Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Neeggie. I'm Jeff Joniac with you till
Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight. After the Bears lose to the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers up at Lambeaux, I will hear from Chuck
Speaker 1: Pagano at the bottom of the hours you break things down.
Speaker 1: Good evening, Matt, I know you were fiery this morning.
Speaker 1: You're probably fiery right now as well. You woke up
Speaker 1: this morning with what kind of feeling in your belly? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's not a good it's not
Speaker 1: a good feeling, just because you know the sense of
Speaker 1: pride that we all have, and when you lose five
Speaker 1: in a row, it's never funny. And no matter what's
Speaker 1: four or what game you play, you know, that's just
Speaker 1: that's just not what it's all about. So we gotta
Speaker 1: we have to. There's nothing we can do but go
Speaker 1: out and do it. No more talk about it. We
Speaker 1: just gotta go do it. Yeah. As a head coach,
Speaker 1: end coach, period and a play you face a mountain
Speaker 1: of challenging moments over your career. You got forty four
Speaker 1: games into this thing. Are you at your most challenging
Speaker 1: moment as a head coach. Yeah, for sure. I think
Speaker 1: last year, you know, we hit we had a four
Speaker 1: game losing shriek, and what it was like to get
Speaker 1: that win, and it just it makes everything go away
Speaker 1: for at least a week until you get to the
Speaker 1: next opportunity. So that's a that's kind of been the message.
Speaker 1: What it was yesterday, last night after the game, and
Speaker 1: what it's going to be moving forward here is again
Speaker 1: we we we lean in, we pull together with everybody
Speaker 1: that we have. We don't make excuses, we don't point fingers.
Speaker 1: We just jumped together. We get back on to say
Speaker 1: the next chance they give us and we grow out
Speaker 1: and we get a win. Raw after the game, you mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, team wide team wide defeat. A lot of
Speaker 1: it on defense. Obviously the turnovers on offense a lot
Speaker 1: at play here. But you alluded to the messaging after
Speaker 1: the game. Can you share what the messaging was in
Speaker 1: that locker room? And you said your players know what
Speaker 1: they feel about what was specifically the messaging from you, Yeah,
Speaker 1: just exactly that is to feel it and what kind
Speaker 1: of pride do you have, you know, like it's uh,
Speaker 1: there comes a point where uh, you know, we we
Speaker 1: we play, we do what we do, we coach, we
Speaker 1: you know, we play, we do this game. In the end,
Speaker 1: you do it to win and and so, uh, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be loss as usually, and when you when you lose,
Speaker 1: you got to try to figure out what's the why
Speaker 1: part and then you rebound from it. And so when
Speaker 1: when there's you know, five in a row, that's when
Speaker 1: you know, there comes a point in time where you
Speaker 1: just say enough is enough. And I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the final message last night was the personal pride enough
Speaker 1: is enough and uh, it's time that we go out
Speaker 1: there and just do it and should do it with actions.
Speaker 1: Did you do all the talking or did any players
Speaker 1: step up and speak? No? I didn't. I just did.
Speaker 1: I did some talking, you know, and and it wasn't
Speaker 1: any yelling and scream and it's just real talk. And
Speaker 1: then um, we were able to uh you know, to
Speaker 1: to let the guys kind of talk a little bit,
Speaker 1: and Khalil had some some things to say, and I
Speaker 1: thought it was really good. And that's why he's a leader.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been in this league a long time.
Speaker 1: He's been a part of different teams win winners and
Speaker 1: losing teams and winning and losing teams, and um, I
Speaker 1: think his you know, overall, his his message was really
Speaker 1: really good. Kind of what I just said, you know
Speaker 1: about personal pride, and and that's inevitably what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. You know, that's a benefit to have a
Speaker 1: guy like that, because I believe he doesn't really do
Speaker 1: that often. But when a guy doesn't do it often,
Speaker 1: it probably has more of an impact. But you could
Speaker 1: even just see it on the field, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to talk to guys during the game, pulling guys away
Speaker 1: from conversations with the packers. And he's not a guy
Speaker 1: that he doesn't dance around on the field. He's all
Speaker 1: old school business. Is that beneficial to you at this moment?
