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Speaker 1: w BBMS Jeff Joniak and a pleasure, Good even everybody,
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Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show with head coach Matt Naggi, Jeff Jonyak
Speaker 1: with you until eight o'clock tonight as the Bears regroup
Speaker 1: after lost to the Saints. Good evening, How are you
Speaker 1: doing good? How are you doing good? What the tape reveal? Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot there. You know, that's not how we
Speaker 1: want to play really, all three phases. You know, we
Speaker 1: want to be able to come out here and take
Speaker 1: advantage of playing at home and start better in the
Speaker 1: first half as far as the first quarters concerned, coming
Speaker 1: out the second half, started the third quarter, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: going down there for them in six plays and scoring
Speaker 1: a touchdown going nineteen to ten UM and then for
Speaker 1: having a fumble for on offense the very next play.
Speaker 1: That that's tough. It's tough to recover from. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know we Uh, that's where we're at right now.
Speaker 1: We know that we got to get better. Have you
Speaker 1: ever been a part of a team that has struggled
Speaker 1: in yards per play through chunks of games like you
Speaker 1: have this year? Yeah? Probably probably not, you know, And
Speaker 1: that's that's the frustrating part, which is completely understandable. It's
Speaker 1: frustrating for everybody. The challenging part in all this, Jeff
Speaker 1: is is um, you know, number one, it's it's at
Speaker 1: a point where you really just help you can get
Speaker 1: get nothing but better. Uh, And it should that's what
Speaker 1: should happen. Uh. I have ultimate trust in our in
Speaker 1: our guys, and I just feel like once that game happens, right,
Speaker 1: it's everything's about confidence. And once you get that game
Speaker 1: on offense where you get that that where it finally breaks,
Speaker 1: it just takes a little bit of confidence for them
Speaker 1: to get going. And that's what we're missing right now.
Speaker 1: We just haven't had it. You feel the confidence is Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's well, no, the confidence yeah, in certain maybe certain
Speaker 1: areas of the game. Yeah, there's some times and to
Speaker 1: start the game to go three and out right, you
Speaker 1: need we need to be better than that to go
Speaker 1: three and out and that's just not You want to
Speaker 1: get some first downs and you want to get the
Speaker 1: rhythm going, and we didn't do that. Where is the
Speaker 1: confidence in yourself at the same time, Yeah, my mind's fine. Again.
Speaker 1: The one thing with me that people will find out
Speaker 1: is when it comes to confidence, I really don't lack
Speaker 1: a whole lot of confidence in a good way, meaning
Speaker 1: that it's not an arrogance, but it's confidence. And I've
Speaker 1: and the confidence isn't so much about myself as it
Speaker 1: is so much about our players. And as long as
Speaker 1: they feel that and they know that, is there going
Speaker 1: to be times where we need to get on them
Speaker 1: a little bit because of the way a play was
Speaker 1: done execution wise. Yeah, but um, we all need to
Speaker 1: be held accountable. But for me, confidence wise, I feel
Speaker 1: like that's one of my strengths, is knowing how to
Speaker 1: be able to help myself and others out. One of
Speaker 1: the things that struck me about your and I didn't
Speaker 1: listen to your postgame press comments. We only talked to
Speaker 1: you briefly after the game and then listening to your
Speaker 1: news comments earlier today. This idea that you want to
Speaker 1: find out who the leaders are that I'm gonna stand up.
Speaker 1: And from my perspective, I always thought I knew who
Speaker 1: the leaders were already. Is that not the case? Well,
Speaker 1: every it's how do you lead? It's in different ways
Speaker 1: when when times of adversity like this, when when they
Speaker 1: when they hit and you just feel like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's offense, defense or special teams, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: however the offense is performing. If you're looking for an
Speaker 1: offensive leader, who that is it may surprise you sometimes
Speaker 1: you never know. But when you challenge somebody and you
Speaker 1: and the team gets in interrupt like this on offense, um,
Speaker 1: who's going to be the guy this show? I don't
Speaker 1: know that we'll see you know, and and um, same
Speaker 1: with defense, it's it could be a different person in
Speaker 1: these times because somebody's been through it before. So that
Speaker 1: that's what what to me. This coming week is going
Speaker 1: to be interesting to see how our leaders step up.
Speaker 1: You talked about Mitch his performance and focusing on footwork
Speaker 1: and you delve a little bit more into his game
Speaker 1: yesterday with that as the as the hook. Sure, just
Speaker 1: a few throws were he was kind of off balanced
Speaker 1: and footwork was opening up his front left hip and
Speaker 1: stepping back a little bit, which can cause a throw
Speaker 1: to be inaccurate. Uh, you know, And so what you
Speaker 1: want to say, there's gonna be times where that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You have to you can't step up into the pocket
Speaker 1: because if you do your break your finger on somebody's helmet.
