WEBVTT - Nagy, Lazor recap 2021 | Coaches Show 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.480 Welcome into the Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matteggie, 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.200 brought to you by Whiply CPAs and consultants Jeff Jonny 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.040 act with you until eight o'clock tonight here on news 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.160 radio one oh five nine WBBM, with Bears head coach 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:12.240 Mattneggie here until the bottom of the hour and offensive 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.680 coordinator Bill Laser joining as well. Second straight winning with 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:19.200 the Bears coach convincing fashion against the visiting Giants yesterday 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.880 twenty nine three. Good evening. First of all, how are 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.880 you doing great? Jeff doing great? Thank you? And secondly, 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.560 no game, by any means is stress free for a 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.559 head coach, but that one yesterday had to be as 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.280 close as any because boom, like that, you're up fourteen. Yeah, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:37.800 that's the first time I've been a part of one 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.319 of those where you know, from two plays in at 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.760 seven and nothing and then a few plays later it's 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.479 fourteen zero. And so we were able to just kind 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:47.519 of maintain and hold that leade go into halftime with 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.800 the nice league, come out at the third quarter, get 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.440 a touchdown, and then really just you know, ride that defense, 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.760 arrested away, play smart on offense, and like you said 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.800 that they're never you never know the whole way up 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.000 at the end of that fourth quarter. But the guys 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:05.080 really played hard all fourth quarters, all three phases, and 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.679 it was a nice win. Eight hundred win in franchise 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:09.559 history you're a part of. It is at a cool 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.119 angle to the story at all. Yeah, it's neat. It's 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.080 neat to know. And again, it's amazing to think eight 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.680 hundred wins. That's a lot of wins, you know, it 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.280 said it'll be able to be that number and for 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.080 these guys. And the significance too with being a part 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:22.920 of which I'm sure you'll discuss and talk about with 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.120 Robert Quinn and and everything, and just a lot of 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:28.520 cool things in a season where takeaways have been really 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.600 hard to come by, the impact of four and where 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:34.760 they occurred remind you just how important it is to 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.399 take the ball away, also to protect the football, but 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.800 taking the ball away and where it happens, how it happens, 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.360 the bounce that it gives your entire team, the defense 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:49.279 flying around feeling good, having fun. Are those are so value, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.040 aren't they? They are? You know, because it flips the field. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.760 Anytime he gets football in the two yard line, you 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.280 better score, and we were able to do that and 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.400 we had to pick you know, we had an interception, 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.560 we were able to the ball down in there inside 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:03.160 the big red zone and we were able to turn 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:07.240 that into a touchdown. So it's just it's it's complimentary football. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.880 If the offense goes down and gets a touchdown and 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.079 maybe the defense gets a three and out or the 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.320 punt team, you know, pins them on back with that 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.600 complimentary football. So interval tween games going into the half, 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.320 coming out of the half, that that was a twelve 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.760 point exchange, as it turned out, and that's that's as 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.000 as big a two for one as you're gonna get. 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.080 And I know teams that are really successful do that routinely. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.840 Is that is that something that you'd love to have 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.600 every week or as many weeks as possible during a season, 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:39.240 because it's it's impactful as well, for sure, especially when 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.960 you're giving an opportunity. We talk about it every week. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:46.200 We practice different scenarios every week and sometimes they don't 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.160 ever come up, but those are the ones where you 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:50.840 never want to look back and say, shoot, I wish 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.080 we would have practiced this scenario or that scenario. So 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.720 you're always got to talk about it, even as monotonous 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.720 as it can get. But I thought for the offense 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.200 with you know, forty eight seconds to go and not 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.000 feel panicked to get three points. You know, we were 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.239 able to do it how we wanted to. We used 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.880 our timeouts, and then the very last play before the 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.240 field goal, you know, a rob had a five yard catch, 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.680 and then we went ahead and clocked with four seconds left, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.919 and we were allowed the special teams unit to come 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.840 out and the field goal unit come out and make 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:21.919 a field goal. And those are fun when it happens 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.280 that way. Over the last month, there's so much change 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.679 with missing players. I'm talking about the defensive side of 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.960 the ball in particular here, but finding guys to fill roles, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.320 and you learned a lot about guys and Sean Decay, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.040 don't you think he did a nice job of mixing 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.200 all that together and finding guys on the roster they 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:42.440 