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Speaker 1: are nine to four and a first place in the
Speaker 1: NFC North and it continues to be that way. Welcome in,
Speaker 1: Coach Naggie. How you doing. What a game? That was?
Speaker 1: The whole city is going crazy? You know that, right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Doing good? Now? That was absolute blast last night. The
Speaker 1: city was going crazy, the fans were going crazy, our
Speaker 1: players were going crazy because of that and came out
Speaker 1: with the victory. Were brought to you by a Whippley
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Speaker 1: next hour talking Bears football. As we always discussed and
Speaker 1: everybody who loves the game knows every week as a
Speaker 1: new drama in the National Football League. There was wonder
Speaker 1: out there how this game was going to flush out,
Speaker 1: even for you right, yeah, they're head coaching for sure. No,
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, such a great game. It was
Speaker 1: great for really football fans in general. A lot of
Speaker 1: different types of matchups that people were looking forward to,
Speaker 1: and you know, I think people got what they wanted
Speaker 1: and I just uh to be a part of that.
Speaker 1: Lots of great plays, so Ralph. Defensively speaking, you know,
Speaker 1: both sides were really getting after those offenses and uh
Speaker 1: but in the end, ultimately, you know, we stuck together
Speaker 1: as a team, um and did exactly what we needed
Speaker 1: to do to get to win. It turns out defense
Speaker 1: is still involved. That's right, You're right, and it's I'm
Speaker 1: sure glad that we have our defense. I know that.
Speaker 1: What do you think of it? Well, they're relentless. That's
Speaker 1: the one word that I just kept thinking about this
Speaker 1: morning as I was watching. You know, the tape is
Speaker 1: really uh. As you know, we always talk about the
Speaker 1: green grass and having a quarterback having enough pocket in
Speaker 1: front of him to make throws. And really last night,
Speaker 1: I thought our defense that was the number one thing
Speaker 1: that they did was they took away the green grass
Speaker 1: from Jared Goff. They were they were able to to
Speaker 1: really just stay in his face, make every throw a
Speaker 1: difficult one. And then our dbs on the back end,
Speaker 1: they were there right on time and h you know,
Speaker 1: breaking up passes and it was just a really really
Speaker 1: cool night. The cool part of it too, you know,
Speaker 1: you had to really do the best you could to
Speaker 1: contain Todd Gurley. Otherwise it could have been a different
Speaker 1: situation with the play action game and whatnot because of
Speaker 1: who he is the play actions there anyway, But to
Speaker 1: hold him the twenty eight lost game in forty eight
Speaker 1: games of his career, yeah, that's that's tough to do.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's not just Todd Gurley, but it's that scheme.
Speaker 1: It's it's the quarterback. You know. They does a great
Speaker 1: job with the offensive line with all the wax and
Speaker 1: the backs and the slices that they do with their
Speaker 1: their tight ends and um, so for our offense to
Speaker 1: go out there and and limit him to twenty eight yards,
Speaker 1: I think you could ask a lot of people and
Speaker 1: they wouldn't believe you if you if you said you
Speaker 1: were going to do that, and we did it. Here's
Speaker 1: the other thing people don't believe too. When you you
Speaker 1: gotta break it down, you gotta watch every snap, is
Speaker 1: that every single one of those guys on defense had
Speaker 1: a hand in this thing. Yeah, that's the other part
Speaker 1: of it too. And that's what I think, Um, really,
Speaker 1: you know elevates this defense versus a lot of other defenses.
Speaker 1: Is it is all about these different positions. These guys
Speaker 1: are out there just feeding off of each other, and
Speaker 1: it's the next man up, it's the next play mentality. Um,
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter who you are. Somebody's trying to
Speaker 1: get a piece of it. How's Bryce Callahan doing the
Speaker 1: nickel defender left in the second quarter earlier today? Said, Uh,
Speaker 1: I think you said a lower leg injury. Yeah, he had.
Speaker 1: He has a has a left foot. So we'll get
Speaker 1: that looked at here in the next really twenty four
Speaker 1: hours and get a idea where he's at. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, but it's he's he's a great player for us,
Speaker 1: and and uh you know, we're keeping our fingers And
Speaker 1: Cherrick McManus came in there and you know, he had
Speaker 1: to hit, he had to make the tackles because those
Speaker 1: guys can get a lot after the catch, and he
Speaker 1: didn't allow that to happen. And he turned out he
Speaker 1: led the team and tackles. Yeah, you know, Cherik was
Speaker 1: It was impressive to see him really sticking his nose
Speaker 1: in there on a lot of a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of those runs where they try to break contained
Speaker 1: and he was able to shoot him in there and
Speaker 1: make a tackle, uh, and prevent any any long runs
Speaker 1: or any outside outside zone runs. And so that was
Speaker 1: a great job by him stepping in like that. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: have won the game if you didn't get what you
Speaker 1: did get from your offense though, in particular in the
Speaker 1: running game. But you know, there were key plays, key passes.