Speaker 1: There's other times where you might want to see him
Speaker 1: slide left instead of scramble right. Uh. So all of
Speaker 1: that stuff comes, and those are gonna happen in games.
Speaker 1: You just want to limit those. And I felt like
Speaker 1: yesterday there was probably more of those than there probably
Speaker 1: should have been. So we got to correct them. We
Speaker 1: gotta get with them and find out the why part
Speaker 1: and and uh and make sure that we get that
Speaker 1: thing fixed or just taking it from practice to Sunday,
Speaker 1: which obviously we talk about all the time, and he
Speaker 1: was very open about it. And our postcame interview with
Speaker 1: Mark Rodi that you know that that rep that he
Speaker 1: had with Taylor Gabriel, he repped it all week and
Speaker 1: completed it all week. And that's where the frustration comes
Speaker 1: in from Mitch. Right, it didn't happen on that particularly,
Speaker 1: and he's I'll tell you what, Jeff, that that throw
Speaker 1: that that he missed on that third and five the
Speaker 1: second series of the game, was a throw that I'm
Speaker 1: telling you what in practice all week long. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was just on fire with it, you know. So
Speaker 1: that's where you want to be able to see him
Speaker 1: be able to take that from practice to the field.
Speaker 1: And I thought his foote I'm gonna, you know, going
Speaker 1: back and checking out the foote work in practice versus
Speaker 1: if you match it up, it'd be curious to see
Speaker 1: how that looked. So when something like that's zinging on
Speaker 1: practice days, may not always put it in, But do
Speaker 1: you put it in the game play because I feel
Speaker 1: good about that play. That's gonna be that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a bread and butter this day. Sure, Yeah, yeah. And
Speaker 1: when you know that that play in general schematically we
Speaker 1: felt was good versus a lot of different coverages. And
Speaker 1: so that's what we did. And what happens is this
Speaker 1: is when when things happen a little bit more repetitively
Speaker 1: throughout the game, and then you lose the way we lost,
Speaker 1: This stuff gets magnified. Right, So if we go ahead
Speaker 1: and we win by twenty and he missed that throw
Speaker 1: early in the in the game, it never it never
Speaker 1: gets looked at, you know. So what we have to
Speaker 1: do is balance at that and understand that that that's
Speaker 1: that's real. Yeah, and I think it's I'm only bringing
Speaker 1: it up because he brought it up yea, you know,
Speaker 1: as an example of maybe his own personal frustration with it. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, not to belabor this point,
Speaker 1: if that play is made for a guy like Mitch
Speaker 1: in an offense like this, that's just as whole, you know,
Speaker 1: as you use the word hole. Could a play just
Speaker 1: simple as that spark the fire, Yes, for sure, And
Speaker 1: and Mitch knows that. And so those are what that's
Speaker 1: what we that's what we want from him. Um, that's
Speaker 1: what we're going to continue to challenge him with, is
Speaker 1: to make that throw. And and so what it does
Speaker 1: is get your first down. You know, it's third and five,
Speaker 1: you get a first down. Now, you get a little
Speaker 1: consistency going, there's a little rhythm that gets going, and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times where he has to add lib
Speaker 1: a little bit and use his feet and scramble and
Speaker 1: make a play. There's gonna be times where our run
Speaker 1: game needs to pick it up and help help out
Speaker 1: everybody else so that we can have more second and twos.
Speaker 1: You know, but that just wasn't that wasn't the case.
Speaker 1: Shright now here we are. Yeah, I don't even know
Speaker 1: where to going. I honestly got I don't know where
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, I'll let you take the baton on
Speaker 1: that one. Well, seven attempts number one to start seven,
Speaker 1: you can't. It's hard to win with seven attempts. But
Speaker 1: I you know, just like you're getting to where you
Speaker 1: say you can't even get to it. You know, for us,
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of yards per attempt and being
Speaker 1: able to get a couple, you know, a couple runs
Speaker 1: that that have some yardage to them, and we haven't
Speaker 1: done that. So I know it sounds repetitive over the
Speaker 1: last several weeks, and it's almost like you just need
Speaker 1: to we all need to just stop talking about it
Speaker 1: until it happens. The Bears Coaches Show with head coach
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Speaker 1: for Darrell Patterson settling in the end zone. How about
Speaker 1: a R d angles left gets to the ten, opening
Speaker 1: up the twenty, gets the gains of the twenty five
Speaker 1: prit to tackle. He's in the clear, putting right to
Speaker 1: the forty. Big change, her eyes stepped out of the tackle.
