Speaker 1: Good to be with you, everybody, And this is the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show with Bears head coach Matteggie. A tough
Speaker 1: overtime loss to the Saints twenty six, twenty three, we'll
Speaker 1: break it down and look ahead to Sunday's Week nine
Speaker 1: kickoff in Nashville against the Tennessee Titans. This is the
Speaker 1: Bears Coaches Show, brought to you by Whippley CPAs and consultants.
Speaker 1: Bill Laser, the Bears offensive coordinator, will join us at
Speaker 1: seven thirty. Good. I mean, Matt, how you doing good?
Speaker 1: How are you doing? Jeff doing okay? What do you
Speaker 1: left feeling about this loss and how it all transpired yesterday? Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: just like we would saying on a win, it's always
Speaker 1: great to coach off of a win. It always stinks
Speaker 1: coaching off of a loss. And you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of reasons for that. I think, you know, all
Speaker 1: three phases, we could have played better in different areas.
Speaker 1: You look at the positives and I feel like offensively,
Speaker 1: which has been the struggle for a lot of this year,
Speaker 1: that we at times did play better. You can see
Speaker 1: flashes of what we know we can be situationally on
Speaker 1: fourth down, towards the end of the game, we converted
Speaker 1: some fourth downs and then you know, the big third
Speaker 1: down to give Kyra that chance to get a fifty
Speaker 1: one yard field about the end of the game. That
Speaker 1: was some of the good. Some of the bad was
Speaker 1: the fact that just not being able to finish, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of the methods to our team this week
Speaker 1: and then rally and stick together and fight through this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of self inflicted wounds really all season long
Speaker 1: that really have hampered the progress, I would say offensively.
Speaker 1: Some mistakes, and those create difficulties for everybody across the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the mistakes. You know, the teams that don't have as
Speaker 1: many mistakes usually wind up having staying ahead of the chains,
Speaker 1: not putting themselves in holes and being third and long
Speaker 1: second along, and you saw there were some instances yesterday
Speaker 1: where that was the case. And so one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things that we need to do is understand that
Speaker 1: we need to be a team in discipline, and we've
Speaker 1: already talked about that this morning of where we're at
Speaker 1: and where it needs to go moving forward if we
Speaker 1: want to be successful. And that's something you really haven't
Speaker 1: experienced with so many different situations like this with penalties
Speaker 1: and faulse starts and those types of things that will
Speaker 1: hamper progress. It's new to you a little bit. How
Speaker 1: do you how do you process that as the head coach? Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things you do is you talk about
Speaker 1: being mentally tough, and um, you know when you're when
Speaker 1: you're mentally tough, those things don't happen. And again, there's
Speaker 1: a fine line when you're a head coach and when
Speaker 1: you're a coach in general, when you start talking about
Speaker 1: players and where they're at and you know the effort
Speaker 1: of guys. That's the one thing with our guys and
Speaker 1: none of that is from effort. Our guys care immenseally
Speaker 1: and so we just got to lock in a little
Speaker 1: bit better. We got to hone in on the details
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Whatever we're doing now, we've we've
Speaker 1: gone through eight games and we're sitting at five and three.
Speaker 1: The luxury for us is that we fast. We started fast.
Speaker 1: Now the next challenge for us is how are we
Speaker 1: going to finish. We want to focus on this coming
Speaker 1: week and we want to be able to put ourselves
Speaker 1: in a situation where we regain that momentum. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of this is based, you know. So I
Speaker 1: did an interview with somebody today and they talked about
Speaker 1: the game was really four games in one, and it
Speaker 1: made sense to me a little bit. And that goes
Speaker 1: back to sequencing. So as you try and play complimentary pause,
Speaker 1: you know that that involves sequencing to help get everything
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. So how do you solve
Speaker 1: the sequencing aspect of more consistency? Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: like what you're saying is like complimentary football. Um. It's
Speaker 1: like when you're in a you know, a golf scramble
Speaker 1: and you got somebody that can drive well and somebody
Speaker 1: that can put well. I mean that's kind of how
Speaker 1: it is. And when you when you have your offense,
Speaker 1: when they're getting a turnover right, or they get a
Speaker 1: turnover inside of the red zone, is the offense turning
Speaker 1: that into a touchdown or are they missing the putt
Speaker 1: and kicking the field goal? You know? Um, is the
Speaker 1: offense um being able to get in rhythm and get
Speaker 1: you know, get some first downs and give a rest
Speaker 1: to the defense so that when they come out, they're
Speaker 1: really coming off the ball. And it's complimentary football, and
Speaker 1: the more complimentary football, you have, the more successful have,