Speaker 1: It wasn't the best day for Mitch obviously in the offense,
Speaker 1: but there was enough to get it done. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: sometimes you'll have those games. Uh, you know, we we
Speaker 1: were at a point yesterday where they were, you know,
Speaker 1: playing a little bit more zone defense and uh get
Speaker 1: in us a little bit. There are some different looks
Speaker 1: for the run, and I thought the offensive line did
Speaker 1: a phenomenal job at protected in the past game when
Speaker 1: we did throw and then creating lanes for those running backs,
Speaker 1: and you saw Tarik and Jordan both having some nice
Speaker 1: little runs there. To flip the field position in a
Speaker 1: game like that, that's huge. So when we talked before
Speaker 1: the game, our pregame interview, you were taking a look
Speaker 1: at very specific things to make a difference in this game.
Speaker 1: One it was turnovers, obviously, but you won that turnover
Speaker 1: battle once again. Having time of possession turned out to
Speaker 1: be really big against that offense. You just wanted the
Speaker 1: team to play fast. I think these are things that
Speaker 1: all came to fruition, and then you threw in the
Speaker 1: added element of getting getting something out of your run game,
Speaker 1: stopping their run, getting creative in the red zone again,
Speaker 1: and playing suffocating defense. It was a really formula win.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was, and it was different. But our guys,
Speaker 1: when you're able to on offense, if they're not going
Speaker 1: to give you the big plays and they're going to
Speaker 1: take that away, then you have to be able to
Speaker 1: get first downs. You can't go three and out. There
Speaker 1: was time to where I felt like we were able
Speaker 1: to move the sticks and get at least two first downs.
Speaker 1: And what that does is that allows your defense to
Speaker 1: have at least a little bit of a breather on
Speaker 1: the sideline before they come back out. You know, we
Speaker 1: did have the one turnover the sudden change, but then
Speaker 1: our defense went right back out and very next play
Speaker 1: they got an interception. So that's that's what I think
Speaker 1: is so neat about our team is we just keep
Speaker 1: plugging away, keep moving forward, and everyone's got each other's back.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the building. Crowd was nuts, and it
Speaker 1: just kept getting bigger. The crescendo built throughout the night.
Speaker 1: It's what you want, it's what you're looking for. It's
Speaker 1: what you kind of sent out their message wives throughout
Speaker 1: the course the weekend, and frankly you have all season long.
Speaker 1: Are you getting what you're looking for? Yeah, last night
Speaker 1: was Last night was awesome. They you could just tell
Speaker 1: every time they were out there on offense, you know,
Speaker 1: and there's some communication that goes on now between the
Speaker 1: coach and the quarterback and and uh so for the
Speaker 1: fans to be super loud, it's hard to hear. And
Speaker 1: you saw there was a couple of times they had
Speaker 1: to take time out, so there was a couple of
Speaker 1: false starts that they had that's a credit to the
Speaker 1: fans anyway you want to look at it. That that's
Speaker 1: that's a credit. Yeah, the hands go up, you know
Speaker 1: that that that he's that he's having trouble. And so
Speaker 1: the other big part about that is that the players
Speaker 1: and I can't stress this enough. The players just feed
Speaker 1: into it so much. And it's amazing what some what
Speaker 1: some great crowd noise can do. And so it's just
Speaker 1: fun for everybody. And Uh, what I thought was was
Speaker 1: the coolest part was it wasn't just a couple of
Speaker 1: plays here or there. I mean, the crowd was going
Speaker 1: crazy from start to finish. Yeah, and you didn't lose them.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's that's a credit to what
Speaker 1: you guys were doing and how you went about doing it.
Speaker 1: There were other tweaks that I was honestly unaware of
Speaker 1: being in the booth with my headset on. But everybody's
Speaker 1: writing and talking about it with an air raid siren
Speaker 1: and all this other game presentation. Uh did that help?
Speaker 1: Or I mean, are these things that you guys want? Isn't?