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Speaker 1: You heard the highlight. Uh, it's always exciting when you
Speaker 1: hit a home run, and that's what kick returns are
Speaker 1: home runs. Uh. And Cordell Patterson everything, And the funny
Speaker 1: it was, I don't know if you know this, but
Speaker 1: it was three hundred and sixty four days after he
Speaker 1: did the same thing against the Bears last year with
Speaker 1: the Patriots. How weird is that? Yeah? Soldier field, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so same direction everything else? It was it different. I
Speaker 1: thought it a different direction, okay, um, but in any case,
Speaker 1: it was like running a mid zone for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: he hit that thing and once he stuck that left
Speaker 1: foot in the ground and hit it, he ran it
Speaker 1: back for a for a touchdown, you know, and he
Speaker 1: as he was coming off the sideline, that's what he said. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's why y'all brought me here. But we needed that
Speaker 1: spark um at that point in the game, and it
Speaker 1: got us right back in it. And you could feel
Speaker 1: the energy the crowd got going. It was really posts
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's exactly what they wanted right then
Speaker 1: and there. I mean, that was that was time. But
Speaker 1: you know, everything about his abilities and skill sets because
Speaker 1: of his size really captured in that moment. It was, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well he's a he's a big guy that can run
Speaker 1: fast and when you have and then he's ultra talented
Speaker 1: in regards to ball skills, and he's a he's a
Speaker 1: great teammate. So all that encompasses to you throw that
Speaker 1: all that together and you come up with a pretty
Speaker 1: good player. You know, he's an interesting guy. I want
Speaker 1: to get to know him more, but he he's not
Speaker 1: one that likes talking too much about anything really about
Speaker 1: getting the game or anything like that. Um, are some
Speaker 1: of those guys just that's the way they are, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a there's several guys that are introverted and he's
Speaker 1: really not like no, I just I'm saying, yeah, it
Speaker 1: just for him. He's They're all a little bit different
Speaker 1: depending on what environment they're in, But he's a he's
Speaker 1: a happy, go lucky person. That's a great teammate, you know,
Speaker 1: really good in a classroom. Um, just very very selfless,
Speaker 1: which I think can sometimes go under appreciate it in
Speaker 1: today's aspects. Just just he doesn't as far as touching
Speaker 1: the football, you know, in the game. I mean, whatever
Speaker 1: happens happens. He talks about having patience and what better
Speaker 1: time than now for all of us to understand that
Speaker 1: there's some patience evolved with the with the frustrations that
Speaker 1: go around in our inner circle. Uh, and just meaning
Speaker 1: like hey, we stick together and you have leaders like that.
Speaker 1: He's been in the league now seven or eight years, right,
Speaker 1: I think somewhere around there, and uh, you know he's
Speaker 1: been on he just won the Super Bowl last year,
Speaker 1: so he knows what it takes and he knows what
Speaker 1: teams go through, so he can become one of those leaders.
Speaker 1: How did you look at the defense on tape? Well,
Speaker 1: I thought that uh for the first half, you know,
Speaker 1: there there was a couple plays here or there where
Speaker 1: they had some nice, nice gains on us a few passes,
Speaker 1: but generally, you know, what I thought after the game
Speaker 1: last night was that they would have been a little
Speaker 1: bit more protected with some better play on offense. The
Speaker 1: first half. The you know, the drive that I think
Speaker 1: our defense will went back as the start of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, six plays going on down there with some chu.
Speaker 1: I think there's a forty seven yard play, a seventeen
Speaker 1: yard game, a seven yard game, a three yard game,
Speaker 1: and in a touchdown, and just like that, it was
Speaker 1: nineteen to ten and then we fumbled the next play.
Speaker 1: And so you know, if our defense looks back there,
Speaker 1: you know, overall as as a unit, you'd like to
Speaker 1: see better there. But for the most you know, first half,
Speaker 1: I liked what they did. Yeah, at the same time,
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to ease their burden, but with
Speaker 1: six series that had sixteen plays for twenty yards and
Speaker 1: they're on the field repetitively after thirty seconds or a minute,
Speaker 1: I mean, how how do you affector that into the equation? No,
Speaker 1: that's in the evaluation again, not to take it off,
Speaker 1: I mean that happens sometimes. Yeah, No, that's a part
Speaker 1: of it. That's that's real. And then you know, for
Speaker 1: our guys to be able to offensively go out there
Speaker 1: and get a lead and go up seven to nothing
Speaker 1: or ten to nothing or fourteen to nothing instead of
Speaker 1: going down. It's a different style of game. So starting fast,
Speaker 1: when we take a lead in a game, we normally
Speaker 1: do pretty well, and we did not do that yesterday.