Speaker 1: because good things will go your way, all right. So
Speaker 1: if I had you in my scramble, are you teeing
Speaker 1: off or are you as you your short game? Or
Speaker 1: are you putting for me? I am not putting. I
Speaker 1: can tell you that right now. I'm not doing any
Speaker 1: of the three for you, So don't invite me. What
Speaker 1: is the you know, the good news is, and there
Speaker 1: always is some silver lining you must take into the
Speaker 1: next meeting, the next practice, the next game, and that
Speaker 1: is there was some breaking open of the run game
Speaker 1: against a very good historically run defense is now forty
Speaker 1: nine games deep and not allowing a one hundred yard
Speaker 1: back that goes back to the nineteen seventy Cowboys, believe
Speaker 1: it or not. So you did get close to that,
Speaker 1: and David Montgomery did in particular. Yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the positives that we took out of
Speaker 1: this was that. Yeah. You know, I thought even taking
Speaker 1: out that thirty eight yard run by David, in general,
Speaker 1: you felt more five yard pops. You know, it didn't
Speaker 1: feel like it was just one yard or you know,
Speaker 1: two yards. There were some good runs in there, and
Speaker 1: I compliment one. And there's a alignment for fighting through
Speaker 1: that and getting that done. We do believe that we
Speaker 1: can be even better. It's going to help our past
Speaker 1: came out. We got a shore up some things on
Speaker 1: the front in regards to letting some guys get through
Speaker 1: every now and then on that offensive line, and our
Speaker 1: guys know that. But once we get that short up,
Speaker 1: I think we can start really putting things together and
Speaker 1: just continue to believe and stay positive. The other silver
Speaker 1: lining to me is you do dig holes as a team.
Speaker 1: You dig some holes, but you dig out of those
Speaker 1: holes and you make it interesting. So can you build
Speaker 1: on that? We can. And when you look at this thing,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, you're down ten points with nine minutes
Speaker 1: to go in the fourth quarter, and as long as
Speaker 1: you put a good drive together, you have a chance.
Speaker 1: And again that's what we did. We put together. We
Speaker 1: strung together a nice drive from about the twenty five
Speaker 1: yard line. We went the whole way down the field
Speaker 1: and on third and goal from the three or four
Speaker 1: we scored a touchdown and we capped it off. And
Speaker 1: now you at least give yourselves a chance with three
Speaker 1: timeouts and then two minute morning to get the ball
Speaker 1: back and to go down and at worst kick a
Speaker 1: field goal, and that's what we ended up doing. We
Speaker 1: gave ourselves a chance to go to overtime against a
Speaker 1: pretty good football team with a pretty good quarterback. And
Speaker 1: so now we got to finish. And again we got
Speaker 1: to that point. Our defense did their job. They gave
Speaker 1: the ball back to the office. They held him with
Speaker 1: not scoring. The offense now has go ahead, go down there,
Speaker 1: take the ball down and scoring overtime. We didn't do it.
Speaker 1: So we've now checked that box off of being in overtime.
Speaker 1: We know how that feels, we know what it's like,
Speaker 1: so now we can hopefully use that for us down
Speaker 1: the road. I had the conversation go with Jevan Willmas. Well,
Speaker 1: you know it's uh John as he should feels really
Speaker 1: bad about what happened. He knows he's a bigger and
Speaker 1: better person than what his action showed yesterday. But it uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was a discussion that he was very
Speaker 1: apologetic and understands, um you know that he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: done that and those that you know, there'll be certain
Speaker 1: consequences moving forward, whether it's through the league and or US.
Speaker 1: I decided to go with a different puntment return or
Speaker 1: how did that work out with Dwayne Harris? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought Dwayne did a really good job. I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: There's a few there just being down on the sideline
Speaker 1: where I thought he was just gonna let it go,
Speaker 1: and then a second he goes and gets it. And
Speaker 1: you can tell one thing's for sure. This guy's been
Speaker 1: doing it for a while because he has he is
Speaker 1: completely fearless. He does not care about his body. He's
Speaker 1: gonna catch the football and he's gonna you know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna save a lot of a field position. Fulls looking
Speaker 1: to throw in plenty of time, launching deep down the
Speaker 1: middle of the field for Mooney. He's got it inside
Speaker 1: of the Saints twenty five. There you go, Fulls to Mooney,
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Joniac a shining star brewing for Darnell Mooney,
Speaker 1: a fifth round pick who never felt like one and
Speaker 1: is not playing like one. One of the top young
Speaker 1: receivers in the league so far through the first half
Speaker 1: of the season and building momentum a fifty yard pass
Speaker 1: play and a touchdown where he said he knew he
Speaker 1: was gonna catch the pass. It was just a matter
Speaker 1: of patience for it to get there. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not calling this kid cocky. I'm calling it professional confidence.
