WEBVTT - Nagy, Lazor talk offensive improvement | Coaches Show 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.599 Hey, pleasant, good evening everybody, and welcome into the twenty 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.080 twenty debut edition of The Bears Coaches Show with third 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:07.080 year Bears head coach Matt Naggie. It's brought to you 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.600 by a whipplely CPAs and consultants typically from PNC Studio 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.360 at how To Saw, but for now, Matt somewhere on 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.000 the football operations side of the building in your office, 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.360 and I'm working from home this evening. So good to 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.960 see you. I missed talking to you in the normal way. Yeah, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.080 good to see you in Jeff. It's uh, definitely different times, 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:28.520 but you know what, we're all adapting, and it's just 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.440 it's good to get back at it, I think, just 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.000 to be able for us to have our conversations we've 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.720 had going into our third year here and the players 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.360 get to talk talk about them and how they've been 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.599 dealing with camp. And before you know, guys were going 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.879 to be rolling here in September thirteen. So it's exciting, right. 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.479 I see your chair jangling in the background. Is that 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.479 the nervous energy that the calendar flips to September one tomorrow? 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.680 My man? You get going that everyone's talking about all 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.480 these energy drinks and coffee in the morning. I'm ready 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.160 to go. I don't need any of that crap. We 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.760 just roll. Now. That's you. You're You're, You're that way 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.600 every day on the practice field. Have your players met 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.920 that same energy because you're the tone center. Frankly, yeah, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.679 they have. It's been It's been a lot of fun 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.920 in camp just getting out there and seeing the grass 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.800 and being able to run around. And the one thing 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.880 that I've noticed this year, Jeff, that that I think 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.240 we lost a little bit last year for whatever reason, 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.000 is that energy that vibe that field that we had 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.000 very similar to twenty eighteen, That that freshness of a 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.000 kind of a new atmosphere. And they didn't really know 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.440 what they didn't know in twenty eighteen. Last year, in 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.720 twenty nineteen, um for a lot of different reasons, things 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.400 didn't go our way and but we fall through it 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.880 and it was it was somewhat of a down year, 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.560 and now it's like, okay, fresh start, let's get back 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.800 at it. And the players their energy at practice, their 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:51.560 energy on the field, their enthusiasm for each each other, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.120 the coaches. You see, you know with some of the 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.600 coaches talking trash to one another, it just spices up practice. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.400 That's how it needs to be right now, and we're 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.800 just being ourselves and we're cutting to lose some of 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.120 the coaches. How about let's get specific. Big Mike Fury, 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.800 who's going to be in the weightlifting competition somewhere for 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.399 a senior class because he's yoked up. I hope maybe 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.919 he's getting you in the gym two. And then you 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:19.280 got the Shade Towns in The wide receiver dB dynamic 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.120 has always been interesting in college and professional football. Heck, 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.720 back when you played in the high school level, because corners, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.800 yeap and soda receivers well, no doubt. And now you 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.640 remember too, Furry was he played both sides. Now he 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:34.200 was a true iron man back then and being able 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.560 to be a starting safety at one point and then 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.120 have ninety eight catches another year as a wide receiver. 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.080 So he definitely likes to spice it up. And I 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:45.399 think there's got to be a clip somewhere out there 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:48.200 back in like the nineties or two thousands of those 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.120 two facing each other in the NFL. You know, if 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.000 we're any good, and maybe maybe we can try to 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.080 find that and see it and get that up in 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.160 front of the screen and see who won. But they're 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:02.200 having a great time, and it's really you know, our 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.839 players feel that, and they just they feed off of that. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.000 I looked it up. I know they were in a 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.240 game against each other at some level. I don't know 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.440 who produced what, but I did look it up on 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.000 a website called Pro Football Reference dot com. Check it out. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:17.919 You can find out exactly. All right, let's get to 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:21.360 the news of the day. Unfortunately, one of the guys 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:25.600 that I really admire on this team, given his presence 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.760 in the Chicago area swego high school to a small 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:33.840 college Dubuque to undrafted free agent, really the longest of 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:37.120 journeys and unlikely journeys to the National Football League. And 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:40.960 in his third year, Michael Joseph was flashing some really 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.400 impressive play on the practice field with his ball skills 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.800 and just his body has matured into a physical type 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.080 player at corner. But unfortunately he goes on to the 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:54.320 injured list. What's the what's the diagnosis for Michael? And 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.400 how do you feel about that? Yeah, so Michael was 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.600 just having There's a lot of outliers these camps. You 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.480 have guys that are having excellent camps, and then others 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.960 that made me struggle a little bit, but he was 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.360 one for sure that I think every coach that you 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.680 talk to, every you know, Ryan Pace and whose guys 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.880 on the personnel side. When you're talking we have our 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.479 personnel meetings at night, his name kept coming up. This 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.960 guy is really playing at a high level. He can 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.960 do a lot of different things. And then of course 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.560 with coach Tabor on special teams doing some great things 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.960 there too, So we were all really excited to see 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.560 what he's going to be able to do this year. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.760 It's unfortunate, it's sad, but he has a great personality. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.320 Like you said, he understands that it's a day by 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:42.200 day journey. Right now, it'll be it'll be a wild 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.119 for him to get back on track, but he will. 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:47.599 He's young. You talk about being able to draft and 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.200 develop guys, and here's a guy that we did not draft, 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:52.919 but but we we had an eye for and brought 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.799 in as a free agent. And those are great stories, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.080 you know, And to have a story like that in 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:01.560 the way it did this year, it's just it's just 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.000 one step back that he's going to take two steps 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.719 forward here in the future. He's a hell of a kid, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.320 really good person y'all have back. You know, you talk 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.240 about your coaches and you admire what they do as teachers. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.520 To shade Townsend getting a lot out of his men 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.599 back there on the on the back end of the defense, 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.520 he does a wonderful job. I think when you have 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:24.200 a coach that has been a player in this league, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.160 has coached at the college level, so he's built relationships 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.559 through the recruiting process with these young kids nowadays, and 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.000 there's an instant credibility that you have as a coach 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:36.520 when you've played the position and now it's just you 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.120 put your own personality to it. So our players love 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.719 to shake him and Sean decide back there just do 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:46.680 a really great job at teaching, being teachers, helping them out, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.159 but then motivating as well and supporting them. And so 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:51.240 they all know they have that with the SHA and 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.719 to take that spot of the roster. Napoleon Maxwell comes 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.599 back to the organization, initially signed as an undrafted rookie 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.680 free agent out of Florida International Saint Petersburg, Florida kid, 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.800 big back, six feet two fifteen, so he's back in 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.960 the stable. How do you feel about all this right 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.000 now with David Montgomery working his way back. It's going 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.760 to be a few weeks. But what you're seeing out 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.359 of that group and what Maxwell might be able to provide, 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.200 you like something about him in the first place to 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.800 bring him back, right. Yeah, So it's good to get 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.440 Napoleon back in here. He was one of the guys 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.159 when you cut down from ninety to eighty that we 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.960 ended up having to have to release. But with the 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.800 injury that David right now, you've got to be able 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.960 to It gives you an opportunity to somebody else to 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.600 see what they can do. And so you know we're 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.200 in camp. Reps are very valuable. So he's going to 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.640 get some chances here to carry the football, and he 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.520 gives us an opportunity to see what he can do. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.840 So that running back room in general has been really good. 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.480 It's just I think they really attacked this offseason. They 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.200 put in a lot of sweat equity, and now we 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.800 were seeing that. It's unfortunate what happened with David, you 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.800 know the way that that happens. But he has a 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.400 great mindset and he's going to take every to get 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.600 ready as fast as he can and then whenever that is, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.040 he'll be back in there and it'll be what we 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:08.720 know with David Willcomery back there. Alan Robinson working his 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.040 way back today. Yeah, he did, and it's good to 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.960 have him back again. We know how Alan can, We 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.040 know what type of football player he is. We want 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.000 to make sure that he's ready to go on September third, 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.640 Keith against Detroit. So that's more of kind of a 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:28.120 balance with Andre Tucker, head athletic trainer, with Mike Surre 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.240 whide receiver coach, myself, Bill Laser, just making sure that 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:38.720 we're smart there getting him back into this thing. Welcome 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.320 back to the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Mattneggie, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.920 brought to you by Whippley, CPAs and Consultants. Coming up 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:45.320 at the bottom of the hour, will be joined by 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.080 offensive coordinator Bill Laser. The Chicago Bears Network presents Inside 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.320 the Bears, brought to you by Verizon. Anthony Adams and 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.680 Laurence Greeden cover the world of Bears football on and 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:56.440 off the field, every Sunday night, ten pm on Fox 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.120 thirty two Chicago, or watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot Com. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:04.239 Around the Bears official app, you. As the season ended 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.280 last January against the Minnesota Vikings. I believe that night 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:13.280 you began the process of flushing twenty nineteen and beginning 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:18.000 your own self analysis. Everybody seems to be going through 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.520 this self analysis. The theme seems to be all funneling 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:25.360 in through what you felt initially as the head coach. Yeah, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.000 you do feel that, and at the end of last 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.200 year in that locker room, I think we all just 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.600 felt like, you know what, we have a lot of 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:37.200 good players and people on this team, and to finish 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.200 eight and eight, we want to be better than that. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.600 We know that, and our goals are set a lot higher. 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:46.480 So you have to be able to make changes with that. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.320 You need to be able to start with yourself, and 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.320 that's what we've all done. And you know, I just 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.400 talked about the details of a day to day, week 0:08:54.440 --> 0:09:00.000 to week basis. Being able to delegate more is sometimes 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:01.880 hard at the start when you're coming in as a 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:03.960 head coach. You want to, you know, have control and 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.800 make sure you're doing everything the right way in your 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.640 way that you've learned. But at the same time, there's 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.160 a trust factor and there's there's delegation that's involved and 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.160 it's the same thing then trust in your players and 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.000 listening to what they have idea wise and where they're 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.360 at with practices and that sort of thing. UM. So, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.840 what I'm really excited to see this year, Jeff, is 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.200 I feel like when you when we go through our 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.800 checklist and we see, Okay, where do we go wrong 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:34.040 last year? Right now as we stand, m damn there, 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.440 every box has been checked as to okay, we said 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:39.280 we're going to do this, this and this, and it 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.400 was also it wasn't just from coaches. It was in 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.959 the player exit interviews that we that I had listening 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:49.520 to them to to you know, as simple as hey, coach, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.760 we like it when you walk back the back of 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.440 the plane on road trips and win loser draw. We 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.600 like when you just come back all that. It just 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:01.400 lets us know you got our back. And so that's 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.200 just an example of little things that UM worked that 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.400 we are going to fix and be different that way 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.120 that I think will help us in the long run. 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.280 So we're we're excited to get started. So far, so good, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:15.439 and we'll see where it goes. Well, is there something 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.520 that you hadn't thought of that really resonated with you, 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.640 Like Wow, I didn't realize that, you know, that was 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:24.640 missing from this equation that you could share. There was, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.800 and I'll give you an example. So, um, after we 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:31.840 get back from from London from playing the Raiders, that 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:33.760 was a rough game for us. You know, that was 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.880 a fistfight and we didn't win that we got we 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:41.200 got beat up, coaches, players, everybody. They went there and 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.400 they just they physically beat us up. And um, there 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.920 was poor play calls and there was there was poor execution. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.679 So what I decided to do the day after we 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.160 got back was take every one of those play calls 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.720 and take every one of those poor execution plays, and 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.120 had the whole team get together together in front of everybody, 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:07.400 and we called each other out effort wise, We called 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.480 each other out play call wise, and I told him 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.800 this is the bullcraft. This is a terrible play right, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.839 not a good play call. Could have been better. I 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:18.120 should have been better, Chuck, bad play call right here, 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:22.200 You could have been better here, players right here, No effort. 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.400 You're better than that. And so we call it a 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.360 good to bad and the ugly. It wasn't all bad. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.760 There happened to be more bad that game, but we 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:33.000 showed good plays too, good execution. And one of the 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.800 feedback that was given to me at the end of 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.720 the year was, coach, when you do that in front 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.800 of everybody, there's an accountability and boy does that ever 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.120 really get you going that, hey, I don't want to 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.280 be on that clip for next week. And so that's 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:46.720 what one of the things we're going to do this 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.400 this year is instead of just one week after a loss, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.760 it's going to be every week that we're going to 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.120 do that. And I didn't know that at the time 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.600 that it impacted them as much as it did, but 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.520 they enjoyed that. They liked being called out for their effort. 