Speaker 1: So it's a little bit more of a challenge for
Speaker 1: a defense because teams can be more balanced and when
Speaker 1: you get a lead it's fourteen to nothing. Now team's
Speaker 1: got to become a little bit more one dimensional. You
Speaker 1: have repetitively said it's still a couple of weeks away
Speaker 1: maybe for identities to form. Defensively, they knew what their
Speaker 1: identity was when the season began. It's how they felt
Speaker 1: about there themselves last year as well, and Prince and
Speaker 1: Mukamara said after the game, he's worried that they're losing
Speaker 1: their identity. When you hear that out of the locker room,
Speaker 1: is that something you address, you fix, you talk to
Speaker 1: Chuck Bagana or is that just again postgame natural frustration
Speaker 1: with the moment. Yeah, it's more of the moment for
Speaker 1: those guys. Those guys will say some things. You know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to they all love the game so much
Speaker 1: they care about what we're doing and where we're going
Speaker 1: that frustrations can boil over, and that's we We try
Speaker 1: to do our best as leaders to make them understand
Speaker 1: that that's okay to feel that way. But none of
Speaker 1: that's ever personal. That these guys just care and um,
Speaker 1: you know we you know, we we lost a big
Speaker 1: piece and Akiem Hicks now in the middle there, so uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's very understandable. But at the same time, we
Speaker 1: lost him for the Vikings game, so we're able to
Speaker 1: have other guys step up, and um, it'll it'll be
Speaker 1: a challenge, but that's that's why. That's why we're all
Speaker 1: in this league right now, is because we've all worked
Speaker 1: hard to get to this point and now there's a
Speaker 1: big challenge ahead of us, and let's rally together. Let's
Speaker 1: not be that team that pulls apart. Let's stick together,
Speaker 1: and let's let's look back on this and say, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you remember that chapter in twenty nineteen season where we
Speaker 1: went through that rut and everyone just tried to pull
Speaker 1: us apart and never happened. That that's what this is
Speaker 1: all about. No more of the Bears Coaches Show with
Speaker 1: head coach Matt Maggie on news Waydio seven eighty and
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Speaker 1: to the right of bench, Triviisky wins out to the
Speaker 1: left side, number slap left. Robinson tight end to the
Speaker 1: right side of the line as well. Snapped back. Here's
Speaker 1: t risky looking scanning tight pocket back off again jone
Speaker 1: touchdown Alan Or Robinson. Welcome back to the Bear's Chroachy Show,
Speaker 1: brought to you by a Whippley Financial Advisors, a proud
Speaker 1: partner of the Chicago Bears. That was Allan Robinson's touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: The reason I bring it up, and I know you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier today that garbage time at the end of
Speaker 1: a game. You don't care about the numbers and all that,
Speaker 1: but I do love the route, the route that he
Speaker 1: ran and his release on that rookie from Florida, Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: I think they had something going between them two throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the game. How about that route, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was a It was a He's been
Speaker 1: running those type of routes all year long and he
Speaker 1: gets open and a lot of times when he's covered,
Speaker 1: he's uncovered. So our guys know that. And he's a
Speaker 1: hell of a player. He plays hard, he's a leader.
Speaker 1: Everything matters to him on every single snap. And you
Speaker 1: saw that right there and a touchdown. Would you call
Speaker 1: his day yesterday a rugged performance given the circumstances, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. And you know he had a couple other
Speaker 1: opportunit news as well. He had that catch down the
Speaker 1: sideline that was just called out of bounds. But that's
Speaker 1: that's who That's who Alan Robinson is. He's a fighter.
Speaker 1: He's gonna do everything he needs to do to help
Speaker 1: this team. And so we're lucky to have him. We
Speaker 1: want to keep this singing picking up out of the break.
Speaker 1: I was gonna lead you into below Nichols. So when
Speaker 1: you get a young man that you know, it's easy
Speaker 1: to make excuses for your injuries and whatnot. But he
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that type of guy. He was really
Speaker 1: excited about playing yesterday. I thought, you know, from watching
Speaker 1: it again, there was some good things. Yeah, he played well,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, you come in there with a
Speaker 1: cast on, you've been out a few weeks. But he's
Speaker 1: learning a lot from a team Hicks, and he's been
Speaker 1: a great mentor to him. And Bellows another kid that
Speaker 1: just really really cares about this game and he wants
Speaker 1: to be great at it. So every every time he's
Speaker 1: on the field, every snap that he takes, he's gonna
Speaker 1: give it as all and then let's suck special teams.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of good and some things that
Speaker 1: need to be fixed a little bit because much like
Speaker 1: UH teams look at offenses that are struggling their defenses,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll try the same thing the next week. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a that's a huge part of the game. That
Speaker 1: third that third phase there and special teams and uh
Speaker 1: you know, the first block punt they got us on
Speaker 1: a little uh game, you know where they did a
Speaker 1: little pick stunt and uh so that was the first one,
Speaker 1: and then the second one that was tipped was really
Speaker 1: just a one on one that someone got beat. Uh
Speaker 1: And then we turned around and are but coverage wise, okay,
Speaker 1: you know there were a couple they had the one
Speaker 1: touchdown call back there at the end, but then we
Speaker 1: had to touchdown, you know, which I thought was great.