Speaker 1: How you like that, Yeah, No, I really liked that
Speaker 1: a lot. I think when that ball left and was
Speaker 1: in the air, you could see that he has some
Speaker 1: leverage on the corner and they took that safety and
Speaker 1: they cut the crossing route by a rob which Nick
Speaker 1: made a really really really strong throw, hitting him and stride,
Speaker 1: and then you know, he made a contested catch. So
Speaker 1: we need to get more of those. It stretches the
Speaker 1: defense vertically, it opens up It helps open up the
Speaker 1: run game when you do that, and you don't just
Speaker 1: throw balls at ten yards And you know, we trial
Speaker 1: on one later in the game and just missed it
Speaker 1: a little bit inside. But now we really like where
Speaker 1: Moody's at and getting Anthony Miller, which is somebody that
Speaker 1: you know I have talked about a lot with you
Speaker 1: and hoping that he would have a breakout moment. Is
Speaker 1: this maybe similar to a first step to what happened
Speaker 1: in the final five games of last season when he
Speaker 1: got chances and he made it happen. He had five
Speaker 1: or seventy three and that fifteen yard reception to set
Speaker 1: up the Santos game tank field goal was big. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope. So I was really proud of Anthony yesterday.
Speaker 1: He played a really strong game. He did a lot
Speaker 1: of things the right way. He's he's our energy, you know,
Speaker 1: in that offense. He's a guy that just plays really
Speaker 1: hard every single play. It's never because of lack of
Speaker 1: effort with him, you know, he wants the ball every play.
Speaker 1: And so I'm proud of him from yesterday, and we
Speaker 1: want to just keep growing, all right. So you can
Speaker 1: talk about Alan Robinson all day long and some of
Speaker 1: his good catches in the end zone over the course
Speaker 1: of his stay here with you. But that diving catch,
Speaker 1: but the route on Marshawn Lattimore equally impressive, as was
Speaker 1: the throw break all that down for us, and what
Speaker 1: you thought of that touchdown. Sure. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: corner route and they played man and so Lattimore had
Speaker 1: outside leverage and a Rob who's really difficult to press,
Speaker 1: got off a good free release, got vertical and then
Speaker 1: went ahead and game a little shimmy at the top
Speaker 1: and which creates the angle for the quarterback to know
Speaker 1: where to throw it. So when you pause that film
Speaker 1: and you see when Nick let that and go, a
Speaker 1: Rob was nowhere close to where he ended up being.
Speaker 1: And so that's an anticipatory throw that Nick had he
Speaker 1: trusted Abe to get to that spot. I think that's
Speaker 1: a growth between those two guys that we can use
Speaker 1: going forward here. And then the effort of a Rob
Speaker 1: to dive out layout literally be parallel to the ground,
Speaker 1: have strong enough hands to make the catch, finish the catch.
Speaker 1: That was a huge series for us. Is one of
Speaker 1: the connection points with Nick and his receivers tight ends
Speaker 1: running backs is that and correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: But he's an area thrower, get there? Do they still
Speaker 1: have to learn that about him? Sure? And that's where
Speaker 1: when you throw it to an area, you want to
Speaker 1: make sure that that area is the same area that
Speaker 1: your wideouts are thinking and that's part of the process
Speaker 1: of them understanding how this system works, the timing of
Speaker 1: where the ball is supposed to be and where the
Speaker 1: route is supposed to be, matching ad up and making
Speaker 1: sure it fits. They're working through that. I do think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of progressions routes and concepts that were
Speaker 1: running where you're starting to see that ross element really
Speaker 1: go a lot higher. And when that park gets really
Speaker 1: good than it just only helps improve our offense be
Speaker 1: a lot better. Is your desire as an offensive plate
Speaker 1: caller head coach to have an area passer? Number One,
Speaker 1: it helps out your O line because the balls out
Speaker 1: you're not holding on to the ball until he's open.
Speaker 1: And then number two, it's hard on the defense. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at some of these guys across
Speaker 1: the league that have been doing it for years and years,
Speaker 1: and the one guy from playing against him for a
Speaker 1: lot of years was Philip Rivers. You know, Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: throws the spots and it's harder and not everyone's going
Speaker 1: to be perfect, but when when you do make that
Speaker 1: throw like Nick did for that touchdown, it's almost undefendable.