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.800 And so we're going to continue with that, and I 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.120 think it could be really good for us. What are 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:08.960 you asking of them that maybe you feel you hadn't 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:10.920 in the first two years. I've had a lot of 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.240 trust with the players. That that part I love. I 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.520 think that they've been phenomenal with the trust, the coaching staff, 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.320 the way we do things. What we talked about this year, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.400 the biggest part was Okay, then I've said this to 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.400 you the details, But what happens with the details is 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.160 you talk about it and then after two or three 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.080 or four weeks those details start slipping. That's not happening 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.440 this year. It won't happen by me being able to 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:38.600 delegate more to others on the staff. I can be 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.120 on top of those details, the little things that maybe 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.319 I wasn't on top end as much in the first 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.640 two years. And there's an accountability that the players have 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.480 as well with that. So if that means as we 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:51.959 get later in the season we pull back reps slightly, 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.160 then you know what, they better give us their best 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.360 in the reps that we get. They better be quality, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.760 and I'm going to be on top of that. And 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.199 if it's not quality, then we're to go more quantity. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.920 And there's a given given tape there. So um, you know, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.720 I think that's the biggest thing is staying consistent with 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:15.040 it and not getting waxed with it. Welcome back to 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.800 the Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matteggie. Brought 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.640 to you buy with these CPAs in Consultants, a proud 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:24.520 partner of the Chicago Bears. Learn more at wip fli 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:28.040 dot com. Matt, let's talk to quarterbacks. Now that you 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.360 had a chance to watch the scrimmage at Soldier Field, 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.280 on Saturday. What do you think the tempo, getting getting 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.599 in and out that part they're running, the mechanics of 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.920 the huddle, UM leading the guys, all that they both 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.520 did really well with. UM. You know, we were trying 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.920 to really see situationally where they at, whether it's red zone, 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.960 whether it's third and one, third and five, backed up, 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.400 where they ad with their cadences, are they do they 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.160 have their eyes down field on scrambles, on broken plays, 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.199 ball security, and both of them did a good job 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.600 with that. You start off with Mitch. He started off 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.559 with the one first and I thought his first drive 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.040 was exactly what we thought he could do. You know, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.320 he there was you know, every place stripted. So even 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:10.360 though a result of a play might be a first down, 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.880 the next play might be second and eight. That part's 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.880 a little different for him, but he's Mitch is doing 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.520 a good job right now of staying calm in the pocket. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.960 There were some times last year where he was flushing 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.880 out early and we were trying to get him from 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.080 doing that, so that you just trust that pocket and 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:30.360 you stay in there and push push up into pockets, 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.280 see everything that's going on in the middle of the field. 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.480 I think that's probably one of his biggest growths from 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:38.680 the last two years to this year, is he's doing 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.680 that now, He's not getting flushed out of the pocket. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.440 He's trusting and he's making throws. Yeah. You know, everyone 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.160 sees the final statistics or they see he threw the 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:52.000 pick to Powerful the first one. After watching it, there 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.520 was a little bit of pressure on him and progression wise, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.200 you know, I think he would want that back possibly 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.600 on throwing that there to that one. Kyle made a 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.080 good play, he sat on it. Kyle's a good corner 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:07.240 and um, but it didn't affect Mitch the next play, 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.560 which was good. The tip ball that he had as well. UM, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.200 you know that that that's hard. That's hard too. But 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.640 overall I liked how he played. Um, I thought for Nick. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.320 You know, you saw he missed a few throws over 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.480 the middle to start right right, getting going against some 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.400 of that timing with the guys. But he did a 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.400 lot of good in the red zone. He was able 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.040 to make some nice passes down in the red zone. Again, 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.240 he kept control of the drive, he kept his eyes 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.200 down the field and some scrambles, made a nice long 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.680 throw deep on one scramble but they're in a good 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.320 place right now. They're still battling, they're still competing. The 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.440 room is very healthy. Like we said, uh, it's it's 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:47.560 it's not easy for us, but it's for all of us. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.440 You know, we got one more week of practice here 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.840 and then we'll have to get moving here with the decision. 