Speaker 1: I was a huge part of the game. And um
Speaker 1: so we're going to continue to see more and more
Speaker 1: kickoff returns with eighty four back there with cordarrel and
Speaker 1: we want to be able to flip the field and
Speaker 1: get closer to midfield if it's not a touchdown. Which
Speaker 1: leads me in this because I did bring it up
Speaker 1: and the broadcast, Uh, after he hit the home run,
Speaker 1: there were several times later in the game he could
Speaker 1: have returned it. Um, did you guys just want the
Speaker 1: field position guaranteed to try and get something gone or
Speaker 1: is that a I think it's more. Yeah, it's more
Speaker 1: of a field thing of where we're at, and Coach
Speaker 1: Taves and those guys do a good job. They have
Speaker 1: their reasons behind that, and that's what we stick to.
Speaker 1: Once you do it, you'll want to see every time. Right.
Speaker 1: Rashid Coward making first NFL start, I really amplified it
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the day because you're talking about
Speaker 1: a kid from Brooklyn who was, you know, not always
Speaker 1: easy growing up over there. Playing football in Brooklyn is
Speaker 1: not an easy task either, And then coming into the
Speaker 1: league's defensive player moved to right tackle where he got
Speaker 1: most of his prep, then certed in that right guard
Speaker 1: position against the Vikings. If people don't know the whole
Speaker 1: journey in his story and then gets his first NFL start,
Speaker 1: that's some kind of journey in a short period of time,
Speaker 1: trying to learn a new position. Howdy fair and what
Speaker 1: did you think of that part of it? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a great story for him, and he did a great job,
Speaker 1: you know, all things considered. There's a couple of times
Speaker 1: where you know, technique wise, he could have been a
Speaker 1: little bit better, but that's you have to understand that.
Speaker 1: That's a part of this deal with him. He's come
Speaker 1: a long way coming from the defensive line now to
Speaker 1: offense and here you are starting in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: it's a credit to him. It's a credit to coach Harry.
Speaker 1: He's standing for getting him ready for these type of situations,
Speaker 1: and you know, I look forward to him just improving
Speaker 1: each and every week. All right, let's talk Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 1: Really tough loss for them yesterday against Tennessee on a
Speaker 1: fumble near the goal line. They're scuffling a little bit
Speaker 1: two at two and five. What do you know about
Speaker 1: the Chargers at this point? Well, I do know this
Speaker 1: from going against him for five years in the AFC. West.
Speaker 1: It all starts with that quarterback and Philip Rivers any
Speaker 1: game you play, you're gonna have a chance to win
Speaker 1: with him a quarterback. I've been a part of games
Speaker 1: where he's come back and beat us when we had
Speaker 1: a big lead, and there's been games where where we've
Speaker 1: come from behind and won games. But he's never He's
Speaker 1: always going to go until that whistle blows. A lot
Speaker 1: of talent there on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: with big wide receivers and of course with the two
Speaker 1: running basket Gordon as well there, and then the defensively.
Speaker 1: You know, Melvin Ingram was out last week, but going
Speaker 1: against Ingram and Bosa on those edges, I think are
Speaker 1: some of the top two tandem defensive ends in this game.
Speaker 1: They're fast at the linebacker position and the back end.
Speaker 1: They got hurt with their two safeties in early on
Speaker 1: in the preseason, so but other guys have filled in
Speaker 1: well and Casey Hayward as their corners, so they're they're
Speaker 1: You're right, they had bigger expectations, but it is early
Speaker 1: in the season for them, and you know they're going
Speaker 1: to come in here trying to do everything they can
Speaker 1: to win the game. All right. Lastly, I think you
Speaker 1: even alluded to it. Everybody feels it. Three and three
Speaker 1: this year versus last does feel different? Right, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 1: There's and every year is different. That's that's the crazy part.
Speaker 1: So you know, that's why I think it's very very
Speaker 1: important to balance where you're at and to be able
Speaker 1: to step out of the trees and say, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: three and three, let's regroup, let's get back on track.