Speaker 1: Is there any way to help from a quarterback's perspective,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham as tall as he is, it's amazing he
Speaker 1: hasn't been hurt more in his career because they were
Speaker 1: chopping him low. And can you throw the ball to
Speaker 1: him to help protect himself because I mean he easily
Speaker 1: could have suffered injuries on three catches yesterday. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And you know he's been dealing without his whole career
Speaker 1: here because his height has always been a six seven,
Speaker 1: six eight type guy basketball player that can you know
Speaker 1: our football player that can be really good at basketball?
Speaker 1: Should saying. But again, him and Nick are really find
Speaker 1: in their mash and there's a couple of throws here
Speaker 1: there that Nick Probor wents back. There's a couple of
Speaker 1: routes here there that Jimmy would want back to run
Speaker 1: a little different. But yeah, you're right, there was a
Speaker 1: couple that went low on him, and fortunately enough he
Speaker 1: came out healthy overall. Do we have any insight on
Speaker 1: the offensive line injuries with Bobby Massey in particular, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nothing yet, definite. I mean, Andre's still going he has
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff he's going through right now. And
Speaker 1: you know this early to day after, we don't have
Speaker 1: any updates for you yet, but we certainly well here.
Speaker 1: You know, as the days go by, handing off, Montgomery
Speaker 1: hit the first any more hits the guest of the
Speaker 1: forty to the thirty of the states, hintser the twenty
Speaker 1: and fuckled down near the fifteen of the fourteen yard line,
Speaker 1: a third in one run. Then David Montgomery rips up
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Speaker 1: just heard the David Montgomery thirty eight yard run which
Speaker 1: we referenced Matt in the previous segment. That was on
Speaker 1: a third and one. That's an example of what third
Speaker 1: and manageable can do for you. No, that was a
Speaker 1: big play, and I was really happy to see David
Speaker 1: get one of those type of runs. You know, I
Speaker 1: think it's good first confidence the O line on just
Speaker 1: a simple dive play being able to wash him down.
Speaker 1: You know, you had Cordiroll Patterson going around on a
Speaker 1: toss and you could get. All you needed was those
Speaker 1: linebackers to just move a little bit to their left.
Speaker 1: Our right, and then David can do the rest. And
Speaker 1: that's what he did. That suck defense real quant Smith
Speaker 1: all over the place. Levin tackles the rain, showing up
Speaker 1: still reading it coming downhill with purpose, tough assignment at
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara and Jared Cook at times. And the play
Speaker 1: of Danny Trevathan that one play was significant and really
Speaker 1: showed that looks like he's got his burst back now.
Speaker 1: It might have been his best defensive play of the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, Jeff, I think personally that from talking to
Speaker 1: our coaches as well in the defense side of the ball,
Speaker 1: that combined between Roquan and Danny, this was their combined
Speaker 1: best game of the season. They really played well. I mean,
Speaker 1: Quans been playing really fast with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 1: He did that yesterday. And then there's some times where
Speaker 1: Danny was left in space to tackle a wide receiver
Speaker 1: back and he made that tackle. And when you have
Speaker 1: that along with the other strengths that he has a linebacker,
Speaker 1: he combined him with Roquan in there, they're definitely forced
Speaker 1: to be reckoning. Cairo Santos says it may have been,
Speaker 1: and he can't think of any more challenging. Windy day.
Speaker 1: There have been colder days, but not a windier day,
Speaker 1: and that's got to give you and him a great
Speaker 1: deal of confidence moving forward because he is on a roll.
Speaker 1: He's fourteen of sixteen and ten in a row. And
Speaker 1: when we're talking fifty plush yarders in that kind of condition,
Speaker 1: you can kick anywhere. Then I'll tell you what it's.
Speaker 1: It's it's a shame that we lost that game because
Speaker 1: with everything that we've been through here the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, with the kicking situation, I'm super proud the
Speaker 1: way that Cairo has handled everything, um to the kick
Speaker 1: city's made. He's shown up to be able to kick
Speaker 1: a fifty one yard or in the wind that was
Speaker 1: in there yesterday, to have a to have a time
Speaker 1: out called after you made it, to come back and
Speaker 1: hit another one. Uh, If that doesn't get your confidence
Speaker 1: going as a team, as a player, as a coach,
Speaker 1: as a city, I'm just proud of him, and we're
Speaker 1: gon we're gonna need him moving forward and be able
Speaker 1: to rely on. It's a weird year with the trading
Speaker 1: deadline coming up and what the ramifications are in terms
Speaker 1: of the cap for next year. There's already a bunch
Speaker 1: of deals going on earlier today. Is there anything you need?