Speaker 1: But yeah, it all helps. And that's again a credit
Speaker 1: to everybody in the organization working together to make it
Speaker 1: a really fun and advantageous environment, you know, doing it
Speaker 1: the right way and doing it legally obviously with the noise,
Speaker 1: and that's what we did. And when you can do that,
Speaker 1: it just amps everybody else up at home. That's why
Speaker 1: you want to have home field advantage. That's why you
Speaker 1: want to protect Soldier field. And we did that six
Speaker 1: and one, with one more to go against the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers coming up on Sunday. The Bears Coaches Show
Speaker 1: with head coach Matt Maggie and w bbm's Jeff Joniac continues,
Speaker 1: So fullard is a wing to the left side of
Speaker 1: the formation, heads in motion of the right, with blown
Speaker 1: Nichols in the backfield, Trabisky with Hicks, the fake handoff,
Speaker 1: Trubisky pops a pass duck rarely soul touchdown, touchdown, Bears
Speaker 1: hand the tricks jeep on coming from that. Naggie another
Speaker 1: great design hand The Bears are of fourteen six here
Speaker 1: on the If I knew ahead of time, we'd call
Speaker 1: that Santa's Slave, but you know, we find that after
Speaker 1: the fact. And yeah, you know what, I just want
Speaker 1: you to know this because Tom and I on the
Speaker 1: broadcast we have fun with it, obviously, but my eyes
Speaker 1: open up. I see four defensive guys going out there
Speaker 1: in ninety numbers and souls out there, and so you know,
Speaker 1: you just get riveted. But you know, I don't mean
Speaker 1: to demean the play calling on something like this and
Speaker 1: calling get trick, because it's not a trick that should
Speaker 1: be eliminated. From my conversation, these are actual sound design,
Speaker 1: meaningful red zone plays that just don't have your typical
Speaker 1: skill sets, you know what I'm saying. So I want
Speaker 1: to apologize. They're not tricks. They're plays that are meaningful.
Speaker 1: So I want to get that out there right away.
Speaker 1: I hope you don't get offended by, you know, the
Speaker 1: description of that, because they are there. There's something else
Speaker 1: and I know they'll keep on coming in a variety
Speaker 1: of ways. But what's it doing to your sideline, what's
Speaker 1: it doing to your locker room? What's it doing to
Speaker 1: your day to day? We touched on it last week,
Speaker 1: but it's now getting to the point where anybody at
Speaker 1: any time could potentially be called the duty. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the guys like it, and whether it's different people on
Speaker 1: offense with other offensive lineman or it's the defensive players. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, like I've said before, we have fun with
Speaker 1: it during the week and just going in and knocking
Speaker 1: on Vick's door and pulling out a couple of the
Speaker 1: guys calling out their numbers and when their number gets
Speaker 1: called there, they get they get pretty pumped up about it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't mean it's gonna get run, but we'll practice it
Speaker 1: and and who knows what the play is gonna be.
Speaker 1: Uh uh and if it's ever gonna work. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just think that it's important to h to evolve
Speaker 1: everybody and if you do it the right way and
Speaker 1: you have some reasoning behind it. So far, we've been
Speaker 1: kind of fortunate they've been working there. You're looks like, yeah, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised, but I just know that we're We're
Speaker 1: glad they're working and and uh, but you do there,
Speaker 1: whatever you call them, whether it's tricks or deceptive, Um,
Speaker 1: what it does is it it puts the defense out
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disadvantage because, um, if you've
Speaker 1: never done it before, there's no way they can possibly
Speaker 1: have have scheme for it. And uh, that's to me
Speaker 1: an advantage to the offense. Why are you doing it?
Speaker 1: Like what like nobody's doing this? Yeah, Matt Nage, Well, I, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're I've always been kind of into being
Speaker 1: out of the box with that kind of stuff. I've
Speaker 1: always been that way, and uh um, why not? You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's the guys love it. If the guys hated
Speaker 1: it and it wasn't fun, I wouldn't do it. But
Speaker 1: they love it and it just helps, it helps bring
Speaker 1: us all together. And trust me, they're super excited on
Speaker 1: the sideline. They want they want you to call that play.
Speaker 1: They want to be a part of it. And then
Speaker 1: they got to execute it. I mean, what a great
Speaker 1: throw by Mitch yesterday, what a great catch by Bradley,
Speaker 1: great seale by by all the lineman Bachem to act
Speaker 1: like he had the ball. And then there's Roy uh
Speaker 1: you know, Robertson. He's Royson the back running the back
Speaker 1: end line and he wants the ball. You know, he's
Speaker 1: telling us today that he was more open than Bradley,
Speaker 1: you know, which is a complete bold lie. But uh
Speaker 1: but it's fun and our guys like it's so why not?