Speaker 1: What better way than at home? Just like last year
Speaker 1: when we played the Jets at home, Let's see what
Speaker 1: we can do this year. All right, good luck this week,
Speaker 1: Thanks Jesse. Coming up next, Mark Helfrich, the Bears offensive coordinator,
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Speaker 1: Mark Helfritz. How you doing this evening? Alan Robinson a
Speaker 1: heavily targeted guy. I think he had nine targets in
Speaker 1: the first twenty plays of the game. So clearly, clearly,
Speaker 1: whoever the quarterback is, there is a comfort zone right
Speaker 1: now with Alan Robinson. And so the way he's running
Speaker 1: his routes and the way he's getting open in the
Speaker 1: most difficult of circumstances yesterday, when you think about everything
Speaker 1: else going on, that's something to build on right here. Sure,
Speaker 1: and he's a guy that, yeah, we have to continue
Speaker 1: to be creative. They started double teaming him in different
Speaker 1: ways yesterday and and uh, you know, he's a competitive,
Speaker 1: fiery due that didn't makes unbelievable plays and he's a
Speaker 1: guy that did. Obviously we've we've leaned on and how
Speaker 1: they played early on it. It affected that a little
Speaker 1: bit as well, in addition to us wanting to get
Speaker 1: him get him started. So in theory it should open
Speaker 1: up opportunities if teams are going to start double lending
Speaker 1: him or do whatever they do with their different coverages,
Speaker 1: it should open things up for somebody else to get open. Right,
Speaker 1: it will, and it did and and yes, in the
Speaker 1: future it should. We had a chance probably to get
Speaker 1: a couple more guys in the ball yesterday. A couple times.
Speaker 1: Mitch came off to Taylor Gabriel at least one time
Speaker 1: when one of those instances where he was doubled, and yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna try to pick out our best
Speaker 1: guy and eliminate him, and we're gonna make him pay
Speaker 1: somewhere else. Matt Todd at length before you get sat
Speaker 1: down here about the footwork a Mitch, and that was
Speaker 1: one thing he was focusing on. He'd like to go
Speaker 1: back to see the practice last week how the footwork
Speaker 1: married up with Sunday. And I think Mitch admitted after
Speaker 1: the game. You know even on that that crosser to
Speaker 1: Gabriel and the little corner route, you know, he erupped
Speaker 1: it so much in practice with great success that that
Speaker 1: should have been one of the holster so to speak. Right,
Speaker 1: But how does footwork deviate over the course of practice
Speaker 1: to game day? Sometimes well, it's it's going to you know,
Speaker 1: right with the pass rush and how things happen in
Speaker 1: front of you and what you have to to Sometimes
Speaker 1: you have to maneuver to see things that that changes,
Speaker 1: and you work on that too. You work on drills
Speaker 1: to to simulate that um and and that I think
Speaker 1: across the board, every single one of our you know, hiccups, mistakes,
Speaker 1: the fumbles, all those stuff. It wasn't like some guy
Speaker 1: came in and ripped it out. We made some unblocked
Speaker 1: tremendous play. It was we had a guy blocking that
Speaker 1: person and poor ball security and those are just you know,
Speaker 1: we talk all the time about make layups. Just make layups,
Speaker 1: make layups, make the easy play, make the make the
Speaker 1: routine play. Go back to the fundamentals of it, all
Speaker 1: of the play. And if we're asking somebody to do something,
Speaker 1: they can't that's one thing. But our our guys can
Speaker 1: can can execute what we ask them to do. And
Speaker 1: certainly in the instance that that that you're alluding to,
Speaker 1: you know, footwork has to be check. That's all. We're
Speaker 1: not talking about that much. You know, you're talking about, hey,
Speaker 1: you have to maybe slide in the pocket or work
Speaker 1: this around a pass rush or again whatever those those
Speaker 1: those uh uh, those things do occur that will take
Speaker 1: you off rhythm. What are the reinforceables that carry through
Speaker 1: every single practice when you're teaching and coaching in all
Speaker 1: of you with the quarterback position, because the footwork is
Speaker 1: a what's the word I'm looking for? Muscle memory too? Right? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Yas what I mean, just by the day one fundamentals
Speaker 1: of everything. You know, just the day one fundamentals of
Speaker 1: every position. Take it sounds simple, but hey, take the
Speaker 1: first step at the right angle. Take the second step,
Speaker 1: you know with pad leverage at the right you know,
Speaker 1: hand placement, you know all the things that go into it.
Speaker 1: When camera Jordan is crossing your face and in full speed,
Speaker 1: that's where you have to you know, kind of kind
Speaker 1: of even fall back more on those bas based fundamentals
Speaker 1: and then and then react at the at the second
Speaker 1: level or third you know, third of of some aspects
Speaker 1: maybe in a blocking scheme or as a as a passer,
Speaker 1: you're you're always doing all that and you're not looking
Speaker 1: at it. You know, you have to keep your eyes
Speaker 1: down the field. That's a tough one though, obviously, but
Speaker 1: that's that's the nature of the job. Absolutely absolutely question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's something else. So in your opinion with there are
Speaker 1: a lot of blown layoups yesterday, no question. I mean
Speaker 1: it's again we I sat there and you know I've
Speaker 1: always quote you know again layoup plays or unforced errors.