Speaker 1: You're not gonna tell me specifically what it is, but
Speaker 1: you do collaborate with your general manager Ryan Pace. You
Speaker 1: guys talk Is there anything you'd like to have if
Speaker 1: if at all possible? Yeah, I would just say that
Speaker 1: that you know, for me, UM, I have ultimate trust
Speaker 1: and Ryan and his guys are They look through everything.
Speaker 1: They look at every position, regardless of a team in
Speaker 1: need or a better player if it makes sense that
Speaker 1: that can make us better as wee now, but also
Speaker 1: makes sense financially. Um. And what's the draft capital that
Speaker 1: you have? We're always looking at everything. So well, we'll
Speaker 1: probably get together a little bit here after after uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the day keeps going and then UM reconvene
Speaker 1: on all that stuff. I gotta talk to you about
Speaker 1: the third quarter just season long? How penetratingly challenging is
Speaker 1: that at this point because it's eight games and seven points? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's, uh, it is, it's very challenging. UM. It's
Speaker 1: it's uh, you gotta be able to score coming out
Speaker 1: at half. It's a momentum type deal as well. It's
Speaker 1: fuel position, UM, and we are looking into all of that.
Speaker 1: We've been looking into it. It's just really strange right now. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's the first half of the season. So our
Speaker 1: goal right now is to say, Okay, let's go back
Speaker 1: and look at what the teams that are doing really
Speaker 1: well in the third quarter, what are they doing, and uh,
Speaker 1: is there something that we're missing schematically? Is something we're missing,
Speaker 1: you know, as simple as this, Jeff, It could be
Speaker 1: are we coming out of the locker room too late,
Speaker 1: for instance, Like those are the little things. It could
Speaker 1: be just be a couple of minutes to where your
Speaker 1: mind's right and you're set and all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: we've done that, We've already fixed that and thought of that.
Speaker 1: But those are examples, and we certainly need to be better,
Speaker 1: and not just on offense, but on defense as well.
Speaker 1: We got to be better in that area. Do you
Speaker 1: script or have you ever scripted a second half? Start? Yeah?
Speaker 1: We do. And again, the other part of this too
Speaker 1: is sometimes we'll put together a first half and a
Speaker 1: second half, and then we'll also get together and talk
Speaker 1: through some of the unscattered looks that we're seeing in
Speaker 1: the first half, and then we work off of that.
Speaker 1: Now they do the same thing on defense. And then
Speaker 1: there's some stuff that we did in the game in
Speaker 1: the first half that you really liked it. Maybe you
Speaker 1: didn't think you did, or vice versa. But really, when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, when you look at the
Speaker 1: teams that are having success, they're staying away from negative plays,
Speaker 1: they're staying away from penalties. If you do that, you'll
Speaker 1: have a good chance to score. Lastly, we're down the Titans.
Speaker 1: I think they take them in the mentality of their
Speaker 1: head coach and coach Rabel. You know, he have an
Speaker 1: identity that they're gonna beat you with the ground and
Speaker 1: pound and then but then don't trust me. They're really
Speaker 1: good at play action passes too. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: Kenyon Hill is doing a great job at being able
Speaker 1: to work off of off in that run game, and
Speaker 1: it gets you going, get you going, get you going,
Speaker 1: stopping a run, stopping a run, stopping a run, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, over the top comes to play action.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, thank you very much. Good luck with
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Speaker 1: offensive porting er Bill Laser. We're brought to you by
Speaker 1: Whippley CPAs and Consultants. Good evening, How you doing doing
Speaker 1: just great? How about you? No complaints? No complaints yesterday? Obviously,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good things to focus on that
Speaker 1: I'd like to start with. To me, there's building blocks
Speaker 1: offensively that really should give the players and yourself as
Speaker 1: coaches confidence that hey, okay, we're doing something here that
Speaker 1: we haven't been doing. Let's continue in the right direction
Speaker 1: for you. What would those be? Oh? I thought I
Speaker 1: thought we gained some confidence. Um, we You know, confidence
Speaker 1: is really an interesting thing in sports, right, certainly in
Speaker 1: pro football. You think, hey, these guys are are the
Speaker 1: best of the best. They're probably were dominant players and
Speaker 1: in high school, they're dominant players in college. But that's
Speaker 1: that's what lets them get to this level. Uh, they
Speaker 1: should these guys should should have great confidence. But but
Speaker 1: it's a long season and then you go through uh
Speaker 1: highs and lows. Right, the best teams kind of stay
Speaker 1: steady and just keep improving. But the reality is everyone
Speaker 1: goes through certain highs and lows, and and when when
Speaker 1: you're feeling that low, uh, it's it's impossible, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: to talk someone into being confident, right, they have to
Speaker 1: earn it. And I just felt like on the sideline, uh,
Speaker 1: we we got that look back in our eye a
Speaker 1: little bit, you know, and you saw it at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, at the end of regulation. We
Speaker 1: had to come back and uh get a couple drives
Speaker 1: together to score to send it over time. I kind
Speaker 1: of saw that again in the guy's eyes. So I feel,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit of a hard thing
Speaker 1: to measure, right, it doesn't show up on the stat sheet,
Speaker 1: but I saw it in the rye. So I felt
Speaker 1: good about that. Obviously, everyone feels good that the run
Speaker 1: game production increased. I mean, over overall, our numbers increased.