Speaker 1: That's who he is, and that's how he goes about
Speaker 1: his business, and he does it with actions, so he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to say much. And I think those when
Speaker 1: when guys like when leaders like him do speak, it
Speaker 1: means a lot more than the ones that talk all
Speaker 1: the time. And so that's that's kind of where where
Speaker 1: we're at in this point in time. You want to
Speaker 1: rely on your leaders, and um that's what we did
Speaker 1: last night. I think yeah, this morning, you really emphasize
Speaker 1: the underscore just to need to do more across the board,
Speaker 1: not as if people aren't putting in the work, but
Speaker 1: just do more, do the extra things because this requires
Speaker 1: some extra attention. Who are you're relying on specifically to
Speaker 1: also carry that batient for you to get the entire
Speaker 1: unit on both sides of the all three phases to
Speaker 1: do exactly what you're asking. Well, just it's the really everybody,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's literally it doesn't matter who you are. Uh,
Speaker 1: you just got to dig down a little bit deeper, right,
Speaker 1: and not just the players, but the coaches and make
Speaker 1: sure we take a step back and put them in great,
Speaker 1: great positions. And then the players were out and they
Speaker 1: are the ones that got to make the plays and
Speaker 1: the other ones that got to execute. So whatever it is,
Speaker 1: you gotta we all got to start with ourselves and
Speaker 1: then we gotta we gotta you know, we gotta just
Speaker 1: get that that confidence and that that energy and all
Speaker 1: that stuff that we've had. We just got to get that.
Speaker 1: The way you get that is by winning. Do you
Speaker 1: feel it all the team has lost confidence? No? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't. It's natural when you're when you
Speaker 1: lose five games in a row, you start, you know,
Speaker 1: you just want to figure out, okay, what is it?
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest thing that you run into.
Speaker 1: And again this isn't the first time. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was a part of this in in another organization
Speaker 1: where you lose five in a row, we bound back
Speaker 1: in one ten in a row. And so what happens
Speaker 1: is is you just got to be able to understand
Speaker 1: that this is Sometimes you get some crazy challenges and
Speaker 1: then we're in one. Right now, we're knee deep in one.
Speaker 1: So the confidence part comes back by just one play
Speaker 1: at a time at playing well, trusting each other, trusting
Speaker 1: what's going on, and then again ultimately in the end
Speaker 1: when when you find a way to get a win,
Speaker 1: it just it takes a lot of that off. It
Speaker 1: had to be a jarring experience to watch a defense
Speaker 1: that you have a lot of belief in give up
Speaker 1: sixteen make that eighteen first downs in the first thirty
Speaker 1: six plays of the game. Yeah, you know, that's just
Speaker 1: it was uncommon for us. And we you know, the
Speaker 1: Packers have a tremendous offense and they've been doing really
Speaker 1: well all year long, but our standards with our defense.
Speaker 1: Those guys, they're the ones that set the standards on defense.
Speaker 1: It's the players that set it. They have very very
Speaker 1: high standards. So I don't even need to say anything
Speaker 1: for them to know where we're at and how we
Speaker 1: need to play better. So that that's, you know, everything
Speaker 1: I discussed this morning with the team in regards to
Speaker 1: the and with the media is nothing. You know, that's
Speaker 1: that's no news to them. We got tremendous leaders on
Speaker 1: that defensive side of the ball that care a lot
Speaker 1: and they have a lot of personal pride. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what they do this week. At times, though,
Speaker 1: you do have to give it to the cap to
Speaker 1: the other guy, and they did. They did have a
Speaker 1: great plan that kept you off balance. Yes, there were
Speaker 1: mistackles sometimes out of position and mistakes made, But in
Speaker 1: terms of that, do you think that the defense played
Speaker 1: out its heels a bit because everything seemed to be
Speaker 1: working in they had they right down the middle on
Speaker 1: the opening drive seven orrun seven passes each back had
Speaker 1: seventeen carries. I mean, it was pretty fifty. They were
Speaker 1: really well balanced and they were able to they got
Speaker 1: us up the middle a little bit there, you know,
Speaker 1: with with some of the inside zone stuff and some
Speaker 1: of the waxen and back schemes that we talk about.