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:56.200 There are unintended consequences when players like a Keem Hicks 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:00.480 to Seane Gibson, David Montgomery are injured and I look 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:04.600 at Alan Robinson who is back, but guys like Javannah Whims, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:09.320 Riley Ridley below on Nichols, did they elevate with the 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.480 additional reps and now the pressure on them a little 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.680 bit to make plays during this camp? They have, They've 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:19.080 they've stepped up to it, and that's gonna happen. It's funny. 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.000 One of our one of my former colleagues when I 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.720 was in Philadelphia and Kansas City, one of our position 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.760 coaches that's been the game for a long time. He 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.880 used to always say to me in training camp, Matt, Matt, Matt, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.960 it'll all play itself out. You know. I used to 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.360 always wonder how we got so many guys here, How 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.680 are we going to make the numbers. How are we 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.840 going to keep five or six guys? And he's it'll 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.480 all play itself out. And that's kind of where we're 0:16:41.480 --> 0:16:44.000 at right now. You're seeing some guys step up and 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:46.360 take advantage of these opportunities. A robed down for a 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.840 little bit with his ankle, he's out. Well, it gives 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.640 other guys chances to get more reps. And all you 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.960 gotta do is flash just a little bit and you 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.600 can catch a coach's eye. And those guys that you 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.240 just named there, they've been doing that. Darnel Moni also, yeah, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.000 same thing. The kids come in and you know, really 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.760 done a great job. He's one of those guys that's 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:11.080 taken the zoom, the zoom meetings, the zoom questions. He's 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.280 transferred it to the field. He doesn't get lost very 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.119 often on that field. He knows how to break the 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.200 huddle and where to go. He asked really really good 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.600 questions when we're in there, and you know, it's it's 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:25.880 just really impressive to see a young kid like that 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.280 be able to fall to us there in the fifth round. 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.720 Everything that's gone on. In the simplest of terms, where 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:36.040 are you and your team at right now, given everything 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:40.600 that's transpired, including the social injustice in the start of 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:44.760 our third year together, there's, hands down, without a doubt, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.919 we are the closest we've ever been. As simple as that, 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:52.080 there's nothing but pure love for one another. I have 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:56.359 players coming to me telling me, Coach, you don't understand 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.479 how close we are right now from this whole building. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.159 You have no idea. And when I hear that, it 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:06.040 just gives me absolute goosebumps, because this is something that 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:09.480 hasn't just whenever something happens in the in the in 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:14.119 the quote unquote real world. We've been having discussions internally 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.320 throughout and I think again going back to guys like 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.520 Super Campbell and Carla and Erica, they've done a great 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:25.439 job of really keeping things open with communication amongst us 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.200 and then the coaches. We're just real. We just shoot, 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:32.040 we we we talk real, we have real talk. We're 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.600 very honest. There's so much love for one another. It's 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.439 it's powerful. I've never been a part of anything like this, 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.280 and I think what's happening is is that it's gonna 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:44.320 in the end, inevitably, it's gonna help us win games. 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.359 And that's what's most important, good springboard. All right, coming 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.040 up next, Bill Laser, Matt, thank you, good luck this week, 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.200 all right, take care of Jock. Welcome back to Bears 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:57.199 Coaches Show is welcome Bears offensive coordinator Bill Laser to 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.480 the program. The coordinators will on to date each week 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.439 as in years past, and Bill, you got plenty of 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.280 zoom time now every news conference almost feels like a 0:19:05.280 --> 0:19:07.640 talk show in some sense. A couple of times we've 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.359 had some errors, you know, the media errors with the 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.119 mute on. Those have actually been the best ones we have. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.600 They're scrambling and you can't hear what they're asking. What 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.480 have you learned about this team from your perspective since 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.399 you got I think I think I've found it to 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.240 be a team that works hard when they get on 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.919 the practice field. That's something that it's hard to know 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.399 until you're there and you see it. And what what 0:19:32.480 --> 0:19:35.360 I've observed every time is we've gone gone out under 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:39.680 the field and Coach Nagis asked them to get after 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:41.640 it and to work hard. They've done it, and so 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:45.600 that's been really uh, that's been really real positive for 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.280 me to see that. You know, I think on all 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.760 sides of the ball, I think they've created a culture 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.080 where they will work, and I think that's that's a 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.920 great building block. What intrigues you about this offense because 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.679 there are many many pieces to the puzzle, all shapes 0:19:59.720 --> 0:20:02.400 and isis Heck, you got a basketball team at tight 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:05.760 end and receiver and a lot of different choices in 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:09.840