Speaker 1: So what's Andy Reid thinking? Because this is your mentor
Speaker 1: and you know in time and I talked about this
Speaker 1: today because he comes from the Lavelle Edwards Tree. He
Speaker 1: was a tackle at BYU and A and a revolutionary
Speaker 1: passing game at that school. Uh would he be proud
Speaker 1: as an offensive lineman of a three hundred pounder catching
Speaker 1: that touchdown pass? What would he be thinking? Absolutely? He
Speaker 1: is into all of that. And you know we uh
Speaker 1: we we've put together some plays in Kansas City the
Speaker 1: last several years. I mean, shoot, you look at don
Speaker 1: Terry Poe. He had a rushing touchdown, he had a
Speaker 1: passing touchdown against the Broncos with the bloated tebout pass,
Speaker 1: and um, I mean we have great we have some
Speaker 1: great ones now and so he loves all that and uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's what I know, That's what he knows.
Speaker 1: And and uh they've been good to us, So let's
Speaker 1: let's keep it going. Is he text you after this?
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, he just texted here a little
Speaker 1: bit ago, So uh yeah, no, we stay in touch,
Speaker 1: and I know he appreciates it. He roots us on
Speaker 1: and and he likes it. I mean, you know, coach,
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's an outside the box thicker as well,
Speaker 1: and again progressive minded, um different but yet calculated and
Speaker 1: when you have it that way, Um, usually good things happen,
Speaker 1: and so far we've been fortunate with that and only
Speaker 1: two teams in the league with a second half lead
Speaker 1: this season, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago pretty
Speaker 1: cool every single game, pretty Niche means, you know, these guys,
Speaker 1: you're in everything, sure every time. It's another compliment to
Speaker 1: you though, And I think this is and I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in the broadcast yesterday we were wrapping it up
Speaker 1: as I had the adrenaline rush of excitement because it's
Speaker 1: it's it's great to see your general manager who hand
Speaker 1: picked you to be the head coach, you guys working together.
Speaker 1: But a coach it gets a roster play layers and
Speaker 1: feels like he can coach every single one of them,
Speaker 1: and he's got something for every single one. He just
Speaker 1: doesn't say, well, I can't really use you right now,
Speaker 1: all right, I can't coach you. You don't think that way,
Speaker 1: And this is an example, Yeah, yeah, no, I And
Speaker 1: I wasn't raised that way in the coaching world. With
Speaker 1: coach read you know, that's one thing you always see
Speaker 1: and I believe that you know, it's it's uh, whoever
Speaker 1: is there for you, that's who we roll with, and uh,
Speaker 1: it's our job as coaches to make sure that we adapt.
Speaker 1: If you don't adapt, that that old saying adapt or die,
Speaker 1: and you need to be able to adapt. You got to.
Speaker 1: It's Uh, there's a lot of teams right now that
Speaker 1: are going through different issues and different struggles. Um, some
Speaker 1: are more fortunate than others. But um, whatever situation we're in,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, I'm just You're not going to
Speaker 1: find that from from me. You're not going to find
Speaker 1: that from our other coaches. That's just not how we
Speaker 1: do it. And so whatever cards were dealt were dealt,
Speaker 1: and we need to make the no more of the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaching Show with head coach Matt Maggie on news
Speaker 1: Wadio seven eighty and one out five point nine FM
Speaker 1: w BBM, Sullivan sends it back to big push up
Speaker 1: front down safety Eddie Goldman, a vicious front push by
Speaker 1: that Bears front bore and then gets to God for
Speaker 1: the end zone. It turned out to be big and
Speaker 1: the Bears get the ball back and drive down and score.
Speaker 1: So that was a significant moment in the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, that's where you can kind of feel
Speaker 1: things heading our way and Eddie and and Keem getting
Speaker 1: in there, Eddie just making a great play and getting
Speaker 1: in there for the sack. Uh. And now in order
Speaker 1: to get to that part, it was the play before
Speaker 1: that where fifty two and ninety four both both forced
Speaker 1: Gurly to lose four or five yards and get into
Speaker 1: that position. And so I thought that was significant. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then we were able to get to football, go
Speaker 1: down the field and get to score, and that was
Speaker 1: nice to be able to go up nine points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a ferocious push by those guys
Speaker 1: up front. And I think a chem Is man, he's
Speaker 1: playing at a whole different level right now. He is there's,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, and I'm really happy for him. The
Speaker 1: energy that he's playing with. When he brings it, he's
Speaker 1: really unstoppable when when he wants to be. He's just
Speaker 1: such a big, strong, powerful, tall He understands run game
Speaker 1: versus the play action pass, and when he penetrates through
Speaker 1: that that first line of defense, he's just so long,
Speaker 1: and yet he has a burst to him as well.
Speaker 1: So all those guys together, they're really doing a great job.
Speaker 1: Let's talk a little vic Fangio. His players are calling
Speaker 1: him every you can wizard, you know, the evil genius.
Speaker 1: I know everybody calls him the godfather. How much is
Speaker 1: he enjoying this because you can't really tell the time.
