speaker 1: you know, in a real good position first down, to
Speaker 1: just keep moving the chain, stay ahead of the chains. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just by happenstance, maybe just by happen stance. They had
Speaker 1: a they had a little bit of a kind of
Speaker 1: a second and long plan that that that was unique.
Speaker 1: And so there were a couple things that we were
Speaker 1: trying to to to you know, strategically get get the
Speaker 1: ball and Trees had we liked the ball in trees hands.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. Um. And uh, you know again
Speaker 1: did did everything right until the very end of that play.
Speaker 1: And you got to give give them credit, uh on
Speaker 1: the forced fumble. But again we're gonna coach up and
Speaker 1: correct the ball security element of it. But yeah, he
Speaker 1: did some really good things. Um, kind of freelanced a
Speaker 1: couple of things that you know, he's always going to do.
Speaker 1: Make a play that that nobody, nobody's ever seen before.
Speaker 1: And he's he's fun to coach and fun to be around. Well,
Speaker 1: one thing I noticed, when he is off a schedule
Speaker 1: a little bit on his runs and doing an ad
Speaker 1: a living his heads constant. It's like a turret. It's
Speaker 1: constantly moving around. So would that tell me then he's
Speaker 1: got a great vision, he knows what he's looking for.
Speaker 1: He's he's amazing. He's one of those guys, you know,
Speaker 1: he's not necessarily very tall or thick, but he's always
Speaker 1: kind of running at full speed, full speed, arnidirectional and
Speaker 1: with full power. You know, there's there's some guys that
Speaker 1: if they have to change direction, they lose some element there,
Speaker 1: whether it's their leverage, their ability to change direct, whatever
Speaker 1: it is. And he doesn't, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: so he maximizes all all elements of what make him special.
Speaker 1: Running running straight ahead. He can do it, you know,
Speaker 1: every which way. He can do it. In the protection game,
Speaker 1: he could do it obviously as a route runner, So
Speaker 1: he does. He just does a lot of good things.
Speaker 1: Are some of Mitch's attempted throws in positions where, say
Speaker 1: for Alan Robin's who drew three penalties yesterday, are those
Speaker 1: risk risks you're worth taking in some of those situations
Speaker 1: because you might be able to draw at a minimum
Speaker 1: a flag if you're not going to end. Those are
Speaker 1: big places, absolutely, And you know, the spot foul is
Speaker 1: a huge deal in the NFL, and we probably had
Speaker 1: one more where we would have liked to see him,
Speaker 1: you know, gave him a shot at the ball and
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I can't remember the exact step,
Speaker 1: but I think he actually led the league galland and
Speaker 1: yeah and past. You know, passenger fearance tentletis called against um,
Speaker 1: and so that's something that you know. Again, he's a
Speaker 1: lanky guy. He's got great, great range, and guys have
Speaker 1: to have to get on him and get into him
Speaker 1: to it to effect his ability to make the catch.
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Speaker 1: a little bit of coaching Aggie from the first portion
Speaker 1: of the program. If you just join, I guess we're
Speaker 1: with offensive coordinator Mark Helfrich for a couple of more
Speaker 1: minutes breaking down the lost to Miami. We'll give a
Speaker 1: little sneak peek Patriots. In just a moment, I mentioned
Speaker 1: to Matt he's not a big numbers, guy. But Mitch's
Speaker 1: numbers over the last two games obviously are fantastic, just
Speaker 1: great numbers all the way around the horn. But what
Speaker 1: I want to talk about with you the fact that
Speaker 1: the big play is now eleven of twenty five yards
Speaker 1: or more so in the past two games alone. So
Speaker 1: the big play element is starting to really percolate. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's it's it's fitting into what you guys
Speaker 1: ultimately would like to see. Yeah, and the thing we
Speaker 1: would ultimately like to see is wins, you know, And
Speaker 1: and that is good. I couldn't tell you any of
Speaker 1: those numbers. I'm also I couldn't number at all. Uh.
Speaker 1: But we have to, you know, push the ball down
Speaker 1: field and become more explosive, more consistently explosive, uh, and
Speaker 1: turn those into touchdowns. You know, we've we've done a
Speaker 1: better job of that us, as you've said the last
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. But then you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of a game like that and you go back
Speaker 1: to man, if we would, should, could have, and it
Speaker 1: and it bites you. And so there's nobody on more
Speaker 1: more frustrated than than Mitchell when when it's and again
Speaker 1: it's not on him, but he's the quarterback sit so
Speaker 1: it will be uh and I know he's excited to
Speaker 1: to prepare for a great challenge in New England. So
Speaker 1: in the five games so far, no matter the outcomes
Speaker 1: or who you're playing, you've shown what you are capable
Speaker 1: of doing offensively in certain things with you know, having
Speaker 1: manageable third downs, the field position, all these things that
Speaker 1: you talk about when you talk about winning football, time
Speaker 1: of possessions, still leading the league in that category. Um,
Speaker 1: the downfield elements, the spreading the ball around to different receivers,
Speaker 1: horizontally and vertically, stretching teams. It seems to be this
Speaker 1: big pot. If this was like Stu, it's starting to
Speaker 1: it's starting to cook. I mean, is this a good
Speaker 1: way to describe because all of those things there, there
Speaker 1: have been moments of great success in all of these
Speaker 1: certain certain situations. Is that is that a good sign?
Speaker 1: It's it's that sounds delicious if we put that, if
Speaker 1: we can put that all together, and that's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: absolutely what you're trying to do. You have to you
Speaker 1: have to be able to you know, all those cliches
Speaker 1: you have to run when they know you're going to run.
Speaker 1: You have to build a throw when they know you
Speaker 1: have to throw. And we've been able to do those
Speaker 1: things at times. You know, even even yesterday, we overcame
Speaker 1: some bad third down situations that we don't want to
Speaker 1: be in. Uh. And then at the same time, that's
Speaker 1: what makes it that much more frustrating when when you
Speaker 1: give away something that you know that you can execute.
Speaker 1: And that's where we you know, we go back to
Speaker 1: the drawing board and and go, Okay, hey, maybe we
Speaker 1: need to tweak this or tweak that, or lose this
Speaker 1: or add more of that. And it's just that constant
Speaker 1: feedback and and and give and take when you're when
Speaker 1: you're developing, you know, a bunch of guys that have
Speaker 1: never played together before. All right, that's going to wrap
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