can play and rotating a different spot, especially in that secondary. Yeah, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.120 you know, he's done a really really good job of 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:48.080 making sure that he puts guys in great position to 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.840 make plays, and his assistant coaches on that side of 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:52.680 the ball as well. So I when you go back 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.560 to you can go back to the week that we 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.720 played in Minnesota where we were banged up so much 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.160 on defense on the back end against that potent offense, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.200 and Shaw was able to make it back from the 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.720 Codd protocol and get those guys to come out and 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.320 play phenomenal defense in that week. So you know, we'll 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.160 get ready for those guys this week as well. But 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:10.480 you got to really credit those coaches and the players 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:14.560 were executing. Dbe's combined allowed just one catch for twelve yards. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.520 They didn't get many pass rushing opportunities up front, but 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.159 they made the most of those. They were I think 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.719 three pass rushing opportunities really for Trevis Gibson, he's get 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.840 two sacks and two force funnels. Yeah, there was there 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.960 was production with limited snaps because of the running that 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.480 they decided to do. Obviously they were beat up a 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.440 little bit at wide receiver going into this game. But 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.000 point being is, you still got to stop them on defense, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.800 and I thought our defensive line, outside linebackers, the front seven, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.719 they really worked well together. We didn't give up any 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.040 real big runs and we made tackles when we had to, 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.600 and then when they did throw the football. We were 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:55.120 able to be opportunistic and the defensive line, not talking 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.600 about the outside linebackers, they're just the d line combined, 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.800 I think for sixteen tackles. So I think early on 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:02.760 they realized it was this was the day, this was 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.160 it was gonna be a tough game. Inside. They will 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:08.160 run on a lot in between the hash marks with 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.960 sa Quon Barkley, and he did get he did get 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.200 some yards. But if that's all the yards you give 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:14.640 up and you keep him out of the end zone, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.000 that's a that's a big day for the Bears. Yeah, 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.240 and they did some wildcat back there with him catching 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:22.960 the football and being quarterback and had some a little 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.360 bit of success with that. But for the most part, again, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.600 our guys did just enough to get him into third 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.760 down where we were able to pin our Ears back 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:33.160 and get after Mike Glennon, and that offense came out 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.640 of the game healthy, it looks like. And you're hoping 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.880 for great health and an ability to get on the 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.520 practice field Wednesday for Justin Fields with the hope is 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.240 starting him against the Vikings. How's that looking for you? Yeah, 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.000 so far, so good. Again, we'll know in the next 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.120 twenty four forty eight hours, it should tell us a 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:49.800 lot more as to where he's at. But um, that's 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.120 the goal and again for these guys to get everybody 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.080 back here and do everything we can to finish this 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.599 season on a high note. How does it feel to 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.120 enter the last week of a season with all the 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:03.159 work that's gone into the season, yet no payoff for 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.800 a playoff? But what's the what's the individual payoff for 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:10.800 you and for this team, well for all of us, 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.840 for coaches, for players. Every year is always different, whether 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.560 you're playing like some teams are this year, where you 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.719 go into this this final week and they're playing for 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.239 a playoff spot. Literally in the AFC, there's two teams, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.760 you know, with the Raiders and the Charters, and then 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.960 there's other situations where teams like us, we can't make 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.159 the playoffs, and then you have some that might have 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.080 a buy they know it, they're the one seeds. So 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.680 a lot of different scenarios. It's our job in this 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.080 role right now to make sure that we finished this 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.080 thing off the right way. I'm really proud of the 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.440 way that these guys have played since the news that 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.400 we cannot make the playoffs, because that's never easy, and 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:48.480 the players have done that. They've played hard and so 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.440 now the goal is going to be to finish it 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.159 off with this final game for us and end it 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.760 with a three Dame Winstry, how did you impact their 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:59.719 ability to play hard because they could have easily not? Well, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.320 you know, for me, the biggest thing is don't don't change. 