Speaker 1: He's having a lot of fun, And you're right, you
Speaker 1: can't always tell. But I think that's one of his qualities,
Speaker 1: of one of his good traits is he always just
Speaker 1: stays kind of composed. And even Kiel and the players
Speaker 1: feud off of that, and they trust him. They know
Speaker 1: system is great, it really works. Uh you know, they
Speaker 1: they he puts them in good positions and then when
Speaker 1: they're in that position, they got to make the play.
Speaker 1: And both both times in both cases yesterday with the
Speaker 1: coaching on that side and the players, they did that,
Speaker 1: and you gave him the opportunity to break down the
Speaker 1: locker room. We all saw that on video. How important
Speaker 1: as you've been in this position as a coordinator, is
Speaker 1: that a coordinator to come up there and represent his
Speaker 1: side of the ball in that kind of fashion with
Speaker 1: all the all the team with him, offensive players you know,
Speaker 1: going crazy too. Yeah, Well, anybody that knows Vic knows
Speaker 1: that he's the last person that wants to do that,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. Um, But I just felt like it
Speaker 1: was way too important. Number one, h too many guys
Speaker 1: on defense played played too good and to be able
Speaker 1: to just pick one person. But on top of that,
Speaker 1: I just thought it was a perfect opportunity for the
Speaker 1: way our defense has been playing this entire year, for
Speaker 1: the leader of the defense and coach Fangio to be
Speaker 1: able to get the breakdown. And I know the players
Speaker 1: liked it, and deep down on the side him, I
Speaker 1: hope Vic appreciated it. But we're all in this thing together,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be times when the defense bails out
Speaker 1: the offense and the special teams has a couple of
Speaker 1: touchdowns and the offense um scores forty points. Uh. And
Speaker 1: yesterday just happened to be one of those games where
Speaker 1: field position was out of premium and turnovers and sacks
Speaker 1: and it was going to be a defensive battle. So
Speaker 1: an interview with Khalil mac right after the game, his quote, mattee,
Speaker 1: he's a perfect man for the job. As that make
Speaker 1: you feel and you have connected with these guys much
Speaker 1: like you were talking about last week about Sean mcfay connecting.
Speaker 1: You noticed that too. I mean that's a critical edge
Speaker 1: for a coach. Yeah, No, that means the world to me,
Speaker 1: and I think that for our coaches, for myself to
Speaker 1: have that respect from our players and for them to
Speaker 1: know that how much respect they have from us, and
Speaker 1: how how we want to do this thing together and
Speaker 1: we want to lead them and let them follow us
Speaker 1: and then them go do it. But that that connection
Speaker 1: is too important and if we're if we're gonna make
Speaker 1: you know, a final push and a run at this thing,
Speaker 1: we all got to do it together. We all got
Speaker 1: to believe, and we got we all got to be
Speaker 1: there to support one another. And that's just an example
Speaker 1: of that week when you played the pack. If you
Speaker 1: get him on Sunday, how different of a team are
Speaker 1: they going to be facing, Well, it'll be it'll be
Speaker 1: different from both sides they have. They have a different
Speaker 1: look defensively, they have they've been banged up a little bit,
Speaker 1: a couple of guys on ir Offensively, they have some
Speaker 1: guys back that they didn't have, so, um, it'll be
Speaker 1: obviously a big challenge for us. They got a great
Speaker 1: quarterback obviously in Aaron Rodgers. Um, but our guys will
Speaker 1: be ready, they'll be very focused and um, it seems
Speaker 1: like forever ago that first that first game in Lambeau.
Speaker 1: But you go back and you think about it, how
Speaker 1: much we've grown and the question marks that we had
Speaker 1: that first week, and how were we going to respond
Speaker 1: after that difficult loss? And here we are, So what
Speaker 1: better way. Here's the word that's come to is resilience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: without it. You said at that time, we will learn
Speaker 1: from how we lost game. So yes, and we all
Speaker 1: believe that. We all believed that we had to prove it,
Speaker 1: we had to show it, we had to learn from it.