Speaker 1: Then they hit nakeds at the right time. And then
Speaker 1: I thought that that third and third and ten from
Speaker 1: the twelve yard line, you know, drop eight and we
Speaker 1: had eight guys in coverage, and you know he was
Speaker 1: back there able to just find DeVante and make a
Speaker 1: good throw and catch, and so you know, you fight
Speaker 1: hard to get down there into that position and we
Speaker 1: gave up a touchdown. It was a little bit deflating,
Speaker 1: and we had to come back and get a stop.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we did. And so again you look at the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball though, too is you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we said, you know this this offensively, you got to
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. And so even even if it is a
Speaker 1: team like Green Bay where they're going to score points,
Speaker 1: right and our defense is gonna have a game like that,
Speaker 1: we gotta offensively be able to match up Troubisky in
Speaker 1: the short gunny hands off David Montgomery blast into the forty,
Speaker 1: like the fifty to the forty, up the hash thirty
Speaker 1: twenty down to ten. David Montgomery simply went north and south, baby,
Speaker 1: David Montgomery with a blast right up up the hash
Speaker 1: marks fifty seven yards a thing of beauty. Matt Naggi's
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Speaker 1: duel there with Cody white Hair and Sam Musta for
Speaker 1: clearing lane fin he just went north and south. He Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was nice early on in that to get one,
Speaker 1: it felt great, you know, and I know David was
Speaker 1: was really you could feel the how how excited he
Speaker 1: was to see that hole and just get vertical and
Speaker 1: made some nice plays there. Being able to stiff for
Speaker 1: him and do different things, and again we want to
Speaker 1: be able to finish that with a touchdown. Was certainly
Speaker 1: a great start. Well you look at that, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you got all jacked up inside, But in the
Speaker 1: end it was one of only sixteen plays in that
Speaker 1: first half. Can't do much with that, Yeah, sixteen plays,
Speaker 1: you know, we had three three drives in and after
Speaker 1: you know, you look up in his twenty seven to
Speaker 1: three and that's when we ended up going down. At
Speaker 1: the end of the second quarter and had the four
Speaker 1: team play drive that resulted in a touchdown. So that
Speaker 1: felt good knowing that we were going to get a
Speaker 1: possession there to start the third, which you know, you
Speaker 1: go down there and before you know you can get
Speaker 1: it to twenty seven seventeen and have a lot of
Speaker 1: ballgame left. But we just weren't able to do that
Speaker 1: in the third quarter and it got out of hand
Speaker 1: and before you know it, you're playing major catch up,
Speaker 1: playing a game like Aaron Rodgers. I know it's tenuous
Speaker 1: and it's only the first drive, but is it monumental
Speaker 1: when on that opening drive you don't get the touchdown
Speaker 1: to cap it off because you had the juice, you
Speaker 1: had the momentum, Mitch's back and you do settle with
Speaker 1: the field goal. What effect does that have? Is is
Speaker 1: it psychological? A little bit like, ah, we did it again,
Speaker 1: we didn't finish well. I think the energy was there
Speaker 1: and that that part was really good, But it's it's
Speaker 1: more about, like you said, I just just understanding, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we we got guys and playmakers down here that we
Speaker 1: want to be able to make plays and uh, you
Speaker 1: know both really even to throw to to a rob
Speaker 1: um that he had as it came down, it got
Speaker 1: got knocked out. Uh, there's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: sense to that, because you want to touchdown, you know,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have to score touchdowns against this offense.
Speaker 1: So that's that's the part there. Well, okay, you come
Speaker 1: back and get another opportunity. And we ended up having uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a penalty that uh negated uh some stuff.
Speaker 1: And then we threw that pick and we knew we
Speaker 1: were going to kind of take some shots and it
Speaker 1: just ended up going that way for us and the shots.
Speaker 1: How'd you feel about that in terms of Mitch's decision
Speaker 1: making on those plays, Yeah, he was you know that
Speaker 1: ball there, the decision. We knew that it was gonna
Speaker 1: end up being a one on one throw on either
Speaker 1: the nick or the safety. The safety that's down, but
Speaker 1: that's safety that played over the top. He ended up
Speaker 1: getting his his his he backced on and made a nice,
Speaker 1: nice play, and we wanted to kind of get that
Speaker 1: throw a little bit more outside, but it didn't end
Speaker 1: up that way. So we're gonna take shots and sometimes
Speaker 1: you got to be able to do that to stretch
Speaker 1: the defense. And we had another one there that we
Speaker 1: had Mooney over the middle for about twenty yards and
Speaker 1: he slipped. So we just got to continue to pick
Speaker 1: and choose when there has come. You know, Tom and
Speaker 1: I got into a little bit of a discussion on
Speaker 1: the air about slipping. I thought there was a slip
Speaker 1: of gym both sides. It looked like a Christine field.
Speaker 1: You know better than I. But when when players slip,
Speaker 1: and I know some even at the high school level,
Speaker 1: coach just want no excuses for slipping. But did you
Speaker 1: feel there was some of that or was it some
Speaker 1: of it just some of the throws were not with
Speaker 1: the velocity or the direction that that needed to be. No, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: there were slipping on both sides last night. I think
Speaker 1: there was something there with the field because it was
Speaker 1: really you know, it was offense defense and it was
Speaker 1: our team end their team they were slipping too, So
Speaker 1: there was definitely something to that. We've known net in
Speaker 1: the past before, you know, and we were aware of
Speaker 1: that and uh we you know, we had the same
Speaker 1: issue last year. All right. Overall, how would you evaluate
Speaker 1: Mitche's performance and is it is it worthy of another
Speaker 1: start against the Lions? Yeah? I would say this. I
Speaker 1: think that early on I really liked where he was at.