Speaker 1: I mean, we just we just have to understand in
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty in the NFL, there's certain amount
Speaker 1: of points you're gonna have to score to win. It's
Speaker 1: easier when you score them early, right and let our
Speaker 1: you know, play the team game and let your defense
Speaker 1: feed off of it. And but if whether you have
Speaker 1: to do it early or do it late, we just
Speaker 1: have to get to that right number of points. We
Speaker 1: don't always make the perfect decisions, but we sure spend
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time trying to get guys in
Speaker 1: the right spots. But um, yeah, it's a long season
Speaker 1: and we're just we're just hungry, you know. We put
Speaker 1: a lot of work in, The players put a lot
Speaker 1: of work in. We're hungry to get to get back
Speaker 1: in the on the right side of the wind lost column. Also,
Speaker 1: I think there was a shot of you with the
Speaker 1: offense all gathered around you on the sidelines. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're referring to when you got to look in
Speaker 1: the eye, because that's the best way to gauge. No, Actually,
Speaker 1: when they have that right, I don't have to do
Speaker 1: anything at all. They have that looking right, that's the
Speaker 1: easy time. Uh. You know. That was that was after
Speaker 1: after a crazy you know, a crazy penalty and a turnover,
Speaker 1: and I think as a staff we just felt like,
Speaker 1: let's make sure nothing spirals out of control. But I
Speaker 1: can tell you as we got together and it wasn't
Speaker 1: for very long, just to make sure we were poised
Speaker 1: as a group that everyone could have their head in
Speaker 1: the right spot. I walked away from it saying, no,
Speaker 1: they're good. Really they were fine. But you know, we
Speaker 1: as coaches, you when you when you see that that
Speaker 1: kind of thing happened, you just want to make sure
Speaker 1: it doesn't it doesn't start spiraling. But I think we
Speaker 1: have a high character group and we've got some veteran
Speaker 1: guys and they're they're not going to let things get
Speaker 1: out of control like that. So it was unfortunate we
Speaker 1: had that, you know, that the section of a couple
Speaker 1: of plays and everything that happened, But I think it
Speaker 1: was right after that we gathered up and no problem.
Speaker 1: Coach were good and they were good, you know, and
Speaker 1: that and the Javan wims Uh action that could that
Speaker 1: could go one of two ways too, And just as
Speaker 1: viewing it from even my position as play by play
Speaker 1: with with Tom as color, you're like, oh no, don't
Speaker 1: do that because it just kind of felt like it
Speaker 1: was starting to come a part of the seams. Do
Speaker 1: you feel that as well as coaches where you have
Speaker 1: to interject, Well, we did at that point we did interject,
Speaker 1: you know, gather them up to interject, But as we
Speaker 1: gathered together there was no panic for them. They also
Speaker 1: saw what happened. They probably felt the same the same
Speaker 1: thing that you and I felt, which was, hey, don't
Speaker 1: let this don't let this thing go right now, guys.
Speaker 1: But we had enough guys that were that were of
Speaker 1: the same mindset as us as we can't let this go.
Speaker 1: So we I think we walked away from that meeting. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's get back to business. Fules goes in there, have
Speaker 1: gone back to his right, Three receivers to the left side,
Speaker 1: snap back, big strong push again by Jordan throwing out
Speaker 1: round deerside. Anthony Miller. Did he get his feet down
Speaker 1: at the thirty two three yard line of the Saints,
Speaker 1: And he did? Anthony Miller on a very tight area.
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Speaker 1: watch anytime at Chicago Bears dot com or on the
Speaker 1: Bears official app. Big Play there by the Bears making
Speaker 1: sure you get out of bounds, but Anthony Miller involved
Speaker 1: in the offense. You weren't here last year, but the
Speaker 1: final five games he really poured it on. Could this
Speaker 1: be a starting point for Anthony Miller to start becoming
Speaker 1: more of a factor. Well, I have high, high expectations
Speaker 1: for Anthony. I thought, you know, it's one of those
Speaker 1: games where you just had a feeling that he was
Speaker 1: going to show up. And it's hard to explain why.