Speaker 1: But here we are here at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: and I really wouldn't want it any other way. And
Speaker 1: now you're in a position where a win you clinch
Speaker 1: a playoff spot regardless, so you don't want to ever
Speaker 1: talk playoffs. But now you're at the door. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: at the door. How does that change your messaging? How
Speaker 1: does that how do you frame it? Well, it doesn't
Speaker 1: change anyways. So for us, the way we'll approach it
Speaker 1: is exactly what we've been doing. When you start chasing
Speaker 1: things that normally you play different and I don't want
Speaker 1: to chase anything. I want our guys to just continue
Speaker 1: being them and playing the way that we play best,
Speaker 1: and then all that stuff will happen on its own
Speaker 1: and we just control what we do. I think we'll
Speaker 1: be okay, all right, thank you so much. Good luck
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Speaker 1: side of the ball in the precedings yesterday new return
Speaker 1: man Anthony Miller. The decision to turn to him and
Speaker 1: what will he potentially give you in that regard. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's been making plays offensively, obviously. I think he's a
Speaker 1: guy that has big playability. You know, he's a he's
Speaker 1: a guy that runs hard, catches the ball well, has
Speaker 1: great hands. But we're just looking to get that thing going.
Speaker 1: That's been a disappointing area our kick return game at
Speaker 1: this time, So we'll continue to work hard at it
Speaker 1: looking for a spark. And you know, we really only
Speaker 1: got one opportunity and it was kind of a kind
Speaker 1: of a bad kick really, uh, which which kind of
Speaker 1: helped them a little bit. But we'll just kind of
Speaker 1: keep staying the course, and you know, we'll have another
Speaker 1: another challenge this week with Greenband. Do you think in
Speaker 1: the final three weeks of the season, depending on situations
Speaker 1: of course, and and who you're playing and what it means,
Speaker 1: are you gonna see more kicks or do you think
Speaker 1: that this is just a year where you're not seeing
Speaker 1: a ton of kicks. I haven't seen a ton of kicks.
Speaker 1: And I'll be honest with you. Going into the game
Speaker 1: last night, I thought that was going to be a
Speaker 1: big return to night. Just the weather and you know whatever,
Speaker 1: it was twenty six degrees, twenty two degrees, Ball's not
Speaker 1: going to fly as far. But the wind picked up
Speaker 1: and and you know, Zerline has a has a big leg,
Speaker 1: and he had a couple of touchbacks there, which kind
Speaker 1: of surprised me, to be quite honest with you, But
Speaker 1: I think it's it's always a week to week thing.
Speaker 1: The fake Pumpeye Johnny Hacker you talked, we all knew.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got it on his resume as a
Speaker 1: nineteenth pass attempt in his career at that particular time.
Speaker 1: Were they aware of it but just couldn't stop it
Speaker 1: as a well executed play. It was a well executed play. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we don't want that to happen to us. I thought
Speaker 1: we were in pretty good position. I mean they had
Speaker 1: to challenge it to get a first down, so that
Speaker 1: tells you that you are in position. But Hecker is
Speaker 1: a good player, and I mean he's the third string quarterback,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a guy that they can pull that
Speaker 1: out at any time. And I think they were obviously
Speaker 1: looking for some park and you know it's could happen
Speaker 1: early in the game, just because if something bad does happen,
Speaker 1: I mean, they risked it right there at that at
Speaker 1: that field position, and you know, if they come up short,
Speaker 1: they still have you know, they're thinking, probably is they
Speaker 1: still have a lot of football left to overcome that mistake. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, but we ended up holding them to three there.
Speaker 1: I believe on on that driver. Defense did a great
Speaker 1: job and uh, you know, we gotta obviously prevent that
Speaker 1: from happening. But a heck of a tackle, bye Benny Kunningham.
Speaker 1: Otherwise that's even a bigger, bigger run, right just nip
Speaker 1: nip him, and the nip nip him right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he nipped him right there. And I was standing right there,
Speaker 1: and I have to be honest, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a first down and then I saw the spot and
Speaker 1: I thought, wow, we got a generous spot right there,
Speaker 1: and so I was obviously very excited about that. But
Speaker 1: it was it was It was close, but well executed
Speaker 1: the Bears Coaches Show with Special Teams coordinator Chris Taper
Speaker 1: and w bbm' Jeff Joni Act continued. Cooks left woods,
Speaker 1: the slot back to the left up golf in the gun,
Speaker 1: Siever Wright snap backed off, big push up front, pocket
Speaker 1: starts to closest bullets thrown it to intercepted. Hare comes
Speaker 1: rou right twenty fifteen. Ten inside the punt of the mounds.
Speaker 1: The pocket was tight, the ball came out wobbly and
Speaker 1: rokun with the swipe. Bears takeover inside the rams ten.
Speaker 1: Now eleven different Bears have interceptions, sixteen have sex. And
Speaker 1: do you know this, Chris table, that's sixteen different players
Speaker 1: have scored touchdowns for the Bears in twenty eighteen, tied
Speaker 1: with the Saints. I did not know that. That's a
Speaker 1: lot of good math right there. But you know this
Speaker 1: speaks to what's going on here. Everybody's getting a hand
Speaker 1: in it. So, I mean, you, as a special team's coach,
Speaker 1: you get to coach a lot of these guys. Oh
Speaker 1: it's great to see and you know, I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: the thing that you really enjoy as a coach. They
Speaker 1: play well together and they want to see each other
Speaker 1: succeed and I think as a coach that's that's very
Speaker 1: gratifying and it's fun to be a part of Sheriff
Speaker 1: McManus forced in a defensive duty for a good half.