Speaker 1: We became a little bit one dimensional as the game
Speaker 1: went on, and that's to any quarterback in this league.
Speaker 1: It's that's never easy when you have to drop back
Speaker 1: every play and make throws and they can just see off.
Speaker 1: So decision making, I thought, um, you know, he did
Speaker 1: a good job. There were some some some things here
Speaker 1: there that you know, you can always say are a
Speaker 1: little bit gray on where you go with the football,
Speaker 1: But he did make a couple of plays with his legs.
Speaker 1: Protecting the football and staying away from turnovers is important.
Speaker 1: And again and we as a staff, myself, everybody included,
Speaker 1: will continue to just keep evaluating him. See where Nick's
Speaker 1: at in regards to his health. But as I said
Speaker 1: this morning too, I feel like, uh, you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was certainly a game where I know Mitch
Speaker 1: wanted to play better just to be able to help out.
Speaker 1: It didn't happen, But we're going to stay positive through
Speaker 1: it all. Six different group of offensive lineman in the
Speaker 1: first eleven games, fourth and four games up. How did
Speaker 1: you think they did up there and that reconfiguration? Were
Speaker 1: you happy with generally the results of that? I was,
Speaker 1: I was actually really happy and pleased with the way
Speaker 1: that those guys played. I thought that they did a
Speaker 1: great job in the run game. They opened up some
Speaker 1: nice lanes and then pass protection wise against some of
Speaker 1: those those defensive ends that they have and Kenny Clark
Speaker 1: on the inside, I thought they handled themselves really really well,
Speaker 1: so that that was definitely a plus coming out of this.
Speaker 1: We feel good about where we're at with those guys,
Speaker 1: and I was pleased with him and Charles Lenno hates
Speaker 1: mission snaps, let alone games, and how he handle that
Speaker 1: with the right toe. Yeah he did. He I commend
Speaker 1: him for doing everything in Kenny, get back to the game.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of times you got pushed back.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much anchor he can put on
Speaker 1: an outside foot, but um again, I think each day
Speaker 1: he'll get better and better to be able to come
Speaker 1: out of this game with really no injuries across the
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Speaker 1: learn more with Bears head coach Mattneggie. You consistently talk
Speaker 1: about persistence over resistance. Is this this term going to
Speaker 1: get a major workout from here on in? Because you
Speaker 1: talked about things like personal pride. That's that's always a
Speaker 1: big thing obviously to to focus on. But just the
Speaker 1: circumstances and where we're at with COVID and I mean,
Speaker 1: how do you make sure that the focus remains and
Speaker 1: have that persistence over resistance? Yeah, Well, just like last night, uh,
Speaker 1: in regards to the people that we have in our building,
Speaker 1: is for times like this is being able to rally
Speaker 1: around each other and pull together. Um, when you don't
Speaker 1: have that, it can it can definitely go the other way.
Speaker 1: And that that's kind of what my messaging was for
Speaker 1: last night was Hey, um, there's gonna be some fire here.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some some ability for us to be
Speaker 1: able to get out there and have some juice and
Speaker 1: energy and get get that back and um, and I
Speaker 1: just feel like with the people that we have, the
Speaker 1: leaders that we have the culture of who we are
Speaker 1: when you have times like this of lots of resistance.
Speaker 1: That's when you pull together and you you persist and
Speaker 1: you just keep going. You keep going, and it seems
Speaker 1: it can seem very frustrating, but you just keep going.
Speaker 1: And uh that that's where I have a lot of
Speaker 1: trust in our players and coaches. Do you feel over
Speaker 1: the time you've been here that when the noise starts
Speaker 1: cranking up, this team is good about the blinders and
Speaker 1: air muffs. And maybe now more than ever I do.
Speaker 1: And you know, we we we were we went through
Speaker 1: this last year. And again all of this is because
Speaker 1: of everybody caring, you know, you know, all all the
Speaker 1: fans and all the you know, the city and everyone cares.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta you gotta love that. And so
Speaker 1: when they care, there's a there's a feeling of let's
Speaker 1: go out and that That's what I think is very
Speaker 1: important for us is to understand that and that we
Speaker 1: we know that, we feel that we want that and
Speaker 1: we got to do it together. And so, um, I
Speaker 1: really just believe that, Uh, that's where we're at, and
Speaker 1: we got to just continue to just keep going and
Speaker 1: find a way to get a win. One thing I
Speaker 1: feel that I don't often hear, but you also hold
Speaker 1: your coaching staff accountable almost every single week with comments
Speaker 1: and especially this morning, was that received. And do you
Speaker 1: guys have that kind of working relationship where you know
Speaker 1: you're the CEO of the football team and they they
Speaker 1: also have to do what you're asking the players to do. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: they do a great job with that. And um, it's
Speaker 1: kind of the same deal with with the player that
Speaker 1: we bring in. It's very similar with the coaches too,
Speaker 1: that we build these relationships and trust. And one thing
Speaker 1: that I believe wholeheartedly in is is a lot of
Speaker 1: pure honest conversations. And I just I don't believe in
Speaker 1: just saying things the people that I think they want
Speaker 1: to hear. I just tell them exactly what I feel.