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.120 Make sure that you stay. You stayed. Of course everyone's 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.320 watching after seeing that, but also have fun when you're 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:13.280 at practice. Um, you gotta understand, and we're very fortunately 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:15.400 keep things in perspective. But then on game day go 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.760 cut it loose. And they've been able to do that 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.680 and they see what type of team they can be 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:23.560 when they do it. Snap back with time, Here comes 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.240 quit what right into what's gotta breathed up in the 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:32.080 ball comes out? Ball comes out. Giants have recovered, but 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:38.240 Robert Quinn has just picked up sec Number eighteen in 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:42.440 a regular season that has been nothing shorter spectacular and 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.040 has set the Bears single season record for sacks that 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:50.160 has held for thirty seven years. By Richard Dent. Welcome 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:51.720 back to the Bears Coaching Show, brought to you by 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.920 Whipley CPAs and Consultants a proud partner of the Chicago Bears. 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.960 Learn more at whippley dot com with Bears head coach 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.320 Matt Naggie. Geff Jonny Act just heard the record setting 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.800 sack from Robert Quinn. From your perspective ground level when 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.720 it happened, because it was close several times on a day, 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.440 he wasn't going to get many opportunities. What did it 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.680 look like? How did it feel on the sidelines, What 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.560 was the reaction? It was special for him to be 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.920 able to get that, Like you just said, we weren't 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.200 sure how many opportunities he was going to get to 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.120 be able to get it, and it was the big 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.960 elephant in the room that no one talked about, but 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.520 we all knew it was there, and for him to 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:30.080 finally get it was a special moment to get recognized 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:32.760 and just for his teammates to have feel so good 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.319 about you know, they're part of that too. You know, 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.040 he would tell you that they're all part of that, 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:41.400 so special moment. It's a part of history and a 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.719 special player that I happened to right. He did it 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.240 within the sixteen game. See, he missed a game obviously 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:50.679 this year, So to me, that is beneficial I again, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:54.440 you know me. I know you, but I love old school, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.120 so I don't like to see the history of the 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.319 game meddled with too much. So now when you have 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.319 an eighteen game season, all these records are going to 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.280 be broken. I wish there was another way to still 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.800 categorize it, because you're comparing apples to apples instead of 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.640 apples to oranges here. And I don't know how you 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:13.680 feel about it as a younger head coach, but it's 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.319 significant to me that it happened within a sixteen game season. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.680 How do you feel about it? I agree with that, Jeff. 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.920 I think that you know, there's probably going to be 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.280 some asterisk to some of these records or some of 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.520 these seasons that happens, or you just gotta started, you 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.160 gotta started new right. Hey, this was a seventeen game season, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.040 so they'll all be a little bit different. I'm sure 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:35.520 everybody has their own opinions, but I can agree with 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.920 you on that. A symbol that he is, though, is 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.000 of perseverance, given what he's gone through in his life. 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.840 The resilience to bounce back after what he admittedly again 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.240 told us in the postgame show was not Robert Quinn 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.199 football last year, and then just his relentlessness as a 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.840 pass rusher. There's a lot of ways to describe him, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:58.319 but maybe more so forget about performance. The way his 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:02.680 teammates reacted tell me that he's really made a connection 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.360 with this group. Is that Is that accurate? Yeah? He has. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.280 UM Again, I brought it up a bunch, just where 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.400 he's at and how he does things in practice, and 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.880 from a coach's perspective, it's really been neat to see 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:21.120 literally from the first day that he showed up this 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.959 past you know, training camp, the shape he was in, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.920 the way he practiced. I mean there was times in 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.160 training camp where I had to yell at him a 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.839 thousand times to pull back from what was hitting the 0:10:32.920 --> 0:10:35.640 quarterback in the halo, you know, because he goes so hard. 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:38.360 But you'd rather have that than try to go the 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.120 other way and tell somebody to practice harder. So he's 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.040 done that, and so it really shows who he is. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:50.280 The biggest thing too, that you just mentioned is perseverance, resiliency, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.800 adversity hits. He gets anybody that gets questioned after a 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.720 rough year, um, that's not easy, and he shows how 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.880 mentally calloused and tough he is. To bounce back this season, 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.839 stay healthy, be able to be out there and be available, 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:07.440 and now he just went out and played great football. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.280 Because you're an offensive mind and a and a quarterback guy, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.960 there's more questions about offensive to you over the course 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.000 of your career. But on the defensive side of the ball, 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:23.400 we sometimes don't talk about it. Who's rising on that 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.920 defense in your opinion? We can obviously point to Roquan 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.880 still has a lot of room to grow and to 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.959 let that horse ride. But where other areas do you 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.920 see in terms of defensive personnel that are rising players? Yeah, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.760 I think there's several, you know, and I don't want 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:39.640 to leave anybody out, but I know, like just just 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.280 from yesterday's game, you look at the development and growth 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.280 of a guy like Travis Gibson to have the season 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.880 that he's having this year is great. Lan Nichols really 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.880 growing into a leadership role on that defensive line. You 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.120 just brought up about rope On on the back end, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.680 you know, you have you know, Jalen Johnson who's really 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:00.680 learning what it's like to be an number one corner 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.600 in this league. And we got a bunch of other 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.400 depth younger guys too. That are on this roster. So 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.439 those are some guys that just jump out to me 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.439 right now. But I think that when guys are presented opportunities, 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.080 like guys like Thomas Graham and some of these other 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:19.200 guys on defense, they've been presented challenges and they've stepped 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.880 up to it. So the more of that that you have, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:25.199 the better. Do you sense a rejuvenation of sorts for 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.560 Eddie Jackson? They've been you know, we've been critical sometimes 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.000 of his play and his performance, but he seems to 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.680 be having fun here in the last few weeks. He's 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.280 I'm really proud of Eddie Jackson. I think that you know, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:47.280 at times, he's had so much production, whether it's interceptions, touchdowns, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:48.959 over the course of his career, and sometimes you go 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.800 through a drought and there's different reasons for it, but 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.160 he's really done a great job mentally of staying in 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.920 tune physically doing I mean that hit he had yesterday 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.040 on the sideline's I mean he was flying around in 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.319 the backfield, making plays in the battlefield. You feel him. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.240 You know, he's an impact player right now, and that's 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.200 what he's done his whole career, and it's it's really 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.439 good to see that in him. I'm super proud of 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.800 the way that he's handled this season. Snapback, Here comes pressure, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.160 Here comes Gibson knocks it out of the hands of 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.440 the quarterback Glennon, and Trevis Gibson has his second sack 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.200 of the day and second strip of Glennon. Bears recover 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.240 the football up with a Carus Tonga. Download the Chicago 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.280 Bears amp to play our new predictor game, Risk It, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.000 brought to you by Bette Rivers for your chance to 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.719 win two hundred and fifty dollars in free bets and 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:38.080 accustomed Bears Jersey. Just heard one of Trevis Gibson's sacks 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.000 along with two forced fumbles. Here with Bears head coach 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:43.720 Matt Naggie coming up next, Bill Laser, That is our 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:47.440 final segment of the regular season here on w BBM. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.199 One more bit of reflection on Trevis, if you will, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.960 from the very first day he got here, the character 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.440 of this kid is special. He wants to do right 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.800 to all his coaches, all his teammates. He wants to 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.360 earn coach shoe. He's done a great job of teaching 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.640 him fundamentals and techniques how to play within this defense 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.920 another guy that practice is really hard. I know he's 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.040 watching Khalil. I know he's watching Robert when they're out there, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.840 and he sees that, and so I think he's got 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.160 a really high ceiling. He's only going to get better 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.880 that that second stack than he had yesterday. The first 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:25.680 one was a cover zero look, so he was free, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.520 no one touched him, and he made a great play. 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:32.320 The second one was awesome, and the move he made, 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.600 the dip that he made and then to be able 0:14:34.640 --> 0:14:38.920 to slap the football underneath with his hand, that was 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.680 really cool. You can make a case that the guy 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.600 on offense who came the furthest this season, while he 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.160 had a really good rookie season, I mean, maybe I'm off, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.120 but is it Darnell Mooney? I think so. I think 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:58.000 he's been really really consistent even when teams know, you 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.240 know that he's going to get to football certain points 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.280 of the game, and that's where you want to see 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.120 growth from him. As a wide receiver. His route running 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.360 has always been special, his speed has always been special, 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.880 his hands have always been special. But now I think 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:13.000 what's happening is he's building a rapport with whoever the 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.240 quarterback is obviously we've had a couple of different ones 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.680 this year, but he's building that rapport, the quarterbacks are 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.800 trusting him immensely, and then he's making plays. I mean, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.880 I just go back to Seattle. That that catch and 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.600 run he had in Seattle at the end of the game. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:27.920 For a guy that's one hundred and seventy five pounds 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.760 so wet to bust through you know, all those tackles 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:33.640 and still make a play. That's who he is. And again, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.160 another guy with a super high ceiling. Man for you, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.520 did this season ever lose the fun factor? I know 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:44.320 it fun is important for you. Did it ever become work? Yeah? No, 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.360 it's well, when you're losing, it's never fun. So that's 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.960 always that, you know, being completely real, That's that's the 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:54.440 worst part is the competition and the competitor within you 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.440 as you want to win every game, and when you don't, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.240 or if they're strung together, which we've had some of 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.280 those where you have some losing streaks that are all 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.480 strutting together, it makes it difficult. I think that's the 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.680 biggest challenge is making sure that you continue to stay 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:11.600 you be yourself, but also still remember and half perspective 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.840 and still have fun as much fun as you can 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.160 have with that balance of being serious and making sure 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.120 you know where the mistakes are. And so you know, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.840 that's why right now, even though we can't make the playoffs, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 I am proud and I am having fun with these 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:29.200 guys understanding that they do care and you're showing it. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.040 I saw a quote last night on the Vikings game 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.320 on Mike Zimmer that he was told by Bill Parcels, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.400 and I don't know if you ever heard this. Parcells 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.360 told them three things are going to happen about becoming 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.320 a head coach, And tell me if these happened to you, 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:48.640 your best friend is going to disappoint you. Four or 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.800 five things happen every day in pro football you wish 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.840 wouldn't happen, and if you can't handle those, you need 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.480 to get another job. And lastly, it's lonely being a 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.640 head coach. They're unique because you're talking about, you know, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.320 coach ourselves. He's been through a lot of different experiences 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:06.439 and obviously coach zim are talking through and understanding that too. 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:12.640 I think when you go through these situations that part 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.960 of being lonely, like the nice thing is when you 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.440 have a good support system around you. I can say 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.280 that that hasn't been the case for me. You know, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.359 it's I got great people around me, whether it's people 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.560 in this building or whether it's people outside of the building. 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.960 And in the end, when you have that, I think 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:29.719 that's probably most important is to know you have support. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:33.000 And when you have support, um, there's a lot more 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:35.639 confidence in how you do things. So being able to 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.960 have support from family or friends and people in this building, 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.840 it definitely helps. And this is a part of the job, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.159 right this is this is there's thirty two of us 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.800 right now in this league, in the NFL that are 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.200 fortunate enough to be sitting in the chair that I 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.840 sit in. And that's why every single day I'll never 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.680 look back and say I wish I would have spent 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.240 that Tuesday a little bit different, or a little bit harder, 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.639 or not felt sorry for myself as I did. Forget 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:03.320 that that's not going to happen, you know, and I 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.639 can look back and say that, So as you go 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.200 through life's journeys and the seasons of life, as I 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:11.040 like to call it, everything happens for a reason. And 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.479 that's the message to our players and our coaches as 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.359 we go through you know, any peaks and valleys is 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.600 never get too big, never get to you know, never 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.440 get too low. And how you handle things and things 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:24.879 that are supposed to happen will happen. That's how I 0:18:24.880 --> 0:18:27.960 attack it. Matt. Appreciate it. Another season in the books 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:29.560 for the Coaches Show. You go out and play the 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.040 Vikings for the second time here in a few weeks, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:34.919 So good luck in the finale. But from everybody here 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.480 at WBBM and the Bears Radio Network want to say 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:42.760 thank you for making yourself available. Because number one, there's 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.040 never enough time in a day, certainly not enough time 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:47.680 to do a one hour talk show about the game 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.520 that just happened when you're preparing for the next one. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.080 But you've been enjoyed to work with as always and 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.440 one hundred percent professional with great integrity. So thank you 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.160 from everyone here at WBBM for this season and all 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.480 the time you gave us. I appreciate Jeff, you know 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.280 how much fun we have, whether we're on record or 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.040 all record, we have a lot of good time together 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.520 and you're you're the best at us. So appreciate you 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:10.760 all right, appreciate it, Matt. Coming up next, Bill Laser, 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.160 the Bears offensive coordinator trio left single right with Robinson 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:16.760 snapped to Dalton on fourth down, staring into the end 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.160 zone coming across flip the right, Darnel Moony the catch 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:24.040 had a touchdown touchdown Bear. Come watch the Bears game 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.680 at Durban's in Burbank on Sunday at this week's official 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.560 Miller Light Chicago Bears Watch Party. 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