Speaker 1: Did it affect I didn't notice. I did see him
Speaker 1: on on coverage. But did you have to pull back
Speaker 1: a little bit on him on coverage? No, we know
Speaker 1: we got no, Yes we did. Oh you did, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had, we had. There was in the second half
Speaker 1: there there there was a lot of things going on,
Speaker 1: and uh, credit to our guys. You go up to
Speaker 1: him and say, hey, I need you to play here,
Speaker 1: and need you to play here. We're gonna make this adjustment.
Speaker 1: And the guys you know so who came who came
Speaker 1: in then and helped you out in different areas well.
Speaker 1: We ended up, uh taking an inside player on the
Speaker 1: punt and having to move him outside to gunner and
Speaker 1: then bringing another player that wasn't playing inside on the punt.
Speaker 1: So it's something that we practice, is stuff that we
Speaker 1: talk about and we always have a plan going into
Speaker 1: the game, and it's just when those things happen, you
Speaker 1: just say, okay, we're going to execute plan A right now.
Speaker 1: And if then, if something happens in Plan A, then
Speaker 1: you're ready for Plan B. And then and then if
Speaker 1: you get to plan and see you're holding on for
Speaker 1: dear life. Take us through, uh the all right, you're
Speaker 1: out there to punt boom wholesale change official knockdown, Give
Speaker 1: us the history of that, how it all transpired, and
Speaker 1: what the I guess that's the rule they have to
Speaker 1: stop the play when the official goes down. I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. Well, you know, obviously, when when you send
Speaker 1: the punt team out there, um, and then you sprint
Speaker 1: them off, they technically do get to have some time
Speaker 1: to make a substitution themselves. But it's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where, um, you know, it's controlled chaos. And
Speaker 1: I believe that they had already burned a time out
Speaker 1: right before, so they couldn't burn another time out or
Speaker 1: else that's going to be a penalty, so uh, get
Speaker 1: a first down there. So it was you know, we
Speaker 1: definitely had the right idea and we just missed a
Speaker 1: little bit on the on the execution. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a good play. I think I
Speaker 1: may have answered you this before on this show, but
Speaker 1: with Matt's creativity, and its constant thinking. Is it challenge
Speaker 1: you as well as a coordinator to do the same
Speaker 1: on special teams? No question? And that's what's uh. I've
Speaker 1: definitely as a as a coach, you always want to
Speaker 1: grow each and every year. You don't want to just
Speaker 1: do the same things over and over again. And and
Speaker 1: nags is he challenges It challenges you to do that
Speaker 1: and that and that that's fun and uh, you know
Speaker 1: it's it's it's great to look at our players and say, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy has this skill set, how can I use
Speaker 1: him for the for the purpose that we wanted to
Speaker 1: want to do that? And it makes you think out
Speaker 1: of the box a little bit. And I think it
Speaker 1: I think it helps you stay fresh. I think it
Speaker 1: helps the players stay fresh and be excited about playing
Speaker 1: and doing those different things, whether it's offense, defense, or
Speaker 1: in the kicking game. So we just got to kind
Speaker 1: of keep growing with that. When you went through the
Speaker 1: interview process with him and obviously connections with Dave tob
Speaker 1: and all of that too. Knowing him, did you know
Speaker 1: this ahead of time that he was going to challenge
Speaker 1: you like this or did you have to be in
Speaker 1: it to know it? I would definitely say I definitely
Speaker 1: had a feeling. Obviously, Dave had told me a lot
Speaker 1: of great things about him, but just visiting with him
Speaker 1: and sensing his energy, you knew that that was the
Speaker 1: avenue that we'd probably venture down. And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a fun one. You know that that's that's what
Speaker 1: you want to do. What a coaching meetings like I
Speaker 1: walked by I had to do an interview with coach
Speaker 1: and he was going to a meeting, and you guys
Speaker 1: are all in a big boardroom ready to go. Are
Speaker 1: they fun? Do they have an edge to them? Do
Speaker 1: they is it all business? I think it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. I think what I honestly what I
Speaker 1: would call it's very real, you know, and that's probably
Speaker 1: the best way to describe it. And it's very we're
Speaker 1: in this thing together and he he, he is our leader,
Speaker 1: but h you feel very much a part of it
Speaker 1: and that I need to handle my area because we
Speaker 1: need to go this way. This is where the ship
Speaker 1: is going. And I think that's a has a is
Speaker 1: a great leadership skill set. Have you been able to
Speaker 1: learn some things about the game from his eyes that
Speaker 1: maybe you've been around a long time now, so, but
Speaker 1: that maybe you didn't look at the same way. He
Speaker 1: always talks about he and Mitch having the same eyes.