Speaker 1: I really don't care if it if it hurts your feelings,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you hurt my feelings. But let's
Speaker 1: at least get it. Let's let's see where we're at.
Speaker 1: And so that's those guys. Our coaches know that, and
Speaker 1: they do a great job with that. They accept that
Speaker 1: they care. And when you have that, it's I feel
Speaker 1: like it's healthy and it helps you in times like
Speaker 1: this where there can be frustration. Frustration you need to
Speaker 1: have really great communication so that everyone's speaking the same language.
Speaker 1: And if you do that, then you know, okay, where
Speaker 1: we can get better where we're not doing well right now,
Speaker 1: and then let's make sure we're speaking the same language.
Speaker 1: Some people can easily dismiss it and say, well, everything's broken,
Speaker 1: can't fix it. But are there corrections that are simple
Speaker 1: to complicated that are still on the table for this
Speaker 1: Bears team here in the final five games? Yeah? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: And our guys know, uh, you know, with with these
Speaker 1: final five games, Uh, every game that goes by, you
Speaker 1: start losing the controlling your own destiny deal. And so
Speaker 1: but we can't worry about that. The only thing we
Speaker 1: can worry about, Jeff, right now is making sure that
Speaker 1: we have a great week of practice and then and
Speaker 1: then we got to have those four quarters. And so
Speaker 1: again I said it, talk doesn't mean anything. It's about
Speaker 1: doing it. So it gets redundant just keep saying it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's you know, as a as a coach, as a player.
Speaker 1: They don't want to keep saying or keep talking about it.
Speaker 1: They want Sunday to get here so they can do it.
Speaker 1: We all want Sunday to get here so we can
Speaker 1: do it and get back on track. Well, you get
Speaker 1: the Lions week one to win in Detroit. They come
Speaker 1: to Soldier Field with a new head coach at the moment.
Speaker 1: The interim coach, Darryl Bebel has been a head coaching
Speaker 1: candidate in his life as a as a very prominent
Speaker 1: assistant coach throughout his career. What do you expect from
Speaker 1: the Lions? Well? Again, Uh, first of all, I know,
Speaker 1: I know Daryl Belvill well and I think he's a
Speaker 1: great coach, a great person and a great leader. And
Speaker 1: so u those guys are gonna play hard. And again,
Speaker 1: they got a great quarterback that I have a lot
Speaker 1: of respect for. MTT staff are great players on that
Speaker 1: offense and the defensively. We obviously know that. Um, they're
Speaker 1: they're always close games with us, and we've we've been fortunate,
Speaker 1: uh you know, winning those games. But they're they're playing
Speaker 1: tough right now, and so we just got to be
Speaker 1: prepared for anything, and we got to just go out
Speaker 1: and play a solid game. All right, Matt, have a
Speaker 1: good week of preparation and we'll talk to you soon. Thanks, Jeff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's Bears head coach Mattneggie. This segment of Bears All
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Speaker 1: coordinator Chuck Pogatto could even eat Chuck, How you holding up, buddy?
Speaker 1: Because that was some kind of game. Wow. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's definitely one that that that that stung,
Speaker 1: to say the least, and hurt and you could feel it,
Speaker 1: you know, during that entire game on the sideline in
Speaker 1: the locker room afterwards. We got a bunch of guys
Speaker 1: that uh, um, that are hurting, a bunch of coaches
Speaker 1: that are hurting because you know, definitely, you know on
Speaker 1: the defensive side, that that's not us. That's not you know,
Speaker 1: what we expect from ourselves, not what I expect from myself,
Speaker 1: what the players expect. We know, uh, we're better than that.
Speaker 1: We can play better than that, and we will play
Speaker 1: better and we will bounce back. But but that one stung,
Speaker 1: you know, especially in that game and that rivalry. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, uh that that that that hurts. But thank
Speaker 1: god it's not the last game. And we got another
Speaker 1: another opportunity ahead of us and and got full confidence
Speaker 1: and and uh and our guys and we'll bounce back
Speaker 1: from this and and get back to playing Bears football.
Speaker 1: How did you personally take this loss? No, it kills you.