Speaker 1: Some of it is the matchup, some of it. I
Speaker 1: thought he had a good week of practice and so
Speaker 1: it just ended up being one of those games where
Speaker 1: he was getting open in the slot. There were some
Speaker 1: times where the way the play worked out, the ball
Speaker 1: went elsewhere, but man, he might have run a great route,
Speaker 1: you know. And so you see that from the sideline
Speaker 1: of looking at the pictures, how open he got early
Speaker 1: in the game, and you just it was just one
Speaker 1: of those days you felt like like it was going
Speaker 1: to come back to him. And obviously real, real big
Speaker 1: play there at the end. A new number of big plays,
Speaker 1: but the last one to get some field goal range,
Speaker 1: real big. I have been asked more about Darnell Mooney
Speaker 1: than any Bear in the last two years. There's this
Speaker 1: unbelievable attraction to a fifth round pick. Probably that's probably why,
Speaker 1: because people look at fifth round, sixth round picks say, oh,
Speaker 1: it would be nice if he Ben's player. But he's
Speaker 1: making plays, big plays as a rookie. And it's that
Speaker 1: quiet confidence and what I call professional confidence, not cockiness,
Speaker 1: that seems to be carrying the day for him. What
Speaker 1: are you learning about him that maybe people shouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised at the thing you saw right away was uh,
Speaker 1: seriousness about football, real aptitude mentally for learning. Uh. And
Speaker 1: then you have a great mixture on the when he
Speaker 1: gets on the grass, a great mixture of both speed
Speaker 1: and quickness and the ability to put put them together,
Speaker 1: which you know, it's it's it's not everybody has that,
Speaker 1: right Um. And then I think, here, now as we go,
Speaker 1: you just you just you remember the very first game
Speaker 1: of the season, he caught the ball kind of down
Speaker 1: on one knee or went down to one knee and
Speaker 1: immediately popped up and ran right. So with with no
Speaker 1: preseason where oftentimes those guys from college usually in that
Speaker 1: first preseason game, someone on your team is gonna get
Speaker 1: the ball, fall down or slip and and and think
Speaker 1: he's in college and just think he's down already, right,
Speaker 1: and then that teaches him, Oh no, no, this is
Speaker 1: the NFL. You have to get up and run. He
Speaker 1: had none of that preseason, and it didn't matter. Of
Speaker 1: the very first capacity caught on one, he popped up, boom,
Speaker 1: turning ran. So he has a great awareness about him,
Speaker 1: really mature beyond his NFL age. So I only I
Speaker 1: only expected to get better. Let's talk Nick Foles Matt today,
Speaker 1: in his news conference with the media and his zoom
Speaker 1: meeting earlier in the day, they're trying to pepper him
Speaker 1: with questions about what they believe they see, but it's
Speaker 1: different from what coaches see or what they need to see,
Speaker 1: or what is designed to see that maybe the average
Speaker 1: person doesn't see. So from that point of view, Matt says, Hey,
Speaker 1: we trust what we see, and how would you amplify
Speaker 1: that thought? Regarding Nick in terms of the sacks and
Speaker 1: some of the throws he makes. I thought you were
Speaker 1: going to tell me what they saw. I would prepare
Speaker 1: me for my press. Yeah, well, you know I think that. Listen.
Speaker 1: I think the reaction of the sacks is a guy
Speaker 1: not as mobile as other quarterbacks or in the case
Speaker 1: here of Mitch. But you know, could he could he
Speaker 1: have avoided some of those by just getting rid of
Speaker 1: the football, And Matt pointed to it. Maybe one of
Speaker 1: the five, but not all of the five. Oh, I
Speaker 1: think you know we talk about about past protection has
Speaker 1: taken all eleven. You know, you try to put some
Speaker 1: some responsibility on the receivers to run the routes quickly
Speaker 1: because of the pressure he's under. And um, there's definitely
Speaker 1: shared responsibility between the quarterback and the blockers. So I mean,
Speaker 1: if you really went through with sat with Nick with
Speaker 1: a fine toothcum, I'm sure he'd probably take more responsibility
Speaker 1: than he should for it, you know, because he's that
Speaker 1: kind of guy. He's a team guy, so there's always
Speaker 1: shared responsibility at the same time, Uh, you know, Nick,
Speaker 1: Nick's one of those guys who kind of I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a big man, right, He's not easy to take down,
Speaker 1: so he also kind of feels like he can make
Speaker 1: a play, and you don't want to take all that
Speaker 1: away from him either, So he is he has a
Speaker 1: real ability to slide in the pocket and move and
Speaker 1: just find that spot. If he can find a soft
Speaker 1: spot and still make the throw down the field. So
Speaker 1: every play that isn't right out on time on him.