Speaker 1: Does he want the coaches to have the same way, Yes,
Speaker 1: he did, he does. And I've learned a lot from him,
Speaker 1: you know, the game management stuff and how he's thinking
Speaker 1: and you know, being aggressive and if if it works, great,
Speaker 1: If it doesn't, that's okay, but you know, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't work, we're going to keep on playing. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, for example last night, even even on the
Speaker 1: fake pomp when they when they got were We've made
Speaker 1: an aggressive call initially, and uh, they got it, and
Speaker 1: on the sideline we were like, okay, let's move on
Speaker 1: next play. That no one flinched, And I think that's
Speaker 1: that's a credit to coach of how he talks to
Speaker 1: the players and talks to the coaches and that's a
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Speaker 1: I bet the Rams thought that they could use some
Speaker 1: of those last night. Now you're in it, you're feeling it.
Speaker 1: You've been here before when things were going well. How
Speaker 1: did they compare? I'll tell you what last night. It
Speaker 1: caught me in the fourth in the fourth quarter, it
Speaker 1: might have been on a third down play and I
Speaker 1: looked up and you could just hear it. And it
Speaker 1: was one of those things when someone is standing right
Speaker 1: next to you and you're really yelling at them. You're communicating.
Speaker 1: Our fans were unbelievable and h it was. It really
Speaker 1: was awesome experience, awesome experience. It was awesome to hear.
Speaker 1: A couple other notes, Josh Bellamy got down there and
Speaker 1: made a nice play in special teams become used to
Speaker 1: seeing him over the years, UH doing that sort of
Speaker 1: thing as well. He can still get dead done. No,
Speaker 1: Josh played well. He played well and Uh. I was
Speaker 1: really proud of him because the week before he had
Speaker 1: a couple opportunities and did a nice job getting down
Speaker 1: there and didn't finish as well as we'd like. This week,
Speaker 1: he took in another step, So it was nice to
Speaker 1: see him grow in that area. And we had some
Speaker 1: other guys, I mean, Benny Cunningham, who was a former
Speaker 1: RAM very excited to play and the stuff that he
Speaker 1: does behind the scenes. He's really he's our quarterback, putting
Speaker 1: us in the right calls and handling all those situations
Speaker 1: like like the pro that he is. I mean that
Speaker 1: that was big for us. Last night you had mentioned
Speaker 1: you know this, Uh, this week in the league only
Speaker 1: seventy five percent converted for field goals and um, the
Speaker 1: weather is changing, missed extra points up to is this
Speaker 1: a trend for the rest of the season. Cody misfired
Speaker 1: on a field goal on the south end. Um, And
Speaker 1: now you know, I get it, because everybody's wanting, okay,
Speaker 1: is this and you know a problem again? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's you know, everybody's gonna get wigged out every time no,
Speaker 1: And I think I think it's because the the fan
Speaker 1: just expects them and we all obviously expect them to
Speaker 1: make it, but it still is a skill that that
Speaker 1: takes place. Um. When I was watching the game yesterday
Speaker 1: before our game and I saw all the misses, it
Speaker 1: kind of struck me. And when I saw the information
Speaker 1: today how many missus there were, And then I looked
Speaker 1: at the last two weeks all the missed extra points. Uh,
Speaker 1: you kind of begin to say, well, the weather's changing
Speaker 1: at a lot of places, the wind is changing, and
Speaker 1: it is it is affecting guys. Uh, there's there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some misses. Uh, but I think what you're looking
Speaker 1: for in a kicker obviously as a strong legged guy,
Speaker 1: but really more strong minded. And I believe that we
Speaker 1: have that guy. I mean, obviously he had the four
Speaker 1: hit posts and the Detroit game and came back for
Speaker 1: the next four weeks and has been very solid and
Speaker 1: was very good last night. I mean helped us get
Speaker 1: to that. You know that that fifteen. Obviously he's disappointed
Speaker 1: that he missed that last one. That that ice is it.
Speaker 1: I guess in some ways you could say, but I
Speaker 1: know that he'll come back, and UH, don't don't even
Speaker 1: I don't worry about it. It's just let's move on
Speaker 1: to the next one. If we worry about the last
Speaker 1: one where it's going to affect us and that's not
Speaker 1: who we're going to be, go get the packers. Thank you.