Speaker 1: You know in your tennis analogy of of are we
Speaker 1: again are you asking somebody to do something they can't do?
Speaker 1: That's that's different. The Bears Coaches Show with Offensive Coordinator
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Speaker 1: back to you know you talk about the layout plays
Speaker 1: and all also for that and the when the layout
Speaker 1: plays don't happen, do you see a crumbling confidence begin
Speaker 1: on a team sometimes? And because you look at the
Speaker 1: math yesterday for three quarters and it was. It was
Speaker 1: almost unbelievable to think that eighty five yards during that time.
Speaker 1: Can you see it on the faces? Do you? And
Speaker 1: how do you operate? Then? Uh? Sure, yeah, and yes
Speaker 1: absolutely that that reveals itself these guys, these guys know
Speaker 1: kind of what's supposed to happen, you know, on plays.
Speaker 1: But but I think the probably the most important thing
Speaker 1: is you have to recognize, you have to identify it,
Speaker 1: you have to communicate it, because there are there are
Speaker 1: some guys that maybe don't you know, or they think, hey,
Speaker 1: well I'm fine, but this other guy screwed it up
Speaker 1: or or worse yet, every everybody starts, for instance, you know,
Speaker 1: you probably make several times everybody starts playing quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody tries to to to whatever second gas or over compensate.
Speaker 1: Uh and and that's not that's not good either. We
Speaker 1: need everybody coaches first and foremost, uh you know, to
Speaker 1: to to reinforce what what was right and take ownership
Speaker 1: on what wasn't and then you know, just look each
Speaker 1: other in the eye and go. You know, I was
Speaker 1: asked last night and our Bears show on Fox Bears
Speaker 1: Game Night Live to come up with a one word
Speaker 1: description of the of the day, and and a couple
Speaker 1: of other people said whatever they said, and I said,
Speaker 1: I simply said execution. So is that it's frustration? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that frustration in the lack of execution.
Speaker 1: But if these things right, And when I say that,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not we're not going, hey, we're pointing
Speaker 1: to filing at the players. It's execution. It's coached, you know,
Speaker 1: that's on that's on all of us first. And then
Speaker 1: then again, these plays that a lot of these things
Speaker 1: we're talking about, these are they're not they're not. Again,
Speaker 1: we're not asking him to be superman, but just execute
Speaker 1: within the offense. Go back to the basics of the offense,
Speaker 1: and and uh, move the football. You know, the turnovers
Speaker 1: were inexcusable. The you know, couple couple sacks just don't
Speaker 1: don't have to happen. A couple those were on the protection,
Speaker 1: a couple those were on the quarterback. You know, a
Speaker 1: cup or pressure is not necessarily sacks. And so again,
Speaker 1: there's plenty, there's plenty to pass around, and we just
Speaker 1: need each got it to look at himself and stay
Speaker 1: in his lane. When you guys visit with Mitch and
Speaker 1: the offense over the course of the week. Um, do
Speaker 1: you have you noticed anything different about him this year
Speaker 1: versus last in terms of the meeting times, the practice,
Speaker 1: the way things are done this year versus No, No,
Speaker 1: I don't think that, you know, there's nothing. You know, again,
Speaker 1: if these were just I think that the the all
Speaker 1: these gray area and you know, conspiracy theories of all
Speaker 1: these different things we need to play better, and there's
Speaker 1: there's plenty again coaches first, uh, and then each individ
Speaker 1: you know, each individual position group we can pick out
Speaker 1: and hey, look at this play, Look at this play,
Speaker 1: Look at that play, um, And it's frustrating as as heck,
Speaker 1: and it's still you know, a t score game there
Speaker 1: for Yeah, that's the that's the thing about it. It
Speaker 1: was a two score game there for a while. And
Speaker 1: given that every game under Matt has been close and
Speaker 1: in his entire coaching career, you would think that that
Speaker 1: was going to happen this this time as well. Um,
Speaker 1: how how would you describe the difficulty with the run
Speaker 1: game right now? Well, I mean, yeah, and it's ever
Speaker 1: experienced anything like this, No, Um, And I think it's
Speaker 1: it's some of these are just circumstantial of the game.
Speaker 1: You know, we get the kickoff return, uh for a touchdown,
Speaker 1: you know, after not a not good start, and then
Speaker 1: kind of again how they were playing us, it kind
Speaker 1: of lended itself to to throw on the ball more.
Speaker 1: And you know, we went that that direction. And then
Speaker 1: in second you know, in second half of the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: obviously we were in a different situation to have to
Speaker 1: throw the throw the ball to to get back in it.