Speaker 1: A quarterback then has to get into the situation of, Okay,
Speaker 1: is this one where I stay alive for a little
Speaker 1: bit and I can make a big play for us?
Speaker 1: Where is this one where I throw away and live
Speaker 1: the next play? And there's no one formula for that
Speaker 1: because every play, every pass rush, every route is different.
Speaker 1: And so you know, that's that's why these guys are
Speaker 1: NFL quarterbacks. They figure that thing out as they go.
Speaker 1: We try to help them and direct them, but once
Speaker 1: the bullets start flying, they've got a lot of decisions
Speaker 1: to make about that stuff out there. And I have
Speaker 1: great confidence in Nick in his ability to help the
Speaker 1: protection with the throwaways, and so he will. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just like all of us. He's trying to do
Speaker 1: the right thing to get the job done. And sometimes
Speaker 1: it's throw away and sometimes it's keep it alive and
Speaker 1: make a play. All right? How about talked about third quarter?
Speaker 1: Have you ever in your career seen one quarter be
Speaker 1: so difficult for a football team in seven points? And
Speaker 1: it's almost unbelievable. Matt's never felt anything like this before,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a really a head scratcher. How how
Speaker 1: do you look at it? Seven points in eight games.
Speaker 1: I really felt like it was one of those things
Speaker 1: where once we finally scored, that whole thing would go,
Speaker 1: you know, because there's no certainly we have the best
Speaker 1: and brightest minds working on is there is there a
Speaker 1: concrete reason, you know, And so far the best and
Speaker 1: brightest haven't been able to find one for us. But
Speaker 1: I just I just think, um, when you when you're
Speaker 1: in a rut like we've certainly been offensively, when you
Speaker 1: look at the numbers and then there are a lot
Speaker 1: of those, a lot of those uh, a lot of
Speaker 1: those little things here and there start creeping up and
Speaker 1: becoming big deals. They get glossed over a little bit
Speaker 1: more when you're winning and you're putting up yards and points.
Speaker 1: So let's just let's just make them make them uh
Speaker 1: you know, uh, obsolete facts by by scoring and winning
Speaker 1: and then and then we'll just let it take care
Speaker 1: of itself. Starting in Nashville on Sunday, how about it
Speaker 1: against Tennessee Titans. Give us a quick sneak peek of
Speaker 1: what you know about this Mike Rabel coach defense. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean I think everyone took a lot of uh
Speaker 1: notice of them last year as a team. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they're they're a well coached team,
Speaker 1: and I think they play really hard. Um you know,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, they're one of those places that now
Speaker 1: from AFAR, it looks like as a as a as
Speaker 1: a organization, they're they're starting to expect to win, you know,
Speaker 1: and they've earned that, and so I think that that
Speaker 1: shows up in their play. When you when you watch
Speaker 1: the sacks that they've made, it's a lot of high
Speaker 1: effort sacks where guys are kind of pushing through double
Speaker 1: teams and and out work in the offense. When you
Speaker 1: when you watch the interceptions that they're that they've made
Speaker 1: so far this year, I mean, if the ball gets
Speaker 1: tipped up into the air, they intercept it. It's amazing
Speaker 1: how many tip balls right now they've intercepted. And generally,
Speaker 1: but that's talking about it's usually that happens on the defense.
Speaker 1: Who plays smart plays with their eyes in the right spot,
Speaker 1: so that so that defenders are when the balls in
Speaker 1: the air, they're all looking at the quarterback, at the ball,
Speaker 1: at the receiver. They're seeing it. Also when that balls
Speaker 1: tip man they're ready to react and go get it. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I just think I think they're They're a
Speaker 1: defense that is going to be a real challenge for us,
Speaker 1: you know, tough and physical on the front and smart
Speaker 1: with a number of interceptions, so I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a dog fight. Yeah, they lead the league and
Speaker 1: pass breakups, passes defense, So to your point about the
Speaker 1: tip passes. All right, Well, good luck in your preparation
Speaker 1: this week. Thank you all as always for joining us,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you soon. All right, thanks my pleasure.
Speaker 1: That's a rap on today's Bears Coaches Show. Want to
Speaker 1: thank our producers Jordan trud Up, Dan BURRILLI and Andy
Speaker 1: Gersher and Keith Johnson. Bears Titans pregame at nine, kickoff
Speaker 1: at noon for the Bears and Tennessee for head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Nagge an offensive coordinator Bill Laser. I'mjeff Jonaghak, wishing
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