Speaker 1: It rips your rips your uh, your heart out, rips
Speaker 1: your guts out, you know, because um, you know, you're
Speaker 1: just you're looking for something. You're scratching around for something
Speaker 1: just to stop to you know, try to stop the bleeding. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, and it just it just was, you know,
Speaker 1: one thing after after another, you know, and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I gotta be better, and I got to
Speaker 1: find a way to uh to to do something, to
Speaker 1: call something to put these guys in position to stop
Speaker 1: the bleeding, you know, and then the hard half falls
Speaker 1: on all of us at some point. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta make a better call. We can execute better.
Speaker 1: Guy's got to get off the block, make a tackle.
Speaker 1: Guy's got to make a you know, be in one
Speaker 1: on one on one match up. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of especially against that outfit in that quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's gonna go down as one of the best they
Speaker 1: ever playing. Um, you got to do so many great things,
Speaker 1: you know against them, and uh you got to try
Speaker 1: to make them one to mentional and we didn't we
Speaker 1: you know, we weren't able to do that, you know,
Speaker 1: so they and then you know, once we once we
Speaker 1: got you know, so far behind, it was like whole
Speaker 1: playbooks open and do whatever you want to do. And
Speaker 1: that that becomes extremely frustrating, you know, and our guys
Speaker 1: are are. I love our guys, and I love their
Speaker 1: fight and in their grit and their toughness and and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I just I gotta be better. You know.
Speaker 1: You kind of joked on Thursday when you met the media,
Speaker 1: and I said it was one of the funniest quotes
Speaker 1: I ever heard, because it was it was tongue in
Speaker 1: cheek with a little bit of truth to it. But Colin, Aaron, Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo and Picasso and gosh, don't even want to
Speaker 1: go up there, because there there is a dread sometimes
Speaker 1: when you face great quarterbacks in addition to the challenge
Speaker 1: of it. Every player loves facing the very best, but uh,
Speaker 1: way the way he's playing right now. This hearkens back
Speaker 1: to his MVP days because he really wasn't complete control yesterday,
Speaker 1: wasn't he No, he just he knows, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know you're in you know, single high defense. You know,
Speaker 1: got an extra guy down the box to stop the run.
Speaker 1: He knows, and he knows right where the matchup he
Speaker 1: wants to go, and he goes to it. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: he's you know, run away from a down safety you're
Speaker 1: in split safety. Um, he knows that he knows exactly
Speaker 1: the matchup he wants, and he and he exploits, exploits it,
Speaker 1: and he's um, you know, uh, he's so damn accurate
Speaker 1: and and mobile, And right when you think you've got him,
Speaker 1: he gets outside, he breaks contain and runs for a
Speaker 1: first down. And um, you try some different things, some
Speaker 1: drop eight and and and you know, just to change
Speaker 1: throw him a curveball and a guy gets free and
Speaker 1: and and he finds him and he and he and
Speaker 1: he throws it on a rope and finds you know,
Speaker 1: seventeen for the first touchdown. So um, he's as good
Speaker 1: as they get. And and you know, you've got to
Speaker 1: be in such great sync and we've had success and
Speaker 1: this team's had success over the years, you know, against him,
Speaker 1: and uh, yesterday just wasn't our day. The running game
Speaker 1: make a huge difference. Yeah, there's no doubt about it,
Speaker 1: because you know when when that's when that thing gets going,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know a's second and four second
Speaker 1: and five those those are hard downs to defend. The
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Speaker 1: or on the bears official app. Bears defensive coordinator Chuck
Speaker 1: Pagano with US reviewing yesterday's loss to the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 1: Khalil mac, who doesn't often do a ton of interviews,
Speaker 1: called this a low point fifty two, Isn't you know?
Speaker 1: He's hurting. All those guys are hurting in that locker room.
Speaker 1: And that's the great thing about the locker room that
Speaker 1: coaches built. You know, there's a bunch of high character
Speaker 1: guys in there. Guys that love football, guys that care,
Speaker 1: and guys that, like he said after the game that hey,
Speaker 1: losing more than they like winning, you know, and and
Speaker 1: it stinks and it stings, and we didn't. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we know how tough this business can be, UM, how
Speaker 1: tough it is, and how hard it is to win
Speaker 1: win games. But uh but yeah, and uh but I
Speaker 1: know this. They're fighters, you know, and they're and because
Speaker 1: they care and because they have character. Um, because our
Speaker 1: coaching staff UM is led by a guy that that
Speaker 1: is a fighter and has character, and all of our
Speaker 1: guys have that. Um. We're going to go back to
Speaker 1: work on Wednesday and do the things that we need
Speaker 1: to do, uh, to get out of this run. Is
Speaker 1: the only thing that cures us is winning, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know you do It just starts with one.