Speaker 1: But again there's a lot of stuff, you know, ins
Speaker 1: and outs of those things that that probably go back
Speaker 1: to that frustration category, and and uh uh, we've worked
Speaker 1: on it. We will continue to work on it, and
Speaker 1: we will continue to find solutions. You know. That's that's
Speaker 1: the that's the hard part. It's easy to point and
Speaker 1: make negative, you know, but the solutions are the most meaningful.
Speaker 1: I know Matt kind of dismissed the what he you know,
Speaker 1: the garbage time stuff. But are there things that build
Speaker 1: on to just even though it happened then like Adam
Speaker 1: Sheheen and being used in a way and that he
Speaker 1: is clearly capable of given his size and whatnot, is
Speaker 1: that am I reaching its straws for the confidence thing?
Speaker 1: For the offense or or I mean, is there something there?
Speaker 1: There's something there, and there's something there. You know, it's
Speaker 1: good that that guys are competing. You know, you get
Speaker 1: those situations and and uh yeah, like you said, the
Speaker 1: guys that went in there. You know, Juice came in
Speaker 1: and did a good job and a few things and
Speaker 1: and Juice's Javon Wims. Jevon Wim sorry, um, And yeah,
Speaker 1: there's something to be taken from that, but we want
Speaker 1: that to be the game winning drive, not the Amy
Speaker 1: made it sort of close drive. The Bears Coaches Show
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Speaker 1: Hollis Hall. I touchdown at a coach about the debut
Speaker 1: as an NFL starter for a shide coward at guard
Speaker 1: and quite the journey. When you watch tape, what you
Speaker 1: see from the young man, promise you know, I thought
Speaker 1: he did some some really good things. He made again
Speaker 1: some very correctable errors, but he was one of the
Speaker 1: first guys you know in here today, uh, trying to
Speaker 1: trying to get better and you know, inquire about this
Speaker 1: and that. Uh. Some you know played a little high
Speaker 1: at times, which is unlike him, but you know, very
Speaker 1: very excited about his his future. He's a guy that
Speaker 1: you that's that the stuff happens fast and there, you know,
Speaker 1: one guy's cross face or gets picked on stunts there,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of you know, twist games that
Speaker 1: that that got him and James a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But excited about his future. For sure. He's got the
Speaker 1: mindset to be one of those yep. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I can't swear, but you know where I'm going. He's
Speaker 1: a bad man in there when he plays football on Sundays,
Speaker 1: he is. And we actually saw some signs of that.
Speaker 1: James Daniels had a couple you know shots that he
Speaker 1: took on guys being physical in the right way at
Speaker 1: the right time and and you know, we're still still
Speaker 1: waiting for those guys to to to unleash that and
Speaker 1: to cut loose. But uh, he certainly provides that element.
Speaker 1: And then uh, with the receivers. So Anthony Miller early
Speaker 1: last week he said, you know, he felt the time's
Speaker 1: coming and he's gonna he's gonna be counted on to
Speaker 1: make some big plays. So does he just need some
Speaker 1: He also indicated that he needs he would like to
Speaker 1: be fed early to get him in that kind of rhythm,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's every coach he's had has understood that.
Speaker 1: As he made that clear to you guys that that
Speaker 1: would be optimum. I know you can't dictate that, but
Speaker 1: I mean, is that something you take under consideration? For guys,
Speaker 1: you did that by your play, right, And yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think every receiver in history that's what they want, right,
Speaker 1: They want they want they want the ball a lot
Speaker 1: early and often. But uh, you know, and Anthony's another
Speaker 1: guy that did some some really good things and then
Speaker 1: had a couple of things that just route wise, we
Speaker 1: have to to clean up. And and again that that hey,
Speaker 1: that looks like that has to be the quarterback's fault.
Speaker 1: And then you know there's some more to it. Uh,
Speaker 1: probably could have had him on a shallow that would
Speaker 1: have probably had a huge, you know, a huge play potential.
Speaker 1: On a third down or a fourth down. Uh, and
Speaker 1: so again it's that mixed bag that we got to
Speaker 1: get out of. All right, quick sneak peak here we
Speaker 1: got twenty seconds for you on the LA Chargers. I
Speaker 1: almost said San Diego. Yeah, I mean just Gus Bradley defense.
Speaker 1: They're excellent, you know, you know, kind of where they're
Speaker 1: going to be there doing a little bit more this
Speaker 1: year than they have in the past from a schemes
Speaker 1: scheme standpoint, but unbelievably talented up front. Obviously, both edge
Speaker 1: guys are elite, elite and a bunch of guys flying
Speaker 1: around on the back end. Appreciate it. Mark, have a
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