Speaker 1: We got five games up, but the only thing that
Speaker 1: matters is is Detroit and that's that's the next one.
Speaker 1: And we've got to prepare and then we've got to
Speaker 1: go play. And uh, we all we all have to
Speaker 1: we all have to do our jobs and we have
Speaker 1: to we have to do them better and uh and
Speaker 1: we know we can. But that's the only thing that's
Speaker 1: going to get this this bad taste you know out
Speaker 1: of our mouth. Uh, that that that pit, that burnie,
Speaker 1: that that thing that's killing You're just ripping your guts
Speaker 1: out right now, what's ripping his guts out? And the
Speaker 1: rest of that defense and the entire team for that matter,
Speaker 1: is a win. Matt Naggie did talk to the media
Speaker 1: this morning, was very very direct about the defense, was
Speaker 1: very pointed about it. Do you feel that the defense
Speaker 1: is strong enough mentally and with a bunch of leaders
Speaker 1: that you have on it to take that kind of
Speaker 1: challenge and to again get back to the level that
Speaker 1: is required really for this This is this is a
Speaker 1: defensive oriented team at the moment until the offense finds
Speaker 1: its way, no doubt about it. And you know they
Speaker 1: nothing is personal. It just is what it is. And
Speaker 1: the expectations are what the expectations are. And we all
Speaker 1: we all know that you know what's expected out of
Speaker 1: a Chicago Bear defense and that's weekend and week out,
Speaker 1: and they're not be no lolls and there can't be
Speaker 1: a game like that. And so our guys understand that.
Speaker 1: I understand it, Our coaches understand that. And again it's
Speaker 1: not it's it's it's never it's never personal. It's just
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, you know. And and the facts
Speaker 1: were that that was that was bad, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know I I stunk and and we we didn't
Speaker 1: play well. And um, you know, we we got uh,
Speaker 1: we got great careac like I said, we got great
Speaker 1: character guys, we got great pros. Um they're they're grown
Speaker 1: men and they get this business and they've been through
Speaker 1: the fire before. And we're uh, we're all getting tested
Speaker 1: right now, you know. And like I always said, you know,
Speaker 1: we've all been through some stuff outside of ball, some
Speaker 1: things that that that harden you, um, that prepare you
Speaker 1: for for you know, this game will prepare you for
Speaker 1: real life stuff because there's real life stuff coming. We
Speaker 1: just don't know when it's going to come. But circumstances
Speaker 1: don't make you. They reveal you. And I guarantee of
Speaker 1: these circumstances right now are going to reveal to everybody
Speaker 1: that that we've got great dudes. We got great we
Speaker 1: got great players, and we got great men, and we
Speaker 1: got tough son of a guns, you know, on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. And we'll get this fixed.
Speaker 1: It's easy to say because he is a great player,
Speaker 1: and he demands double teams and he brings fire to
Speaker 1: the table. But missing a chem Hicks, especially with those
Speaker 1: runs up the middle yesterday, how do you fill the
Speaker 1: absence of somebody like a chem Hicks. Yeah, again, you
Speaker 1: you look at the tape and when you put the
Speaker 1: tape on, here's the technique that you need to play.
Speaker 1: And here here's what happened. And physically we've got we've
Speaker 1: got big bodies, big you know, John was in there, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Dan was in there, Big herb was in there.
Speaker 1: Um And there was some really good football played. But
Speaker 1: then there was, like you said, there was some gases
Speaker 1: in there. We don't give up one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: plus yards rushing. Ever, we can't do that. And the
Speaker 1: and that's that's not that's not us, And that's again
Speaker 1: that's my responsibility to make sure that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're in the right the right personnel group, the right scheme,
Speaker 1: the right call, uh you know. And then it's everybody
Speaker 1: else's job. They know this, They tell you the same thing.
Speaker 1: Then it comes down to really a simple game blocking, tackling, throwing, catching,
Speaker 1: you know, communicating, you know, and you got to take
Speaker 1: on blocks and you've got to get off blocks, and
Speaker 1: you've got to tackle, and you've got to be on
Speaker 1: the same page, and you have to fit all this
Speaker 1: misdirection stuff. So it's all stuff that's correctible. It isn't
Speaker 1: like a holy crap, we got to start from ground zero.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Bears Coaches Show. It's brought to
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Speaker 1: Check Pagano our remaining moments with the Bears defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: When DeVante Adams, you know what he can do, and
Speaker 1: you know how they deploy him because they move him
Speaker 1: all over the place, and they did again yesterday, created
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of matchups. How do you
Speaker 1: think that was managed overall? He didn't do a ton
Speaker 1: of damage just that one play when he had six
Speaker 1: plus seconds to throw the football on that drop eight. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So again we all know that that play is going
Speaker 1: to get extended because you are, you know, rushing three
Speaker 1: and dropping eight. If I had had to do it
Speaker 1: all over again, I'd run the same I'd run the
Speaker 1: same call, run the same defense. It took away everything.
Speaker 1: Now it's just a matter of okay, once the play extends.
Speaker 1: Now everybody's got a plaster. They got to find guys
Speaker 1: in their zones and they got they got a plaster,
Speaker 1: and they ran a route that was a little bit
Speaker 1: of an underneath route and then a vertical by Davante,
Speaker 1: you know, and nobody does, you know, the plaster drill better,
Speaker 1: the extended play better than that group up in Green
Speaker 1: Bay and Aaron Rodgers, you know, obviously running it at
Speaker 1: the quarterback spot and shoo, we looked at it and
Speaker 1: we knew as soon as we come off that we
Speaker 1: can play it better, you know. But I wouldn't take
Speaker 1: that one back ever, you know, because I know, I
Speaker 1: know it just comes down to, uh, they understand that
Speaker 1: it isn't the first three seconds of that call that matter.
Speaker 1: It's probably the second three. You mentioned six, right, So
Speaker 1: the first three, um, they're going to run a route
Speaker 1: and then it's going to be the second three, you know,
Speaker 1: and the guys the three men rush still working, trying
Speaker 1: to do a good job of getting something on and
Speaker 1: just to get them to throw it and then have
Speaker 1: a body on that guy so when the balls up there,
Speaker 1: we can break it up. Do you have anything to
Speaker 1: draw on from your coaching career that you could share
Speaker 1: with these guys to give them some boost here in
Speaker 1: the final five. Yeah, I think you know, you can
Speaker 1: go you can go back and just say, look, we
Speaker 1: play for for a couple of things. We play for
Speaker 1: that decal, you know on the side of our helmet,
Speaker 1: you know, the McCaskey family. We understand what what what
Speaker 1: that means. We understand what Missus McCaskey wants and expects,
Speaker 1: what this what our fan base um expects, what this
Speaker 1: community expects. And then the names on the back of
Speaker 1: our jersey, you know, and you're going to go through
Speaker 1: some adversity, and you're going to go through some tough times.
Speaker 1: Every it happens, you know, every season, you're gonna you're
Speaker 1: gonna face it. Uh, you know, and now it's it's
Speaker 1: it's a matter of of of pride, it's a matter
Speaker 1: of of fight. It's a matter of sticking together. It's
Speaker 1: a matter of going out and pray, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: playing for one another. That old story we show him
Speaker 1: that that Derek Redmond tape about the Olympian who you
Speaker 1: know was you know, the British Olympian that he's running
Speaker 1: around a track. You know, he's in the semis getting
Speaker 1: ready for the Olympics. You know, he's in the semis
Speaker 1: and he's got a great chance to win, going he
Speaker 1: rips his hamstring. I don't know if you remember that,
Speaker 1: you know, and his dad came out of the stands.
Speaker 1: You know. It was in Barcelona and ninety six, and
Speaker 1: dad came out of the stands and helped him finish
Speaker 1: and get across the finish line, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and lost the opportunity. Obviously, you trained four years and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden something like that happens. But the
Speaker 1: lesson that he taught the kids. You know, you can
Speaker 1: take a you know, you can take an A or
Speaker 1: you can take an F. But we take no eyes
Speaker 1: in this family growing up, so there are no incompletes,
Speaker 1: So we don't take any eyes. We finish everything, and
Speaker 1: no matter what the circumstances are, no matter what the
Speaker 1: odds are, you finish everything. So our guys, our guys
Speaker 1: understand that. They know that, and we'll finish this thing
Speaker 1: the right way. We got five games left division rival
Speaker 1: at home against another great quarterback and a great offensive system.
Speaker 1: You know, it's going to be a huge challenge for us.
Speaker 1: So again, tough times don't last. Tough people do. And
Speaker 1: so we got we got the right guys, you know,
Speaker 1: we got the right coaches, the assistants, and we got
Speaker 1: the right players. And we'll dust ourselves off, we'll pick
Speaker 1: ourselves up, and we'll continue to prepare and we'll continue
Speaker 1: to fight and we'll go play well and we'll get
Speaker 1: this win. Great way to end our segment with you,
Speaker 1: Check Paganto, appreciate it. Good luck in your preparation this week,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you being on. Thank you. That's Bears
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, Check Pagotto. That's a wrap on tonight's Bears
Speaker 1: Coach the Show. I want to thank our producers Jordan
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Speaker 1: Bears head coach Mattonagge and defensive coordinator Chuck Pagano. I'm
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